Battle of Sevastopolitan (Cruentusian War)

The Battle of Sevastopolitan was a battle of the Cruentusian War, and marked the entry of the Taung Confederacy into the conflict proper.

Assault on Sevastopolitan
The Taung Armada launched for Sevastopolitan, several months after the Battle of Demos, to begin the most complex military action in Taung history. Twelve Taung Armada battlegroups arrived at Sevastopolitan. One, Battlegroup Ravage, was compromised of one divison of Mandalore-class Cruisers and ten divisions of Storm-class Star Destroyers. The Taung Star Destroyer, "Uniter", was the flagship of the Taung Armada forces besieging Sevastopolitan, under the command of the leader of the Taung Confederacy, Mandalore the Uniter. Mandalore deployed the Taung Crusaders to Rus, which they quickly captured and brought under control, snagging several Srav generals in the process, as well as a central trading center for the Srav Federation.

The Taung Armada and Srav Federation warships engaged each other in orbit. The Taung Armada outclassed the Srav Fleet significantly, as well as outnumbering it, and having more experience. Nonetheless, Srav ships and defence satellites destroyed several initial waves of Taung ships before being taken down with barrages of spaceborne nuclear weapons. the The Srav Fleet was quickly destroyed and the Taung established a orbital blockade.

At this point, once Sevastopolitan was isolated from the rest of the Srav Federation, Mandalore the Uniter came up with his strategy for capturing the rest of the surface of Sevastopolitan, and ordered the invasion to begin. Orbital and atmospheric defenses were destroyed and the way was made clear for the invasion landing forces. Mandalore ordered that no prisoners were to be taken, in order to keep any from evading the Taung and escaping to warn the Srav Federation government. The Srav commander, Skurik Lyubuv, attempted to negotiate with the Taung, but the Taung had already vowed to destroy the Srav garrison of Sevastopolitan. The Taung invasion began swiftly.

Srav Defense
As the Taung invaded, the Srav defended to the last man. Eventually, as the conflict degenerated into ambushes and hit and run attacks because of the Srav knowledge of the planet, the Taung began to run out of generators for their tanks, and the conflict degenerated even further as the Taung and Srav fought to control the scarce resources that were left on the planet. Tensions began to run high as what started as a limited strategic release of ballistic weapons, snowballed into a bitter exchange of warheads. The Taung destroyed many cities and settlements on Sevastopolitan because of their high-explosive missiles fired from cruisers in orbit.

The Taung began to grow concerned at the increasing Srav guerilla activity in and around the major cities on Sevastopolitan that were not destroyed by the missile exchange. They also were frustrated at the fact that before they had landed on the surface of the planet, the Srav had been able to hide ammo and supply dumps in the forests, hills, and rivers of Sevastopolitan. Mandalore instituted a policy of civilian evacuation, as the Srav civilians began to aid in the guerilla warfare. At this time, however, several Srav vehicle and weapon designs had been studied by the Taung and were reprouduced with a distinctively Taung appearance. Large scale troop transports and the new Battlecruisers had been developed by Taung scientists on Dxun, and several had had just arrived in orbit over Sevastopolitan. Using these new warships the Taung smashed the Srav resistance and invaded, and captured their bases, destroying almost much Srav resistance in a single day. Nonetheless, Shurik used Nostok-5 missiles based on the planet to cut a hole in the Taung blockade, allowing him and remaining Srav forces to make a quick escape in transports.

Aftermath
After the battle, the Taung were victorious, not a single Srav soldier or militant was left alive on the planet, and the Taung had complete control over the shipyards. Unfortunately for Mandalore's plans, word spread through the galaxy like wildfire of the invasion of the Srav Federation by the Taung. Many of the galactic entities fighting in the Cruentusian War declared that they would fight the Taung if they came near their territory and would not consider dealing with these "monstrous" people. One good thing came out of it though, the Death's Tongue Militia, hearing of the Taung, and approving their methods, sent ambassadors to the Taung. After the Sevastopolitan Concord, the DTM and the Taung Confederacy had decided that they would not go so far as being allies, but that they would support the others in worlds contested in the space bordering their territory, and that they would assist each other in their trading operations.