With his brethren, he participated in the devastating conflict between Mars and Earth which became known as the Thousand Day War. Earth Intelligence learnt of a heavily guarded Martian weapon installation in a region known to the Ice Warriors as Viis Claar, which humans called Valles Marineris, at the equator in the eastern end of a wide, deep valley. The United Nations Central Command sent General Burkitt's King's Fusiliers when Aklaar supposedly withdrew his troops to raise the siege of a nearby city. They ran into ten thousand Martian warriors and fought in a battle that lasted three days. Burkitt's troops were all killed.