{"data":{"id":13295,"title":"News Update: This Day in History","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13295-News-Update-This-Day-In-History","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13295","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13295","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":727,"name":"ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/j9vnjqd2pny04r\/source\/ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","alt":"","size":1869743,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-08-19T21:16:16+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"The Battle of Idris IV\nOctober 1, 2544 SET\nTHE BATTLE THAT CHANGED HUMANITY\n\nThe Tevarin War had raged into its second year. Although the United Planets of Earth had managed to claim some decisive victories, the Tevarin were unrelenting, gaining ground in Centauri System and pushing UPE forces as far back as Ferron System.\n\nBy late August 2544 SET, High General Trevor Borland had grown impatient. In a strategy meeting with his advisers, he expressed a fear that by letting the battle lines equalize, he could see both sides becoming complacent and settling into a war of attrition. He wanted \u201cto unbalance the Tevarin; to challenge their expectations of how we had been engaging them in warfare.\u201d Over the next week, Borland, High Command and his advisers sketched out the skeletal framework of what would become Operation Nemesis.\n\nMilitary Intelligence had identified a Tevarin shipyard on the surface of Idris IV that served as the main repair facility and launching point for a majority of the Tevarin fighters in the system, as well as the operational hub for several unknown Tevarin structures that they were building around the globe. Nemesis intended to seize and occupy this territory to act as a forward operating position to gain a foothold back into Idris.\n\nThe UPE Military\u2019s Research & Development Department had accelerated production on their new R27HE \u201cHull-Shredder\u201d torpedoes, and by September 17 had them combat-ready for the mission. Naval forces assembled by the Ferron jump point while Army and Marine ground units trained relentlessly using (then untested) planetary invasion techniques.\n\nOperation Nemesis was a daring and divisive plan. Upon entry into Idris, the initial invasion wave of carriers, destroyers, corvettes and transports were to ignore all Tevarin cap-ships and push into the system, attempting to drag the Tevarin into a fight above Idris IV. Specified ships would break off along the way to form a defensive line between the target and the Ferron jump point. Army and Marine ships would invade the planet surface, seize military control points and hold until a steady stream of reinforcements could enter the system to back up the defensive line and reconnect to the initial wave who were in orbit besieging the planet.\n\nThe Operation officially launched at 2544-09-30_13:45 SET. Enemy contact occurred immediately after entering Idris. Customized missile ships entered the jump point first, launching a full spread of rockets before the rest of the fleet arrived. The initial wave commenced its push towards Idris IV. The Tevarin capital ships tried to intercept and engage the UPE Navy but the fleet maintained course and speed toward Idris IV.\n\nFinally, once the Army and Marines deployed to the planet, the Navy turned to fight. The battle above Idris IV began in earnest as fighters swarmed up from the surface. Three transports were lost during descent before the fighting spilled over onto the ground.\n\nThe 112th Infantry Battalion (Army) under Colonel Tio Koshi assaulted the shipyard (designated \u2018the Hill\u2019) along with Alpha, Bravo and Charlie Mechanized Companies on loan from the 3rd Expeditionary Unit as support. After six hours of combat, the 112th and the Marines took the Hill. For the moment, it seemed like the operation was going to be a resounding success.\n\nThen the moment passed.\n\nThe Tevarin unleashed a devastating strike against the fleet in orbit above Idris IV. The structures that the Tevarin were building turned out to be a prototype planetary defense system. Two carriers were annihilated in seconds. The remaining UPE ships scattered to avoid the fire from the planet. Even worse, the new Hull-shredder torpedoes began to fail, either exploding in their tubes or failing to arm when fired.\n\nOn the surface, the Tevarin forces that had abandoned the Hill returned with renewed vigor.\n\nHearing reports from the ships, the 112th realized that they were going to be on their own very soon. Their mechanized escort was already down fifty percent of their original numbers. The soldiers were nowhere near as familiar with the Tevarin installation as their enemies and were having difficulty securing it.\n\nThe next planetary rotation would last a lifetime. The Naval vessels battled wave after wave of Tevarin fighters above Idris IV, refusing to give an inch, knowing that any space lost would certainly consign the troops below to a death sentence. The 112th suffered a devastating loss when a Tevarin fighter strafed the compound, dropping an anti-matter bomb that destroyed Colonel Koshi and his command staff. The ground forces became scattered, demoralized and the Tevarin seemed to pick up on it.\n\nThe last remnants of 3rd EU Bravo Company died in the push. The remaining Marines and the 112th fell back to their inner defensive position. Major Michael Colorry of the 112th Bat. Charlie Company was trying to orchestrate an extraction plan when an unseen sniper\u2019s bullet took his life. His second-in-command, a young, ambitious officer Captain Ivar Messer, then assumed command of the company.\n\nMesser began calling danger-close bombing runs from the fleet\u2019s Retaliator bombers while he organized ambush points with the surviving soldiers. For hours, the bombers dumped payload after payload of high-explosive ordnance on the converging Tevarin forces. Messer didn\u2019t stop there, also organizing a small recon force to destroy the planetary defense system that was still devastating the fleet above. The group commandeered a downed Tevarin skiff and slipped past the lines.\n\nThe infiltration team, led by Sergeant Adam Corr, managed to not only discover the nexus of the planetary defense system but overtake and assume control of it. They turned the devastating weapon against the massing Tevarin fleet, long enough for UPE Naval reinforcements to enter the system.\n\nThe Battle of Idris IV had taken another turn. Over the next few hours, the Tevarin forces began to fall back. Unfortunately, Corr and his team had to abandon and detonate the defense system before reinforcements arrived.\n\nAs the smoke cleared on Idris IV, over a hundred capital ships, thousands of fighters, and seventy-thousand lives had been lost on both sides. Messer and his forces still held the Hill. His actions had decisively turned the tide of the battle. The victory at Idris IV would galvanize the populace in the UPE, drive recruitment rates up, and build on the momentum to push further into the Tevarin systems.\n\nAt the center of all of this, the young ambitious Captain Ivar Messer, whose taste of power would begin to push him on a path that would change the course of Human history in a very different way.\n\nEND FEED","de_DE":"Die Schlacht von Idris IV.\n1. Oktober 2544 SET\nDER KAMPF, DER DIE MENSCHHEIT VER\u00c4NDERT HAT.\n\nDer Tevarin-Krieg war in sein zweites Jahr gestartet. Obwohl es den Vereinigten Planeten der Erde gelungen war, einige entscheidende Siege einzufahren, waren die Tevarin unerbittlich, gewannen an Boden im Centauri-System und trieben die UPE-Kr\u00e4fte bis ins Ferron-System zur\u00fcck.\n\nEnde August 2544 SET war der Hohe General Trevor Borland ungeduldig geworden. In einem Strategiegespr\u00e4ch mit seinen Beratern \u00e4u\u00dferte er die Bef\u00fcrchtung, dass er durch den Ausgleich der Schlachtlinien beide Seiten selbstgef\u00e4llig werden sehen k\u00f6nnte und sich in einen Zerm\u00fcrbungskrieg st\u00fcrzen k\u00f6nnte. Er wollte \"die Tevarin aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen; ihre Erwartungen an die Art und Weise, wie wir sie in die Kriegsf\u00fchrung einbezogen haben, in Frage stellen\". In der n\u00e4chsten Woche skizzierten Borland, das Oberkommando und seine Berater den Rahmen dessen, was zur Operation Nemesis werden sollte.\n\nDer milit\u00e4rische Geheimdienst hatte eine Tevarin-Werft auf der Oberfl\u00e4che von Idris IV identifiziert, die als Hauptreparaturwerkstatt und Startpunkt f\u00fcr eine Mehrheit der Tevarin-K\u00e4mpfer im System diente, sowie als Operationszentrum f\u00fcr mehrere unbekannte Tevarin-Strukturen, die sie rund um den Globus bauten. Nemesis beabsichtigte, dieses Territorium zu ergreifen und zu besetzen, um als nach vorne gerichtete Betriebsposition zu fungieren und wieder in Idris Fu\u00df zu fassen.\n\nDie Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung des UPE-Milit\u00e4rs hatte die Produktion ihrer neuen R27HE \"Hull-Shredder\"-Torpedos beschleunigt und am 17. September kampfbereit f\u00fcr die Mission gemacht. Marinekr\u00e4fte, die am Ferron-Sprungpunkt versammelt waren, w\u00e4hrend die Bodeneinheiten der Armee und der Marine unerbittlich mit (damals noch ungetesteten) Techniken der planetarischen Invasion trainierten.\n\nOperation Nemesis war ein gewagter und spaltender Plan. Beim Eintritt in Idris sollte die anf\u00e4ngliche Invasionswelle von Tr\u00e4gern, Zerst\u00f6rern, Korvetten und Transporten alle Tevarin-Kapselschiffe ignorieren und in das System eindringen und versuchen, die Tevarin in einen Kampf \u00fcber Idris IV zu ziehen. Bestimmte Schiffe w\u00fcrden auf dem Weg zu einer Verteidigungslinie zwischen dem Ziel und dem Ferron-Sprungpunkt abbrechen. Armee- und Marineschiffe w\u00fcrden in die Planetenoberfl\u00e4che eindringen, milit\u00e4rische Kontrollpunkte ergreifen und halten, bis ein stetiger Strom von Verst\u00e4rkungen in das System eindringen konnte, um die Verteidigungslinie zu unterst\u00fctzen und sich wieder mit der ersten Welle zu verbinden, die sich im Orbit befanden und den Planeten belagerten.\n\nDie Operation wurde offiziell am 2544-09-30_13:45 SET gestartet. Der Feindkontakt erfolgte unmittelbar nach dem Betreten von Idris. Ma\u00dfgeschneiderte Raketenschiffe betraten zuerst den Startpunkt und starteten eine ganze Reihe von Raketen, bevor der Rest der Flotte ankam. Die erste Welle begann ihren Vorsto\u00df in Richtung Idris IV. Die Hauptschiffe von Tevarin versuchten, die UPE Navy abzufangen und zu engagieren, aber die Flotte behielt Kurs und Geschwindigkeit in Richtung Idris IV bei.\n\nSchlie\u00dflich, sobald die Armee und die Marines auf dem Planeten stationiert waren, wandte sich die Marine dem Kampf zu. Die Schlacht \u00fcber Idris IV. begann ernsthaft, als die K\u00e4mpfer von der Oberfl\u00e4che aufschwarmten. Beim Abstieg gingen drei Transporte verloren, bevor die K\u00e4mpfe auf den Boden \u00fcbergingen.\n\nDas 112. Infanteriebataillon (Armee) unter Oberst Tio Koshi griff die Werft (bezeichnet als \"der H\u00fcgel\") zusammen mit Alpha-, Bravo- und Charlie-Mechanisierten Unternehmen an, die von der dritten Expeditionseinheit als Unterst\u00fctzung geliehen wurden. Nach sechs Stunden Kampf nahmen die 112. und die Marines den H\u00fcgel ein. Im Moment schien es, als w\u00fcrde die Operation ein voller Erfolg werden.\n\nDann verging der Moment.\n\nDie Tevarin entfesselten einen verheerenden Schlag gegen die Flotte im Orbit \u00fcber Idris IV. Die Strukturen, die die Tevarin bauten, erwiesen sich als Prototyp eines planetarischen Verteidigungssystems. Zwei Tr\u00e4ger wurden in Sekundenschnelle vernichtet. Die restlichen UPE-Schiffe sind verstreut, um das Feuer des Planeten zu vermeiden. Schlimmer noch, die neuen Hull-Shredder-Torpedos begannen zu versagen, entweder explodierten sie in ihren Rohren oder sie konnten sich beim Schie\u00dfen nicht bewaffnen.\n\nAn der Oberfl\u00e4che kehrten die Tevarin-Kr\u00e4fte, die den H\u00fcgel verlassen hatten, mit neuer Kraft zur\u00fcck.\n\nAls sie Berichte von den Schiffen h\u00f6rten, erkannte die 112., dass sie sehr bald auf sich allein gestellt sein w\u00fcrden. Ihre mechanisierte Eskorte war bereits um f\u00fcnfzig Prozent niedriger als ihre urspr\u00fcnglichen Zahlen. Die Soldaten waren mit der Tevarin-Anlage bei weitem nicht so vertraut wie ihre Feinde und hatten Schwierigkeiten, sie zu sichern.\n\nDie n\u00e4chste planetarische Drehung w\u00fcrde ein Leben lang dauern. Die Marineschiffe k\u00e4mpften Welle f\u00fcr Welle von Tevarin-K\u00e4mpfern \u00fcber Idris IV. und weigerten sich, einen Zentimeter zu geben, da sie wussten, dass jeder verlorene Raum die darunter liegenden Truppen sicherlich einem Todesurteil aussetzen w\u00fcrde. Die 112. erlitt einen verheerenden Verlust, als ein Tevarin-K\u00e4mpfer das Gel\u00e4nde umklammerte und eine Antimaterie-Bombe abwarf, die Colonel Koshi und seinen Kommandostab zerst\u00f6rte. Die Bodentruppen wurden zerstreut, demoralisiert und die Tevarin schienen es zu verstehen.\n\nDie letzten \u00dcberreste der dritten EU Bravo Company starben im Druck. Die verbleibenden Marines und die 112. fielen in ihre innere Verteidigungsposition zur\u00fcck. Major Michael Colorry von der 112. Fledermaus. Die Charlie Company versuchte, einen Extraktionsplan zu erstellen, als die Kugel eines unsichtbaren Scharfsch\u00fctzen sein Leben nahm. Sein Stellvertreter, ein junger, ehrgeiziger Offizier, Kapit\u00e4n Ivar Messer, \u00fcbernahm dann die F\u00fchrung des Unternehmens.\n\nMesser begann, gef\u00e4hrliche Bombenangriffe der Vergeltungsbomber der Flotte zu nennen, w\u00e4hrend er mit den \u00fcberlebenden Soldaten Hinterhaltepunkte organisierte. Stundenlang warfen die Bomber Nutzlast um Nutzlast mit hochexplosiven Kampfmitteln auf die konvergierenden Tevarin-Kr\u00e4fte ab. Messer blieb dort nicht stehen und organisierte auch eine kleine Aufkl\u00e4rungseinheit, um das planetarische Verteidigungssystem zu zerst\u00f6ren, das immer noch die Flotte dar\u00fcber verw\u00fcstete. Die Gruppe befehligte ein abgeschossenes Tevarin-Boot und schl\u00fcpfte an den Linien vorbei.\n\nDem Infiltrationsteam unter der Leitung von Sergeant Adam Corr gelang es, nicht nur den Nexus des planetarischen Verteidigungssystems zu entdecken, sondern es zu \u00fcberholen und die Kontrolle dar\u00fcber zu \u00fcbernehmen. Sie wandten die verheerende Waffe gegen die sich ansammelnde Tevarin-Flotte, lange genug, damit die Verst\u00e4rkungen der UPE-Marine in das System eindringen konnten.\n\nDie Schlacht von Idris IV. hatte eine weitere Runde genommen. In den n\u00e4chsten Stunden begannen die Tevarin-Kr\u00e4fte zur\u00fcckzugehen. Leider mussten Corr und sein Team das Verteidigungssystem aufgeben und zur Explosion bringen, bevor die Verst\u00e4rkung kam.\n\nAls der Rauch auf Idris IV. aufl\u00f6ste, waren auf beiden Seiten \u00fcber hundert Gro\u00dfschiffe, Tausende von K\u00e4mpfern und siebzigtausend Menschenleben ums Leben gekommen. Messer und seine Streitkr\u00e4fte hielten den H\u00fcgel immer noch fest. Seine Handlungen hatten die Schlacht entscheidend ver\u00e4ndert. Der Sieg bei Idris IV w\u00fcrde die Bev\u00f6lkerung in der UPE begeistern, die Rekrutierungsraten erh\u00f6hen und auf der Dynamik aufbauen, um weiter in die Tevarin-Systeme vorzudringen.\n\nIm Mittelpunkt steht der junge ehrgeizige Kapit\u00e4n Ivar Messer, dessen Machtgeschmack ihn auf einen Weg zu treiben begann, der den Lauf der Menschheitsgeschichte auf eine ganz andere Weise ver\u00e4ndern w\u00fcrde.\n\nENDE VORSCHUB","zh_CN":"The Battle of Idris IV\nOctober 1, 2544 SET\nTHE BATTLE THAT CHANGED HUMANITY\n\nThe Tevarin War had raged into its second year. Although the United Planets of Earth had managed to claim some decisive victories, the Tevarin were unrelenting, gaining ground in Centauri System and pushing UPE forces as far back as Ferron System.\n\nBy late August 2544 SET, High General Trevor Borland had grown impatient. In a strategy meeting with his advisers, he expressed a fear that by letting the battle lines equalize, he could see both sides becoming complacent and settling into a war of attrition. He wanted \u201cto unbalance the Tevarin; to challenge their expectations of how we had been engaging them in warfare.\u201d Over the next week, Borland, High Command and his advisers sketched out the skeletal framework of what would become Operation Nemesis.\n\nMilitary Intelligence had identified a Tevarin shipyard on the surface of Idris IV that served as the main repair facility and launching point for a majority of the Tevarin fighters in the system, as well as the operational hub for several unknown Tevarin structures that they were building around the globe. Nemesis intended to seize and occupy this territory to act as a forward operating position to gain a foothold back into Idris.\n\nThe UPE Military\u2019s Research & Development Department had accelerated production on their new R27HE \u201cHull-Shredder\u201d torpedoes, and by September 17 had them combat-ready for the mission. Naval forces assembled by the Ferron jump point while Army and Marine ground units trained relentlessly using (then untested) planetary invasion techniques.\n\nOperation Nemesis was a daring and divisive plan. Upon entry into Idris, the initial invasion wave of carriers, destroyers, corvettes and transports were to ignore all Tevarin cap-ships and push into the system, attempting to drag the Tevarin into a fight above Idris IV. Specified ships would break off along the way to form a defensive line between the target and the Ferron jump point. Army and Marine ships would invade the planet surface, seize military control points and hold until a steady stream of reinforcements could enter the system to back up the defensive line and reconnect to the initial wave who were in orbit besieging the planet.\n\nThe Operation officially launched at 2544-09-30_13:45 SET. Enemy contact occurred immediately after entering Idris. Customized missile ships entered the jump point first, launching a full spread of rockets before the rest of the fleet arrived. The initial wave commenced its push towards Idris IV. The Tevarin capital ships tried to intercept and engage the UPE Navy but the fleet maintained course and speed toward Idris IV.\n\nFinally, once the Army and Marines deployed to the planet, the Navy turned to fight. The battle above Idris IV began in earnest as fighters swarmed up from the surface. Three transports were lost during descent before the fighting spilled over onto the ground.\n\nThe 112th Infantry Battalion (Army) under Colonel Tio Koshi assaulted the shipyard (designated \u2018the Hill\u2019) along with Alpha, Bravo and Charlie Mechanized Companies on loan from the 3rd Expeditionary Unit as support. After six hours of combat, the 112th and the Marines took the Hill. For the moment, it seemed like the operation was going to be a resounding success.\n\nThen the moment passed.\n\nThe Tevarin unleashed a devastating strike against the fleet in orbit above Idris IV. The structures that the Tevarin were building turned out to be a prototype planetary defense system. Two carriers were annihilated in seconds. The remaining UPE ships scattered to avoid the fire from the planet. Even worse, the new Hull-shredder torpedoes began to fail, either exploding in their tubes or failing to arm when fired.\n\nOn the surface, the Tevarin forces that had abandoned the Hill returned with renewed vigor.\n\nHearing reports from the ships, the 112th realized that they were going to be on their own very soon. Their mechanized escort was already down fifty percent of their original numbers. The soldiers were nowhere near as familiar with the Tevarin installation as their enemies and were having difficulty securing it.\n\nThe next planetary rotation would last a lifetime. The Naval vessels battled wave after wave of Tevarin fighters above Idris IV, refusing to give an inch, knowing that any space lost would certainly consign the troops below to a death sentence. The 112th suffered a devastating loss when a Tevarin fighter strafed the compound, dropping an anti-matter bomb that destroyed Colonel Koshi and his command staff. The ground forces became scattered, demoralized and the Tevarin seemed to pick up on it.\n\nThe last remnants of 3rd EU Bravo Company died in the push. The remaining Marines and the 112th fell back to their inner defensive position. Major Michael Colorry of the 112th Bat. Charlie Company was trying to orchestrate an extraction plan when an unseen sniper\u2019s bullet took his life. His second-in-command, a young, ambitious officer Captain Ivar Messer, then assumed command of the company.\n\nMesser began calling danger-close bombing runs from the fleet\u2019s Retaliator bombers while he organized ambush points with the surviving soldiers. For hours, the bombers dumped payload after payload of high-explosive ordnance on the converging Tevarin forces. Messer didn\u2019t stop there, also organizing a small recon force to destroy the planetary defense system that was still devastating the fleet above. The group commandeered a downed Tevarin skiff and slipped past the lines.\n\nThe infiltration team, led by Sergeant Adam Corr, managed to not only discover the nexus of the planetary defense system but overtake and assume control of it. They turned the devastating weapon against the massing Tevarin fleet, long enough for UPE Naval reinforcements to enter the system.\n\nThe Battle of Idris IV had taken another turn. Over the next few hours, the Tevarin forces began to fall back. Unfortunately, Corr and his team had to abandon and detonate the defense system before reinforcements arrived.\n\nAs the smoke cleared on Idris IV, over a hundred capital ships, thousands of fighters, and seventy-thousand lives had been lost on both sides. Messer and his forces still held the Hill. His actions had decisively turned the tide of the battle. The victory at Idris IV would galvanize the populace in the UPE, drive recruitment rates up, and build on the momentum to push further into the Tevarin systems.\n\nAt the center of all of this, the young ambitious Captain Ivar Messer, whose taste of power would begin to push him on a path that would change the course of Human history in a very different way.\n\nEND FEED"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":80,"created_at":"2013-10-02T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-30 10:27:15","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":13294,"next_id":13296}}