The following is a listing of events known to have taken place during The Kafer War. All systems mentioned are within the French Arm, or its frontiers, unless otherwise noted.
2295: Station Arcture (in the Arcturus system) reported the first encounter with a (Kafer) ship of a previously-unknown species, which ignored all communications attempts, and left the system.
2297: All communication with Station Arcture was lost. The fate of the station/crew remained unknown for the next three years.
April 2298: The Kafers invaded the Eta Bootis system, landing ground troops on Aurore.
1 July 2298: The Second Battle of Tithonus drove the Kafers from the Eta Bootis system.
January 2299: Failure of a deep-space sensor satellite sparked "The Kafer Riots" on Kolonie Zwei/Hochbaden, which lasted two days, and resulted in 89 deaths, hundreds of injuries, and four lost starships.
2299: Rear Admiral David F. Parker's ASF Cruiser Division, on patrol in the Arcturus system, defeated a Kafer Battleship, at the cost of one of his Kennedy-Class Cruisers.
2300: American Marines were sent to Station Arcture, defeated the Kafer garrison, and freed several human hostages.
May 2301: The British Squadron at Nous Voila/Beta Comae Berenicies was dispatched to reinforce the fleet at Eta Bootis. Commodore Sir Kevin Connors commanded a force consisting of the destroyers Defiance and Indefatigable, and the frigates Achates and Ulysses.
2 June 2301: The Merchant ship Beau Soliel, outward bound from Hochbaden's Kolonie Zwei, detected a large number of unknown starships on deep-space scanners, approaching the inner system from Sturmwelt, the system's gas giant. The unknown starships, moving in formation, were not positively identified. Some thought they might be the British Squadron (under Commodore Sir Kevin Connors) dispatched to reinforce the fleet at Eta Bootis, in the previous month.
4 June 2301: The Kafers attacked Kolonie Zwei in the Hochbaden system, taking them totally by surprise. The German Frigate Madgeburg and four Wespe-Class fighters spotted the first ships as they began the attack. The Madgeburg was lost with all hands, and the Kafer fleet proceeded to attack orbital complexes, and unleashed nuclear bombardments against the planet, itself.
5 June 2301: Australia's Commodore Alexander Shane, at Eta Bootis, was dispatched to patrol the Arcturus system with his two ships, the Destroyer Bushranger and the Frigate Kangaroo.
8 June 2301: After four days of fighting, Kolonie Zwei and all its orbital facilities were wiped out, at the cost of two Kafer Alpha-Class Battleships, three cruisers, and an unknown number of fighters. Every man, woman, and child on the planet was killed, either by the Kafers, or through deprivation. Meanwhile, Shane's Squadron had arrived at Arcturus.
10 June 2301: Word reached Eta Bootis of the attack on Kolonie Zwei in the Hochbaden system. France's Contre-Amiral Jean-Paul Bertrand, aboard the Tallyrand, announced that Germany's Kommodore Wilhelm Lutke would have the honor of leading the first wave of the attack on the system.
11 June 2301: Shane's Squadron spotted Kafer Task Force X-ray, and fled Arcturus. The entire Eta Bootis fleet (with the exception of Shane's ships still patrolling Arcturus) left Eta Bootis for Hochbaden, within 24 hours of receiving word of the attack.
12 June 2301: News reached Nous Voila/Beta Comae Berenicies of the deaths of Lady Helena Cathcart and her son Brian, Wife/Son of Lord Richard Cathcart, Brother to the Duke of Alicia.
13 June 2301: Shane's Australian Squadron reached Eta Bootis with word that they had detected a massive fleet of Kafer vessels entering the Arcturus system, presumably with the intention of attacking Aurore, once again. A fast Courier was sent to recall the Eta Bootis fleet.
16 June 2301: The Human fleet at Eta Bootis probed Hochbaden, and engaged Kafer pickets at Sturmwelt.
18 June 2301: In the Hochbaden system, French Contre-Amiral Bertrand and his flagship, Tallyrand, were lost with all hands, and 10 Kafer vessels of various types and sizes were destroyed in a series of running battles masterminded by Kontr-Admiral Sergei Sergeivich Borodin of the Ukraine and Kommodore Lutke of Germany. Meanwhile, Kapitan von Mannheim, in the DM+36 2393 system, withdrew the German Frigates Brandenburg and Leipzig, along with three large, government-owned Freighters full of refugees, from Dunkelheim, bound for parts unknown, in the face of the Kafer invasion from Hochbaden. Governor Karl Schmidt made his famous "We are a small world" speach over local media channels. Dunkelheim's defenses were placed on full alert.
19 June 2301: The Human fleet at Hochbaden was repulsed in a hard-fought battle. Victory might have gone to Humanity, had not Kafer Task Force X-ray (the one that had entered the Arcturus system a week or so earlier) arrived during the battle. Although the fast Courier sent from Eta Bootis to recall the fleet never reached Bertrand, Borodin (now in command) recognized the long odds, and retreated to Eta Bootis.
20 June 2301: The final hours preceeding the arrival of the Kafer fleet at Dunkelheim were made even more chaotic by the disappearance of Governor Karl Schmidt and his entire staff, along with large portions of the planetary militia and constabulary.
22 June 2301: Shane's Australian Squadron, accompanied by three merchant vessels fitted out with weaponry, defeated an Improved Alpha-Class Battleship which arrived well ahead of the rest of Task Force Yankee, in battle at Hesperus (Eta Bootis I).
23 June 2301: Borodin's fleet arrived back in the Eta Bootis system just in time to engage six Kafer Battleships, lead elements of Task Force X-ray. These were driven off to Arcturus and DM+18 2776. Borodin quickly laid plans, and organized his meager fleet.
27 June 2301: Dunkelheim, in the DM+36 2393 system, was completely under Kafer control.
29 June 2301: Elements of the Kafer Task Force X-ray at Hochbaden entered the Eta Bootis system and found only the French vessels Bassompierre and Kersaint, which fled, leading them into an ambush at Laodemon (Eta Bootis ), where large numbers of missiles, and the entire Human fleet, lay in wait, powered down among the chunks of Laodemon's rings. Five Kafer Battleships (including their flagship) were destroyed at almost no cost to the Human forces, and the Kafers withdrew from Eta Bootis.
30 June 2301: Borodin left Lutke in charge of Eta Bootis, and took four Missile Cruisers and two Australian Destroyers on a raid into the Arcturus system, in order to destroy any Kafer elements massing there, before they could launch another attack into the Eta Bootis system.
3 July 2301: Borodin's Squadron reached Arcturus, and began their sweep.
6-9 July 2301: Borodin's Squadron defeated several isolated Kafer vessels in the Arcturus system. Borodin dispatched Shane's Squadron to reconnoiter the Hochbaden system, while he returned to Eta Bootis.
8 July 2301: Three Kafer Beta-Class Battlecruisers attacked the Vogelheim system. One was destroyed, and the other two were repelled by the Adlerhorst Alliance's International Peacekeeping Squadron of five ships, headed up by Captain John Gsell aboard the ASF's Reagan, a Kennedy-Class Missile Cruiser.
10 July 2301: Lutke's Squadron at Eta Bootis repelled a Kafer Battleship, and the American Frigate, Spitfire, pursued.
12 July 2301: Kafer elements at the edge of the DM+18 2776 system attempted to engage Spitfire, which escaped, with damage, returning to Eta Bootis with the news that the Kafers were using that system as a base of operations.
13 July 2301: Borodin's Squadron returned to Eta Bootis from Arcturus. The French-registry merchant vessel L'Orient left Eta Bootis in an attempt to get word to Human space that Aurore remained free of Kafer control.
15 July 2301: Shane's Squadron arrived on the fringes of the Hochbaden system (from Arcturus), and began scouting it.
16 July 2301: Naval forces were landed on Aurore to aid local Militia groups against remaining Kafer ground troops.
24 July - 3 August 2301: Borodin's Cruiser Squadron probed the Hochbaden system.
1 Auggust 2301: After 19 days, L'Orient reached the Beta Canum Venaticorum system, via DM+35 2436.
18 August 2301: The first news of Aurore reached Earth, and the First Relief Expedition was ordered dispatched from the Vogelheim system.
21 August 2301: Rochemont's fleet at Beta Comae Berenicies moved to intercept a large Kafer fleet entering the system.
21-31 August 2301: Borodin's Cruiser Squadron probed the Arcturus system.
22-25 August 2301: A mixed Human Squadron of British, French, and German ships, commanded by Vice-Amiral Rochemont aboard the French Battleship Richelieu, fought off a major Kafer assualt on the Beta Comae Berenicies system. Kafer forces withdrew in disarray.
31 August 2301: Vice-Amiral Ferdinand Rochemont's French Squadron arrived in the Vogelheim system.
8 September 2301: The First Relief Expedition left the Vogelheim system, bound for Eta Bootis. Triumphant Destiny's fleet entered the Beta Comae Berenicies system.
10 September 2301: Following the withdrawal of French forces (bound for Vogelheim, to join the First Relief Expedition to Eta Bootis), the depleted defenders of the Beta Comae Berenicies system were overwhelmed by Triumphant Destiny's large Kafer fleet, which destroyed the German flagship Admiral Hipper, along with three smaller vessels. Captain Sir Colin Campbell of the HMS Indefatigable, as surviving senior officer, then withdrew the Human fleet from the system, headed to the abandoned secret German base (Grosshiddenhafen) at DM+35 2436.
16 September 2301: The First Relief Expedition was defeated at the Third Battle of Hochbaden.
19 September 2301: A Courier vessel reached Borodin at Eta Bootis, with dispatches from Human space.
22 September - 3 October 2301: A probing raid by Borodin (making the German Battlecruiser Bismarck his flagship) discovered the Kafer Base in the DM+18 2776 system.
27 September 2301: The remaining (damaged) vessels of Rochemont's First Relief Expedition returned to the Vogelheim system, with Kafers in pursuit. In a hard-fought battle, the Kafer Squadron was overcome.
1 November 2301: The Second Relief Expedition from Vogelheim was launched towards Eta Bootis.
6 November 2301: The Second Relief Expedition was also defeated near Hochbaden.
18 November 2301: A scouting force of Kafers probing the Vogelheim system after the defeat of the Second Relief Expedition at Hochbaden was turned back by Rochemont's fleet, including the new French Battleship Napoleon.
5 December 2301: Elements of the Kafer fleet at Beta Comae Berenicies entered the DM+34 2342 system and were met by a German Squadron under Kommodore Roehler, a Japanese force under Rear Admiral Nakajima, and French Aerospatial assets attached to the French Foreign Legion.
12 December 2301: Nakajima's forces at DM+34 2342 were defeated in a running battle with the Kafers, suffering heavy damage, but no losses. They withdrew to their base at Joi, in the 61 Ursae Majoris system. Roehler and Nakajima both filed complaints against each other with the Admiralty Liason Office for their (in-)actions during the battle.
15-30 December 2301: Borodin launched probing raids against Kafer reinforcements in the Arcturus system. The Battle of Christmas Day destroyed four Kafer ships.
18 December 2301: Following the loss of the German Frigate Hannover, the last German Militia vessel fled the DM+34 2342 system, bound for BC in the Beta Canum Venaticorum system. The 50 or so French Foreign Legion Fighters continued to harry the Kafer vessels as they destroyed the orbital facilities, and commenced landing ground assault troops on Kimanjano.
5 January 2302: The Third Relief Expedition; Franco-German reinforcements finally slipped through the Hochbaden system, to Eta Bootis. The French Battleship Napoleon, German Battlecruiser Guderian, two Destroyers, and three Frigates were added to Borodin's fleet.
6 January 2302: A small Kafer fleet entered the Beta Canum Venaticorum system to reconnoiter in force.
7 January 2302: After the destruction of the German Frigate Kassel, the Kafer fleet attacking the Beta Canum Venaticorum system split into two parts, one harrying the German ships to the system's 0.0001 G limit, the other heading for BC's beanstalk. At 09:47 local time, the Governor ordered the beanstalk cut, in order to prevent the massive damage its falling to the ground would cause. The Kafers engaged in a brief orbital bombardment, prior to withdrawing to Kimanjano.
12 January 2302: The first of three battles fought around Eta Bootis resulted in the defeat of a Kafer Squadron from Arcturus.
13 January 2302: The ambush of a Kafer flagship out of the DM+18 2776 system disrupted a second Kafer Squadron bound for Eta Bootis.
15 January 2302: The Battle of Aurore; Borodin's Eta Bootean fleet defeated a Hochbaden Squadron and its landers.
28 January 2302: The Kafers controlling the DM+34 2342 system rooted out the last of the French Foreign Legion Fighter bases, subjugated Kimanjano, left behind garrisons to handle any remaining guerrillas, and were prepared to push on deeper into Human space.
15-16 February 2302: In a clash at the edge of the Vogelheim system, Triumphant Destiny was pushing back Rochemont's depleted forces, losing three cruisers, when it received word of both Pain Giver's plans to attack BC, and the Human plans for a counteroffensive out of Queen Alice's Star. It then pulled out of the system. The German Frigate Schleswig was also lost in the fight.
18 February 2302: Another, larger, Kafer fleet entered the Beta Canum Venaticorum system. "Pain Giver" took BC with very little effort.
24 February 2302: Triumphant Destiny headed toward Kimanjano.
27 February 2302: Pain Giver's fleet attacked Crater, in the Henry's Star system, took it without effort, and destroyed the orbital terminal. Ground troops began landing, and were opposed by the local constabulary and miners.
March 2302: Pain Giver's fleet left the Henry's Star system for 61 Ursae Majoris.
3 March 2302: After defeating Kafer elements (sent from Hochbaden in February to attack Vogelheim) at Grosshiddenhafen in the DM+35 2436 system, Rochemont's fleet returned to Vogelheim.
8 March 2302: A massive battle fleet, attached to Rochemont's forces, arrived at San Souci, the French Outpost in the DM+36 2219 system, en route to occupied Beta Canum Venaticorum.
12 March 2302: Pain Giver's fleet from Henry's Star was sighted at 61 Ursae Majoris.
15 March: All naval forces in the 61 Ursae Majoris system apparently fled the encroaching Kafer fleet.
20 March 2302: After five days of ground fighting, Rochemont's fleet and the Joi Defense Fleet (who had "fled" the 61 Ursae Majoris system on the 15th, at Rochemont's command, in order to lure the Kafers into orbit) cut through the Kafer fleet in a decisive victory, stranding Kafer ground troops on Joi, destroying six large Kafer ships, and damaging several more.
April 2302: Rochemont's fleet out of Vogelheim invaded the Beta Canum Venaticorum system while "Pain Giver" and its forces were at Crater and Joi.
4 April 2302: Visions of Glory's ground forces were defeated by American and French troops landed on the 4th.
10 April 2302: Rochemont's fleet at BC was driven off by Triumphant Destiny, who reinforced the Kafer ground troops.
May 2302: Rochemont's fleet was able to drop troops to assist the colonials at Crater, in the Henry's Star system. The Kafers on Crater pulled back to the Dayside's desert, where they continue to be a problem for the rest of the Kafer War.
July 2302: Rochemont's forces at Vogelheim once again retook the Beta Canum Venaticorum system, and BC. This time, Triumphant Destiny's defeat at The Battle of Beowulf allowed Human forces to hold it.
7 July 2302: Reports from scouts at Kimanjano indicated that the Kafer fleet there was leaving orbit, probably in preparation for a drive on Beowulf in the Queen Alice's Star system.
12 July 2302: The Battle of Beowulf; Triumphant Destiny, apparently having decided that the only way to win the war was to drive straight for Earth, brought its 14 Battleships, 10 Cruisers, and 60 Fighters against the Combined Terran Reserve Fleet, under the command of British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Graham. Four Battleships, a Battlecruiser, 14 Missile Cruisers, 20 Destroyers, 27 Frigates, and swarms of Fighters of American, British, French, German, and Ukrainian make met them in the Queen Alice's Star system. After the American Battleship Columbia's two-hour slug-fest with Triumphant Destiny's Delta, a flight of British Fighters from the Nelson finished it off, removing the Kafer leader. Only about a third of the Kafer vessels managed to escape Queen Alice's Star system (many of those little more than powered hulks), and most of them were caught and "mopped up" at Kimanjano.