Legends of Galactic Heroes - The Sleeping Dragon

Chapter 27

Battle of Fenris: Preparations

The Imperial Fleet would then find out after the 1st Fleet was the last fleet to regroup with the rest gave away their position, but showed that their forces were combined into one instead of seperate and that they have the rest of the transports that the Winged Hussars (16th Fleet) managed to save and from the alliance had enough Fuel, food, and Ammunition to last for about 3 months.

The famous Imperial tactician: Reuenthal, along with pragmatic admirals like Mittermeyer and Mecklinger had the plans to starve out the combined fleet by isolating them from the Alliance, whilst hot headed admirals like Bittenfeld and Adolf to rushing in, and overwhelm them. But the plan was rejected by Fleet Admiral Reinhard. The main reason why was the command of stopping it was temporary, but a race against time to prevent Muckenberger from taking his command before the man's retirement.

As for the Fenris Starzone was known for it's discovery by Admirals Bewcock and Lefebvre as the star wars a supremely wild one as the star blew off massive amount of radiation by it's solar winds and would basically make sensors nearly useless. The reason why this was a fallback point was that they couldn't see the imperials, but the imperials couldn't see the combined fleet. that was to why this Starzone was chosen. 

but this one was the 1st major battle since the start of the invasion, until one that would become the largest battle as the Imperials were racing to wipe out the entire combined fleet of the Free Planets Alliance. This would be named the Battle of Fenris, but the one after it was simply a fight of survival for the alliance fleets.

As for Fenris was famous for its nearly unstable star with massive energy pulses that cause fluctuations to any sensors for any ship, no matter if it's Alliance or Imperial. The saying by Bismarck von Hohenzollern in his memoirs was, "if you thought Amritsar was scary, Fenris leaves no mercy for anyone because she's more malevolent than her quieter sibling."

This resulted as both Fenris and Amritsar were the same type of stars, but Fenris also known as Fenrir was simply bigger and the main reason why it was unstable because of a ship carrying Zephyr Particles fell into the star, causing the star turn from a normal sun into large red giant that it is.

The other reason why the star was called either Fenris or Fenrir was the solar winds and solar flares give the most chilling howling sounds and the wind giving a strange gas similar to the Zephyr Particles, but won't ignite to both gun fire or explosions and gives off an eerie fog-like appearance which meant that both sensors and visual sighting as almost rendered useless.

But Bewcock and Harrow made this the area to simply have an area to retreat and regroup if any fleet was attacked and thanks to the alliance destroyer Narvik and it recent refit managed to save the entire fleet.

After shaking pursuit and regrouping, Bewcock took command of the entire force and no one opposed it as he was the senior officer and had experience in his full service into the war. After all of the ships were accounted for, he requested a meeting aboard his flagship.

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November 28, 796 UC, Fenris Starzone, Alliance Combined Fleet flagship: Rio Grande