Fall of Tenupe

The Fall of Tenupe in 141 ABY was the opening battle of the Vagaari War.

An invasion fleet from the arrived at  in sufficient numbers to overwhelm the Royal Army cohorts stationed on the former. Consul Tesshen Manytrek, recognizing the futility of defense, tried to contact Rin Sakaros but found offworld communications had been jammed. Ordering troops in Tenupe's primary s to seize all vehicles capable of offworld travel, he had ships from private freighters to military transports loaded to capacity with refugees and send offworld under cover of Tenupe's s.

When the surged into Tenupe's capital, Manytrek was still evacuating his staff and aides. He refused to flee himself, but sent his fellow Centurion Kyzk with the last shipload of evacuees. The Vagaari overran the palace's defenses, and Manytrek was killed holding off the invaders to give Kyzk and his aides time to escape.

Having successfully taken Tenupe, the Vagaari took many of its citizens as slaves and used Tenupe as a staging base for further attacks into the Golden Empire. The planet was recaptured later in the war.