Hammer of Light Rebellion

The Hammer of Light Rebellion was a series of strikes conducted by a splinter group of Vasudans against the allied Galactic Terran Alliance and Parliamentary Vasudan Navy.

First encounters

The first appearance of the Hammer of Light was during the escort of the shield prototypes from the Ribos system to Beta Cygni. They destroyed defenceless Vasudan freighters who were begging for help by the fighters escorting the prototypes. Loyally following their orders, the Terran fighters refused to help and the freighters were destroyed. At the end of the escort, a group of Vasudan fighters were supposed to relieve the Terran pilots. The jumping in real relievance unveilled the conspiracy of the Hammer of Light decoy and destroyed them, keeping the shield prototypes intact.

At this point, it was unknown how large this rebellion actually was. A mission to capture the PVC Ramses was launched, which was interrupted and circumvented by the arrival of the SC Taranis. The Ramses was destroyed. All the use of this mission was that the GTA learnt that the Hammer of Light had acquired their shielding technology as well.

Notable engagements

The tactics of the Hammer of Light was to interrupt engagements between the Shivans and the alliance. They kept interrupting battles in which they were usually defeated.

The Hammer decimated the Vasudan forces at Vega and it seemed they would take control over the system. The GTD Galatea was stationed nearby and was ordered to launch a series of assaults against Hammer of Light outposts to weaken their defences. The new GTB Medusa technology was put to use along with the Tsunami anti-cruiser bomb. The first assault did not come as expected: The Shivans did a favour for them that they had already eliminated the Hammer of Light bases.

Antares was the next stop of the campaign against the Hammer. A secondary supply depot was located in an asteroid belt, in the vicinity of the jump node leading out of the system. The GTA managed to destroy all hostile targets and the depot was looted. After this victory, the Galatea was diverted to Beta Aquilae.

The Hammer used all tools necessary to stop this. They event utilized the PVC Mauler, an Aten-class cruiser to ram the Galatea as well as other Seth-class kamikaze fighters. The engagement ended with the death of all Hammer units and notable damage taken to the Galatea.

During the war for the Vasuda system, the Hammer could not afford to entangle.

A bold attempt was made to defer Omega transports carrying the Ancient records. The PVD Anvil, flagship of the Hammer of Light was defending the Altair-Aldebaran jump node. In the ensuing battle, the newly developed GTB Ursa proved its efficiency with their Harbinger bombs and destroyed the Anvil. The records were safe.

An ultimate attempt was made to stop the GTD Bastion and its fighter wings chasing the SD Lucifer. A Typhon-class destroyed crossed the path leading to the jump node, to no apparent use. The Bastion was slow to catch up with the main fighter wings and remained behind. The agile fighters could easily avoid the Hammer destroyer, eliminating all the fighters she launched.

The End of the Rebellion

Main Article: Operation Templar

See also

• Hammer of Light