The brief but catastrophic Raid on Balun was a pivotal event that occurred late in the Garmillas-Earth War. By launching the raid, the battleship Yamato was able to use the Aquarius gate network to take months and tens of thousands of light years of travel off its mission to save the planet Earth. Yamato also wiped out a large fraction of the Great Garmillas Empire military fleet with the near total destruction of the Aquarius network hub at Balun, and cut the empire off from some of its farthest territories.