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The Federated Suns Reborn
- Chapter 122[]
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April 3069
Cease Fire
FedSuns-Capellan War[]
Holdouts on St. Ives[]
As April began the AFFS forces on Capella moved up to the outskirts of Memorial City. By now the skies had been swept clean of the remaining Holdfast Guard fighters and the AFFS had total air superiority and were conducting almost constant harassing air attacks upon the defenders lines. However with an iron ring formed around the city the AFFS suddenly stopped. At which time First Prince Victor Davion personally contacted Sang-shao Anson Quinn and offered terms. Pointing out that the CCAF presence on Capella was now hopeless and with the Confederation falling apart behind them there was no hope of relief so their sacrifice was pointless and would only result in needless deaths. Instead of a pointless and futile last stand he offered instead safe passage to the Sian Republic where they could continue to serve the memory of the Confederation and protect it's capital world. Along with them could go any members of the House of Scion's or other government organs which wished to relocate to the Sian Republic. They could take their BattleMechs, equipment and dropships. The First Prince gave them 24 hours to make up their mind.
At the end of the 24 hours, the Sang-shao very carefully contacted the First Prince and accepted the offer of relocation from the First Prince on behalf of the Holdfast Guard - however the Sang-shao informed the First Prince that Warrior House Ma-Tsu Kai had refused the offer. The First Prince ordered the Holdfast Guard to stand down, while requesting the exact location of the Warrior House.
Less than 2 hours later a massed air strike hit the CCAF line around where the Warrior House was deployed following which the Clan Sun Jaguar forces smashed into them followed by the 1st Arcadians RCT. With no support from their former allies the exemplary tactical abilities of Shiao-zhang Jasmine Liu counted for very little. With her forces hammered from the air and then with Clantech omnimechs and Elementals swarming in the Warrior House is forced to give ground to try and reform, but with their predecessors ferocity the Jaguars stay on them, giving them no time to reorganize. By the time the Arcadian's come up there's little to do other than mopping up. Khan Nevversan's personal point of Elementals finishing off the damaged Emperor class battlemech of Jasmine Liu.
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Emperor Class Assault 'Mech in combat
Following this last engagement the Holdfast Guard march out from Memorial City and head for the dropships which will take them back to Sian. As a mark of respect for what must have been an incredibly difficult decision to make the 1st Davion Guards themselves form an honor guard for the Holdfast Guards withdrawal.
Victoria Commonality receives reinforcements[]
At the same time, the 6th Harloc Cavalry Raiders on Harloc itself, facing reality agree to terms and begin withdrawing. However, instead of heading for the Sian Republic they head for the Victoria Commonality. There they took up their old name of the Harloc Raiders and began to rebuild as best they could. There are hindered in this by the almost total lack of military production in the Victoria Commonality.
Capturing the What Remains[]
With Capella in hand the First Prince sends the 15th & 26th Avalon Hussars on a simple mission. The 2 RCTs divides into combat commands built around a battalion of battlemechs each and head for the 6 unclaimed worlds of the Capellan Commonality that remains between the Davion conquests, the Sian Republic and Free Worlds League border. Seeing them correctly as easy pickings the AFFS snap them up and fold them into the still forming Ingersoll PDZ.
Beginning of the End[]
The First Prince also sent word to the Sian Republic. He would accept an immediate cease fire at the current situation. However, the Republic would have to earn any trust and there would be conditions to any permanent peace treaty. They were to send a delegation where he would meet with them on St. Ives.
Even as the First Prince is resolving the Capellan front, the rest of the AFFS continue to not only form the League March but also prepare for any further action that might be required on the Draconis front. For instance the 11th FedSuns Dragoons RCT moving from Defiance to Barlow's End. The 11th Avalon Hussars began their long trek from the border of the Victoria Commonality towards their new garrison posting on Verde. Other units across the FedSuns began moving to their new postings.
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Going Rogue[]
In the meantime Duchess Cassandra Allard-Liao eventually losing patience dispatches the 5th FedSuns Dragoons, 1st Kittery Borderers, and 1st St Ives Cheveau-Legers to bring Roman's Mounted Fusiliers to heel. However when they jump in they find the unit has fled in the last few days. With nobody on the planet knowing where they got the jumpships to transport them...
Unsettling Movement on Kurita Border[]
The AFFS was however aware that the sudden flow of Kurita units towards the border had slowed and then stopped. Still they weren't going to stop preparing just in case...
Developments in Industry[]
The AFFS also completed their inspection of the Necromo shipyards in April. The single half built Feng Huang cruiser was not felt worth completing for the Federated Suns Navy however they did after some discussions offer it up to Comstar to buy. At the insistence of the First Prince who had heard of the discussions about keeping the Fox corvette that had been built for the ComGuards and had responded angrily to the High Command. He made it clear to them that his policy of supporting the ComGuard's would be honored. In this he was supported by not only the Prince's Champion but also the Marshal of Armies. Once this cruiser is completed the shipyard was earmarked to produce a more suitable design - some thought was being given to a Black Lion II upgraded battlecruiser. Work continued at the Capella and Sarna shipyards to return them to service.
On Victoria, the shattered industrial plant of Shengli Arms is sold to the local Capellan March company of Johnston Industries. The company began rebuilding a single Yu Huang/Kai assault battlemech line while the shattered heavy class lines were slowly rebuilt to put an Axman and a Caesar line into production. The Duan Gung line was rebuilt to produce the Sling class light battlemech that it had originally been based upon.
The McCarron's family remaining industrial facilities were also handed over to GM to upgrade and expand. In return for this effective gift the company agreed to expand the armor production facilities to full battlemech production - with the Stealth class Battlemech being the first product to be put into production there. Given the massive upgrades this will take the first production line isn't expected until September 3070.
On Bristol, the final Fury Command Tank production line going operational. However, given how well the first production run had performed in the recent fighting the High Command immedietly request that Jolassa-Kumbold Armored Weapons not only double production on Bristol but also build at least 2 production lines at a new facility. The company agrees to build a satellite facility on nearby Markesan.
With the growing instability on the FedSuns-Combine border Corsara Weapons decide to add a King Crab and Black Watch mech productoni lines to their secondary production plant on Northfield. Just in case their primary plant is damaged.
On Corey, the Hollis Incorporated sign a long term contract to produce Battlemasters, Catapults, and Huron Warriors for the AFFS. The Huron Warriors in particular will be diverted to help set up the various League March Militias and will become a signature Battlemech for these formations. From there they will slowly spread throughout other March Militia formations in limited numbers and to mercenary formations - although they will be unpopular with front line AFFS formations. The company also receive support to put the Highlander class Assault Battlemech back into production.
The First Prince also ordered that the remains of the Sarna Martial Academy be stripped for anything useful and sent to St Ives to help rebuild the shattered St. Ives Academy of Martial Sciences. Sarna had proven how unreliable it could be and would not see investment to rebuild the academy, instead the education of the next generation of League March troops would be prioritized for St. Ives. At the same time the Capella War College was to be re-branded as the Capellan Military College and returned to active service, although with an entirely new staff and cadet force. Until the St. Ives Academy of Martial Sciences is rebuilt much of the cadet force of the CMC will be drawn from St Ives. He also orders an expansion to the Tikonov Martial Academy to also help fill the ranks of the AFFS units in the League March. Plans call for Tikonov to expand to a full BattleMech regiments worth of cadets, with St. Ives and Capella planned to field 2 regiments of cadets. This will give the League March a larger than normal graduating class of cadets when it's up and running, but given that the St Ives units require huge rebuilding and an almost entirely new League March Militia Brigade formed this is felt necessary.
Kurita goes to Terra[]
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Kirishima Class Cruiser, DCS Siriwan
Within the Draconis Combine the newly appointed Kanrei heads for Terra with a strong escort of Draconis Combine Admiralty warships. The DCS Siriwan and 4 corvettes escorted him on his journey along with the 1st Genyosha. In the meantime his father sends out feelers to the Black Dragons requesting a parley with their leadership. Various guarantees and assurances are given, but this will be a slow process. The Coordinator also sends word to his Nova Cat vassals demanding that their Khan attend him upon Luthien to discuss the coming military campaign. An emissary is also sent to the Clan Snow Raven forces which have been growing in the Outworlds Alliance, requesting that their leadership agree to meet with him to discuss a matter of mutual advantage...
Lyran Peacekeepers in League Space[]
Within the Free Worlds League, further shock waves ripple outwards when the LAAF launch a second wave of "peacekeeping" missions along the border. Alula Borealis, Bella I, Colfax, Cascade, and Megrez all see Lyran troops arriving in their skies. Local garrisons are requested to stand down as the LAAF troops are coming in order to preserve order and protect them from the chaos that is descending throughout the League, however when a handful of troops resist they are met with brutal firepower from the LAAF troops who have obviously came loaded for bear.
Tamarind Strengthens its Forces[]
On Tamarind the 1st and 2nd Tamarind Militia are expanded by a third regiment, while calls for assistance are sent out to the other League states. The only offers of assistance come from the 3rd Brigade of the Oriente Fusiliers which are garrisoning Tamarind still and their sister regiment in the 5th Brigade that although preparing to leave Thermopolis to travel back to their homeland agrees instead to hold position and divert the Kallon plant's production on that world to Tamarind to help them.
Tamarind also manages to negotiate with the worlds of Diamantina and Simpson's Desert to join the Duchy. While these worlds offer little to the Duchy their support and membership adds at least some additional resources and manpower while giving a shot in the arm to the flagging morale of the worlds on the new Lyran border. Archon Peter Steiner also began negotiating with the "famed" mercenary force of Camacho's Caballeros for them to return to their Trinity World homes and claim them as a landhold of the Lyran Alliance...