Battle of Claw's Gate

"We suffered heavy losses at the hands at the unknown fleet, they had advanced technology and displayed unknown but superb battle tactics.' ""'Because of your irrational deceison?' ""'Er....'- Marcos Ton to Mace Windu about the Voss Confederation victory "The Battle of Claw's Gate was a small skirmish that took place during the clone wars between the Galactic Republic and the Voss Confederation. This led to the discovery of the Voss Confederation, and the rediscovery of Voss. Several Senators also began to dislike Jedi even more due to Jedi General Marcos Ton's irrationality and aggressive attack on a previously unknown neutral fraction. As an effort of goodwill and an apology for the incident, the Republic sent a diplomatic team consisting of Jedi and Senators to open ties with the Voss and apologize for the incident.

Prelude
"'Voss space has been independent for a thousand years now, outsiders once more have come to take what is ours, we must be prepared in more ways than one.' Admiral kaylen-Un to the Voss senate. "Even before this incident at Voss border space, there were many political fractions who wanted increased militarization in case of an Outsider threat. Admiral Kaylen-Un was a member of this fraction, and would later use this battle to propel her standing within the fraction known as The Phalanx. Also, Jedi General Marcos Ton was attempting to locate a new hyperspace route that would lead his forces right into the heart of Separatist Outer rim controlled space. The stubborn, overly aggressive Jedi was considered odd by his colleges and roughly disliked by the Clone and human commanders that served under him.

The Voss military underwent a huge militarization program following the Mystics vision of the Outsider invasion* (This was foretelling the poorly executed Separatist invasion). New warships were commissioned with a focus on precision strikes and home base military doctrines. New technologies and weapons were also used. Additional patrols and a ring of star fortress were erected around Voss space and on the border with the Separatist and Republic known as the Wall of Hope. Probe droids were sent to nearby sectors to keep an eye on Republic and Separatist fleets.

Marcos Ton was commanding the 5th Open Circle Fleet when they discovered one of these probe droids IX-908, who had been programmed to report approaching fleets to the Voss Coalition Rapid Strike Fleet "Sword of Prophets" command, then retreat back to Voss space. The Jedi order his ships to capture the droid thinking it was a CIS probe. His padawan Ana Zyrtec and Admiral Hellion Van Kaiser both deduce that the probe wasn't of Separatist or Republic origin and that this was a trap.

Both tried to warn Marcos but he refused, instead insisting it was a Separatist probe droid. IX-908 contact the nearest fleet which happened to be the 1st Tactical "Saber" Battlegroup under Admiral Kaylen-Un and reported to her of the approaching Republic fleet.

The Battle
"'I saw fifty warships of unknown design exit hypersapce, we then recieved a holo transmission, their were led by an alien, a female she identifed as Admiral Kaylen-Un of the Voss Confederation Rapid Strike Fleet and told us we're entering Voss space...before we could enter any sort of dialogue the General order the ships to open fire as they were separatist using stolen Republic technology, for separatist they sure didn't fight like them.' CC-1789 'Rocky' recounting the battle to the Senate, a military tribunal, and the Jedi Concuil. "Kaylen-Un ordered the droid to leave the area and report to the Voss Senate and according to protocol, she would assess the possible threat. Kaylen-Un ordered her ships to quickly enter hyperspace and to charge their weapons while in hyperspace that way they could quickly destroy any enemies. Marcos Ton was shocked to see a massive fleet of starships of unknown design exiting hyperspace. In a state of panic and total sheer arrogance, Marcos Ton ordered his forces to open fire, following a holo-transmission from Kaylen-Un where he called them Separatist and ordered the "Republic Pride" to open fire on Voss's flagship "Voss-Ta".

Kaylen-Un had predicted this, as a week before the battle a Voss Mystic had a vision that concerned her brutally crushing an Outsider invasion. Kaylen-Un ordered a nearby destroyer the "Maaowler" to Arc in front of her flagship and launch a broadside on the "Republic Pride" hanger, bridge, and shield generator as Voss destroyers possed advanced weapons systems and shielding allowing them to launch powerful broadside type attacks while soaking up damage.

The "Maaowler" used its powerful Gav-ka class proton torpedo cannons and Nask-Va class quad turbo laser batteries to eat away at the Republic Pride's Shielding and effectively crippled the ship destroying its hanger, and shield generator, leaving it vulnerable to bombers which is what occurred. Kaylen-Un sent waves of Magnus class bombers to attack the now crippled Republic Pride. Despite having numerical superiority and a large number of Corvettes and light attack cruisers, Marcos ordered his ships to focus on the enemy fleet and sent his padawan Ana Zryteck on a suicidal attack on Kaylen's flagship. Ana disobeyed orders and lead her fighter squadron in the defense of the Republic Pride. However, the pilots of V-19 Torrent Fighters found their weapons not being able to penetrate the heavy armor and shielding of the Magnus class bombers. Ana orders her fighters to draw the Bombers and their fighter escorts the Nexus class inceptors away from the Republic Pride, during this process Ana's Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor was shot down by a Voss patrol ship "Vanos-Tu".

The Battle soon turned into the Voss Confederations favor, when Kaylen ordered additional reinforcements in the form of two Barsen'thor class Star battlecruisers that exited hyperspace right behind the 8th Open Circle Fleet. The Battlecruisers destroyed several Imperial and Victory Mk.1 Class star destroyers, due to their speed and agility caught the republic ships off guard. The "Voss-Ja" launched a huge swarm of fighters and used its concussion missiles to destroy the "Hero" another Venator class-star destroyer. Macros refused to call in reinforcements, Admiral Hellion Van Kaiser contacted the Jedi council and updated them on the Voss and stated that the Voss are neutral in the Clone Wars. The Jedi council ordered Master Marcos Ton, to retreat. Marcos refused until he learned of Ana's death by clone lieutenant CL-1799 "Dex". Marcos then had a mental breakdown and realized his mistake, Hellion Van Kaiser took control per protocol and ordered the 8th Open Circle Fleet to retreat.

The 8th Open Circle Fleet, managed to retreat quickly, however, several several light attack cruisers, and one support ship was destroyed or forced to surrender to the Voss forces