{"data":{"id":15200,"title":"This Day in History: The First Step Back","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/15200-This-Day-In-History-The-First-Step-Back","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15200","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15200","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":4612,"name":"TDIH_BattleofOrion2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/vkv1p9xua2x8zr\/source\/TDIH_BattleofOrion2.jpg","alt":"","size":1744985,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2016-02-16T23:45:15+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4612","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4612\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nFebruary 16, 2712 SET\n\nThe First Step Back\nThere was silence after the first Vanduul attack in 2681. Once the UEE figured out that they were dealing with an entirely new species, Humanity braced itself for\u2026 something. Though the military prepared for the possibility of diplomatic contact, the brutality of the attack on the Dell Township strongly indicated that second contact would most likely be violent as well. But for weeks, while a fighting force of UEE Navy and Marines waited, nothing happened.\n\nWhen the Vanduul did return, it was a small raiding party consisting of a dozen fighters and Harvester ships. Despite the overwhelming defense force that was waiting for them, the Vanduul attacked without hesitation. This was the UEE military\u2019s first introduction to the Vanduul.\n\nOver the next few years, as the UEE tried to learn about this new civilization, vague hierarchal details were beginning to come into focus. Dr. Arlow Gellis, a renowned anthropologist of the time, released a study exploring Vanduul social dynamics. By comparing the prominent glyphs on the Vanduul ships, he introduced what became known as Clan Theory, in which he hypothesized that the Vanduul organized themselves in self-sufficient groups rather than adopting a species-wide government. As interaction with the Vanduul settled into a prolonged series of light skirmishes, Gellis\u2019s theory became more and more accepted, and a sense developed across the Empire that neither diplomacy nor outright war was at all likely.\n\nBy all accounts, Imperator Illyana Messer VI and her military weren\u2019t fazed by this development. If anything, the Imperator found the sporadic attacks in Orion to be a convenient tool to help remind the populace why they needed the Imperator\u2019s protection.\n\nWhen Messer VI named her youngest son, Samuel, as her successor in 2697, the new Imperator took the Vanduul threat even less seriously and seemed to be much more interested in using his newfound power to torment an already subjugated population into further submission.\n\nIn the early years of the 28th century, the personality of Orion system changed as well. Armitage became a waystation for soldiers, mercs and pilots looking for a chance to test their mettle against this elusive enemy. Stores began accepting Vanduul tech (and in the more extreme locations: Vanduul corpses) as trade to feed the growing bloodlust of the planet. Records from the era even indicate that hunting parties were organized to go look for Vanduul prey.\n\nThis overconfidence was about to be put in its place.\n\n\u201cBit chilly tonight, guess winter\u2019s not quite done with us. Water farms are cycling down for the night, but I\u2019m gonna keep them in a low run just in case the temp drops. What else \u2026 I think Maura\u2019s getting sick, so we\u2019ll probably trek out to Conrad tomorrow and see the doc. I think that\u2019s it. I know you\u2019re probably hoping that this was gonna be that forgiveness comm, but it\u2019s not. I\u2019m not there yet.\u201d\n\nStamped at 2712-02-16_18:38, that was one of the last civilian comms that left Armitage before a Vanduul fleet invaded the system. The attack force was larger than anything the population had ever seen. Capital ship after capital ship appeared in Orion and unleashed its devastating weapons on the locals.\n\nThe Battle of Orion had begun.\n\nThe UEE Navy scrambled to mount a defense, but the carrier normally posted to the system had tasked to Caliban to make an example of a growing political activist movement, leaving three destroyers and several frigates to handle the onslaught. The locals banded together with the military while scouts raced back to to alert the fleet.\n\nBattle lines fluctuated for three days on and around the planet of Armitage as support rushed in to help. Despite suffering heavy losses during the initial attack, the Navy had begun to push the Vanduul back toward the jump point while Marines were battling over every scrap of territory on the planet surface.\n\nThat\u2019s when the UEE caught its first glimpse of what would become known as a Kingship. Nearly three thousand meters in length, the alien ship dwarfed all of the remaining Naval ships combined. The ships of Humanity\u2019s front line, emboldened at the prospect of victory, were too close to avert their course and were decimated in the Kingship\u2019s first attack.\n\nWhat transpired after that has been historically described as a slaughter. The remaining Naval forces fled the system to Tiber in the hopes of creating some kind of barricade to stop the Vanduul advance and abandoning the people of Armitage to the Vanduul in the process.\n\nThe Vanduul had no interest in pursuit. The Kingship stayed in the system for almost a year as they harvested what they needed from the planets before the Clan disappeared back into Vanduul space.\n\nThe Messers had suffered their first decisive military defeat in over a hundred fifty years. News of this defeat and this unstoppable terror at the fringe of the universe terrified the population. Everyone seemed to be asking: was it only a matter of time before the Vanduul pushed further into Human space?\n\nUnfortunately, the answer was yes.","de_DE":"AN DIESEM TAG IN DER GESCHICHTE\n16. Februar 2712 SET\n\nDer erste Schritt zur\u00fcck\nNach dem ersten Angriff Vanduuls im Jahr 2681 herrschte Stille. Als die UEE herausfand, dass sie es mit einer v\u00f6llig neuen Spezies zu tun hatten, machte sich die Menschheit bereit f\u00fcr.... etwas. Obwohl sich das Milit\u00e4r auf die M\u00f6glichkeit diplomatischer Kontakte vorbereitete, deutete die Brutalit\u00e4t des Angriffs auf das Township Dell nachdr\u00fccklich darauf hin, dass der zweite Kontakt h\u00f6chstwahrscheinlich auch gewaltt\u00e4tig sein w\u00fcrde. Aber f\u00fcr Wochen, w\u00e4hrend eine Kampftruppe der UEE Navy und Marines wartete, geschah nichts.\n\nAls die Vanduul zur\u00fcckkehrten, war es eine kleine Schlachtzugsgruppe, die aus einem Dutzend Kampfflugzeugen und Harvester-Schiffen bestand. Trotz der \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigenden Verteidigungstruppe, die auf sie wartete, griffen die Vandule ohne zu z\u00f6gern an. Dies war die erste Einf\u00fchrung des UEE-Milit\u00e4rs in die Vanduul.\n\nIn den n\u00e4chsten Jahren, als die UEE versuchte, etwas \u00fcber diese neue Zivilisation zu erfahren, begannen vage hierarchische Details in den Fokus zu r\u00fccken. Dr. Arlow Gellis, ein damals renommierter Anthropologe, ver\u00f6ffentlichte eine Studie \u00fcber die soziale Dynamik Vanduuls. Durch den Vergleich der markanten Glyphen auf den Vanduul-Schiffen f\u00fchrte er das ein, was als Clan-Theorie bekannt wurde, in dem er annahm, dass die Vanduul sich in autarken Gruppen organisierten, anstatt eine artenweite Regierung anzunehmen. Als sich die Interaktion mit den Vanduul in einer langen Reihe von leichten Gefechten einrichtete, setzte sich Gellis' Theorie immer mehr durch, und im ganzen Reich entwickelte sich das Gef\u00fchl, dass weder Diplomatie noch ein regelrechter Krieg wahrscheinlich waren.\n\nImperatorin Illyana Messer VI. und ihr Milit\u00e4r waren von dieser Entwicklung jedenfalls nicht beunruhigt. Wenn \u00fcberhaupt, fand der Imperator die sporadischen Angriffe in Orion ein geeignetes Mittel, um die Bev\u00f6lkerung daran zu erinnern, warum sie den Schutz des Imperators brauchte.\n\nAls Messer VI. 2697 ihren j\u00fcngsten Sohn Samuel zu ihrem Nachfolger ernannte, nahm der neue Imperator die Vanduul-Drohung noch weniger ernst und schien viel mehr daran interessiert zu sein, seine neu gefundene Macht zu nutzen, um eine bereits unterworfene Bev\u00f6lkerung zur weiteren Unterwerfung zu qu\u00e4len.\n\nIn den fr\u00fchen Jahren des 28. Jahrhunderts ver\u00e4nderte sich auch die Pers\u00f6nlichkeit des Orion-Systems. Armitage wurde zu einer Zwischenstation f\u00fcr Soldaten, S\u00f6ldner und Piloten, die nach einer M\u00f6glichkeit suchten, ihren Mut gegen diesen schwer fassbaren Feind zu testen. Die Gesch\u00e4fte begannen, Vanduul-Technologie (und an den extremeren Orten: Vanduul-Leichen) als Handel zu akzeptieren, um die wachsende Blutgier des Planeten zu stillen. Aufzeichnungen aus dieser Zeit deuten sogar darauf hin, dass Jagdgesellschaften organisiert wurden, um nach Vanduuls Beute zu suchen.\n\nDieses \u00fcbertriebene Selbstvertrauen sollte an seine Stelle gesetzt werden.\n\n\"Etwas k\u00fchl heute Abend, ich sch\u00e4tze, der Winter ist bei uns noch nicht ganz vorbei. Wasserfarmen radeln f\u00fcr die Nacht herunter, aber ich werde sie in einem niedrigen Bereich halten, nur f\u00fcr den Fall, dass die Temperatur sinkt. Was noch... Ich denke, Maura wird krank, also werden wir wahrscheinlich morgen zu Conrad gehen und den Arzt aufsuchen. Ich glaube, das ist es. Ich wei\u00df, dass du wahrscheinlich hoffst, dass dies die Vergebung sein wird, aber das ist es nicht. Ich bin noch nicht da.\"\n\nGestempelt am 2712-02-16_18:38, war das eine der letzten zivilen Kommunikationen, die Armitage verlie\u00dfen, bevor eine Vanduul-Flotte in das System eindrang. Die Angriffstruppe war gr\u00f6\u00dfer als alles, was die Bev\u00f6lkerung je gesehen hatte. Ein gro\u00dfes Schiff nach dem anderen erschien in Orion und entfesselte seine verheerenden Waffen auf die Einheimischen.\n\nDie Schlacht bei Orion hatte begonnen.\n\nDie UEE Navy krabbelte, um eine Verteidigung zu montieren, aber der normalerweise im System stationierte Tr\u00e4ger hatte Caliban beauftragt, ein Beispiel f\u00fcr eine wachsende politische Aktivistenbewegung zu geben, so dass drei Zerst\u00f6rer und mehrere Fregatten den Angriff bew\u00e4ltigen konnten. Die Einheimischen schlossen sich mit dem Milit\u00e4r zusammen, w\u00e4hrend die Sp\u00e4her zur\u00fcckkehrten, um die Flotte zu alarmieren.\n\nDie Schlachtlinien schwankten drei Tage lang auf und um den Planeten Armitage, als die Unterst\u00fctzung zu Hilfe eilte. Trotz schwerer Verluste w\u00e4hrend des ersten Angriffs hatte die Marine begonnen, die Vanduul wieder in Richtung Sprungbrett zu schieben, w\u00e4hrend die Marines um jedes St\u00fcck Land auf der Planetenoberfl\u00e4che k\u00e4mpften.\n\nZu diesem Zeitpunkt bekam die UEE ihren ersten Blick auf das, was als K\u00f6nigsschiff bekannt wurde. Fast dreitausend Meter lang war das au\u00dferirdische Schiff, das alle \u00fcbrigen Marineschiffe zusammen in den Schatten stellte. Die Schiffe der Frontlinie der Menschheit, die durch die Aussicht auf den Sieg ermutigt wurden, waren zu nah dran, um ihren Kurs abzuwenden, und wurden beim ersten Angriff des K\u00f6nigtums dezimiert.\n\nWas sich danach ereignet hat, wurde in der Vergangenheit als Schlachtung bezeichnet. Die \u00fcbrigen Marinekr\u00e4fte flohen aus dem System nach Tiber in der Hoffnung, eine Art Barrikade zu schaffen, um den Vormarsch der Vanduul zu stoppen und dabei das Volk der Armitage den Vanduul zu \u00fcberlassen.\n\nDie Vanduul hatten kein Interesse an einer Verfolgung. Das K\u00f6nigsschiff blieb fast ein Jahr im System, als sie das, was sie brauchten, von den Planeten ernteten, bevor der Clan wieder im Vanduul-Raum verschwand.\n\nDie Messers hatten ihre erste entscheidende milit\u00e4rische Niederlage seit \u00fcber hundertf\u00fcnfzig Jahren erlitten. Die Nachricht von dieser Niederlage und diesem unaufhaltsamen Terror am Rande des Universums erschreckte die Bev\u00f6lkerung. Alle schienen sich zu fragen: War es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis die Vanduul weiter in den menschlichen Raum vordrangen?\n\nLeider war die Antwort ja.","zh_CN":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nFebruary 16, 2712 SET\n\nThe First Step Back\nThere was silence after the first Vanduul attack in 2681. Once the UEE figured out that they were dealing with an entirely new species, Humanity braced itself for\u2026 something. Though the military prepared for the possibility of diplomatic contact, the brutality of the attack on the Dell Township strongly indicated that second contact would most likely be violent as well. But for weeks, while a fighting force of UEE Navy and Marines waited, nothing happened.\n\nWhen the Vanduul did return, it was a small raiding party consisting of a dozen fighters and Harvester ships. Despite the overwhelming defense force that was waiting for them, the Vanduul attacked without hesitation. This was the UEE military\u2019s first introduction to the Vanduul.\n\nOver the next few years, as the UEE tried to learn about this new civilization, vague hierarchal details were beginning to come into focus. Dr. Arlow Gellis, a renowned anthropologist of the time, released a study exploring Vanduul social dynamics. By comparing the prominent glyphs on the Vanduul ships, he introduced what became known as Clan Theory, in which he hypothesized that the Vanduul organized themselves in self-sufficient groups rather than adopting a species-wide government. As interaction with the Vanduul settled into a prolonged series of light skirmishes, Gellis\u2019s theory became more and more accepted, and a sense developed across the Empire that neither diplomacy nor outright war was at all likely.\n\nBy all accounts, Imperator Illyana Messer VI and her military weren\u2019t fazed by this development. If anything, the Imperator found the sporadic attacks in Orion to be a convenient tool to help remind the populace why they needed the Imperator\u2019s protection.\n\nWhen Messer VI named her youngest son, Samuel, as her successor in 2697, the new Imperator took the Vanduul threat even less seriously and seemed to be much more interested in using his newfound power to torment an already subjugated population into further submission.\n\nIn the early years of the 28th century, the personality of Orion system changed as well. Armitage became a waystation for soldiers, mercs and pilots looking for a chance to test their mettle against this elusive enemy. Stores began accepting Vanduul tech (and in the more extreme locations: Vanduul corpses) as trade to feed the growing bloodlust of the planet. Records from the era even indicate that hunting parties were organized to go look for Vanduul prey.\n\nThis overconfidence was about to be put in its place.\n\n\u201cBit chilly tonight, guess winter\u2019s not quite done with us. Water farms are cycling down for the night, but I\u2019m gonna keep them in a low run just in case the temp drops. What else \u2026 I think Maura\u2019s getting sick, so we\u2019ll probably trek out to Conrad tomorrow and see the doc. I think that\u2019s it. I know you\u2019re probably hoping that this was gonna be that forgiveness comm, but it\u2019s not. I\u2019m not there yet.\u201d\n\nStamped at 2712-02-16_18:38, that was one of the last civilian comms that left Armitage before a Vanduul fleet invaded the system. The attack force was larger than anything the population had ever seen. Capital ship after capital ship appeared in Orion and unleashed its devastating weapons on the locals.\n\nThe Battle of Orion had begun.\n\nThe UEE Navy scrambled to mount a defense, but the carrier normally posted to the system had tasked to Caliban to make an example of a growing political activist movement, leaving three destroyers and several frigates to handle the onslaught. The locals banded together with the military while scouts raced back to to alert the fleet.\n\nBattle lines fluctuated for three days on and around the planet of Armitage as support rushed in to help. Despite suffering heavy losses during the initial attack, the Navy had begun to push the Vanduul back toward the jump point while Marines were battling over every scrap of territory on the planet surface.\n\nThat\u2019s when the UEE caught its first glimpse of what would become known as a Kingship. Nearly three thousand meters in length, the alien ship dwarfed all of the remaining Naval ships combined. The ships of Humanity\u2019s front line, emboldened at the prospect of victory, were too close to avert their course and were decimated in the Kingship\u2019s first attack.\n\nWhat transpired after that has been historically described as a slaughter. The remaining Naval forces fled the system to Tiber in the hopes of creating some kind of barricade to stop the Vanduul advance and abandoning the people of Armitage to the Vanduul in the process.\n\nThe Vanduul had no interest in pursuit. The Kingship stayed in the system for almost a year as they harvested what they needed from the planets before the Clan disappeared back into Vanduul space.\n\nThe Messers had suffered their first decisive military defeat in over a hundred fifty years. News of this defeat and this unstoppable terror at the fringe of the universe terrified the population. Everyone seemed to be asking: was it only a matter of time before the Vanduul pushed further into Human space?\n\nUnfortunately, the answer was yes."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":108,"created_at":"2016-02-17T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"10 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 00:23:02","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":15199,"next_id":15201}}