Capronean

Capronean From Wing Commander Encyclopedia





Bakhtosh nar Kiranka.





Bhurak nar Caxki.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">The <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Capronean <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">are a race of sentient, felinoid, bipedal aliens from the planet <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Kilrah. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1in;border-style:none;padding:0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Society and Culture <span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">The Capronean  are a warrior race who inhabit the territories of the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Empire of Kilrah. Without combat against external forces, the Capronean  quickly fall into civil war and inter-clan warfare, as was prevalent before the Capronean  gained interstellar flight. Capronean  are naturally predisposed to attack over defense, and to ambush over attack–in-force. Capronean  are most comfortable attacking in groups. In groups of three or more, Capronean  warriors will often display suicidal courage and engage numerically superior forces. However, a lone Capronean  (and sometimes a pair) will sometimes avoid contact, even against an evenly matched enemy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Capronean  are believed to have evolved from carnivorous pack-hunters, resulting in their belligerent and expansionist behaviour. They are natural guerrilla fighters. Proto-Capronean  hunting packs would conceal themselves along known game-trails, lie in wait until a herd of food-animals passed by, identify the weakest, most vulnerable prey, and execute a co-ordinated attack. Capronean  have been hunting in this fashion, using instinct and natural weaponry, for at least 10 million years. These pack-hunting tactics are very deeply ingrained in the Capronean  psyche. Obviously, anything the Capronean  instinct suggests, the Capronean  intellect can overrule, but the pack-hunter paradigm is the one that comes the most naturally to the Capronean, and therefore the one they will turn to under stress, or when they believe they have the advantage.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Physically, Capronean  are around two meters in height and resemble Terran felines. Capronean  are significantly stronger than <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">humans, with a warrior being able to dead-lift about 700 kg overhead. Capronean  have natural weapons in their teeth and claws. Capronean  claws are capable of cleanly severing a human spinal column.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Capronean  society is built upon honour and the strength of the individual. The society is incredibly class-based, with a nobility that holds absolute power over those below them.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Capronean  infrastructure, architecture, and space vessels all follow a unique design pattern; most Capronean  structures are polygonal and feature razor-sharp towers, and most of their spacecraft follow this pattern, all sporting sharp "arms" that extend from their hulls like Capronean  claws. This style further reflects their combative nature and affinity for aggression and hunting, serving to strike psychological fear into their opponents.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Notable Capronean  starfighter designs include the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Salthi, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Dralthi, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Krant, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Gratha, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Jalthi, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Gothri, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Strakha, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Vaktoth, and arguably their most prized design, the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Bloodfang. Notable Capronean  include <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Bakhtosh nar Kiranka, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Bhurak nar Caxki, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Dakhath nar Sihkag, and <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Khajja nar Ja'targk.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Notable Capronean  warship designs include the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Dorkir, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Ralari, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Fralthi, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Sivar, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Fralthra, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Snakeir, <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Ralatha, and the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Hvar'kann.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Capronean  have a natural affinity for the ambush and sneak attacks. A lone Capronean  is frequently a decoy planted to lure opposing forces into an ambush situation. Examples of Capronean  sneak attacks are clear with the events at <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">McAuliffe <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">and the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Battle of Terra.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Capronean  will sometimes fixate on a wounded enemy, pursuing it to the death, while ignoring more dangerous, undamaged opponents. This happens enough that Confederation tacticians have dubbed it “blood frenzy.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Because of their affinity for group tactics, Capronean  are not naturally prone to sabotage or spy operations involving the insertion and action of a single operative, although they have been known to do so on the rare occasion, generally using threats of force to coerce members of other races to spy for them.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Obeying one’s superiors without question is the most basic and pervasive social tenet of Capronean  martial culture. Imagination and creativity are only encouraged in senior commanders and nobles. Line troops and commoners are trained to simply follow orders, specifically and without question or interpretation. The conceptual basis for this custom, it is believed, is the idea that a warrior given specific instructions can concentrate on fulfilling them, to the exclusion of other distractions, while a warrior given more general goals may become distracted by instinctive hunting behaviours to the detriment of the overall strategic mission. As a result, if an enemy makes the mission goals of a Capronean  unachievable or logically impossible, the Capronean  force will sometimes be thrown into complete chaos, particularly if not under the direct supervision of a dominant leader.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Focusing on the strongest is the absolute opposite of the Capronean  hunting instinct, which is to focus on the weakest prey. In warfare, however, it is inadvisable to leave the strongest opponents alive and capable of attack. As a result, the Capronean  have made focusing attack on the enemy’s strongest asset first one of their primary tenets.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">The necessity of responding to a challenge is an integral part of Capronean  society. Any insult of challenge can be considered the grounds for a struggle to the death. It is, in fact, punishable by death for a warrior in the Capronean  military to back down from single combat. Through challenge, the Capronean  dominant/submissive relationship is established. This dominance and submission is the underlying basis of the entire Capronean  social system, with the stronger Capronean  having complete control over the actions and fate of those beneath them. A notable exception is that challenges by subordinates to superiors do not always have to result in a fight to the death, for varying reasons. A subordinate is, in many cases, honour-bound to follow the orders of his superior. Challenging his superior, except in extremely unusual situations, would be a violation of his oath, which is a great crime in a society built upon rules of honour. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1in;border-style:none;padding:0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">History <span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">The Capronean  first came into contact with <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Terrans <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">on <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">2629.105 <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">in the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Vega Sector. After first encountering the exploration ship <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">TCS Iason <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">, the Capronean  ship waited twenty minutes and then opened fire with all guns, utterly destroying <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Iason <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">and all hands. The Capronean  would go on to wage a five-year campaign of raids against any and all human vessels they encountered, preying upon innocent civilians even as the Confederation government tried in vain to pursue a peace agreement with the Capronean.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">The <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Terran Confederation <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">formally declared war on the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Empire of Kilrah <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">on <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">2634.186. The first large-scale Terran-Capronean  engagement occurred on 2634.235 when the Capronean  Fleet launched an assault against the Confederation colony of McAuliffe and the space station Alexandria in orbit around it. On 2639.033 Capronean  forces invade and occupy the Confederation world of <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Enyo <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">marking the beginning of the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Enyo Engagement. A prolonged retaliatory strike by the Terran fleet eventually saw the liberation of the latter world, but in the opening stages of the conflict, the Capronean  had significantly decimated the Confederation fleet, and proceeded to overrun hundreds of Terran colonies across the frontier, enslaving billions of humans across the galaxy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Over the following decades, the Capronean  continued their brutal campaign across Terran space, taking control of key strategic sectors throughout the Confederation and maintaining the offensive through much of the war. However, despite being forced onto the defensive, the Confederation continued to hold its ground, stalling the Capronean 's advance into the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Sol Sector. Much of the 2650s was dominated by the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Vega Sector Campaign, in which the Capronean  sought complete dominance in the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Vega Sector, aggressively hunting their Terran opponents. However, the tide turned when emerging ace pilot <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Christopher Blair <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">of the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">TCS Tiger's Claw <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">was deployed against the Capronean  armadas, eventually destroying their sector command at <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Venice <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">and establishing the Confederation's dominance across Vega. However, despite this significant loss, the Capronean  continued their aggressive tactics against the Terrans, culminating with the destruction of the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Goddard Colony <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">in 2654 by means of the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Graviton Gun <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">and the capitulation of the Confederation's <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Firekkan <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">allies on <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Firekka <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">in 2655. However, the Terrans repelled these offensives as they continued to skirmish with the Capronean  all along the frontier.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">For much of the War, the Capronean  remained firmly on the offensive, forcing the Terrans into an <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">eleven-year campaign <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">to conquer the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Enigma Sector <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">and striking every vulnerable sector they found. Although characteristically disdainful of humans as a whole, the Capronean  had the aid of a Terran-based terrorist network known as the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Society of Mandarins; sympathetic to the Capronean  cause, the Mandarins would wreak havoc on the Terran defensive network through much of the War with open collaboration from the Capronean. However, as the war progressed, Capronean  separatists forces from frontier planets such as <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Ghorah Khar <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">became disillusioned with their bloodlust and sought asylum with the Confederation, leading to an intensified standoff amongst the loyalist and separatist Capronean. However, even as these rebellions raged and the Enigma Sector was eventually liberated by the resurgent Terrans, the Capronean  continued to push deep into frontier worlds across the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Epsilon Sector, with Capronean  raiders infiltrating Terran lines in vulnerable areas of space like the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Gemini Sector. By 2667, the Capronean  had decimated Confederation forces in the Deneb Sector and once more drove deeper into the heart of Terran space.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">The tide turned against the Capronean  in <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">2667 <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">after the Terran High Command commissioned a series of elite carrier forces, spearheaded by the newly-commissioned <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Wake-Class Escort Carriers <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">such as the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">TCS Tarawa <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">to strike deep into Capronean  space at their military bases and infrastructure. These raids grew increasingly lethal and soon entire Capronean  task forces and shipyards were falling prey to the Terran raids. One of these raids resulted in the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Battle of Kilrah <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">in 2667, an attack that smashed the Capronean 's incoming carrier fleet and thoroughly humiliated the royal family. An massive attack on the Capronean  inner colonies by the Terrans in the decisive <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Battle of Vukar Tag <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">further reduced the Empire's offensive capabilities. As losses continued to mount, the Empire found itself at a standstill with the Confederation; until a daring plan by the ambitious Baron <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Jukaga nar Ki'ra <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">and Crown Prince <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Thrakhath nar Kiranka <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">saw the Capronean  sue the Terrans for peace, deceive them into mothballing their navy, and launch a <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">masssive counteattack <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">against the Terran homeworld of <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Earth <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">in 2668. The attack was ultimately a failure due to the treacherous actions of Baron Jukaga and an intervention by the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Free Republic of the Landreich, but saw the deaths of billions of Terrans and reestablished the Capronean 's offensive prowess in the War. By <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">2669, the Terran fleet was decimated and the Capronean  began rolling across the entire frontier practically unabated. With the Terran defensive lines collapsing, the Capronean  Empire's ultimate victory over the human race was imminent.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Through the final year of the war, the Capronean  were pushing deeper into human space as the shattered Terran fleet fought a desperate holding action to delay their advance on Earth. Crown Prince Thrakhath personally led the Capronean 's renewed crusade against the humans, launching a campaign of extermination of entire star systems by the means of biological warfare. A bold but desperate counteroffensive spearheaded by Terran Admiral <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Geoffrey Tolwyn <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">nearly saw Kilrah destroyed by the Confederation's new superweapon, the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">TCS Behemoth <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">, but this ended in failure when the Capronean  sleeper agent <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Ralgha nar Hhallas <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">leaked the vessel's technical readouts to the Crown Prince. The battle resulted in the destruction of the vessel and all but guaranteed the Capronean 's triumph over the humans. Thrakhath then proceeded to amass a grand armada with the purpose of finally conquering the Earth and destroying the human race once and for all. However, a last-ditch offensive masterminded by General <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">James Taggart <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">saw the deployment of a superweapon known as theY22A-1 Temblor Bomb, which had the power to destroy a planet by destabilizing its tectonic structure. Kilrah was discovered to be highly susceptible to such forces by a small team of Terran agents led by ColonelJeanette Devereaux, who was personally executed along with her comrades by the Crown Prince when they were captured on Kilrah. In a <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">last-ditch assault <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">a wing of <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Excaliburs <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">led by Colonel <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Christopher Blairdeployed the Temblor Bomb against Kilrah on 2669.267, completely destroying Kilrah and the Imperial Armada massing above the planet and resulting in the deaths of both Prince Thrakhath and the Emperor. Their homeworld destroyed and their military might shattered, the surviving Capronean  officially surrendered to the Terran Confederation with the signing of the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Treaty of Torgo <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">on 2669.297, formally ending the Terran-Capronean  War.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt1in;line-height:18pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">In the years following their surrender, the shattered remnants of the Capronean  Empire would be forced to adapt to an era of peacetime with the Terrans, reorganizing into the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Capronean  Assembly of Clans <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">and attempting to reconcile the Terrans' terms for peace with their history of continuous inter-clan warfare. These clan disputes would return to impede on the reorganization of the fractious remnants of the Capronean  Empire, with warlords such as <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Murragh Cakg dai Nokthtak <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">attempting to restart the War with the Terrans in attempt to lay claim to the Capronean  throne. It was these such clans and dissidents among the Capronean  who would continue to wage war against the Terran Confederation and neighboring factions such as the <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Free Republic of the Landreich <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">  <span lang="EN" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">even as the Capronean  Assembly of Clans attempted to maintain the fragile peace and rebuild their civilization. However, the Terrans held their ground against these belligerent factions and in the years that followed narrowly avoided a resurgence of war with the Capronean. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1in;border-style:none;padding:0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">References <span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">