# ISD 15792 - Battle of Cressgard First contact with Cielcin in the Year ISD 15792.
By the time I was born, the Crusade had been raging for three hundred years since the first battle with the [Cielcin](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/cielcin) at [Cressgard](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/norma-arm/page/cressgard), but it was far away across some twenty thousand light-years of Empire and open space, out where the Veil opened on the Norma Arm.

Empire of Silence - Chapter 1: Hadrian
I blinked. “Five hundred years is . . . before first contact.” I meant the Battle of Cressgard in ISD 15792, when the Cielcin attacked our colonial fort settlement on the edge of the Marinus Veil. The loss of that colony had sent its horrible message careering across the Imperium, the temple fires burning on every world and the priests beside them crying out those fateful words: We are not alone.

Howling Dark - Chapter 32: Saturn or Dis

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