Casra Habitat

One of the largest Xindi Habitats not located around the core worlds of the New Xindus Cooperative, Casra was built in the Hugora Nebula following its annexation in May 2153.

In September 2155, at the start of the Interstellar Coalition's offensive into Xindi held space, the Coalition First Fleet stationed in the Melona-system noted on 4 September 2155, high yield ion particles were detected from the Melona Relay, a occurrence only observed when a Relay on one end was struck by an ion storm and the other end was dispersing the buildup of stray ions. Deducing that the Hugora Nebula must be suffering an ion storm and as such, any ship in the area without military grade shielding on a 8-rating or high could survive such damage, of which only Xindi habitats were rated it, then the system must currently be undefended. Coalition forces could offset the ion buildup and energy discharges on most of their cruiser and battleship-level classes thanks to bio-organic circuitry designed and implemented by joint Cylon-Suliban research, though only for up to seven hours.

Rear Admiral Jonathan Archer quickly deployed the heavy elements of the Coalition First Fleet and launched through the Melona Relay. As predicted, only several automated defense batteries remained while the Casra habitat had been locked down with its higher armor rating. With no military units in system, the Coalition Fleet effortlessly destroyed the defense batteries and began to land boarding parties on Casra. While fighting was intense Coalition troops managed to secure much of the stations internal systems and government offices.

However almost two-hours into the invasion, the Xindi-Reptilians detonated the anti-matter reactor of Casra to keep the habitat out of Coalition hands. In only a few seconds the entire station was destroyed and only by moving his forces outward to secure the other three relays in the nebula, did Archer and the First Fleet escape destruction. 950 Coalition soldiers, seven transports and four warships were lost, but nothing compared to the 12-million Xindi residents on the station who perished in the inferno.