First Battle of Grink

The  was the first battle of the Lefan-CNAP War. The main reason behind it was Lefan suspicion of CNAP activity and the press of the Warlord Council on the Imperium court to act aggressively. Two armadas; the Aust Fleet and the Royal Fleet were used to attack a small Confederate scout force in the diminutive Grink system. The battle saw the defeat of the Confederate units with one scientific craft destroyed along with a warship.

Prelude
The Confederation of Free Planets' Exploration Command had finished charting the AG Intergalactic Trade Route connecting the AG-12 and the galaxy by 8 ABY and began to scout the Xoret Cluster located halfway between the two galaxies. Starting from their previously established base of operations on Gakt V, a handful of scientists and mappers were sent towards the deeper regions of the globular cluster to map hyperlanes and chart systems. The expeditions discovered the Tert system but found no usable hyperspatial routes to go on and returned to Gakt to continue in another direction. After a long and hazardous journey, the First Scout Force came over the Grink system close to a natural formation of planetary nebulae which they dubbed "The Wall".

Unbeknowst to the commander of the scout force, the Neimoidian Commodore Kintok Vooro, these nebulae formed the natural boundary of the Lefan Imperium, an oppressive stratocratic monarchy of the warlike Lefan species. The Imperium's royal court and the Warlord Council became increasingly worried about CNAP expansion into the inner regions and decided to respond by utilizing the Lefan Royal Navy to crush the scouts whom they viewed as offenders of Imperium territory. The Aust Fleet responsible for the area around the Aust system was prepared and the elite Royal Fleet was sent to supplement it. The two fleets departed from separate planets with previously discussed departure times to ensure a synchronized arrival.