Rape of Ratann

The Rape of Ratann (Stadtverisch: Ratannvergewaltigung) is a notable event that occurred during the Second Human-Kizankai War and after the spatial Battle of the Ratanni Orbit that exemplified the "incarnate rage" of the novel and revanchist Menschlicher Sternenstaat against the Kizankai Shimanate. One of the most historical cases of xenocides, the Rape of Ratann was in effect the mass sterilization of the surface of the planet of Ratann through employment of chemical and orbital weaponry, slaughtering billions of the worldwide population in the span of a few hours, specifically ordered by Sternadmiral Hanns Fehrenbach. The massive loss of life in such a short timeframe was one of the many debilitating factors that forced the Shimanate to unconditionally surrender to the Human Star State alongside the Battle of Ziai.

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Military situation
Ratann stood as one of the fortress worlds between the Staat's military advances through the Shimanate and the capital itself, Ziai, and thus was proving to be a major blockade for naval spearheads onto the latter due to serving as a persistent anchorage for Kizankai vessels. With the war quickly going in the Sternenstaat's favor, Sternadmiral Hanns Fehrenbach decided to capitalize on such momentum, as per the tenets of the newly formulated Quasarkrieg, decided to combine elements of the 1. Weltraummarine Schlachtflotte and local Kampf-SS naval squadrons in order to draw out and ambush Kizankai vessels that harbored in Ratann. This bait-and-switch tactic eventually evolved into a full-scale orbital battle known as the Battle of the Ratanni Orbit, where garrisoned and anchored Kizankai ships were massacred through usage of Plötzlicher Schlag with autonomous torpedoes and missiles circumnavigating Ratann's orbit and crashing into vital orbital defensive systems and ships.

Destruction of the Ratanni surface
After orbital supremacy was achieved over the surface of Ratann, Fehrenbach decided to relieve the overstretched Sturmheer terrestrial forces by "clearing a rabbit hole of blood". On the second of November, 20 SA, he ordered for vessels of the battlefleet equipped with kinetic accelerator weapons systems, dedicated siege weaponry, and missile platforms to instigate a purging of the surface of Ratann as a means to free up men for the siege of the Kizankai capital.

Within the span of three hours, the surface of Ratann was blasted by monolithic pulses of radiation and waves of thermal energy from nuclear detonations, followed by mass-delivery of specialized viral payloads near the remains of Kizankai hives as a means of denying travel to the surface and purging subterranean civilian "bunker" systems. Detections of life underneath the crust were met with surgical strikes from kinetic accelerators, and such a process lasted for another four hours. Fehrenbach was noted to have later declaring such an act of mass xenocide an "eye for an eye of the fallen world".

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