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| rdfs:label | - Battle with the Black Star
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| rdfs:comment | - The Battle with the Black Star occurred in an asteroid field, after days of the EAS Lexington and its Earthforce task group enduring hit and run attacks. The Black Star (known as the Drala Fi in at least one form of Minbari) ambushed the task group by luring them into an asteroid field with a Minbari flyer pretending to be damaged, and opening a jump point in the middle of the fleet. The Lexington was severely damaged in the opening barrage and was left for dead, while the Drala Fi pursued the retreating Earth ships. First officer Commander John Sheridan took command as Captain Roger Sterns had been killed when a support strut collapsed into his command chair.
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| Casual | - Heavy
- Drala Fi and three other Minbari heavy cruisers
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| Name | - Battle with the Black Star
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| Commanders | - *Captain Roger Sterns†
*Cmdr. John Sheridan
- *Unnamed Minbari commanders
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| Result | - Destruction of the Black Star; lone Earth Alliance victory of the war
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| Forces | - *4+ Sharlin class warcruisers
**Drala Fi†
- *Nova class dreadnoughts
**EAS Schwarzkopf (S)
*Hyperion class heavy cruiser
**EAS Lexington
**EAS Trafalgar
*Olympus class corvettes
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| abstract | - The Battle with the Black Star occurred in an asteroid field, after days of the EAS Lexington and its Earthforce task group enduring hit and run attacks. The Black Star (known as the Drala Fi in at least one form of Minbari) ambushed the task group by luring them into an asteroid field with a Minbari flyer pretending to be damaged, and opening a jump point in the middle of the fleet. The Lexington was severely damaged in the opening barrage and was left for dead, while the Drala Fi pursued the retreating Earth ships. First officer Commander John Sheridan took command as Captain Roger Sterns had been killed when a support strut collapsed into his command chair. Knowing that the Minbari would accept no surrender and would even pursue and destroy a crippled ship, Sheridan ordered several of the nearby asteroids to be mined with thermonuclear warheads. With the trap set, the Lexington broadcast a distress signal, knowing full well it would attract the attention of Minbari. The Drala Fi took two proximity blasts from the warheads before being completely destroyed, giving Earth a much-needed victory and propaganda coup.
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