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Also known as: Archanis, Archanis system, Arcanus
Federation colony reduced to rubble by a twelve-hour Klingon disruptor bombardment — the first victims of the Four Years War.
Archanis IV is the Federation colony whose destruction opens the wartime record of Prelude to Axanar. After Vulcan peace delegations failed, Klingon disruptors did not stop for twelve hours — thousands dead, countless missing.Ambassador Soval's testimony places the bombardment at the birth of the Four Years War. The Memory Alpha Historic Society still catalogues Archanis as the first major civilian loss that made total war unavoidable.