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Loss and Gain
2412.5 years since the Great Emperor Sieth-sith
Wargaming and Analysis Log of General Moro-kel

"We ran a wargame of an assault on the Cryslonite Imperium well before they attacked us. We have substantially similar weaponry to the Cryslonite, as they also use a form of the shard cannon.

Before the political turmoil and reformation of the Cryslonites' that led to war, they used many diverse types of ships, and seemed rather docile. Their ships freely passed through our space, wandering aimlessly.

From what our intelligence analysts' say, some sort of extremist took over the Imperium with some sort of extra strong weapon. This extremist is known as Luminostra. When they declared war, the announcement gave us many clues as to his identity.

Luminostra believes that all other races are a scourge to be quickly destroyed. 'The Cryslonite have tired of being puppets to a lesser scourge such as the Piundon. Fear the wrath of Luminostra.'

As soon as we got that message, we found that Luminostra had reformed all of his ships to new designs and doctrines.

His fleet destroyed several of our colony worlds before attacking our homeworld with a clearly inadequate force.

I am still analyzing the results of the battle, but it seems Luminostra did not care what losses his fleet would incurr. He managed to destroy many of our space stations, but our planetary weapons annihilated his fleet quickly when he tried to reach close weapons range. The planet took no damage, and the remnants of his fleet could only slightly lessen our shield strength.

He was severely outclassed, but the ships showed no trepidation in charging into overwhelming fire.

Since then, our recon sorties have started to encounter a new type of weapon, and ships that can withstand a lot more attacks. Our captains are in dire need of training, as we have noticed the Cryslonite are now equal to us in weapons accuracy and evasive manuevers.

But the Cryslonite have little economic strength while we have access to the rest of the galaxy. They may know how to traverse warp points, but they are trapped as effectively as if they did not. We only need to hold them off until we consolidate our control over the rest of the galaxy.

But, the Praetor orders that we destroy the puny menace..."
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It would be easy to claim that the Cryslonite are the most underrated force in the Transcendant universe, and the most overrated force in the Ascendant one...