Battle of Tyra

The Battle of Tyra was a military engagement between the Federation Alliance and Dominion forces in the Tyra system in 2374.

Admiral Borren D'gret orginized his 112 ships into a classic defensive bulwark three ranks deep, six wide and three tall in the region between the sixth and seventh planets.

The Dominion fleet of 248 ships was commanded by Gul Pettar. The Initial clash destroyed 15 Starfleet ships and dammaged dozens more as the Jem'Hadar concentrated their fire on specific high-profile targets such as Excelsior and Steamrunner class ships.

D'grets flagship, the USS North Star (NCC-71602), survived the first wave but Pettars own flagship, the Gevrok, obliterated her with multiple torpedo spreads when he came around for a second pass. The loss of USS North Star, decapitated the 7th Fleet and left the Fleet without proper leadership.

Thus decapitated, the Seventh Fleet fought a losing battle almost from the very begining, although they fought on bravely for over an hour, it could not overcome the sheer numbers of the Dominion-Cardassian Fleet.

It suffered a bitter defeat, of the 112 ships the Seventh Started with, 98 ships were destroyed or too badly dammaged to retreat, leaving only 14 ships able to retreat. As they warped out of the system, the survivers observed Gul Pettars forces methodicly demolishing the disabled ships without taking any prisoners. In all, Starfleet lost 24,000 lives. (Last Unicorn RPG: The Dominion War Sourcebook: The Fires of Armageddon).