Kumauri Empire

The Kumauri Empire was a realm of more than thirty star systems established by Val Kumauri around 10,000 BBY, on what was then the rimward frontier of the Galactic Republic.

The Kumauri Empire was short-lived, quickly conquered by the Republic, but its legacy survived in a series of massive capital ships capable of planetary bombardment, beginning with the warlord's flagship Kumauri Battleship, and culminating in the three-kilometer-long Cal-class warships.

The prime weapons of these warships used mass drivers to fling asteroids at surface targets, and were only rendered obsolete by the development of effective planetary shields.

Behind the scenes

 * The CUSWE website infers that Kumauri was also the name of the that built the; this seems to be based on the designation "Kumauri Cal-class Battleship", and while plausible, cannot be considered certain.
 * Cracken's Rebel Operatives seems to imply that the Republic deployed battleships of Kumauri design in the fleet that defeated the Kumauri Empire, but the passage could also be read to mean that the Republic Navy adopted these ships after its victory.