ZU dominion of Crustai| Celwis - It takes two to tango

[Haon Hafey]

The next blast door would open up towards the engine complex room, where it all started as bodies were piled into a corner of troops. Blood was nearly everywhere...it was not as accurate as per say blaster bolts...the droids taken over were most likely lifter droids. Going over towards the corner of the hallway, there was whining noises as Haon turned and aimed the DL-56...at a very large lifter droid. It came from hanger bay, it must have taken it-then it hit Haon as it flung him down the hallway as he rolled over to the side. Swearing a storm, he got up as the thing tried to lumber towards him, firing a few blaster bolts at him to no avail. Backing up a bit, he holstered his blaster and went towards the nearest blast doors as it opened up for him.

"You Will Die here Organic"​

Haon pulled out both of the old style heavy blasters he found long ago, almost Mandalorian in design as he fired them in quick succession at the legs of the monsterous lifter droid. It would strike a few times, melting off certain pieces as he kept aiming for weak joint portions of the lifter droid as it started to slow down. When it got to a near crawl in speed, he then shot right at the optical sensors. One of the shots rang true as it sparked before giving a loud screech like noise, the Holowan apparently not to happy to be blinded as it stumbled towards archway to the next hallway. Going past it quickly, he would then shoot the door panel a few times as it quickly started to shut the blast door on it, slowly crushing the lifter droid as it tried to screech something in binary before being cut right at the head and mid section, becoming non functional and jamming the door from opening and closing.

Giving a small pant, he would unload both of the power packs and rather quickly start to load in fresh ones, hearing the loud whirring noises of approval from the blasters as he continued his long walk down the hallway to the engine room. There was more droids...he just hoped no more lifter droids for a while.

 

[Credius]

It seemed the tactic was working, With Tranquility who had been brought along with Charles' fleet no doubt was working her magic, it looked like keeping the ZEUS monitored ships up front also aided in defending against any and all invasive force at the time. KRONOS himself would make sure to maintain control over the ZEUS droid cores in the other ships. "KRONOS, put up a communicationlink between yourself and Tranquility , I want to be kept on to speed on the progress with that strange AI."

Somehow, the attack on the fleet of Celwis looked like it was stalling, ofcourse the switching tactics Credius had to employ for his own fleet did not help in this regard, but he was still surprised that the Zweihander Union's combined fleet seemed to be unable to break through the defensive positions the Celwis fleet had taken up and with another cruiser seemingly falling prey to the relentless swarming and maneuvring of the smaller Chiss ships made the Chancellor let out a frustrated grunt. "Commander Harmon...start up the appolyons, warn the other ships within firing range to spread out to avoid friendly fire. Target the king's ship, with two of the damocles to assess the strength of his shields, upon my command I want you to target the two ships next to the king's cruiser to send a message."

 

[Himm'vaun'merek]

Location: Bridge of the Sanguine
Objective: Objective 1
Tags: Credius Haon Hafey Charles Castex Tristan Evore

Comms suddenly chimed in, "Sir, message from the Usurper. Fly on full manual, close off external systems and sensors array" the Captain nodded and replied. "Comms, tell them we acknowledge." he said before relaying Tristan Evore 's order to open fire fire. "Warfare sensors are offline so begin manual targeting of the enemy carriers. As per the admiral's orders may fire when ready" Vaun nodded and relayed the orders to his gunners before notifying the captain. "Manual target initiated. The gunners have the carriers in their crosshairs sir." Outside the ship the electrothermal railguns and turbolasers began pounding the enemy carriers.

The captain turned to the fleet admiral's request for a specialist. "We do fleet admiral. I shall bring him up." he replied before looking to Vaun. "Warfare, I trust you have your briefing ready?" Vaun nodded "Yes sir. I have everything here." he said as walked out of the gunner pit "Initial hostility isn't unlike the Chiss as my species universally have been known to be very Xenophobic considering the plethora of alien threats out here. This has led to many Chiss planets adopting a defensive policy, treating outsiders with a strong suspicion. The militarisation of the planet hasn't helped either and I believe it has given the enemy the impression they still have the advantage over us." he said letting the Captain and fleet Admiral process the information before continuing "I personally believe the King has something to with it as well. The Aristocras are secertly very competitive, willing to to do anything to gain more power. His relation with the Aristocra of Crustai is unstable and he may think that winning a great military victory could sway the Matriarch's followers into supporting him instead."

 

[Charles Castex]

U N I O N​

Location: The Space over Crustai Celwis- The Bridge of The Phylactery

Primary Objectives: 1. Break through the fleet of Celwis, eliminate key locations such as the dockyards, naval command center and the flagship of the King of Celwis.

Wearing: A Long Black Version of his normal clothes with white flowers decorated all over it.

-His Razor Fingernails are firmly in place

-His Surgical Tools are tucked away in his cloak along

-Two Lightsaber’s Hidden away

The Tomb Fleet:

The Tomb Fleet

Tranquility Credius


”Tranquility I trust that you can handle the Chancellor’s request to eliminate the inferior ‘A.I’ that stands our way… a laughable request for you my dear. Anything you need from the Tomb Fleet is yours to command in order complete that goal.” Taking his data pad in hand the male hooked it up the spider droid he used to use for Tranquility, but instead the image it displayed was now of the ever changing battle space around his fleet. Walking up to the duraglass window the male, placed his hand up against it. As the Tomb Fleet continued to advance against the flank of the enemy forces, the casualties mounted, and Charles could feel it… from among the Zombie’s on the planet… to the fighters lost one by one. The harder they pushed forward the more damage the smaller ships took, ”Sure we are receiving word from the Captain of the Scythe… they have taken heavy damage and need to fall back to the rear of the formation…”

”Why does the dear man even need to ask me that question? Let the squadrons assigned to the Scythe know they can also use the Crypt as a secondary landing area. Tell on of the frigate’s to form up next to it and give it cover from enemy fighters… I will not lose so many of my men today or so help me I will get permission to slag the planet next… or feed on its population… one at a time.” Charles cracked his fingers as his sheer anger radiated around him, watching as a single red dot appeared among the enemy fleet… oh… what was this? Looking closer at the hologram the Sith’s eyes gleamed at the information that this was the target he had been seeking for. The flagship he wanted to see destroyed… running his tongue along his exposed teeth and gums the male couldn’t help his excitement, ”Captain what is the status of the enemy flagship? Oh and Tranquility I would like another encrypted message sent to the Chancellor… keep it simple, and however you want to say it… just let him know that I have ordered my flagship to fire-weapons free on that thing… but that my overall plan is take as many members on that flag ship for... execution by consumption.”

Charles returned to his chair, obviously the order was fueled by his own rage about the course of events that lead to this moment. They would pay for the blood of his men now as well, and so the first thing he would do is his own part to chop of the head of the snake, with a playful order… and a simple finger-gun gesture… the two Apollyon’s, eight Damocles, and four Taurus Mk I’s fired off at the ship combined with anything else on the The Phylactery that had the ranged to reach the enemy ship. He wasn’t sure what the result of such a bombardment on the enemy flagship would be, and he almost wanted them to beg for terms… he would gladly drain the life from their bodies.

The bombardment come about the time Credius's attack would be start on the other ships next to the kings ship, and given the position of the Tomb Fleet these ships did act a proverbial 'meat-shield' against a lot of the firepower aimed at the flag ship. Charles found himself slightly annoyed by this until he realized that one of the Apolloyn's and Taurus Mk I's had confirmed hits, "I want damage reports on the enemy vessel Captain what are we looking at?" The man turn, "The information is still coming in... but it looks like the shot did 40 percent damage on their shield... if we keep this up then we may be able to destroy the vessel."

 

[Haon Hafey]

The sound of the engine room was alive as blast doors would open up to Haon, himself slowly walking through some of the carnage with a few survivors he had picked up along the way. Most were Zweihander Union troops and every now and then, they faced a hostile droid which they quickly brought down. The hostile AI seemed to have been stuck on the Xiphos and each time they eliminated one of its hosts, they seemed to be able to weaken its power. Arriving into the main engine room, their sole surviving engineer rushed forward with the soldiers as they got to the main control terminal to regain control of some of the reactor systems and purge old data.

"Four minutes, we ha-

"I Will Swallow your Bodies!"
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Then hell broke loose, literally. Screeches were heard across the ship as Zweihander Union troops fired their blaster rifles along with Haon Hafey firing around them with his blaster pistols. Scores of robotic bodies would start piling up around them as Haon made a mental note to have a universal kill switch next time to prevent catastrophes from happening ever again. A nearby astromech charged forward as one of the troops shot at the dome as it exploded, giving a loud whine like cry before falling backwards. The firefight would contiue for some time, much ammo was to be used...but how long till the AI gets desperate?

 

[Kom Thum]

U N I O N​

Location: The planet's surface of Crustai...

Primary Objectives: Objective 2- Raze the military stations of Crustai, remove their military command and defeat the strong standing army of the Matriarch of Crustai.

Wearing: Usual military commando style gear, not much for standing out in officers clothes.

• NZ-PBR.445 Plasma Blaster Rifle
• NZ-BG.400 Tactical Blaster Pistol
• A few NZ TDT-1 EMP grenade-IED

Tranquility

”Major Kom I will be retaining 100 of the Zombie’s here as my own personal escort… should I need one, but simply signal up if you need a reserve.” The message came in over a larger radio that Kom had set up in a fox hole which was her HQ for the moment. Since they had landed the perimeter had grown outward allowing the Amaran to focus on leading the Division, by allocating troops from each drop to either shore up thinning defenses or launching assaults to expand the parameter. Thinking for a moment about the request, and looking over the dirt stained data pad clutched in her fingers the woman peeked over the edge the fox hole with her blaster, firing off and laying low an enemy solider before ducking back down, ”Yeah Charles that will be fine, but don’t do anything stupid with my men… or yourself for that matter…” As she clicked off the communicator one of her sergeants slid down off into crater… one of the speeder bikes floated on the edge,

”Major… Recon Party Alpha reporting in… and it seems that our LZ is in place the enemy didn’t expect us to be. There is a command and control bunker 5 clicks from here, and from the design of the dish… I think it is either a communications uplink… or we just caught them with pants down and access to their anti-ship network.” Kom scratched her chin as she listened to the report. True it would be good to turn such weapons against the enemy, but why hadn’t they used them yet? It could very well be they were too obsolete to be of much use… or there was a trap being set for the fleet. If they were drawn to close to the planet, ”Have 10 APCs , 5 Tanks, and a spider walker ready to move out with two speeder squads moving ahead to scout. I want 100 men to load up… I will take care of this myself, tell the Captain he is in charge until I get back…”

Before pulling herself up out of the fox hole she sent one more message up to Charles ship, ”Yeah… boss I would be careful with fleet on your end. Me and the boys are going to check out something that could be nothing or could be a trap. Oh and could you get Tranquility to direct her drop pod droids to follow us? If we need her to hack something I want her droids nearby to help. Alright everyone mount up!” With those words she ran up out of the fox hole and into the nearest APC… and as soon as it was full it left… the entire armored column moved out in a line formation with support bombers flying overhead.

 

[Credius]

It looked like the shots generated by the chancellor's own Usurper had managed to flaunt the power the Dictator II class battlecruisers truly possessed, heavily weakening the shielding on the two cruisers which seemed to act as shield for the King's flagship. Yet when the crew of the Usurper mentioned that the order had been completed and that they were awaiting further orders on the use of the apollyons, around the same time the Chancellor gave the go ahead to scare the king of Celwis a bit, the obvious trail of destruction only the appollyons in the ZU navy were capable of thundered through empty space, ricocheting against multiple other ships, including several squadrons of the chancellor's own fleet, reduced to ashes when the apollyon's blasts shredded part of the king's shielding, followed by the damocles and taurus shots ripping part of the king's flagship off the side.

With the king's flagship crippled and credius too late to rescind his orders, the shots from the Usurper's own apollyons rummaged through space, obliterating the two cruisers next to the king of Celwis' flagship, forcibly pushing the crippled flagship aside and unable to alter its path, which was now headed straight towards the dockyards where Haon Hafey was located. "The force be damned, who let out those earlier shots? Lieutenant commander Himm'vaun'merek push through with your vessel, concentrate fire on the king's flagship, but low intensity fire only, force it off course..." This was unexpected and the Chancellor did not like dealing with unexpected changes. "Fleet admiral Tristan Evore you take command, Charles Castex you will act as second in command to the fleet admiral."

Credius decided to leave the rest of this mess to the two highest ranking members of the navy, while he would have the Usurper commence a microjump towards the planet of Crustaï, he still had to aid with the eradication of Crustaï's ground forces, which no doubt where waiting for their turn to welcome the Zweihander Union.

 

[Tristan Evore]

Tags: Credius Himm'vaun'merek Haon Hafey Ben Craig Tranquility

"I see" Tristan nodded along as the Chiss Lieutenant Commander explained the inner workings of the Chiss Hierarchy and thier history. All of it was rather interesting however, the Fleet Admiral soon found himself too busy to respond, instead acknowledging a communique from Credius .

"Concentrate fire on whatever is left of the Kings Flagship, Light Weaponry only" Tristan then began the short trek to the warships main catwalk. "You may fire when ready"

 

[Haon Hafey]

The huge amount of blaster bolts would still storm all around the engine room, various places would get hit with blaster marks as more droid bodies started to litter the area. Haon would fire one that was nearly on top of a soldier to give him some breathing space as the Engineer screamed out.

"Control regained, sir I got con-"

WHAM! Then something smashed directly into their Battle Cruiser at near ramming speed as they all fell over from the impact, right as the droids would all be turned off, the AI now isolated in its own little bubble in the engine room. The Xiphos would start to give an alarm, a very loud one as it apparently was the only thing between them and the dockyards as there was a fresh amount of blaster fire coming across the Xiphos as comns went live.

"Enemies have breached the Xiphos, I repeat, enemies have breached the Xiphos! All hands repel the invaders!"

Then the screech would be heard for a fraction of a second before a blaster bolt whined out from Haons own blaster, shooting the hard drive where they AI resided as it became a black melted drive.

"Had enough of that piece of junk. All hands repel! Protect the vital areas! Relay messages to Admiral Credius and others to focus fire on this flagship! Get it off of us!"

Then a loud explosion would be heard as soldiers started to storm into the engine room as him and the other soldiers took positions to repel the attackers, each exchanging fire from down the hallway.

Tristan Evore Charles Castex Ben Craig

 

[Credius]

Credius could only see it happening from his shuttle, as the King of Celwis' flagship smashed against the Xiphos battlecruiser. Sadly, the Chancellor couldn't do much to be of assistance in this emergency, but to at the very least show some good will to his corporate partner, Credius patched through to KRONOS aboard the Usurper. "Kronos, have Commander Harmon send the order to move the fleets forward, crush that rebellious element now there is chaos among their ranks."

In the meantime, the Chancellor, ahead of a few squadrons transport ships made his way towards the planet of Crustaï, hoping to be quick enough to give Kom Thum some support in her efforts to break through the ground defenses lead by the Matriarch of Crustaî. "KRONOS, send Himm'vaun'merek a message to relay everything he may think about when it comes to Chiss tactics in regarding to ground warfare. His input in this endeavor is most appreciated."

 

[Himm'vaun'merek]

Location: Bridge of the Sanguine
Objective: Objective 1 - Give briefing on Chiss Forces
Tags: Credius Haon Hafey Charles Castex Tristan Evore Kom Thum

A plethora of orders had just come in. The Captain nodded at Tristan Evore 's orders "Yes sir." he said before turning to the crew. "You heard the Fleet Admiral. Get moving." he said and in an instant the bridge jumped to life. Vaun looked around to his officers and begin dishing out orders. "Target the enemy flagship, power down our railguns and use turbolasers only." he said as the ship lurched forward on the Usurper's orders. The captain turned to Vaun. "Warfare, status report." Vaun quickly checked one of the displays before replying "Shields holding and our turbolasers are pounding the enemy fleet sir." the captain nodded and motioned towards the ops room. "Good. Hand over to your XO, you have been ordered to share your knowledge on the ground tactics of the Chiss." Vaun nodded and hopped out of the gunner pit and walking to the ops room with his datapad.

Vaun began his report, opening a communication channel to all officers present at either battle. "The Chiss ground forces consist of two groups, the Colonial Phalanx and their more elite counterparts the Household phalanx. When it comes to equipment and fighting style there are two key aspects which define my species, versatility and defence. Chiss equipment and ships are very versatile with each ship or vehicle being able to fill more than one role. Each is prepared to face anything but excels at nothing. Defence is the other aspect of Chiss military and while in recent years more expansionist tendencies have been adopted their equipment and tactics has for the most part has remained the same." The Chiss changed the screen on his datapad, showing holoimages of Chiss vehicles, most of which were tanks and walkers which doubled up as troop transports. "Prepare the enemy forces to be well dug in but ready to adapt at a moments notice."

Vaun changed the holoimage to a Chiss Charric rifle. "This is the main weapon of our enemy and all weapons are based around the same technology. Charric weapons are similar to blasters but have many differences, most notably a lightsabers complete inability to deflect Charric beams. While this puts the weapon at an advantage to the Chiss over Jedi or Sith there it isn't a perfect weapon." he said showing a holovid of a charric rifle firing. "These weapons fire off a blue beam, making them incredibly easy to trace. I advise all ground forces to look for the source of Charric beams when engaging the enemy. On top of this I recommend heavily armoured troopers to act as the vanguard force. Charric based weaponry have much larger kinetic energy than standard blasters. Any questions?" he asked, prepared to answer anyone. Many Chiss would question Vaun. He had just revealed many of the advantages the Chiss had over potential enemies but he didn't care. He no longer served the Chiss. Now he served the Zweihander Union.

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[Ben Craig]

U N I O N​

Location: Bridge, The Terminator
Focus: Tranquility , Credius , Haon Hafey , Himm'vaun'merek , Charles Castex , Tristan Evore
Objectives: BYOO : Capture the Research Facility
Dress: Uniform
Forces:

• First Fleet
• Executor Troopers
  • Vernichten
• 34th Assault Detachment

"Understood Chancellor, however I have received intel that there is a research facility on the surface. Commodore Frenick is more than capable of handling the naval aspect in my stead while my men and I travel to the surface to secure the facility and determine what projects are being undertaken by the enemy." Knowing that his priorities lie with the ISB than the Navy, he knew the chancellor would agree. He nodded to his 2nd in command and walked to the hangar where a shuttle was waiting. "Sir, we've pinpointed the facility." Ben nodded, "Good, assemble a team on the surface." With everything set in place, the shuttle exited and headed towards Crustai.

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[Haon Hafey]

"What in the name of sithspawns nether realm do they keep coming from?!"

There was howling shrieks as droids now were charging in as more blaster fire kept erupting from down the hallway. He had moved up from earlier with the rest of the soldiers as they were now near the second floor hallways, right where they had rammed into their main battle cruiser. Apparently from what he was able to gather, they were rammed by the literal flagship of the fleet! Unbelievable! Haon would poke from the side and fire his DL-56 a few times, dropping another droid as he went back into cover around the corner as a hail of blasterfire kept erupting down their end.

"Grenade out! Duck!"

There was a ticking noise as it was thrown from one of the soldiers, Haon keeping to his side as there was a loud explosion from afar, as if energy pulsed out of it. Then it was silent as the soldiers of the Zweihander Union went together and moved forward as Haon finally noticed what they used. It was some type of plasma grenade, very nasty and very devastating. He knew there be countless expense to repair this hallway but alas, better then being dead. Walking forward, he would reload his blaster pistol as he heard the distant blaster fire start to erupt again and some loud booming voice...perhaps the king himself? No, he heard voice samples beforehand...perhaps...then slowly he turned around the corner and fired again. This was turning out to be more interesting than he realized.

 

[Credius]

Location: entering Crustaï aerospace.
Extra: [X] [X] [X] [X] [X] [X]
Forces:
1x Sceleratis squad [100% strength]
4x Executor Trooper Battalion [75% strength]
2x Zweihander Union regiments [95% strength]

As the shuttles started rocking when they were passing into the planet of Crustaï's atmosphere, the Chancellor was calmly listening to the explanation given by Himm'vaun'merek on the possible use of weapons and the more common tactics used by the Chiss. It was duly noted that their structure, while seemingly archaïc and tactically flawed from several viewpoints, had still proven to be very effective even in this day and age. However, when the Lieutenant Commander talked about the weapons which would not be stopped by a lightsaber, the Chancellor could only let out a soft chuckle while gently caressing the blade which hung from his hip, the hilt of the sword slightly humming as it was fed a small amount of dark side energy by the former sith lord who now proclaimed himself purely as a force master, seeing himself beyond the classifications and the likes of both the Sith and the Jedi. "Lieutenant Commander, should the information you have provided us lead to a more swift and decisive end, you may expect my full support for any promotion or transfer request you may have," With that being said, the Chancellor opened the comms to the other shuttles as they were approaching their target landing zone. "You heard the man, prep yourselves properly and keep the comms open on a secure channel, each platoon commander will need to maintain contact through my communications officer, lets make this count...men...?!"

It didn't take long for the enemy to launch an assault with heavy artillery, with a few of the shuttles and troop transport being heavily damaged and two of them even exploding and being oblitrated outright. Noticing this, Credius shouted through the comms to enact basic evading maneuvres, all the while having the co-pilot of the shuttle track down where the artillery fire was coming from, who eventually managed to pinpoint that there was an artillery battery located near a large rockformation in close vicinity to the agreed upon LZ. "Contact Kom Thum , have her assault the coordinates of those cannons, I want that artillery gone. If we can take that ridge, we can have a better view on the enemy's central base...to cripple this resistance, we need to take down their main base of operations."

 

[Kom Thum]

U N I O N​

Location: The planet's surface of Crustai...

Primary Objectives: Objective 2- Raze the military stations of Crustai, remove their military command and defeat the strong standing army of the Matriarch of Crustai.

Wearing: Usual military commando style gear, not much for standing out in officers clothes.

• NZ-PBR.445 Plasma Blaster Rifle
• NZ-BG.400 Tactical Blaster Pistol
• A few NZ TDT-1 EMP grenade-IED

Tranquility Credius

”Captain Himm'vaun'merek this is Major Kum can you give me a run down on what the effect of those weapons will be against our armored vehicles and shields. True the Zombies are not as heavily armored to a man, but we can improvise…” As she said this she looked to the Sargent sitting next to her the grin spreading over his face as he pulled a repair kit down, then the Aramana… before going on to the pilot and passing on the order to stop the column. The vehicles slowly came to a halt, and the troops piled out securing the area as on both sides of either APC and tank one of the NZ PS-1 Shield System’s where attached and their abilities to turn on set to various squad leader’s data paid. Kom gathered up the officers and went over her idea on how she planned to use the shields as a mobile wall to help the assault the base given the fact that the Chiss were probably heavily dug in. Once they had their orders everyone returned to their APC’s and they began to move out,

”Ma’am the Chancellor of the Left has sent orders down to take out an artillery battery that is giving him trouble…” The Major raised her prosthetic limb, ”Pass on the problem to the Captain at the drop site, and send the coordinates of the battery… let him know to start expanding the perimeter in that direction. Our current mission is a bit more important especially if the Chiss decide to start launching those weapons…” It was long after she finished that they finally reached the enemy instillation and true to form… the Zombie’s wasted no time launching their attack. The tanks in the formation lighting up the forward defensive lines to give covering fire along with the APC’s repeating blasters, the larger weapons on the walker would soon join in with the tank aiming at larger targets. Once resistance had been softened up, the troops deployed as did the shields come on between the APCs… providing a measure of protection as Kom and her men pushed their battle lines forward.

 

[Himm'vaun'merek]

Location: Bridge of the Sanguine
Objective: Objective 1 - Give briefing on Chiss Forces
Tags: Credius Haon Hafey Charles Castex Tristan Evore Kom Thum

A promotion? Next up the line would be commanding his own vessel, a prospect Vaun greatly looked forward to. Vaun felt the ship shake as they began engaging the enemy fleet but he wasn't too concerned. Command of the Sanguine was in the hands of the Fleet Admiral Tristan Evore , an experienced Naval Officer. Major Kom Thum 's question came next. "Heavily armoured vehicles would be able to withstand Charric fire. Shields will also be highly useful in this situation. Charric beams render ceramic and polymer-based armors ineffective, also causing an electric shock upon contact with metallic armours." he said running the catalogue of Zweihander Union vehicles through his head. "As far as I'm aware our ground vehicles will be fine." He said before looking to speak to the rest of the group. "Make no mistake, Charric based weaponry is no super weapon. Instead think blaster albeit stronger but carrying its own disadvantages." he said before moving his focus back to Major Thum. "Our opposition is bound to have Charric based artillery."

Just as he was about to conclude the Chiss had one more word of warning. "Unrelated to Chiss weaponry I have a piece of advice to consider. As I explained to the fleet admiral, Chiss Aristocras are extremely competitive and the King and matriarch have an uneasy alliance. They both believe a military victory over the union has the ability to sway the others supporters to their side." he said, pulling up a holoimage of each. "Defeating one will only galvanise the other as he would then realise if they won they would have domain of both Crustai and Celwis. I implore you to attempt to strike out both at the same time to prevent this." he said, allowing anyone to ask further questions or to dismiss him so he could return to his station.

 

[Credius]

Location: Near Crustaï main defensive peimeters
Extra: [X] [X] [X] [X] [X] [X]
Forces:
1x Sceleratis squad [100% strength]
4x Executor Trooper Battalion [75% strength]
2x Zweihander Union regiments [95% strength]

There's always some sort of political issue within alliances, Credius knew that all too well and those who wished to gain something out of an alliance rather than achieve something through it. It seemed that according to the information given by Lieutenant-commander Himm'vaun'merek this case was one of the former and sadly, the Union had already dealt a definitive blow to the Celwis navy by removing the threat of the king's flagship, which they now had to scuttle and secure in order to try and take the king of Celwis hostage. In the meantime, it was mainly the Chancellor and Major Kom Thum 's job to try and put down the heart of the Crustaï forces on land and if possible secure and contain the Matriarch of Crustaï in the process.

"I want two of the Executor battalions divided among the two regiments, lieutenant Voss and Hammer are to remain at the LZ with their battalions to provide cover for our ships," The Chancellor turned towards General Weltzer of the army core and High colonel Fisker of the heavy infantry, both decorated men with service records hailing back to the time of the last galactic empire before it's collapse. They would lead the assault on the defensive lines of the enemy, so having Major Kom Thum take out the artillery batteries near their position was a must. "Lieutenant Wesel will lead his batallion of troopers to ambush the supply lines of the artillery batteries, I will move with Captain Strohmer to take out any and all forward positioned divisions. If we meet the Major's regiment, new orders will be issued."

 

[Kom Thum]

U N I O N​

Location: The planet's surface of Crustai...

Primary Objectives: Objective 2- Raze the military stations of Crustai, remove their military command and defeat the strong standing army of the Matriarch of Crustai.

Wearing: Usual military commando style gear, not much for standing out in officers clothes.

• NZ-PBR.445 Plasma Blaster Rifle
• NZ-BG.400 Tactical Blaster Pistol
• A few NZ TDT-1 EMP grenade-IED

Tranquility Credius

Luckily for Credius’s troops the Zombies where well trained to keep up the pace even without their Major cracking the whip on the heels of the operation. Pushing hard with assault after assault including calling down from the Pallbearer the 100 men in reserve, given the Chancellors orders to ‘spare’ the king Charles sent the extra men down so he was not tempted to disobey his Master… and go skin the monarch alive himself. It wouldn’t take long before they had begun an attack on the artillery battery, the Lieutenant in charge sending message to Kom, whom herself would let Credius that the weapon emplacement had been overrun. So if the Chancellor had somewhere else he would rather them aimed… then by all means they would see what they could do…

”Major I think we have a problem here… we are detecting launch signatures in your area… aimed at the fleet in orbit.” Kom and her men were pushing forward, breaking through the enemy defenses around the base as they were greeted with the sight of missiles streaking towards the sky in the distance… so she had been right, ”Pass on the situation to the Chancellor… tell him we think we found the control station for the orbital defense missiles, but any ships that have gotten to close need to fall back. As for the rest of you, come on… let’s bring down this command and control station.” With a cry from the Zombie’s going up they charged forward into the last set of trenches and sandbag redoubts formed up by the enemy.

In space though the missiles were currently streaking to the closest target… luckily the position of the Usurper actually protected the smaller ships of Charles fleet that had brought Kom’s men to the planet. Now they were able to beat a hasty retreat to a safer orbit were they were covered by the Tomb Fleet. The weapons for themselves were an older system just like the ships that had been fought in orbit, and against such a powerful ship as the Usurper… they didn’t put it in an immediate danger as they slammed into its shields.

 

[Tristan Evore]

"Fire"

The ship shook and shuddered as it pushed deeper and deeper into the core of the enemy fleet, while Tristan himself kept pushing the crews to do thier best.

"Full power to the primary reactor, switch to backup weapons array!" The Executive Officer of the Sanguine was right by his side, screaming shouting and fussing along.

"Captain Himm'vaun'merek , I know you're busy helping the Chancellor and all, but uh...ya think you could give me some help here?"

 

[Haon Hafey]

There was more of a massive firefight at the entrance of the impact site where the flagship rammed into the Xiphos. Troops on both sides were trying nearly anything to get the upper hand and sadly, it looks like the Xiphos was going the opposite way as they kept pouring in more and more soldiers into the frey. Haon himself felt overwhelmed as they had to keep going back every couple of feet to just keep away from the onslaught of troopers. After a bit, a salvo of grenades were thrown from behind as he leaped behind a set of boxes as the sound of plasma grenades went off again, killing off another section of troops yet as Haon looked over, more kept pouring in.

"Do these guys ever get the hint to kriff off?!"

Then a large streak came from in front of him as he ducked down barely in time as an explosion rocked from behind it. Haons ears would ring as he could not hear anything, leaning up slightly as some of the enemies troops came around him as he fired his blaster a few times, hitting a few. Rather suddenly however, he would get hit in the back of the head by something and black out, not knowing what will become of him and his crew.