Heir to the Empire
AN AGE OF STRIFE STORY
THE TION NECESSITY
OPERATION ARBITER
THEME
With the Chiss Reclamation's momentum brought to a grinding halt after the dual strategic victories upon the battlefields of Nirauan & within the Redoubt cluster itself, the KNIGHTS OF THE EMPIRE are afforded a moment of reprieve from their wartime deployments and redeploy to their respective sectors to rest and replenish their ranks.
It isn't long before several chapters are once more called into service at the behest of the Warden of the Empire's command, consolidating once more beneath TASK FORCE DOOKU to respond to the growing refugee crisis stemming from The Empire's brewing conflict against the independent TION REPUBLIC to its eastern frontier.
With several Knight-Chapters -- both combat and humanitarian -- in tow, Task Force Dooku makes haste to the border world of CHANDAAR, a world which had been formally annexed into The Empire after their secession from the Tion Republic turned into a full-blown civil war.
While the Conflict has simmered down in recent weeks, the newly-independent government has requested The Empire's assistance in keeping the peace, while also serving as a useful deterrent against the Tion Republic's attempts to regain influence over the world once more.
Authorized by the Warden of the Empire's authority himself, this venture onto the frontier was undertook immediately, and given the codename of
OPERATION ARBITER
CHANDAAR // IMPERIAL FRONTIER
HUMANITARIAN ZONE AMBARIL
Ambaril had seen better days; He couldn't tell if the worst days had come to past, or if the troubles that were brewing on world were just the beginning, but nonetheless he'd come to the planet with his Knights in tow and would do what he could, where he could. Chandaar in its whole had swiftly changed hands after the government-in-being transitioned from being aligned to the Tion Republic, and into a hodgepodge of Imperial-aligned politicians and military men who saw the writing on the wall after the Empire's expected resurgence against the rising threat of Chiss revanchism.
The Empire had coveted the worlds of the Tion Republic long since before the war against the Chiss had began, and though their efforts to assimilate these worlds would range from discreet to covert depending on who was in charge of their acquisition, Chandaar's secession from the Republic would come as a welcomed surprise to the Triumvirate, who didn't quite plan on the world entering the Empire at the exact moment it did.
Civil war, as a result, was the inevitable outcome of such a move. The military split itself into a multitude of armed parties, and throughout the planet's surface what were once relatively peaceful cities, had turned into urban centers of hell and warfare. The civilians themselves were the ones to suffer from this the most, and in the outcome of the war coming to an Imperial-aligned victory, a humanitarian crisis would unfold that threatened to spill over into the western frontier if it were not brought into check.
With this in mind, Task Force Dooku set out once more, a number of Knight-Chapters being brought in tow to deal with the situation at the behest of the Warden of the Empire's decree.
A semblance of peace had been maintained after the arrival of Lucien's Task Force in orbit of the world. Crusader Chapters had been brought along to reinforce the Imperial garrison who'd established themselves on world, providing the population with an extra sense of security in the face of perceived backlash from the Republic, who many assumed would do whatever they could to see the world brought back into the hands of independent Tion state.
Mission Chapters were the bulk of those who'd been brought along, their vessels accompanied by flotillas of logistic ships which brought metric tons of medicinal supplies, foodstuffs, and attached personnel to serve as supplemental civil servants in adjacency to the planet's existing groups of law enforcement already struggling to maintain the situation on the ground.
A select few Inquisitorial Chapters too were brought along for the venture as well. Elements of Tion-backed insurgents were still present in both the cities and the countryside itself, and their skillset would prove highly useful in weeding out these cells where they hid, ensuring that the reported terrorist attacks across Chandaar would be halted entirely once they were done.
It was a full-spectrum operation of security and integration, and one that the Knights themselves would consider a vacation in comparison to their usual duties assigned. Ambaril in specific, despite the hectic movement of the locals and refugees who went about the city with a latent sense of fear, had been secured in its entirety after the arrival of Dooku's Task Force. For those who accompanied Lucien on the ground there, it would prove eerily lax, and nothing like his Crusaders were used to in the weeks prior to the assignment at hand.
