The invasion of Earth officially began the Defileron War on June 24, 2376, when forces of the Empire of Defileron used the element of surprise to invade the capital of the United Federation of Planets. Led by the Emperor of Defileron, Demon-Kieran Devaneaux, and his military commander Dawson Crenshaw, they had managed to deceive the Federation into thinking the Empire of Defileron was a far smaller organization, no match for the Federation. Demon-Kieran, however, had managed to pull off a great deception, and his ships were crammed with nearly two million troops - Federation, Klingon and Reydovan renegades, Orion pirates and other space corsairs that plagued the spacelanes. Under the banner of Defileron, they prepared "the Great Fold" - a powerful foldspace drive onboard the mobile battles