Ashlan Remnant
- Flagship Ironheart Dragoon class battlecarrer
- 6 X Dominion class escort frigate
- 8 X Seraphim class patrol frigate
- 8 X Principality class corvette
- Carriers filled with a mixture of Pegasus Interceptors and Phoenix Multirole starfighters
- Ships have full complements of Ashlan Marines
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Stirric Vetch
Laertia Io
Taozi Fuyuan
Mig Gred
Grand Admiral Draellix, was handed a short dossier from one of her crew, the sudden arrival of
Taozi Fuyuan
and her immediate transmission had caught her off guard, and she had not been able to carry out due diligence on this occasion."Very well Doctor Fuyuan, you have quite the credentials, there are time in the past that maybe we would have benefited from you being on this side. I will not attempt to board your ships, I will make scans, as I am sure you do routinely of every one of my ships, but will approach you first if I believe a ship is falsely flying your flag, I hope that this is acceptable."
She listened to the feed from Vetch, a number of faces now populating her holocomm
"As to your request
Stirric Vetch
, our actions spawn from the need to take decisive action on people that cause a danger to the galaxy at large and that have been sheltered in this territory, if you suggest that the government of this planet would be willing to hand over the Zambaranos, or at the very least allow a fair and impartial trial, which I am sure we could accommodate your own involvement in to ensure justice is correctly served." She paused and looked at the planet, its sky darkening and lighting arcing in a way now familiar to Isla. "As for Carnifex himself, you know very well that the likes of him only understand the justice of the sword. From my experience of Korriban, I suspect that it is him or his ilk causing this current dangerous storm over the planet, I suspect that his justice is already being metered out, and he will defend himself by blade."Islas is good to her word and any ships that try to enter the atmosphere that are ID'd as part of Clan Tal or associated organisations are given a cursory military scan and then no further action is taken. Isla had been lied to before, and although she had no reason to doubt her mandalorian adversary today, there were others that might attempt to use the good name of Tal to commit clandestine crimes.
As discussed OOC, the full warcrime conversation is going to be held for another time and dealt with in an alternative thread as this was causing me RL issues to write against
Ground Acton
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- 2 X Dominion class escort frigate
- 3 X Bastion planetary invasion ship
- Carriers filled with a mixture of Pegasus interceptors and Phoenix Multirole Starfighters
- Ships have full complements of Ashlan marines
- Ground invasion troops comprise of 3 legions of Sisters of Ashla
- Each lander contains hundreds of Ashlan Medium Tanks with a variety of loadouts including a large amount of IFV transport variants
- Each lander carriers dozens of Ashlan Heavy Tanks with a variety of loadouts
Corin Autem
Eleena Salwa
Adenn Kyramud
Stardust Solus Skirae
Pietro Demici
Aditya Fitz Kierke
Aedan Miles
In the General's lander
Across the battlefield, engagement markers chimed in the holosuite. The general swore, the kind of word that would make even the skin of the sith shudder. He kicked a holo of a powerstation in frustration, the interactive light structures shifted but then reformed in defiance of the angry general.
"I want our forces to withdraw to the landers and prepare to leave, our mission here was not to engage in all out war. Stalling return fire only, target their machines, but try to avoid significant casualties." He looked at his own casualties, the initial volley by the enemy had hit the Ashlan lines hard and whilst their tanks, armour and defensive preparations were strong, casualties were significant. The sisters facing the lines of walkers had been particularly hard hit. Walking through he city he stopped at the hospital, no engagement, that was a relief. The Mando were warlike but he felt they would honour a truce.
"Pull the soldiers back from the hospital, the wider situation will only spill there and the admiral will have my stars if I allow stray fire to damage that facility, please activate Umbrella Protocol."
Umbrella protocol was the imaginative title for an anti-collateral strategy devised by Draellix and himself, key civilian targets would be marked, these would be hospitals, schools, busy shopping precincts, civilian power stations and other such places. Ashla's Mercy Shield Pods would then drop from orbit and deploy shields to protect them from incoming fire, or from powerful force storms that were currently beginning to strike the city with bolts of red lightning. This was the first time these units had been deployed and it was a gamble, but the Admiral had been adamant.
...on the ground...
In most places, the Ashlans had been hit hard by murderous fire from the defensive positions, coming without warning, the casualties were significant, with even the shielded heavy tanks tanking damage. There was sporadic, panicked pockets of return fire, as was to be expected, but as a whole the force stayed cohesive and waited for orders. As the orders to withdraw and put down suppressive fire came back, the Ashlan guns sprung to life, not with the fire and fury of the defenders, but a more forgiving volley. Massed mortar fire targeted in front of the enemy lines, with the enemy at the very edge of effective range, enough to give them a concussive shake and keep their heads down, but not enough to kill. The heavy tanks opened up with Null-burst projectors, powerful weapons that would stun living creatures inside their armour and vehicles but leave them unharmed. Finally, other tanks opened with precise shots, targeting the legs of the heavy walkers, it was reasoned that these parts would be most likely to disable the units, but least likely to contain crews.
To any seasoned general, it would be clear that the Ashlan forces were not using their full firepower and were holding back in a way to spare the defenders, after all, they had no right to be angry at the defenders for attacking the interlopers. At the same time, tanks started slowly backing away and sisters of Ashla made withdrawal moves.
At the hospital, there was a different situation. The Ashlans held to their truce, not a single shot was fired. A further communication was returned. "As we have said, we came here only to protect the hospital that we felt in danger, your words, and your holding to the truce as the rest of your forces open fire is honorable and we will withdraw. You will be shortly joined by some of our defensive systems, as we do not wish spill over from other theatres or this lighting to pose a risk to injured civilians, I assure you that these devices are benevolent and as a measure of good faith we will withdraw without rearguard"
As one, every other Sister of Ashla, lowered there weapon, turned their back and marched away, followed shortly by the other half, they marched away from the hospital with now weapons watching their backs, hoping that the honour of the defenders would hold true.
Overhead, streaks of light descended above the clouds as the Mercy pods boosted their way through the atmosphere, making minute adjustments to their course. They were each pre programmed with landing points with two waves spaced out to allow destroyed pods to be replaced by the droid brains in the second wave. Moments before hitting the ground, powerful retros fired and the pods slowed to just a few dozen kilometres per hour and settled on the ground. One landed neatly in a school ground, more landed in other local education establishments and civilian facilities. The last ones to land were the ones on the hospital. gently resting themselves on several of the buildings, there was a brief energy surge before shield bubbles up to 120m in diameter surrounded each of the installations. If examined, they could be passed through by creatures and vehicles, but stopped or absorbed firepower. A massive bolt of lightning struck the largest dome over the hospital campus, causing ripples of dissipated energy.
This was a gamble by the Ashlan crusade, with the backs of their soldiers as the wager, the response, good or bad would be rapid.
Hospital - phased withdrawal of troops with no rear-guard fire and exposing backs to enemy
Across most lines - massive incoming fire, heavy casualties, withdrawing with fire designed to hold not destroy
Spaceport - no fire yet, and less communication from defenders so less urgency of withdrawal, but preparations underway
All over city - mercy pods dropping on civilian targets of interest and deploying shields
Across most lines - massive incoming fire, heavy casualties, withdrawing with fire designed to hold not destroy
Spaceport - no fire yet, and less communication from defenders so less urgency of withdrawal, but preparations underway
All over city - mercy pods dropping on civilian targets of interest and deploying shields
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