Meanwhile, the main body of the fleet continued to fragment, leaving the vulnerable auxiliaries, particularly the damaged Titan, unescorted. Their task complete, Geary ordered them to rejoin the fleet. While this was going on, Geary attempted to convince the Syndic commander to surrender, but the Syndic officer, constrained by Articles Seven, Nine, and Twelve of the Syndicate Fleet Fighting Instructions, refused.Īs the Alliance fleet raced toward the Syndic defenders, a pursuit force consisting of twelve Hunter-Killers and a single heavy cruiser appeared at the jump point, but was promptly destroyed by the combined firepower of Duellos and Tulev's battle cruisers. He further ordered Duellos' ships to lay a minefield across the jump exit.ĭespite Geary's best efforts to keep the fleet in formation, the various ships under his command, still used to the unorganized fighting style then standard in the fleet, broke formation at the first site of the Syndic corvettes, each attempting to get there first and destroy them. While proceeding in-system, Geary ordered the First and Second Battle Cruiser Divisions, under the command of Captains Duellos and Tulev, to remain behind at the jump point to engage any Syndic pursuers. Syndic forces consisted of two Nickel Corvettes and a single obsolete light cruiser, as well as the personnel stationed on the fourth world. Geary's fleet arrived in system to find it minimally defended. The Battle of Corvus was an engagement fought between an Alliance fleet under the command of Captain John Geary and a the Syndic defenders of the Corvus system, led by a Syndic Executive Class Officer in command of the garrison on the fourth planet of the system.
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