Liberation of Shanxi

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Liberation of Shanxi
Part of the Shanxi campaign (First Contact War)
Alliance marines of the 1st CEF encroach on turian positions on Shanxi

Date:

21 December 2157 CE

Location:

In orbit around and on Shanxi / 23 Ursae Majoris / Local Cluster

Outcome:

Strategic Alliance victory

Territorial changes:

Reversal of turian gains in the Fall of Shanxi and eviction of turian forces from Alliance space

Belligerents
Systems Alliance
Turian Hierarchy
Commanders
Kastanie Drescher

Adina Netanyahu

Nitesh Singh

Joseph H. Garrong

Lucas Parkes

Alec J. Ryder
Aegubus Terculus

Septimus Oraka

Barcus Fedorian

Saren Arterius
Strength
Casualties
  • 19 ships
  • 340 marines
  • 7 M28 Angels destroyed
  • 4 gunships
  • 117 ships destroyed, 18 damaged
  • 378 marines killed
  • 1 Armiger operator killed, 3 captured
  • 10 tanks destroyed
  • All aircraft shot down
 

The Second Battle of Shanxi, commonly known as the Liberation of Shanxi and to the Alliance operationally as Operation Ragnarok, was a major surface and naval engagement that occurred as part of the third and final phase of the Shanxi campaign during the First Contact War. It was the final battle of the war, as well as the Alliance's most significant victory against turian forces. The turian Twelfth Fleet had returned to Shanxi after its defeat at Charon, and small contingents of captured Alliance forces had begun insurgency operations against turian occupation troops. The combination of these factors meant the turians were unprepared when the Alliance Second Fleet launched a swift counterattack. The battle was brief, with Septimus having his troops evacuated from the planet and then tactically withdrawing. He made one last attempt to hit Drescher's fleet in the rear, but Garrong arrived with the First and Third fleets before he could. Heavily outnumbered, he withdrew, but not before he sent a distress call to Palaven itself. It later went down as the most humiliating defeat in turian military history, and was the final nail in the coffin of Septimus' career. Upon receiving word of the defeat at Shanxi, Primarch Opinianus ordered an immediate full-scale mobilization of the turian military. However, word from the Hierarchs quickly reached the Citadel Council of the escalating situation, and they stepped in and ended the war before it could go any further.

Prelude[edit | edit source]

Battles of Charon and Shanxi[edit | edit source]