Exhack
Inactive Member
Re: [Pre Phase: Mission 5] Operation Midwinter
As the briefing continued onward, communications relayed orbital data on the battlegroup's destination, highlighting extensive orbital defenses scattered in upper orbit, backed by a trio of larger defense satellites designed for anti-ship operations. "As you see, our first goal will be to break the target's orbital defenses, as they pose the largest immediate threat to the taskforce. In addition, these facilities allow the NVR to restrict airspace for the occupied world, and give them ability to bombard points of insurgency."
"It's critical to our eventual assault on the ground that we disable these, else any deployed forces will be at risk of orbital attack."
The world, tagged as [DRASEED] on the continually-updated command network, was an icy planet comparable to Mazerin, save it had managed to avoid major glaciation and thus retained an entirely livable equator. A massive ring of habitation had erupted across this vaguely green equatorial belt with some pockets of civilization spanning a hundred miles across. The scale was staggering, rivalling (though not entirely surpassing) the mega-engineering project of the homeworlds. Readouts of the surface were still largely incomplete, though sensors did pick up substantial heat, radiation and zero-point emissions rising out of a very small and diffuse network surrounding the main cluster of inhabitation on the world, which would soon enter nighttime.
"We'll be approaching the planetary face currently in daylight and use solar radiation to mask our approach, while avoiding the defenses on the opposite side of the world. Once our taskforce has disabled the enemy's orbital capacity, we'll move to the surface and commence operations there."
Serhan took a moment to let the plan sink in, before finishing the outline of the operation with cool resolve. "With any luck, we'll liberate the capital with the sunrise and force these rebels to the negotiating table before it sets again."
"Good hunting, Bahram. Updates on the wing as the mission develops."
As the briefing continued onward, communications relayed orbital data on the battlegroup's destination, highlighting extensive orbital defenses scattered in upper orbit, backed by a trio of larger defense satellites designed for anti-ship operations. "As you see, our first goal will be to break the target's orbital defenses, as they pose the largest immediate threat to the taskforce. In addition, these facilities allow the NVR to restrict airspace for the occupied world, and give them ability to bombard points of insurgency."
"It's critical to our eventual assault on the ground that we disable these, else any deployed forces will be at risk of orbital attack."
The world, tagged as [DRASEED] on the continually-updated command network, was an icy planet comparable to Mazerin, save it had managed to avoid major glaciation and thus retained an entirely livable equator. A massive ring of habitation had erupted across this vaguely green equatorial belt with some pockets of civilization spanning a hundred miles across. The scale was staggering, rivalling (though not entirely surpassing) the mega-engineering project of the homeworlds. Readouts of the surface were still largely incomplete, though sensors did pick up substantial heat, radiation and zero-point emissions rising out of a very small and diffuse network surrounding the main cluster of inhabitation on the world, which would soon enter nighttime.
"We'll be approaching the planetary face currently in daylight and use solar radiation to mask our approach, while avoiding the defenses on the opposite side of the world. Once our taskforce has disabled the enemy's orbital capacity, we'll move to the surface and commence operations there."
Serhan took a moment to let the plan sink in, before finishing the outline of the operation with cool resolve. "With any luck, we'll liberate the capital with the sunrise and force these rebels to the negotiating table before it sets again."
"Good hunting, Bahram. Updates on the wing as the mission develops."
