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Point Leuctra Battle

Battle of Point Leuctra · Battle at Leuctra Point · Leuctra · Combined fleet battle · Second battle with the Tempest

Leuctra ends with a quarter of the fleet lost, both void cities hit, every admiral dead, and Drummer ordering the Transport Union to stand down.

Story so far

At Point Leuctra, two hundred thirty-seven union and Earth-Mars vessels surround the Heart of the Tempest and expend rails, torpedoes, suicide ships, and high-yield nuclear weapons. The flagship is scarred, vents atmosphere, and loses some defensive effectiveness, but survives every escalation. It then releases an apparently impossible mass of missiles and continues rail fire while maintaining its course.

Suicide attackers evaporate before contact. Guard of Passage suffers a missile penetration and asks to withdraw; People's Home takes multiple rail strikes and drops its damaged reactor core. Roughly a quarter of the combined fleet is disabled or destroyed, and the surviving Earth-Mars command falls to Colonel Fernand Massey of the Arcadia Rose because the admirals are dead. Admiral Anton Trejo offers surrender and asks Drummer how many more bodies she needs. Her answer is zero. Union ships receive the order to stand down, ending their organized battle even while the inner planets' response remains unresolved.

Appearance

A ragged tactical sphere of vanishing green ships, failed suicide burns, red missile threads, two wounded void cities, drifting reactor cores, and one orange flagship still under thrust.

Role

Leuctra is the public military defeat that strips the old powers of any claim that one prepared fleet can conventionally stop Laconia.

Relationships

Camina Drummer — Camina Drummer commands through the fleet's destruction and ends the union's fight when further deaths become purposeless.
Anton Trejo — Anton Trejo converts his victory into surrender by offering to supply whatever body count the defenders still demand.
Heart of the Tempest — The Heart of the Tempest survives every form of attack and reveals a scale of missile production the fleet cannot match.
People's Home — People's Home remains the damaged union command center from which the stand-down is issued.
Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 43
  • Humanity's largest concentrated fleet wounds the Tempest and engulfs it in nuclear fire, only to see it survive and begin erasing the formation.
Chapter 46
  • Leuctra ends with a quarter of the fleet lost, both void cities hit, every admiral dead, and Drummer ordering the Transport Union to stand down.
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