Quicklight: Ictus class starship

Ictus class starship

Constructed in early years of the Ringworld Era, the Ictus class starships are some of the most unique ships in the galaxy, and one of the most powerful designs ever created.
Despite it's small spaceframe the ship has a pair of large thrusters embedded in the aft of it's triangular hull and a pair of high power lance cannons affixed to either side of the hull. However the feature that makes the Ictus class both unique, and impractical for mass production is that the ship has no main (or auxiliary) reactor core. In fact, the ship has no ability to generate or store power and relies on the presence of an Illian to power the ship. These ships are the personal ships of the Illians and are used as force amplifiers for their battle tactics. The ictus class ships went out of service shortly after the First civil war, during which they were all destroyed.
 Over the years leading up to the first civil war a few Ictus class ships were lost or destroyed due to various failures and aging parts. However they were all replaced at a rate to keep a maximum of 9 in existence at any one time.

Quicklight: Battle Of Reveran III

Quick note here, I'm going to try a new format, called Quicklights, which are quick spotlights only reaching one or two paragraphs in length. These are going to be for things that don't have enough lore or aren't important enough to write spotlights about. Hope you enjoy!

The battle of Reveran III was one of the most controversial battles in Alliance history. The Reveran system contained 12 planets, two of which were "habitable". The third planet, Reveran III, was similar to Venus with a thick atmosphere, hellish temperatures and intense acid rain. Reveran IV, the system's other habitable planet, by stark contrast, was a cold wasteland populated by large four winged flying lizards, often called Reveran Dragons, although they were technically Wyrens. They didn't breath fire.

The Battle of Reveran III was a ground assault by Monarchist forces during the first civil war. The Equalist instillation was heavily guarded and had hundreds of Anti-Air emplacements. Despite this, the Monarchist forces attempted to land 120 Frontem class dropships, each carrying 40 Marines, without support. Only 12 dropships managed to land their troops, and of those only 6 managed to leave the planet again, the others were either disabled or destroyed after dropping off their marines. Despite the heavy losses the operation was considered a success as the instillation was captured. The overwhelming number of marines sent in compared to the number required to actually successfully capture the instillation lead many Monarchists to question their leadership's definition of "acceptable losses".