Attack on Csilla

The attack on Csilla was a battle between the forces of the Chiss Ascendancy and three attacking warships. The attackers were the Paataatus Hiveborn, though they were unidentified at the time of the attack. The Hiveborn had been ordered to attack the Chiss homeworld and capital of Csilla by their conquerers, the Nikardun Destiny, to distract from a Nikardun massacre of refugees at the Dioya system at the Ascendancy's edge. In turn, the Nikardun had conquered the Paataatus and other nations near the Ascendancy at the behest of the Grysk Hegemony, who sought to encircle, undermine, and ultimately invade the Chiss Ascendancy.

The attackers were quickly defeated by the Chiss Defense Force. However, the attack had occurred during a legislative session of the Chiss Syndicure, sending the Ascendancy's ruling Aristocra into an uproar. The Syndics became single-minded about identifying and punishing the attackers, as no-one had dared to attack Csilla in decades. Supreme General Ba'kif of the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet thought the question of why Csilla had been attacked was of more interest than who had attacked it. Nevertheless, Ba'kif consented to a retaliatory strike on the Paataatus homeworld to punish the Paataatus for proven raids they had recently conducted against the Ascendancy.

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