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The Battle of Idris IV
October 1, 2544 SET
THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED HUMANITY
The 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.
By 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 “to unbalance the Tevarin; to challenge their expectations of how we had been engaging them in warfare.” Over the next week, Borland, High Command and his advisers sketched out the skeletal framework of what would become Operation Nemesis.
Military 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.
The UPE Military’s Research & Development Department had accelerated production on their new R27HE “Hull-Shredder” 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.
Operation 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.
The 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.
Finally, 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.
The 112th Infantry Battalion (Army) under Colonel Tio Koshi assaulted the shipyard (designated ‘the Hill’) 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.
Then the moment passed.
The 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.
On the surface, the Tevarin forces that had abandoned the Hill returned with renewed vigor.
Hearing 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.
The 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.
The 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’s bullet took his life. His second-in-command, a young, ambitious officer Captain Ivar Messer, then assumed command of the company.
Messer began calling danger-close bombing runs from the fleet’s 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’t 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.
The 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.
The 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.
As 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.
At 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.
END FEED
October 1, 2544 SET
THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED HUMANITY
The 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.
By 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 “to unbalance the Tevarin; to challenge their expectations of how we had been engaging them in warfare.” Over the next week, Borland, High Command and his advisers sketched out the skeletal framework of what would become Operation Nemesis.
Military 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.
The UPE Military’s Research & Development Department had accelerated production on their new R27HE “Hull-Shredder” 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.
Operation 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.
The 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.
Finally, 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.
The 112th Infantry Battalion (Army) under Colonel Tio Koshi assaulted the shipyard (designated ‘the Hill’) 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.
Then the moment passed.
The 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.
On the surface, the Tevarin forces that had abandoned the Hill returned with renewed vigor.
Hearing 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.
The 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.
The 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’s bullet took his life. His second-in-command, a young, ambitious officer Captain Ivar Messer, then assumed command of the company.
Messer began calling danger-close bombing runs from the fleet’s 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’t 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.
The 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.
The 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.
As 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.
At 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.
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German
Die Schlacht von Idris IV.
1. Oktober 2544 SET
DER KAMPF, DER DIE MENSCHHEIT VERÄNDERT HAT.
Der 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-Kräfte bis ins Ferron-System zurück.
Ende August 2544 SET war der Hohe General Trevor Borland ungeduldig geworden. In einem Strategiegespräch mit seinen Beratern äußerte er die Befürchtung, dass er durch den Ausgleich der Schlachtlinien beide Seiten selbstgefällig werden sehen könnte und sich in einen Zermürbungskrieg stürzen könnte. Er wollte "die Tevarin aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen; ihre Erwartungen an die Art und Weise, wie wir sie in die Kriegsführung einbezogen haben, in Frage stellen". In der nächsten Woche skizzierten Borland, das Oberkommando und seine Berater den Rahmen dessen, was zur Operation Nemesis werden sollte.
Der militärische Geheimdienst hatte eine Tevarin-Werft auf der Oberfläche von Idris IV identifiziert, die als Hauptreparaturwerkstatt und Startpunkt für eine Mehrheit der Tevarin-Kämpfer im System diente, sowie als Operationszentrum für 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 Fuß zu fassen.
Die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung des UPE-Militärs hatte die Produktion ihrer neuen R27HE "Hull-Shredder"-Torpedos beschleunigt und am 17. September kampfbereit für die Mission gemacht. Marinekräfte, die am Ferron-Sprungpunkt versammelt waren, während die Bodeneinheiten der Armee und der Marine unerbittlich mit (damals noch ungetesteten) Techniken der planetarischen Invasion trainierten.
Operation Nemesis war ein gewagter und spaltender Plan. Beim Eintritt in Idris sollte die anfängliche Invasionswelle von Trägern, Zerstörern, Korvetten und Transporten alle Tevarin-Kapselschiffe ignorieren und in das System eindringen und versuchen, die Tevarin in einen Kampf über Idris IV zu ziehen. Bestimmte Schiffe würden auf dem Weg zu einer Verteidigungslinie zwischen dem Ziel und dem Ferron-Sprungpunkt abbrechen. Armee- und Marineschiffe würden in die Planetenoberfläche eindringen, militärische Kontrollpunkte ergreifen und halten, bis ein stetiger Strom von Verstärkungen in das System eindringen konnte, um die Verteidigungslinie zu unterstützen und sich wieder mit der ersten Welle zu verbinden, die sich im Orbit befanden und den Planeten belagerten.
Die Operation wurde offiziell am 2544-09-30_13:45 SET gestartet. Der Feindkontakt erfolgte unmittelbar nach dem Betreten von Idris. Maßgeschneiderte Raketenschiffe betraten zuerst den Startpunkt und starteten eine ganze Reihe von Raketen, bevor der Rest der Flotte ankam. Die erste Welle begann ihren Vorstoß 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.
Schließlich, sobald die Armee und die Marines auf dem Planeten stationiert waren, wandte sich die Marine dem Kampf zu. Die Schlacht über Idris IV. begann ernsthaft, als die Kämpfer von der Oberfläche aufschwarmten. Beim Abstieg gingen drei Transporte verloren, bevor die Kämpfe auf den Boden übergingen.
Das 112. Infanteriebataillon (Armee) unter Oberst Tio Koshi griff die Werft (bezeichnet als "der Hügel") zusammen mit Alpha-, Bravo- und Charlie-Mechanisierten Unternehmen an, die von der dritten Expeditionseinheit als Unterstützung geliehen wurden. Nach sechs Stunden Kampf nahmen die 112. und die Marines den Hügel ein. Im Moment schien es, als würde die Operation ein voller Erfolg werden.
Dann verging der Moment.
Die Tevarin entfesselten einen verheerenden Schlag gegen die Flotte im Orbit über Idris IV. Die Strukturen, die die Tevarin bauten, erwiesen sich als Prototyp eines planetarischen Verteidigungssystems. Zwei Träger 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 Schießen nicht bewaffnen.
An der Oberfläche kehrten die Tevarin-Kräfte, die den Hügel verlassen hatten, mit neuer Kraft zurück.
Als sie Berichte von den Schiffen hörten, erkannte die 112., dass sie sehr bald auf sich allein gestellt sein würden. Ihre mechanisierte Eskorte war bereits um fünfzig Prozent niedriger als ihre ursprünglichen Zahlen. Die Soldaten waren mit der Tevarin-Anlage bei weitem nicht so vertraut wie ihre Feinde und hatten Schwierigkeiten, sie zu sichern.
Die nächste planetarische Drehung würde ein Leben lang dauern. Die Marineschiffe kämpften Welle für Welle von Tevarin-Kämpfern über Idris IV. und weigerten sich, einen Zentimeter zu geben, da sie wussten, dass jeder verlorene Raum die darunter liegenden Truppen sicherlich einem Todesurteil aussetzen würde. Die 112. erlitt einen verheerenden Verlust, als ein Tevarin-Kämpfer das Gelände umklammerte und eine Antimaterie-Bombe abwarf, die Colonel Koshi und seinen Kommandostab zerstörte. Die Bodentruppen wurden zerstreut, demoralisiert und die Tevarin schienen es zu verstehen.
Die letzten Überreste der dritten EU Bravo Company starben im Druck. Die verbleibenden Marines und die 112. fielen in ihre innere Verteidigungsposition zurück. Major Michael Colorry von der 112. Fledermaus. Die Charlie Company versuchte, einen Extraktionsplan zu erstellen, als die Kugel eines unsichtbaren Scharfschützen sein Leben nahm. Sein Stellvertreter, ein junger, ehrgeiziger Offizier, Kapitän Ivar Messer, übernahm dann die Führung des Unternehmens.
Messer begann, gefährliche Bombenangriffe der Vergeltungsbomber der Flotte zu nennen, während er mit den überlebenden Soldaten Hinterhaltepunkte organisierte. Stundenlang warfen die Bomber Nutzlast um Nutzlast mit hochexplosiven Kampfmitteln auf die konvergierenden Tevarin-Kräfte ab. Messer blieb dort nicht stehen und organisierte auch eine kleine Aufklärungseinheit, um das planetarische Verteidigungssystem zu zerstören, das immer noch die Flotte darüber verwüstete. Die Gruppe befehligte ein abgeschossenes Tevarin-Boot und schlüpfte an den Linien vorbei.
Dem Infiltrationsteam unter der Leitung von Sergeant Adam Corr gelang es, nicht nur den Nexus des planetarischen Verteidigungssystems zu entdecken, sondern es zu überholen und die Kontrolle darüber zu übernehmen. Sie wandten die verheerende Waffe gegen die sich ansammelnde Tevarin-Flotte, lange genug, damit die Verstärkungen der UPE-Marine in das System eindringen konnten.
Die Schlacht von Idris IV. hatte eine weitere Runde genommen. In den nächsten Stunden begannen die Tevarin-Kräfte zurückzugehen. Leider mussten Corr und sein Team das Verteidigungssystem aufgeben und zur Explosion bringen, bevor die Verstärkung kam.
Als der Rauch auf Idris IV. auflöste, waren auf beiden Seiten über hundert Großschiffe, Tausende von Kämpfern und siebzigtausend Menschenleben ums Leben gekommen. Messer und seine Streitkräfte hielten den Hügel immer noch fest. Seine Handlungen hatten die Schlacht entscheidend verändert. Der Sieg bei Idris IV würde die Bevölkerung in der UPE begeistern, die Rekrutierungsraten erhöhen und auf der Dynamik aufbauen, um weiter in die Tevarin-Systeme vorzudringen.
Im Mittelpunkt steht der junge ehrgeizige Kapitän Ivar Messer, dessen Machtgeschmack ihn auf einen Weg zu treiben begann, der den Lauf der Menschheitsgeschichte auf eine ganz andere Weise verändern würde.
ENDE VORSCHUB
1. Oktober 2544 SET
DER KAMPF, DER DIE MENSCHHEIT VERÄNDERT HAT.
Der 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-Kräfte bis ins Ferron-System zurück.
Ende August 2544 SET war der Hohe General Trevor Borland ungeduldig geworden. In einem Strategiegespräch mit seinen Beratern äußerte er die Befürchtung, dass er durch den Ausgleich der Schlachtlinien beide Seiten selbstgefällig werden sehen könnte und sich in einen Zermürbungskrieg stürzen könnte. Er wollte "die Tevarin aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen; ihre Erwartungen an die Art und Weise, wie wir sie in die Kriegsführung einbezogen haben, in Frage stellen". In der nächsten Woche skizzierten Borland, das Oberkommando und seine Berater den Rahmen dessen, was zur Operation Nemesis werden sollte.
Der militärische Geheimdienst hatte eine Tevarin-Werft auf der Oberfläche von Idris IV identifiziert, die als Hauptreparaturwerkstatt und Startpunkt für eine Mehrheit der Tevarin-Kämpfer im System diente, sowie als Operationszentrum für 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 Fuß zu fassen.
Die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung des UPE-Militärs hatte die Produktion ihrer neuen R27HE "Hull-Shredder"-Torpedos beschleunigt und am 17. September kampfbereit für die Mission gemacht. Marinekräfte, die am Ferron-Sprungpunkt versammelt waren, während die Bodeneinheiten der Armee und der Marine unerbittlich mit (damals noch ungetesteten) Techniken der planetarischen Invasion trainierten.
Operation Nemesis war ein gewagter und spaltender Plan. Beim Eintritt in Idris sollte die anfängliche Invasionswelle von Trägern, Zerstörern, Korvetten und Transporten alle Tevarin-Kapselschiffe ignorieren und in das System eindringen und versuchen, die Tevarin in einen Kampf über Idris IV zu ziehen. Bestimmte Schiffe würden auf dem Weg zu einer Verteidigungslinie zwischen dem Ziel und dem Ferron-Sprungpunkt abbrechen. Armee- und Marineschiffe würden in die Planetenoberfläche eindringen, militärische Kontrollpunkte ergreifen und halten, bis ein stetiger Strom von Verstärkungen in das System eindringen konnte, um die Verteidigungslinie zu unterstützen und sich wieder mit der ersten Welle zu verbinden, die sich im Orbit befanden und den Planeten belagerten.
Die Operation wurde offiziell am 2544-09-30_13:45 SET gestartet. Der Feindkontakt erfolgte unmittelbar nach dem Betreten von Idris. Maßgeschneiderte Raketenschiffe betraten zuerst den Startpunkt und starteten eine ganze Reihe von Raketen, bevor der Rest der Flotte ankam. Die erste Welle begann ihren Vorstoß 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.
Schließlich, sobald die Armee und die Marines auf dem Planeten stationiert waren, wandte sich die Marine dem Kampf zu. Die Schlacht über Idris IV. begann ernsthaft, als die Kämpfer von der Oberfläche aufschwarmten. Beim Abstieg gingen drei Transporte verloren, bevor die Kämpfe auf den Boden übergingen.
Das 112. Infanteriebataillon (Armee) unter Oberst Tio Koshi griff die Werft (bezeichnet als "der Hügel") zusammen mit Alpha-, Bravo- und Charlie-Mechanisierten Unternehmen an, die von der dritten Expeditionseinheit als Unterstützung geliehen wurden. Nach sechs Stunden Kampf nahmen die 112. und die Marines den Hügel ein. Im Moment schien es, als würde die Operation ein voller Erfolg werden.
Dann verging der Moment.
Die Tevarin entfesselten einen verheerenden Schlag gegen die Flotte im Orbit über Idris IV. Die Strukturen, die die Tevarin bauten, erwiesen sich als Prototyp eines planetarischen Verteidigungssystems. Zwei Träger 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 Schießen nicht bewaffnen.
An der Oberfläche kehrten die Tevarin-Kräfte, die den Hügel verlassen hatten, mit neuer Kraft zurück.
Als sie Berichte von den Schiffen hörten, erkannte die 112., dass sie sehr bald auf sich allein gestellt sein würden. Ihre mechanisierte Eskorte war bereits um fünfzig Prozent niedriger als ihre ursprünglichen Zahlen. Die Soldaten waren mit der Tevarin-Anlage bei weitem nicht so vertraut wie ihre Feinde und hatten Schwierigkeiten, sie zu sichern.
Die nächste planetarische Drehung würde ein Leben lang dauern. Die Marineschiffe kämpften Welle für Welle von Tevarin-Kämpfern über Idris IV. und weigerten sich, einen Zentimeter zu geben, da sie wussten, dass jeder verlorene Raum die darunter liegenden Truppen sicherlich einem Todesurteil aussetzen würde. Die 112. erlitt einen verheerenden Verlust, als ein Tevarin-Kämpfer das Gelände umklammerte und eine Antimaterie-Bombe abwarf, die Colonel Koshi und seinen Kommandostab zerstörte. Die Bodentruppen wurden zerstreut, demoralisiert und die Tevarin schienen es zu verstehen.
Die letzten Überreste der dritten EU Bravo Company starben im Druck. Die verbleibenden Marines und die 112. fielen in ihre innere Verteidigungsposition zurück. Major Michael Colorry von der 112. Fledermaus. Die Charlie Company versuchte, einen Extraktionsplan zu erstellen, als die Kugel eines unsichtbaren Scharfschützen sein Leben nahm. Sein Stellvertreter, ein junger, ehrgeiziger Offizier, Kapitän Ivar Messer, übernahm dann die Führung des Unternehmens.
Messer begann, gefährliche Bombenangriffe der Vergeltungsbomber der Flotte zu nennen, während er mit den überlebenden Soldaten Hinterhaltepunkte organisierte. Stundenlang warfen die Bomber Nutzlast um Nutzlast mit hochexplosiven Kampfmitteln auf die konvergierenden Tevarin-Kräfte ab. Messer blieb dort nicht stehen und organisierte auch eine kleine Aufklärungseinheit, um das planetarische Verteidigungssystem zu zerstören, das immer noch die Flotte darüber verwüstete. Die Gruppe befehligte ein abgeschossenes Tevarin-Boot und schlüpfte an den Linien vorbei.
Dem Infiltrationsteam unter der Leitung von Sergeant Adam Corr gelang es, nicht nur den Nexus des planetarischen Verteidigungssystems zu entdecken, sondern es zu überholen und die Kontrolle darüber zu übernehmen. Sie wandten die verheerende Waffe gegen die sich ansammelnde Tevarin-Flotte, lange genug, damit die Verstärkungen der UPE-Marine in das System eindringen konnten.
Die Schlacht von Idris IV. hatte eine weitere Runde genommen. In den nächsten Stunden begannen die Tevarin-Kräfte zurückzugehen. Leider mussten Corr und sein Team das Verteidigungssystem aufgeben und zur Explosion bringen, bevor die Verstärkung kam.
Als der Rauch auf Idris IV. auflöste, waren auf beiden Seiten über hundert Großschiffe, Tausende von Kämpfern und siebzigtausend Menschenleben ums Leben gekommen. Messer und seine Streitkräfte hielten den Hügel immer noch fest. Seine Handlungen hatten die Schlacht entscheidend verändert. Der Sieg bei Idris IV würde die Bevölkerung in der UPE begeistern, die Rekrutierungsraten erhöhen und auf der Dynamik aufbauen, um weiter in die Tevarin-Systeme vorzudringen.
Im Mittelpunkt steht der junge ehrgeizige Kapitän Ivar Messer, dessen Machtgeschmack ihn auf einen Weg zu treiben begann, der den Lauf der Menschheitsgeschichte auf eine ganz andere Weise verändern würde.
ENDE VORSCHUB
Chinese
The Battle of Idris IV
October 1, 2544 SET
THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED HUMANITY
The 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.
By 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 “to unbalance the Tevarin; to challenge their expectations of how we had been engaging them in warfare.” Over the next week, Borland, High Command and his advisers sketched out the skeletal framework of what would become Operation Nemesis.
Military 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.
The UPE Military’s Research & Development Department had accelerated production on their new R27HE “Hull-Shredder” 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.
Operation 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.
The 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.
Finally, 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.
The 112th Infantry Battalion (Army) under Colonel Tio Koshi assaulted the shipyard (designated ‘the Hill’) 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.
Then the moment passed.
The 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.
On the surface, the Tevarin forces that had abandoned the Hill returned with renewed vigor.
Hearing 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.
The 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.
The 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’s bullet took his life. His second-in-command, a young, ambitious officer Captain Ivar Messer, then assumed command of the company.
Messer began calling danger-close bombing runs from the fleet’s 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’t 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.
The 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.
The 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.
As 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.
At 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.
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October 1, 2544 SET
THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED HUMANITY
The 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.
By 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 “to unbalance the Tevarin; to challenge their expectations of how we had been engaging them in warfare.” Over the next week, Borland, High Command and his advisers sketched out the skeletal framework of what would become Operation Nemesis.
Military 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.
The UPE Military’s Research & Development Department had accelerated production on their new R27HE “Hull-Shredder” 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.
Operation 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.
The 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.
Finally, 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.
The 112th Infantry Battalion (Army) under Colonel Tio Koshi assaulted the shipyard (designated ‘the Hill’) 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.
Then the moment passed.
The 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.
On the surface, the Tevarin forces that had abandoned the Hill returned with renewed vigor.
Hearing 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.
The 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.
The 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’s bullet took his life. His second-in-command, a young, ambitious officer Captain Ivar Messer, then assumed command of the company.
Messer began calling danger-close bombing runs from the fleet’s 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’t 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.
The 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.
The 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.
As 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.
At 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.
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