Event: Attack on the Purifier
Almost 5 Time units after the the start of The Exot War, the Purifier was caught in an ambush and crippled out in deep space by a known ally of the now nearly-extinct Exot, the Iq'na. While the Purifier and the Iq'na Leviathan were almost equally matched, their escorting fleets turned a hit and run into a bloody standoff. Unknown to the crew of the Purifier, however, a notorious crew of terrorists opposing the Cabal violently sabotaged one of the 5 power cores that powered the main weapon batteries. The resulting explosion left the Purifier open for attack long enough for another 2 cores to be taken offline before the Leviathan was driven off. The crippled Purifier had lost a quarter of her escort fleet to the super-starship Leviathan and limped into port almost ready for the scrapyard. It would take a very long time before the Cabal fielded the Purifier alongside more powerful ships designed to make sure that only humans will survive the coming wars.
It was unknown how the terrorists came to be on the Purifier, but the official reports said that a mole smuggled them on the dreadnought, signature weapons and all.
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