Encounters List

The Compact Intelligence Service's asset tracking group for "Gravestone" logs each confirmed or highly suspected action of Red One as an Encounter, dating all the way from her first battle to the present day. Listed below are all known detailed Encounters.

It is presumed that each Encounter is numbered as they are discovered or confirmed, rather than in actual chronological order. Therefore some Encounters may take place before those that precede them, or vice versa.

Encounter 001 (Confirmed)
Flight recorder data from the scout cruiser CSFWV Curse of Prophecy after it is crippled by UEC destroyers during the engagement between Task Force 97 and Expansion Fleet Bankala. Analysis of the data arouses the suspicion among the Compact Intelligence Service that the new Confederate dreadnaught is at least partially AI-controlled, prompting the preparation of a mindkiller device for the First Battle of Sol.

Encounter 004 (Confirmed)
Extermination Flotilla Anselm attempts to destroy a human exodus fleet, but is in turn destroyed by Nemesis. Column Leader Anselm names "the Wound," before his flotilla's final charge. The human refugees escape, entering stasis shortly thereafter and eventually forming the Rally colony.

Encounter 023 (Confirmed)
Execution Force Havesh is destroyed by Nemesis. CSFWV Imperial Decree, the battleship used as the Execution Force's flagship, successfully deploys a mindkiller device against Red One, but rather than destroying the AI as was hoped (and had happened against non-human AIs in the past), it merely incapacitated her. Havesh had ambushed Nemesis during an attempt to repair the shock drive, and so the entire aft third of the vessel was opened up, preventing her from shocking out. He had hoped that he was safe, directly in front of the vessel and inside the meteor cannon's minimum safe distance, but was rammed using a partially charged displacement engine as he was far too close to maneuver out of the way.

Column Leader Prime Havesh was posthumously court-martialled and found guilty of several counts of gross incompetence. The official sentence of flogging and execution was commuted to demotion to the rank of Pack Leader and loss of three names.

=== Encounter 083 (Confirmed) === Dated 5151 ACF, 17th of Jadjunv, 13:23:17:72 Standard Time. The Chariot Pride of Purpose is destroyed mere hours before its launch, along with the incomplete Redemption of Sol, by Nemesis. This marked the first time Red One's indigenously developed plasma mortars were used in combat, as well as the first recorded use of inner-system shocks. The Tribune Group Leader, Submissive (Compact Space Force [Operations]) Gen Huj Favn Cavi is interrogated by the Didact Group Leader (Compact Intelligence Services [Military]) Sabryss Ka-Ven on his role aboard the command citadel Blackforged during the attack, with him later being martyred during the CIS cover-up operation.

Encounter 099 (Confirmed)
The opening of negotiations between the Principality and Red One. The meeting is arranged rapidly, with very little warning, as Red One likes to give others as little time to prepare as possible, to avoid things like battle fleets being assembled a moment's notice away from the meeting point, or specialised weaponry being brought along.

Encounter 101 (Confirmed)
During meetings with Red One, the Principality negotiator brings a miniaturised mindkiller device aboard Nemesis, hoping that she would let them use it in exchange for their promise of protection for humanity after they have learned the secrets of her shipself. She figures this out before they have a chance to use it, expels the negotiators and destroys the sanctuary moon the negotiations were taking place around in retaliation. This event would later be named the Betrosha Nebula Incident, and allay the Compact's fears of an open alliance between Red One and the Principality.

Encounter 107 (Confirmed)
Execution Force Danele tracks Nemesis to the Salea system. They are baited into a trap when it is revealed that the ship they have actually been chasing is a captured and modified titan-grade freighter, that explodes violently enough to destroy the ship sent to investigate it and blind every sensor looking in its direction. The real Nemesis rises inside a local gas giant at full combat readiness and destroys the entire Execution Force, including its flagship, CSFWV Redemption of Sol. The next Chariot laid down would bear the same name and continue the lineage.

Encounter 111 (Suspected)
Execution Force Dankara finally brings Nemesis to battle after a year of hunting. However, the intelligence reports on her capabilities are badly out of date, and after the first wave of boarders enters the ship most of the fleet, including Column Leader Prime Dankara's flagship, is destroyed. The Janissaries desperately attempt to cripple it from the inside, but the upgraded internal defense systems kill all of them. Trace wreckage of the fleet would be found several years later, but not enough to conclusively resolve the cause of its loss.

Encounter 163 (Confirmed)
During resource extraction operations on the seabed of a planet in the Delacore system, an unidentified titan-grade vessel is detected on the seabed. Not knowing what exactly they had found, the Compact Ground Force setup a miltiary cordon around it, with thousands of troops and armoured vehicles on standby. As they transmitted their opening greeting message, Nemesis destroys both the mining rigs and the meeting vessel with a beam weapon, before annihilating the troops and orbital facilities. Sixteen months later, a complete system kill occurs at Delacore.

Encounter 184 (Confirmed)
Bastion Leader Axem (and nine names besides) uses Red One's own tactic against her by utilising an in-system shock to launch twenty kamikazes directly at Nemesis. Heavily damaged, in return for using her own tactics Red performs the first combat use of a Starbreak, and destroys the remaining seventy ships and Chariot CSFWV Pillar of Obedience as she escaped from the unstable gravity well. Bastion Leader Axem is notable as being one of the few Compact fleet commanders to think of his quarry not as an insane machine, but as a fellow warrior.

Encounter 187 (Confirmed)
Nemesis attacks and subjects the Delanna system to a low-grade system kill through heavy orbital bombardment and Starbreak, to destroy the ongoing Project Echo research being performed there. Column Leader Prime Weran, the local security chief and in command of the Chariot CSFWV Unrelenting Prosecution, does not know about this research and so the security in Delanna is not strong enough to halt the attack, and remarks that Red One knew more about events in his own sector than he did.

Encounter 203 (Suspected)
The Unbound faction "Visitors in the Blackest Night" disappears after embarking on a search for a new lair. A Didact presumed to be a Compact Intelligence Service operative is executed by a Tribune after he is driven insane by Red One's psychological warfare routines. A flight recorder belonging to one of the ships in the formation is discovered showing that they encountered an unclassified titan-grade vessel shortly before their disappearance.

Encounter 207 (Suspected)
Red One resurrects and then interrogates Column Leader Prime Ursot after the destruction of Deep Range Platform 47, where Project Echo research was being performed in interstellar space, hoping that its location would prevent its discovery. Ursot has nanomachines injected into his brain that will read his own memories as he is asked about the project, even if he himself is unwilling to cooperate.