The First Battle of Lakota was an attempted assault on the Syndicate star system of Lakota by the Alliance Fleet. The battle marked a turning point in the aliens interference in Human affairs, from non-interference to direct interference, when they redirected a Syndic fleet in the Hypernet to Lakota. Casualties became very high, with battlecruiser Renown losing propulsion units, before being intercepted and destroyed by Syndic mobile forces. With no choice beside either destruction or retreat, Geary chose to withdraw. However, with numerous Syndic fleets closing in, the fleet would be attacked before it left the system, and suffer many more casualties. In the end, it was only with Captain Mosko's Seventh Battleship division staying behind to buy time for the fleet did it escape with no more major ships lost. This was at a price, however, all three battleships were destroyed, and the Audacious was left heavily damaged, and used as a prison camp for the survivors of the Seventh Battleship division. In total, the Alliance lost three battleships, a battlecruiser, two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers and four destroyers.