Battle of Kesnal

The Battle of Kesnal was a battle fought in 2348 between the Emorian Union and a coalition comprised of the Caloctoran Hegemony and the K'Taknor Republic.

When Caloctoran scientists discovered that the Emorian Union was constructing a Gateway in the Kesnal system, they concluded that the Emorian exploratory mission which arrived in the galaxy in 2318 was the prelude to an invasion. In order to interrupt the construction and destroy the Gateway before it could become operational, the Hegemony arranged an expeditionary force. To reach the Kesnal system, which lay in the territory of the Gorf People's Republic, the Caloctora made use of a natural wormhole which connected the Kesnal system and the Plorook system, in the K'Taknor Republic.

The wormhole allowed the expeditionary force to avoid traversing the Volkar Stellar Commonwealth, but required the use of wormhole traversal technology, which had been developed by the Hegemony only theoretically in 2346.

The coalition force comprised 117 ships: 98 Caloctoran and 19 K'Taknor. The Emorian force, which had insisted on the withdrawal of the Gorf forces in the system prior to the battle, comprised four Emorian ships: 1 exploration ship, two science ships, and one diplomatic cruiser.

The battle was a decisive Emorian victory.