Battle of Sybaron

The Battle of Sybaron was a battle fought during the Dominion War. A heavy participant in the battle was the Starfleet Seventh Fleet, which was reduced to half strength following the battle. 

Following the Dominion's capture of Benzar the Dominion deployed a strike fleet to outflank several heavily-defended Federation star systems and attack Tellar. Starfleet Command deployed the Seventh Fleet with Klingon reinforcements to intercept the Dominion fleet before it could reach Tellar. The two fleets clashed at the little known Sybaron system.

The Seventh's commanding officer, Admiral Arthur Bellamy, organised his forces into groups of six to ten ships in a roughly cubical formation with smaller and fast groups of starships deployed to move between the cubes for support.

The Vorta Chelek'toran Umala divided his forces up to engaged each of the Starfleet cubes. The cubes held for over an hour before the Dominion forces finally broke one apart. Now with large gaps in the Starfleet lines the Dominion forces gained the accendancy and after a further two hours of combat they forced Bellamy to retreat with the 48 surviving vessels.

The Dominion fleet had won the engagement, but was now in no shape to attack Tellar. Despite been forced to retreat from Sybaron Bellamy and the Seventh Fleet had succeeded in their mission and the victor at Sybaron was ultimately the Federation. (LUG RPG: )