THE BATTLE OF TERRA
With their fleets back up to full strength, bolstered by the first fleet of Hakaga-class supercarriers, the Kilrathi strike deep into Confederation space. Warsaw, Gilead, and Sirius Prime are bombed with radiation warheads, even as the Kilrathi brush aside the Confederation's hastily assembled defenses and reach Earth. Despite the suicidal bravery of Earth's defenders, the Kilrathi are able to bombard crucial defense centers on the planet -- Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Miami, Quebec, Berlin, Paris, Kiev, and others -- before they are finally forced to withdraw to friendly space as a result of daring Marines, who land aboard several Kilrathi vessels, including the Kilrathi flagship, and destroy them with thermonuclear mines.

[ Chronicled in the novel Fleet Action ]

COVERT INFILTRATION
A new secret carrier, the TCS Lexington, departs from the Goddard Transfer Station. Its mission: destroy the enemy system by system. A self-sustaining, powerful vessel, carrying among its crew a special unit of 62 Covert Operatives, the carrier passes through a secret jump point into Kilrathi space.

The Lexington is not heard from thereafter, and is presumed lost with all hands.

[ Chronicled in Wing Commander: Armada ]

ON THE DEFENSIVE
Confederation forces battle the Kilrathi in a series of defensive campaigns. Tired of the decades-long war, the Kilrathi Emperor orders the use of biological weapons.

In a last-ditch effort to win the war outright before casualties from bioweapons get out of control, Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn activates the Behemoth, a huge energy gun capable of destroying a planet. However, the Kilrathi agent Ralgha nar Hhallas alerts the Kilrathi High Command, and the Behemoth is ambushed and destroyed.

[ Chronicled in Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger ]

THE FINAL OPTION
A small band of Covert Operatives under the command of General James Taggert, and led by Colonel Jeanette Devereaux, slip into the Kilrah System and set up a series of hidden supply bases carved in asteroids. The group is captured and ritually executed, but not before sending back to the Confederation vital data showing that Kilrah itself suffers from tectonic instability.

A tectonic weapon, the Temblor bomb, is developed. The bomb, if delivered with absolute accuracy, could cause a series of oscillations under the surface of Kilrah which would literally shake the planet apart. A small group of elite Confederation pilots under the command of Colonel Christopher Blair, and flying prototype Excalibur fighters with experimental cloaking technology, manages to penetrate the Kilrathi defenses via the secret asteroid depots, and attack Kilrah directly. Crown Prince Thrakhath is shot down and killed by Blair, who then proceeds to deliver the Temblor bomb and destroy Kilrah, bringing the long conflict to an end.

[ Chronicled in Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger ]

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