Vall Kumauri

Vall Kumauri was a warlord living around 10,000 BBY. That year, the young Kumauri designed and built a line of revolutionary battleships. The vessels were equipped with tractor beam projectors and mass driver cannons, which could be used to hurl captured asteroids at enemy starships as well at planets as a form of orbital bombardment.

Using a fleet of the battleships, Kumauri forged an empire by conquering dozens of star systems on the Galactic Republic's periphery. The Republic engaged the Kumauri Empire in a brief conflict, during which Kumauri's flagship participated in a battle. Ultimately, the Kumauri domain was defeated and eventually nearly forgotten, although Kumauri's legacy lived on through his battleship design, which proved influential in space warfare for centuries to come, and the use of the madilon alloy, which remained crucial in hyperdrive manufacture.

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