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[[Category: Starlit Court]]
[[Category: Dachia]]
[[Category: Free Dominion]]
The event widely known as ''The Dachia Crisis'', or the '''
===Changing Views on the Grail Quest===
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Dissatisfaction with the as-yet incomplete quest gave rise to two new militarist factions. One was '''The Dominion''', a group claiming that the ''Light'' was indicating Beacon Space as a whole rather than a specific system or planet. The other militarist faction was '''The Realists''', whose members had lost faith in [[The Starlit Path]] entirely. Both groups asserted that the Sihians should abandon their search for Grail and adapt to a reality without the [[Grail Quest]]. These two groups found themselves reluctant allies in their common belief that the Starlit Court should return to its ancient, warlike roots by carving itself a new home in Beacon Space through conquest.
Though neither militarist group had any success winning the support of the [[The_Starlight_Court%27s_Government#Council_of_Grandmasters| Council of Grandmasters]], of the two the Dominion had an easier time winning support and finding its Monks and Sages places on the [[The_Starlight_Court%27s_Government#Council_of_Elders|Council of Elders]]. Unlike the Realists, the Dominion were still devoted to the Starlit Path, and differed mostly only in their interpretation. The Realists were considered far more radical; they found popularity mainly among the common people and men-at-arms, with few knights joining their cause.
===The Debate===
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Seen as too hawkish by their peers, the Dominion members of the Council of Elders found themselves making more political enemies than friends. They were often compared to the court’s warlike ancient Elentar ancestors - a comparison that doomed their debate position from the outset. Additionally, the Dominion always had a problem separating their position from that of their Realist counterparts (who staged frequent, loud protests among the first four wards of Sihi), causing Traditionalist opposition to easily unify against them.
The constant friction among the Council of Elders eventually began to catch the attention of [[The_Starlight_Court%27s_Government#The_Castellan|The Castellan]] and [[The_Starlight_Court%27s_Government#Council_of_Grandmasters|The Council of Grandmasters]], who feared that the Dominion’s interpretation of the Starlit Path would gain further traction among the Monks and Sages. After several years of debate, the issue came to a vote; when the vote was decided in the Traditionalists’ favor, they hoped they had finally seen the end of the discussion. They were mistaken...
===Tensions Rise===
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He spent seven months training and readying all those who had joined him, a significant number. Roughly half of the [[The Order of the Mourning Blade]], the Order Syr Ancelot originated from, had made the journey to join him, including a mass variety of Sihians who fully believed that conquest was the true goal of the Path. With supporters to spare, Ancelot sent many of them back to Sihi to lie in wait for his first move.
The Plan was simple: His forces would cause widespread destruction and chaos on Sihi to distract [[Sihi#The_Fleet|The Guardian Fleets]]. He would time his approach, making sure '''The Resolute''' was on duty so it could betray the Fleet and give himself cover to enter Sihi relatively unimpeded. When on Sihi, he would have communications and the inner and outer defenses disabled to enable his entrance to the control room of the Worldship. Lastly, he would fly Sihi and crash it into the planet of Dachia, a controlled collision.
At the end of his seven months of preparation, he simply had to wait until everything was in order for him to pull it off. In two months after placing all of the pieces Ancelot sprang his trap and attacked Sihi.
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Through coordination with his Knights who were at Sihi, Ancelot was notified by ''Syr Iago'' of the [[Order of the Griffon]] that everything was in place to start. Iago denoted that only a carrier—SCS Crucible—and two battleships—SCS Pride and SCS Resolute—were guarding Sihi. The attack was held off temporarily after the conditions were perfect; it had to be to catch the Guardian Fleet on surprise. The delay relaxed the new rotation, lulling them into a false sense of security.
When the attack was called by Syr's Ancelot and Iago, the Guardian Fleet of Sihi was quick to respond; a good deal of their forces were sent into the station to deal with the internal situation, just as Syr Ancelot had anticipated. Both the Order of the Mourning Blade and Griffon had been ordered to fully deploy to the surface, leaving only the [[Forge_Orders#The_Order_of_the_First_Forge|First Forge]] and the [[Order of the Lion]] in reserve. The agents who spent the better part of a year infiltrating Sihi to conduct this attack were deliberately spread in the aft half of the Worldship to divert the attention of the defenders away from [[Sihi#Ward_Five|Castle Sihi]].
Once sufficiently spread out, Syr Iago notified Syr Ancelot to bring his fleet in to board the space station. '''Syr Benedict''' was signaled to order his Dominionist Knights on the Resolute to Fire upon the SCS Pride, the defenders spread thin. With a Capital ship in Dominionist control, firing upon the defenders, Syr Ancelot had little trouble invading Sihi as there was next to no resistance in space. Despite the Order of the Griffon deploying their Frigates, piloted by their Men-at-Arms, things were dire. Half of the SCS Crucible’s forces were ordered to engage the enemy in heated dog fights. The sheer amount of Dominionist attackers completely occupied the stalwart defenders of Sihi, deadlocking their forces as time quickly ran out.
Once aboard the station, Syr Ancelot had the [[Sihi#Ward_Six|Anchorage]] doors locked and communications cut between the internals of Sihi and the stations outside, furthering the Chaos, and preventing his opponents from impeding his take over of the Castle and Sihi’s control room. This was so effective that he was able to jump out of reach of the Guardian fleet and get to the nearby Chaco system, Dachia within his destruction. All he had to do now was orchestrate the controlled crash of Sihi into Dachia so that the survivors that remained would be forced to conquer to survive.
The Guardian Fleet, without Sihi and still under attack, had mixed reactions. The Griffon frigates manned by their Men-at-Arms immediately disengaged from the battle, desperately trying to discover where their home had gone. The Order of the Lion and the SCS Pride were trying to recapture the SCS Resolute, as they were still being fired upon when the World Ship made its Drive Space Jump. The Order of the First Forge with the SCS Crucible was busy trying to win the combat in the void of space.
Unbeknownst to Ancelot, seven knights under the command of '''Syr Alaric''' and '''Syr Reinauld''' had found a way onto the station after the doors to the Anchorage had been closed, just before Sihi had jumped to the [[Cacho]] system. These seven would fight their way to the Castle to undo what Ancelot had done. Having entered through a little
Arriving at [[Dachia]], the Dominion would start their slow descent into the Planet. The crash would kill millions by their estimates, but enough survivors were predicted to rebuild and start along their guided ''Path of Death and Conquest''. The descent would take about thirty minutes until Sihi was too far within the planet’s gravity well, beyond escape. During this time, Dominion forces would go out of their way to detain or eliminate any and all Knights of rank Lieutenant and above, as only they possessed the access required to stop the navigation computer from crashing the station.
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