Nikardun conquests

Previous	Vagaari pirate operations
Concurrent	Clone Wars Sunrise's civil war
Next	Nikardun campaigns
Nikardun conquests
Conflict	Grysk conquests Chiss–Grysk conflict
End	19 BBY
Place	Unknown Regions
Outcome	Conquests unsuccessful General Yiv captured by the Chiss Ascendancy The Nikardun Destiny scatters
Battles	Attack on the edge of the Dioya system Attack on Csilla Attack on the Paataatus Mission to the Rapacc system Raid on Rapacc Urch incident Attack at Primea Lioaoin skirmish Battle over Primea
Combatants
Nikardun Destiny Various subjugated factions Lioaoin Regime Paataatus Hiveborn Tower Dimension
Chiss Ascendancy Garwian Unity Vak Combine (late campaign)
Commanders
Jixtus (Orders) General Yiv Unidentified Lioaoi commander
Supreme Admiral Ja'fosk Supreme General Ba'kif Second Defense Overlord Frangelic (Garwian Unity) Admiral Ar'alani Senior Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo

"Your people will die for this. Not just you. Not just your pitiable fleet. All the Chiss. The Ascendancy will die, shredded like grain, ground down like stone, burned like withered grass. Every last cub will die… and you will die here and now, with the certain knowledge that you and you alone were the root and cause of their destruction."
"All because I cost you your foothold on Primea? Come now, General. You merely need to step away and start over. But I suggest you choose a different part of the Chaos for your next attempt. This region will no longer accept your smiles and promises."

―General Yiv and Senior Captain Thrawn

The Nikardun conquests in the Unknown Regions were orchestrated by General Yiv of the Nikardun Destiny in an attempt to conquer various states of the Chaos. Yiv was successful in subjugating or otherwise making allies of several factions, but the involvement of the Chiss Ascendancy driven by Senior Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo hindered and ultimately ruined Yiv's manipulations.

After a Nikardun attack on a refugee starship in Chiss territory, Captain Thrawn began to investigate the situation with the help of Admiral Ar'alani, discovering forces of the Nikardun Destiny in the Rapacc system. Throughout several encounters with Nikardun forces or their allies, Thrawn gained information about General Yiv and his regime, managing to outmaneuver the Nikardun in a battle near the Vak homeworld of Primea. Thrawn captured Yiv, who became a prisoner of the Chiss Ascendancy. Following Yiv's disappearance, no successor to Yiv was able to consolidate power and repair the damage Thrawn had done to their empire. As a result, the Nikardun conquests fell apart.

Aftermath

After interrogating the imprisoned Yiv, the Ascendancy learned the locations of remnants of Yiv's forces. Sufficiently convinced of the threat posed by these Nikardun remnants, the Syndicure allowed the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet to "bend" the protocols prohibiting pre-emptive strikes to hunt them down in the Nikardun campaigns. Two months after the battle over Primea, the Chiss were conducting the mission to the Vak Combine and believed they had nearly completed the Nikardun campaigns.

Behind the scenes

The Nikardun conquests provided the main plot of the 2020 novel Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn. They also set the stage for the plot to destroy the Chiss Ascendancy, which served as the main plot of Chaos Rising's 2021 sequel Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good. Greater Good revealed that the Grysk Hegemony agent Haplif instigated the Nikardun Destiny to conduct the attack at the edge of the Dioya system to distract the Chiss from discovering the civil war he had engineered on the planet "Sunrise."

Appearances

• Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising (and audiobook) (First appearance)
• Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good (and audiobook) (Indirect mention only)
• Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil (and audiobook) (Indirect mention only)

Notes and references

Grysk conquests Galactic timeline Previous: eventually, the Lioaoin pirate campaign Concurrent: Nikardun campaigns • Clone Wars • Conquests of enlightenment • Early rebellion against the Galactic Empire • Galactic Civil War Next: Galactic Civil War Events of the Grysk conquests 19 BBY Sunrise's civil war • Nikardun conquests (Dioya system • Csilla • Nettehi • Rapacc (I) • Rapacc (II) • Urch • Primea (I) • Lioaoin heartworld • Primea (II)) 18 BBY (Jixtus's plan) Conquests of enlightenment (Attack on the Illumine Kilhorde) • Agbui attempt to precipitate a Chiss Ascendancy civil war (Sunrise (I) • Sunrise (II) • Unknown Regions • Hoxim) • Listening post KR21 • Rapacc (III) • Grysk plot to engineer a Chiss civil war (Jamiron (I) • Sunrise (III) • Ornfra (I) • Sunrise (IV) • Ornfra (II) • Csaus • Sarvchi (I) • Shihon • Jamiron (II) Sarvchi (II) • Sposia • Sunrise (V) • Sunrise (VI)) 2 BBY Imperial–Grysk conflict (Batuu • Chimaera • Mokivj • Space (I)) 1 BBY Grysk warship • Space (II) Related topics and articles Grysk Hegemony • Chiss Ascendancy • Paccian Governance • The Magys's people • Vak Combine • Tower Dimension • Nikardun Destiny • Kilji Illumine • Illumine Kilhorde • Agbui • Galactic Empire • Garwian Unity
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