Fort Ish'rah

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Fort Ish'rah
Historical information

Built:

April 19, 1132 CE

Destroyed:

March 3, 2177 CE

Purpose:

Army post and defensive installation for the Batarian Liberation Army, and later Hegemony Army

Facility information

Affiliation:

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Batarian People's Republic

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Batarian Hegemony

Armament:

Vehicles:

Era:

Asari Cycle
Pax Galactica Era

 

Fort Ish'rah was an Batarian Liberation Army, and later Batarian Hegemony Army base located on the Drancegan continent, and was one of numerous surface-based strongholds that supported a ring of defensive installations and fortifications on Torfan. Fort Ish'rah was small, supporting nearly 800 personnel at any given time, and possessed a motor pool, artillery bunkers and a barracks. The fort was built as part of a larger plan to turn Torfan into a powerful fortress world capable of unprecedented levels of power projection, with the fortress intended to be strong enough to repel any land-based attack that came at it, and to serve as a strong symbol of batarian military might. Built during the height of the Batarian People's Republic, Fort Ish'rah would continue to see use under the Batarian Hegemony, although the fort by then had fallen into a dilapidated state due to the greatly diminished and weakened economy of the Hegemony. In the last week of the Skyllian Blitz, the Systems Alliance launched a surface invasion of Torfan after pacifying its naval defenses in orbit, but it took many hours of fighting before Fort Ish'rah was finally overwhelmed and captured by the Alliance. The fort was heavily damaged during the battle, and after the war was over, both the Alliance and Hegemony abandoned the planet, with Fort Ish'rah's ruins left as a reminder to humanity's triumph over their batarian neighbours, and as a testament to just how far the batarians had been set back.

It wouldn't be until after the Dominion Civil War when the Third Batarian Republic came and cleared out the ruins of Fort Ish'rah, and the area where it stood is now a rich plain of farmland.

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