===================================== Creator Note Sorry, I forgot to explain what is the deal with DA forces still being on the front line and why I am deciding their actions. The DA left the war, but their troops still on the front defected and formed the Beacon Guard. This military organization operates under the command of the Radiant Empire officer core. I really should have mentioned this last project, but here we are. Also ff’s, I am doing my best to keep it fair and realistic. ===================================== Vocab TTA: The Triple Axis, the enemy alliance against the Radiant Empire RIF: Radiant Invasion Force, the alliance name that the Radiant Empire refers to use in the Alatri front. ===================================== Operation Dire Wolf - The combined armies of the Radiant Empire, Beacon Guard, UIS, and GASI Mercenaries will organize into two attack groups: the Upper Jaw and the Lower Jaw. - The Goal is for the Upper and Lower Jaws to meet, and encircle at least a third of TTA troops in Alatri. -Challenges to overcome include garrerising every system, fighting with thinning numbers, and Alatri invasions. ===================================== The Jaws Close In With reinforcements and the new beach head the UIS has started, the Radiant Empire now feels sure to launch a new operation. The mix bag that was Operation Beacon will be improved with the enemy split focus across the entire galaxy. Operation Dire Wolf is to exploit the under defended opening that Alatri has abandoned to hurt Alatri allies. To achieve this the RIF has planned a massive encirclement with the previous days being spent on destroying and harming infrastructure that would allow the TTA to escape.
However, before troops could push through, the civil resistance from Alatrians needed to be dealt with. The first actions were to establish camps that gave free food, housing, and medic to the occupied people. This is to make it so that the urban districts are less hostile to our presence. Second, after the initial planet assaults the swamps, jungles, deserts, and mountains are abandoned with only scout droids investigating them. If large gatherings are discovered the people are ordered to enter a clear open location and allow troops to investigate their activity. If they do not compile, then location is vaporized from orbit. Once the people have followed orders and are investigated then they can continue their lives. However, even these highly advantageous locations have turned sour and resists far greater than expected. One investigation was turned into a shoot gallery with anti-air weapons keeping gun ships away and pinning infantry. Only after a strategic artillery strike did the situation improve. Another issue came up before the RIF could continue. The possibility of mines and other anti-ship weapons were very likely on the route the army will take. As such the Engineer Corp came up with an ingenious solution. Using scraps of metal and electronics, they created metal boxes that produced singles and signatures that anti-ship weapons were likely to target. After equipping MUF’s to pull these things while warping, the paths that will be taken were quickly cleared with little cost. After days of peperations the RIF Lower Jaw engaged. The fighting was surprising with mostly escorted supply ships being encountered during the assault. The transports were unprepared for battle against fully prepared warships and the systems began to fall. North, the Upper Jaw engaged the front line in probing attacks to wear down their nerves and keep pressure on the TTA. During the fighting the UIS fleets in Lower Jaw met reinforcements of KFC and a battle broke out with a new front line that left the galaxy. On the other side of the Lower Jaw, the Radiant Second Army was launching a massive assault into the TTA lines. Sadly the TTA had reinforced their long range support upon the Second army to hurt them badly enough. Ironically the RIF was sending their own long range support into the same systems to soften up defenses before the Second Army entered. Overall, the front was expanded greatly with the Engineer Corp becoming exhausted from setting up vast numbers of Warp Nets and mines. While, seized systems had Shock fleet bases established. The convoy raiding has only worsened with the RIF stabbing so deeply into the Alatri, and now that Specter Cruisers were becoming familiar with TTA ships and tactics that now they venture far to strike even more targets. In the North the TTA encircled forces finally surrendered or felt that the entire army had been crushed. These forces have not been sent to join the rest of Operation Dire Wolf. Instead, they and the few remaining unused divisions in the empire have been deployed in defending the empire. Alatri's odd decision to strike the empire, while being invaded without even establishing a defense line, has confused the officers. But for their foolishness there will be quiet advantages. Since the numbers of warships sent to attempt and “surround the Radiant Empire cluster” will mean that the Alatri navy practically abandoned their nation. In the first battles between the Radiant Empire, a smaller fleet, and the Alatri invasion fleet resulted in difficult bloody battles. Alatri fleets' use of unconventional weapons had forced them into a highly aggressive opponent. While the Radiant Empire fleet engaged the Alatri fleet from a distance until they were close enough for fighters and brawling ships to engage. The Radiant Empire ships force their efforts on the most powerful warships to leave the smaller and weaker ships once in brawling conditions. The losses the empire has experienced have been the worst so far in the war, but success at holding the Alatri back is far greater a reward. Further North, a small army has been sent to UIS to form some defense in case the TTA invaded through Super Earth. Morale is high, confidence is good but shaky, and the empire has deployed nearly every soldier they have.
