3094: Sinking of the ASF Ragnarok

As their access to resources dwindled over the course of several years, the Goshen people faced near starvation, but they still refused to yield. Intense trade negotiations with the Sovereign and pleas to other territories with influence in the Senate on Kepler continued with little progress.

With no end to the blockade in sight, a cadre of desperate Terran militants covertly boarded one of the blockade ships, the ASF Ragnarok, and rigged its thrusters to overload, causing the dreadnaught to explode, killing all 15,000 crewmembers.

This attack marked the official beginning of the armed Terran Rebellion.

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