Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Not to mention barring the Jumpships the forces we're sending in are expendable
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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[X] Approve Operation Blue Cougar
Thors_Alumni
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[X]Approve Operation Blue Cougar
Expendable is a bit of an overstatement, but they are not *strategically vital*.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Well expendable in that if need be we can easily replace them
Val the Moofia Boss
Well-known member
[X] Approve Operation Blue Cougar
Once we go to Killburough, it might be a good idea to try to secure their supersoldier conditioning/cybernetics facilities for ourselves, rather than destroying them. So far, outside of the 100 Jenners making landfall on our home turf, we haven't really struggled yet, but who knows how long our luck will last as we expand and maybe come into contact with the Inner Sphere and the Clans, and who knows what else is out there. Having our own "loyal"/slave (however you want to spin it) supersoldiers come in handy. However, it would be OOC for the current head of state Jacqueline to do. Jeremy might be inclined to go along with it. "I did what I had to do" and such. Admittedly this might just be me thinking that delving a little bit into the evil path might be fun, but it seems that mostly everyone here wants to stick to the good side.
Think about it: Cyber Grifftigers.
Once we go to Killburough, it might be a good idea to try to secure their supersoldier conditioning/cybernetics facilities for ourselves, rather than destroying them. So far, outside of the 100 Jenners making landfall on our home turf, we haven't really struggled yet, but who knows how long our luck will last as we expand and maybe come into contact with the Inner Sphere and the Clans, and who knows what else is out there. Having our own "loyal"/slave (however you want to spin it) supersoldiers come in handy. However, it would be OOC for the current head of state Jacqueline to do. Jeremy might be inclined to go along with it. "I did what I had to do" and such. Admittedly this might just be me thinking that delving a little bit into the evil path might be fun, but it seems that mostly everyone here wants to stick to the good side.
Think about it: Cyber Grifftigers.
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Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Honestly if the girls we saved want to help us in say a decade or so when they're old enough and have had copious amount of therapy I'm sure there are plenty of jobs we could use their skills in.
No. Even from a purely amoral point of view, those aren't supersoldiers; they're underage black ops assassins with suicide implants. The equivalent of Red Room operatives, not Winter Soldier.
Turn 59 - Usque
Turn 59 - Usque
Combat Report - Operation Blue Cougar
Task Force - Blue Cougar.1
No hostile forces detected, local NRI naval garrison fully in friendly hands and welcomed the reinforcements. Several dozen Pugnus Deorum fanatics had tried to seize control of portions of the naval forces but had been defeated in rather bloody close quarters fighting. Pugnus Deorum infiltration of the navy appears to be far lower than that of the army.
The assigned squadron has instituted security patrols and are confident in being able to hold control of the system in coordination with local forces.
Task Force - Blue Cougar.2
There was ongoing fighting between loyalists and Pugnus Deorum dropships when the squadron arrived. There are three NRI ‘anchorages’, large space stations that are minimally armed themselves but which serve as fleet bases for their small dropships, in the system, one of which is controlled by Pugnus Deorum forces.
The squadron is able to put an end to the fighting with relatively little difficulty, four injuries and light damage to one Bainbridge. NRI loyalist forces, in coordination with your squadron, are able to seize the anchorage.
On the planet it is a different story, the Pugnus Deorum has near complete control and is in the process of brutally pacifying the civilian population. Those who refuse to convert to their faith are being mass executed while the airwaves are filled with constant chants of ‘Tibi caeli iram, iram Deorum’, which translates to ‘The Rage of the Heavens, the Rage of the Gods’, which appears to be the Pugnus Deorum’s slogan.
The civilian population is fighting back, but it appears that most of the NRI ground forces have gone over to the Pugnus Deorum, resulting in the civilians being massively outgunned. The task force commander has started providing orbital fire support to civilian militias that are still fighting, evening the odds to a degree, and has requested the deployment of ground forces to put down the fanatics.
Task Force - Blue Cougar.3
Upon arrival the task force was immediately attacked by Pugnus Deorum controlled dropships, but they were handled extremely poorly and your forces easily dispatched them.
Fighting has almost completely ceased on the surface, orbital scans of the capital show that the decapitated heads of the entire Roman Senate, both Consuls, and multiple other government officials are adorning pikes. The new ruler evidently styles himself as Deus Rex and contacts the task force demanding that they surrender or die. Considering that this was after the task force had swatted the meager dropship and ASF forces that they faced like particularly weak and slow flies, the task force CO was not impressed.
As on Tarentum constant chants of the Pugnus Deorum slogan are being broadcast on all channels and mass executions are taking place, however there appears to be no effective civilian resistance left. Judging by the damage, however, the fighting had been brutal and the loyalists forces had died hard.
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You get a somewhat panicked dispatch from Thanh, evidently the six youngest of the rescued girls had latched onto her like baby ducklings, and for all of her many virtues, Thanh is not the most motherly of people, leaving that to her wife. So now she’s having to mom traumatized grade school kids, the only plus side being that her usual military bearing is actually quite helpful with the girls.
You spend a good ten minutes laughing at your daughter's plaintive whining about having to give them all The Talk. Willis is laughing almost as hard at a photo that’s included showing the six little girls looking like Thanh mini-me’s. You nearly fall off the couch laughing at that one.
You also receive the detailed report from DoME about cleaning up Nowa Warszawa. It will be a long and difficult process, but the good news is that they believe that they can handle it, so long as they get started soon.
There are three initial projects, each would last around five years or so, that would be the initial cleanup. Large pollution scrubbing towers would be erected across the planet in a strategically calculated pattern meant to catch the worst of the air pollution. In addition, multiple high capacity water treatment plants will be built to clean up rivers, lakes, and oceans. Finally, teams would directly clean up the worst polluted sites where industrial chemicals and such had been dumped freely for decades. Once this is finished, teams would begin replanting the forests that had been lost to the pollution and relentless strip mining, helping to bring the planet back to a proper ecological balance.
Meanwhile, non-DoME teams would begin the process of replacing all of the planets aging and highly polluting power generation equipment with the most modern fusion power plants, along with generalized subsidies and assistance in bringing local industry, commercial, and residential areas up to snuff with the latest advances in clean technology from Griffon. This will have dual benefits of preventing future pollution issues and raising the general standard of living, which should hopefully result in you being seen even more positively by all parties on the planet.
You also receive a delegation from a number of elderly Polish politicians who had been present on Nowy Gdansk from the start, all having previously been part of the government back on Nowa Warszawa prior to the Drac invasion. You were a bit worried that they’d object to your taking control over the planet, but to the contrary they were rather relieved, on the grounds that somebody had to do it and they were far too old to do it themselves. What they wanted to discuss with you was a proposal that they had, namely to name Jeremy as the Książę of Nowa Warszawa. You blink a few times, trying to pronounce that, which becomes even more baffling when you see how it’s spelled. The elders have mercy, though, and explain that it’s their equivalent of the title ‘Prince’. They propose to make it part of the Imperial tradition for the Crown Prince to have that as his primary title, thus helping to bind Nowa Warszawa closer to the crown.
You are pretty sure that Jeremy will whine a lot if you do it… but the rest of your kids will just laugh at him for acquiring Yet Another TItle.
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You also receive several briefings from the Military, specifically about some lessons learned in terms of garrisoning places distant from the Capital system. Your current garrison forces are designed for local deployment, are extremely manpower and equipment intensive, and can’t be easily transported.
They are proposing a new set of units, based on several proposals from the Infantry Board that you’d actually not heard of. Once you see some of their insanity, you are insanely jealous. You wish you had some of these toys when you were Infantry.
I mean, towed Gauss Rifles? 5cm infantry portable lasers? Where was all this back then? The actual kit is much heavier than you wore, but this is made up for by the fact that the troopers would all be riding in small APCs outside of actual combat.
Then there are the towed Long Toms, the Predator 20 ton Omnitank… the specialist Mech Hunter jump infantry units with gear just a bare step below your special forces units kit. The list goes on.
The proposed organization is fairly straightforward.
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And then it is that time of year again, the time everybody is always waiting for. Yes, it’s budget time.
General Stewart is up first. “Your Majesty, we continue to be limited by our production facilities and our strategic materials. In addition, the Aerie is requesting more infantry and conventional vehicle training assets.”
She takes a look at her notes. “I’ll again be handling ground forces procurement. First up, Mech procurement. We would like to procure 1 Pathfinder and 2 Armored Cavalry Regiments for 2nd Armored, along with 3 Standard Mech Regiments for the same. For conventional forces, the good news is that the new Colonial units use no strategic resources, which was a deliberate design choice by the Infantry Board that we fully approve of. We are requesting 1 Colonial Mechanized Regiment for the 1st Aerie Cadre, 2 Armored and 3 Mechanized Regiments for the 2nd Infantry Division, and the purchase of a full Colonial Infantry Division to be stationed on Nowa Warszawa. This would require the purchase of 3 Colonial Mechanized Regiments, 6 Colonial Infantry Regiments, 3 Colonial Cavalry Regiments, and 3 CAS Regiments. For the first time in a long time this will just about use up all of the relevant industrial capacity, Your Majesty, including that of Nowa Warszawa.”
General Reyes is actually nor present, as she is recovering from a case of food poisoning that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Jane slipping some laxatives into her last meal to keep her from boring everybody to death with Moar Powerpoint.
Her aide, on the other hand, is present, and simply has a handout for everybody… printed from the Powerpoint, but the young officer wasn’t precisely given any time to prepare. In short the Carrier Wings that had been delayed should be available Soon™ and there were no projected new ASF procurement requests this year.
Admiral Benjamin is back to his usual self, complete with flip chart and embarrassed looking aides, this time toting kazoos. You can’t help smirking, especially as at a gesture from their eccentric admiral the young officers start tooting the kazoos in what sounds like a kazoo version of the Imperial March as he, well, marches up to the podium.
“Your Majesty, this year we propose to lay down 20 regular dropships and 16 large ones.” he begins as soon as the chorus of kazoos ends. “And… Minions, the flip chart please!”
One tootles his kazoo, the other flips the flip chart.
General Stewart retakes the podium as Admiral Benjamin returns to his seat, accompanied by another chorus of the Kazoo Imperial March. “Your Majesty, there is one other thing. We would like to begin a comprehensive review of all military forces, personnel, doctrines, and policies in light of the fighting that has recently concluded. Think of it as an after action review writ large.”
Bridget is as perky as ever. “Your Majesty I have some great news we overhauled and streamlined some of our procedures so it will be easier and less expensive on our end to expand existing Mech and ASF factories as well as shipyards and such although we had to do some extra hiring we now have the right sized staff to pull it off, especially with the yards since they are more or less mass produced modules by this point so there’s no point in duplicating efforts. We’re also ready to implement all of the recommendations of the Tiger Team that we sent to Nowa Warszawa, just give us the word and I’ll get the DoME and regular teams to work making that planet green and pretty again, well blue and green and brown and white and, you know what I mean!”
Isoroku is looking as he ever does, serene, calm, and in control. “Your Majesty, I know you and Siriwan have discussed peace, and even agreed, and judging by various betting pools we may see something more soon, but the fact remains that the people might appreciate there being a formal ceremony to announce things, yes?”
Beside him Jake is laughing. “I agree there, Your Majesty, and may I recommend having members of the old Sejm present, the same ones who want to foist that tongue twister of a title on Jeremy?”
There’s general laughter at that, then Jake continues. “More seriously, one avenue we can pursue over on Nowa Warszawa to help calm the situation is to set up our own media presence and work to bind up the planet's wounds and promote healing and reconciliation.”
Mary is extremely busy overseeing the final stages of work on the first HPG transmitters to be built, in a test environment at least, on the planet and is not able to get away from the experiments in time to make the meeting. She does send a memo recommending doing research on Energy Storage Batteries to streamline logistics across multiple star systems.
Harry has also missed the meeting, in his case he is working with his counterintelligence experts on analyzing the Pugnus Deorum attacks, in hopes of finding ways to better detect such things faster. He also sends a memo, requesting funding for full interrogation of the captured terrorists.
Janet, meanwhile, is looking exhausted from hours of going over laws pertaining to prosecuting citizens of a different state for crimes committed within your own borders rather than theirs.
“Your Majesty, I do not anticipate any issues with prosecuting any of the terrorists that we have captured, my office has spoken with the ambassador and he has agreed, as the senior representative of the legitimate NRI government available, to waive any legal claims to those terrorists and assents to our prosecutions freely. My people do, however, have a project we’d like to propose.”
She takes a deep breath. “We have quite a few retired law enforcement professionals who make a living by consulting. We have had several inquiries, and we think this may be a valuable means of helping law enforcement on Nowa Warszawa get off the ground effectively by hiring these consultants and sending them there to train the new recruits.”
Combat Report - Operation Blue Cougar
Task Force - Blue Cougar.1
No hostile forces detected, local NRI naval garrison fully in friendly hands and welcomed the reinforcements. Several dozen Pugnus Deorum fanatics had tried to seize control of portions of the naval forces but had been defeated in rather bloody close quarters fighting. Pugnus Deorum infiltration of the navy appears to be far lower than that of the army.
The assigned squadron has instituted security patrols and are confident in being able to hold control of the system in coordination with local forces.
Task Force - Blue Cougar.2
There was ongoing fighting between loyalists and Pugnus Deorum dropships when the squadron arrived. There are three NRI ‘anchorages’, large space stations that are minimally armed themselves but which serve as fleet bases for their small dropships, in the system, one of which is controlled by Pugnus Deorum forces.
The squadron is able to put an end to the fighting with relatively little difficulty, four injuries and light damage to one Bainbridge. NRI loyalist forces, in coordination with your squadron, are able to seize the anchorage.
On the planet it is a different story, the Pugnus Deorum has near complete control and is in the process of brutally pacifying the civilian population. Those who refuse to convert to their faith are being mass executed while the airwaves are filled with constant chants of ‘Tibi caeli iram, iram Deorum’, which translates to ‘The Rage of the Heavens, the Rage of the Gods’, which appears to be the Pugnus Deorum’s slogan.
The civilian population is fighting back, but it appears that most of the NRI ground forces have gone over to the Pugnus Deorum, resulting in the civilians being massively outgunned. The task force commander has started providing orbital fire support to civilian militias that are still fighting, evening the odds to a degree, and has requested the deployment of ground forces to put down the fanatics.
Task Force - Blue Cougar.3
Upon arrival the task force was immediately attacked by Pugnus Deorum controlled dropships, but they were handled extremely poorly and your forces easily dispatched them.
Fighting has almost completely ceased on the surface, orbital scans of the capital show that the decapitated heads of the entire Roman Senate, both Consuls, and multiple other government officials are adorning pikes. The new ruler evidently styles himself as Deus Rex and contacts the task force demanding that they surrender or die. Considering that this was after the task force had swatted the meager dropship and ASF forces that they faced like particularly weak and slow flies, the task force CO was not impressed.
As on Tarentum constant chants of the Pugnus Deorum slogan are being broadcast on all channels and mass executions are taking place, however there appears to be no effective civilian resistance left. Judging by the damage, however, the fighting had been brutal and the loyalists forces had died hard.
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You get a somewhat panicked dispatch from Thanh, evidently the six youngest of the rescued girls had latched onto her like baby ducklings, and for all of her many virtues, Thanh is not the most motherly of people, leaving that to her wife. So now she’s having to mom traumatized grade school kids, the only plus side being that her usual military bearing is actually quite helpful with the girls.
You spend a good ten minutes laughing at your daughter's plaintive whining about having to give them all The Talk. Willis is laughing almost as hard at a photo that’s included showing the six little girls looking like Thanh mini-me’s. You nearly fall off the couch laughing at that one.
You also receive the detailed report from DoME about cleaning up Nowa Warszawa. It will be a long and difficult process, but the good news is that they believe that they can handle it, so long as they get started soon.
There are three initial projects, each would last around five years or so, that would be the initial cleanup. Large pollution scrubbing towers would be erected across the planet in a strategically calculated pattern meant to catch the worst of the air pollution. In addition, multiple high capacity water treatment plants will be built to clean up rivers, lakes, and oceans. Finally, teams would directly clean up the worst polluted sites where industrial chemicals and such had been dumped freely for decades. Once this is finished, teams would begin replanting the forests that had been lost to the pollution and relentless strip mining, helping to bring the planet back to a proper ecological balance.
Meanwhile, non-DoME teams would begin the process of replacing all of the planets aging and highly polluting power generation equipment with the most modern fusion power plants, along with generalized subsidies and assistance in bringing local industry, commercial, and residential areas up to snuff with the latest advances in clean technology from Griffon. This will have dual benefits of preventing future pollution issues and raising the general standard of living, which should hopefully result in you being seen even more positively by all parties on the planet.
You also receive a delegation from a number of elderly Polish politicians who had been present on Nowy Gdansk from the start, all having previously been part of the government back on Nowa Warszawa prior to the Drac invasion. You were a bit worried that they’d object to your taking control over the planet, but to the contrary they were rather relieved, on the grounds that somebody had to do it and they were far too old to do it themselves. What they wanted to discuss with you was a proposal that they had, namely to name Jeremy as the Książę of Nowa Warszawa. You blink a few times, trying to pronounce that, which becomes even more baffling when you see how it’s spelled. The elders have mercy, though, and explain that it’s their equivalent of the title ‘Prince’. They propose to make it part of the Imperial tradition for the Crown Prince to have that as his primary title, thus helping to bind Nowa Warszawa closer to the crown.
You are pretty sure that Jeremy will whine a lot if you do it… but the rest of your kids will just laugh at him for acquiring Yet Another TItle.
| [] | Książę Nowej Warszawy it is |
| [] | If you can’t pronounce it you aren’t doing it... |
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You also receive several briefings from the Military, specifically about some lessons learned in terms of garrisoning places distant from the Capital system. Your current garrison forces are designed for local deployment, are extremely manpower and equipment intensive, and can’t be easily transported.
They are proposing a new set of units, based on several proposals from the Infantry Board that you’d actually not heard of. Once you see some of their insanity, you are insanely jealous. You wish you had some of these toys when you were Infantry.
I mean, towed Gauss Rifles? 5cm infantry portable lasers? Where was all this back then? The actual kit is much heavier than you wore, but this is made up for by the fact that the troopers would all be riding in small APCs outside of actual combat.
Then there are the towed Long Toms, the Predator 20 ton Omnitank… the specialist Mech Hunter jump infantry units with gear just a bare step below your special forces units kit. The list goes on.
The proposed organization is fairly straightforward.
- Colonial Infantry Division
- 1st Brigade
- 3 Colonial Mechanized Regiments
- 2nd Brigade
- 2 Colonial Infantry Regiment
- 1 Colonial Cavalry Regiment
- 3rd Brigade
- 2 Colonial Infantry Regiment
- 1 Colonial Cavalry Regiment
- 4th Brigade
- 2 Colonial Infantry Regiment
- 1 Colonial Cavalry Regiment
- 5th Brigade
- 3 CAS Regiments
- 1st Brigade
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And then it is that time of year again, the time everybody is always waiting for. Yes, it’s budget time.
General Stewart is up first. “Your Majesty, we continue to be limited by our production facilities and our strategic materials. In addition, the Aerie is requesting more infantry and conventional vehicle training assets.”
She takes a look at her notes. “I’ll again be handling ground forces procurement. First up, Mech procurement. We would like to procure 1 Pathfinder and 2 Armored Cavalry Regiments for 2nd Armored, along with 3 Standard Mech Regiments for the same. For conventional forces, the good news is that the new Colonial units use no strategic resources, which was a deliberate design choice by the Infantry Board that we fully approve of. We are requesting 1 Colonial Mechanized Regiment for the 1st Aerie Cadre, 2 Armored and 3 Mechanized Regiments for the 2nd Infantry Division, and the purchase of a full Colonial Infantry Division to be stationed on Nowa Warszawa. This would require the purchase of 3 Colonial Mechanized Regiments, 6 Colonial Infantry Regiments, 3 Colonial Cavalry Regiments, and 3 CAS Regiments. For the first time in a long time this will just about use up all of the relevant industrial capacity, Your Majesty, including that of Nowa Warszawa.”
General Reyes is actually nor present, as she is recovering from a case of food poisoning that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Jane slipping some laxatives into her last meal to keep her from boring everybody to death with Moar Powerpoint.
Her aide, on the other hand, is present, and simply has a handout for everybody… printed from the Powerpoint, but the young officer wasn’t precisely given any time to prepare. In short the Carrier Wings that had been delayed should be available Soon™ and there were no projected new ASF procurement requests this year.
Admiral Benjamin is back to his usual self, complete with flip chart and embarrassed looking aides, this time toting kazoos. You can’t help smirking, especially as at a gesture from their eccentric admiral the young officers start tooting the kazoos in what sounds like a kazoo version of the Imperial March as he, well, marches up to the podium.
“Your Majesty, this year we propose to lay down 20 regular dropships and 16 large ones.” he begins as soon as the chorus of kazoos ends. “And… Minions, the flip chart please!”
One tootles his kazoo, the other flips the flip chart.
- Large Dropships (16)
- 5 Majestic-class PBB
- 5 Shannon-class PCA
- 2 Tarawa-class RAT
- 2 Newport-class LSR
- 2 Newport-C-class AKA
- Regular Dropships (20)
- 20 PGL-50-class PGL
General Stewart retakes the podium as Admiral Benjamin returns to his seat, accompanied by another chorus of the Kazoo Imperial March. “Your Majesty, there is one other thing. We would like to begin a comprehensive review of all military forces, personnel, doctrines, and policies in light of the fighting that has recently concluded. Think of it as an after action review writ large.”
Bridget is as perky as ever. “Your Majesty I have some great news we overhauled and streamlined some of our procedures so it will be easier and less expensive on our end to expand existing Mech and ASF factories as well as shipyards and such although we had to do some extra hiring we now have the right sized staff to pull it off, especially with the yards since they are more or less mass produced modules by this point so there’s no point in duplicating efforts. We’re also ready to implement all of the recommendations of the Tiger Team that we sent to Nowa Warszawa, just give us the word and I’ll get the DoME and regular teams to work making that planet green and pretty again, well blue and green and brown and white and, you know what I mean!”
Isoroku is looking as he ever does, serene, calm, and in control. “Your Majesty, I know you and Siriwan have discussed peace, and even agreed, and judging by various betting pools we may see something more soon, but the fact remains that the people might appreciate there being a formal ceremony to announce things, yes?”
Beside him Jake is laughing. “I agree there, Your Majesty, and may I recommend having members of the old Sejm present, the same ones who want to foist that tongue twister of a title on Jeremy?”
There’s general laughter at that, then Jake continues. “More seriously, one avenue we can pursue over on Nowa Warszawa to help calm the situation is to set up our own media presence and work to bind up the planet's wounds and promote healing and reconciliation.”
Mary is extremely busy overseeing the final stages of work on the first HPG transmitters to be built, in a test environment at least, on the planet and is not able to get away from the experiments in time to make the meeting. She does send a memo recommending doing research on Energy Storage Batteries to streamline logistics across multiple star systems.
Harry has also missed the meeting, in his case he is working with his counterintelligence experts on analyzing the Pugnus Deorum attacks, in hopes of finding ways to better detect such things faster. He also sends a memo, requesting funding for full interrogation of the captured terrorists.
Janet, meanwhile, is looking exhausted from hours of going over laws pertaining to prosecuting citizens of a different state for crimes committed within your own borders rather than theirs.
“Your Majesty, I do not anticipate any issues with prosecuting any of the terrorists that we have captured, my office has spoken with the ambassador and he has agreed, as the senior representative of the legitimate NRI government available, to waive any legal claims to those terrorists and assents to our prosecutions freely. My people do, however, have a project we’d like to propose.”
She takes a deep breath. “We have quite a few retired law enforcement professionals who make a living by consulting. We have had several inquiries, and we think this may be a valuable means of helping law enforcement on Nowa Warszawa get off the ground effectively by hiring these consultants and sending them there to train the new recruits.”
Was the uprising the result of rolls or something planned to happen now? It seems like things are falling into place that allows us to claim hegemony over local space.
A mixture, there was going to be an insurrection, but the rolls for the NRI were unfortunate
Ridli Scott
Well-known member
Well, to be fair I was expecting more that the new ruler or ruler would demand our forces to "surrender to face summary execution".
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Such leadership does not bode well for the crazy pagans. Also I don't think we're likely to get our embassy staff back in one piece. It's a shame but we can certainly avenge them
ShadowArxxy - Deus ex Machina
Omake: Deus Ex Machina
Given that the most famous battle of their ancient namesakes had been the siege of the final Jewish stronghold of Masada, the young acting centurion of Legio X Fretensis considered it a bitter irony that what was left of his legion would perish today as the final Roman stronghold against Pugnus Deorum. With the better part of four traitor Legions -- including their own sister units Legio X Equestris and Legio X Gemina -- surrounding their minimally fortified encampment, it was only a matter of time before his men and the handful of civilians they had managed to gather were overwhelmed and butchered.
The honor of the Legio, he reflected grimly, would have to be satisfied with the knowledge that they were the last faithful Legio whose Eagle still stood, and it would not fall while any man and woman here still drew breath. Weeks had dragged into months and all prospect of relief had faded to bitter ashes, but they would stand and fight to the very end.
The endless, infernal repetition of that damned chant abruptly cut into static, and an unencrypted voice transmission in English blasted through in its place. "FIRE SUPPORT, DANGER CLOSE. FIRE SUPPORT, DANGER CLOSE."
The sky exploded with the very wrath of the Gods.
For all that the subcapital weapons on board Task Force Blue Cougar's heavy DropShips were merely little sisters to full-fledged WarShip guns, they were still orders of magnitude beyond anything that conventional artillery could lay down. Descending from orbit but still far beyond the range of any anti-aircraft weapons, the freshly arrived Task Force laid down final protective fire patterns all around the encampment, wiping away the circumvallation with grimly methodical scourges of laser, cannon, and artillery missile fire.
Edit: MUSIC!
Given that the most famous battle of their ancient namesakes had been the siege of the final Jewish stronghold of Masada, the young acting centurion of Legio X Fretensis considered it a bitter irony that what was left of his legion would perish today as the final Roman stronghold against Pugnus Deorum. With the better part of four traitor Legions -- including their own sister units Legio X Equestris and Legio X Gemina -- surrounding their minimally fortified encampment, it was only a matter of time before his men and the handful of civilians they had managed to gather were overwhelmed and butchered.
The honor of the Legio, he reflected grimly, would have to be satisfied with the knowledge that they were the last faithful Legio whose Eagle still stood, and it would not fall while any man and woman here still drew breath. Weeks had dragged into months and all prospect of relief had faded to bitter ashes, but they would stand and fight to the very end.
The endless, infernal repetition of that damned chant abruptly cut into static, and an unencrypted voice transmission in English blasted through in its place. "FIRE SUPPORT, DANGER CLOSE. FIRE SUPPORT, DANGER CLOSE."
The sky exploded with the very wrath of the Gods.
For all that the subcapital weapons on board Task Force Blue Cougar's heavy DropShips were merely little sisters to full-fledged WarShip guns, they were still orders of magnitude beyond anything that conventional artillery could lay down. Descending from orbit but still far beyond the range of any anti-aircraft weapons, the freshly arrived Task Force laid down final protective fire patterns all around the encampment, wiping away the circumvallation with grimly methodical scourges of laser, cannon, and artillery missile fire.
Edit: MUSIC!
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Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
When the Cavalry arrives to save the day. Alas no Hussar units where available to do orbital drops for a dramatic entrance. Speaking of which we probably should make a spiritual successor to the Winged Hussar mech even if said unit is well to put it simply considerably larger
Simonbob
Well-known member
[x] Książę Nowej Warszawy it is
This is why we need LAM's. Or, at least Highlanders.
This is why we need LAM's. Or, at least Highlanders.