The Battle of Cormit was, along with the Battle of Kinoss, the first engagement of the Golden Empire's conquest of the Chiss Ascendancy.
While Sorrik struck Kinoss, Tariun Sakaros led roughly forty percent of the Royal Navy's total invasion force to Cormit and the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force base there. His fleet outnumbered the Chiss almost two to one, but they had an even greater advantage due to Rin Sakaros's Battle Meditation. The Chiss had highly logical and organized minds compared to those Rin had manipulated before; while this made emotional manipulation slightly less viable, she was able to interfere with the ability of commanders to concentrate or follow lines of thought through to conclusion.
Intending to decapitate the two CEDF bases, Tariun had no interest in taking military prisoners and did not offer surrender, as Rin had foreseen the Chiss would not accept. He did, however, authorize the boarding and capture of a Chiss Star Destroyer, and had several of his support ships capture Nssis-class Clawcrafts. He also had Redblade Squadron, along with Centurion pilots Tamlok and Maliya, bait Clawcrafts into dogfights so he could study their tactics.
After several hours of battle, Tariun had crushed the Chiss fleet, destroyed Cormit's communications arrays, and bombarded numerous planet-based CEDF installations into rubble. However, the Empire made no attempt to actually capture the system, and jumped farther into the Ascendancy just before out-system CEDF reinforcements arrived.