Chapter Fourteen
- Book 4 – Chappy's Howling Siegers[]
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March to Nobeji City[]
Battlefield
4th Skye Guards
Kessel, Draconis Combine
March 4th, 3030
Local Time: 1630 GT
Vogun looked across his command board, good all present and accounted for, “Stallions!!! Hopefully last night has disappear from your memories and you are clear minded. We are about to enter the town don’t take the IndustrialMechs lightly this is our first battle except for Broadberry’s company so keep sharp and let’s show that the third battalion is the best, Vogun out.”
As they entered the city the first few blocks were a ghost town and then it happened about a dozen mechs attacked the 4th Skye's Slayer took aim in his new mech fired both Gauss slicing a LoaderMech into two. His wing man at that time fired his two LRM 20 at another LoaderMech destroying it.
Grass field 400 miles Northeast
Hauptmann Greymane was the first to notice the radar hits, his head was pounding though, while last night was fun and he successfully defended his drinking title he was paying for it now. Ulric shook his head wondering if General Devlin did this on purpose. Luckily this battle will be quick out in the open and no cover for the enemy, “Enemy right in front of us engage and destroy.” with that the closest MechWarrior Corporal Kolwezi fired his AC20 at a Mercury Light 'Mech and blew its head off. “Nice shot Corporal keep it up!” Ulric said.
Grass field about 100 miles further east
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Awesome Assault 'Mech firing it's PPCs
Leftenant Punj saw the enemy first moving due south, it looks like 5th Company got the upper hand she said to herself. After she relayed it to the rest of the company she awaited orders from her superiors, and then it came in the form of gauss guns and LRMs and the tag along 2nd Battalion Commander, “Company this is Xenon fire at will at the targets painted by Leftenant Punj and fired upon by myself.” Right after that Punj saw that the Awesome Xenon fired at blew up with a ammo explosion. Leftenant Jatoi fired next in her Awesome seriously damaging a Warhammer she went up to it and gave it a good kick in the chest exploding the machine gun ammo which killed the pilot, the militia commander.
Grass field 300 miles south
The 4th Company was entangled in a heated battle with a company of 12th Sun Zhang Cadre. Hauptmann Weir was one of the lucky ones he went home early last night, unfortunately he noticed that his unit was a little lose/tight. “4th Company get your ass in gear or you will lose it, these guys are no pushovers wake your asses up!” Right as he said that Private Ai in his Hatchetman left leg was blown off. “I am ok.” the private said over the net “It's just a bump on my head.”
Firebase Beta
Arithion looked out towards the base at the very narrow cross way and knew that this could be very bad luckily it was not as heavily defended as the Intel reports suggested. The whole 1st Battalion was here three full companies although Arithion knew that one commander was under the weather.
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Longbow Assault Fire Support 'Mech
“Ring take you company and swing right after we cleared the isthmus and Badger you take your company and swing left, Dohon take your company and follow me up the middle” three yes sir replied back.
Leftenant Stanton in her Longbow fired all 50 LRMs at long range, she was known as ‘dead shot’ and her nick name did not disappoint with 41 of 50 hitting a Grand Dragon destroying it as the Dragon’s ammo blew up.
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Grand Dragon Heavy 'Mech
As Ring’s company cleared the isthmus he lost his signal and communication with the rest of the unit. His training kicked in and he followed the plan hopefully the rest of his company sticks with the plan. Ring then starts actively search for the 'mech that could have an ECM package on board.
30 minutes later At Nobeji City
The defense of the city was breaking most of the IndustrialMechs were destroyed or abandon. Corporal Gautier ‘Miss Skye’ (a few years ago she won the pageant) fired at the Grand Dragon hiding behind a school building she took out his left leg and right arm. The Grand Dragon’s ammo exploded but did not kill the mech instead the explosion killed three MechWarriors on the ground and an industrial mech. That Grand Dragon was the Commander of the base when he lost his leg and arm his comm went down and the defense of the base was over.
Push to the Firebase[]
LCDS Piercer, Leopard Class DropShip
Sub-Orbital Flight
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Cobra Transport VTOL
General Devlin with his mix bag of units took off from the spaceport on their way to attack a base that was about 500 miles away from the planetary capital on the main continent. On the way over a company of infantry shock troopers being carried by Cobra Transport VTOL connected with the Dropships and the wing of fighters. Intel showed that some of the Skye Guards MIAs were being held prisoner at this base so the plan was to distract the enemy with aerospace bombing and then Devlin’s command lance and the reserve group which numbered nine heavy mechs all green as green can be would drop and cause additional distraction. Then the troops were to go in and rescue the prisoners. General Devlin was watching the other battles take place due to combat satellites being place around the planet. Nobeji City just fell so Devlin turned his attention to the battles in the grass plains they all looked pretty much wrapped up with minimum lost to the Guards. Firebase Beta was still going on, so Devlin tuned to the freq and listen in to the 1st Battalion in action Arithion was talking on the net.
Firebase Puma
“…must find the ECM mech and take it down all warriors that is your goal when you move into the affected area, we have to get communications back with Ring’s group.” Hauptmann-Kommandant Stedstrom announced.
An Atlas released most of his weapons at a Locust destroying it by taking off the whole right side of the light 'mech as the little Locust fell. Private 1st Class Ozon had hope that was the 'mech that was carrying the ECM package, but it was not damn it his first kill ever and he could not gloat about it over the net.
On the other side of the base 2nd Company was making good progress once they got out from under the ECM bubble. A hunchback for the 4th destroyed a Grand Dragon causing a LRM Ammo explosion destroying the Sun Zhang Panther in front of it.
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Locust Light 'Mech
Corporal Dorner was getting frustrated when he saw that some of his classmates from the academy were getting kills, so he was determined to get some. That is when a Kessel Militia's Lancelot turned and fired on him, he had just enough time to eject before his 'mech was blown to pieces.
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Stingray Medium Fighters fly by
Ring knew he had to find the ECM mech the missile lock alarm started to scream at Tiny he turned his mech to the left and saw a Stingray diving in his direction. He waited till the last moment taking serious damage to his left chest before he fired his large laser and AC/10 just as the Stingray fighter flew over, the hit from both weapons forced the aerospace into a spin and crashed into the ocean. Ring then turned his sites on the rifleman that was firing at him, luckily for him the Cadet was missing. He then moved to the right for a better look at the Rifleman and fired another round of AC10 and the large laser, the later hitting the head and downing the Rifleman.
Some of the 4th Skye Guards were not doing so good three pilots overheated their mechs to the point of explosion.
Hauptmann Von Wolfhouse fired all four of his medium lasers from his Javelin and took out Dragoon mech and then the ECM bubble collapse, the Dragoon exploded and killed the pilot, the commander of the militia.
A second later a window open up for Arithion and he fired his two Gauss Rifles and two AC/20 at the Longbow that was sitting on top of the main building. This Longbow had caused several Guards mechs to overheat trying to take him out. All weapons from Arithion hit their target blowing up the Assault 'Mech with the commander of the Sun Zhang Cadre for this battle in the mech. Just like that the enemy scatter like roaches when the light is turned on and the 4th Skye Guards won another battle.
Assault Drop on Firebase Puma[]
LCDS Piercer, Leopard Class DropShip
General Devlin saw that all the battles were going well and was really entering the mop up stage when the alert sound for five minutes out sounded. Devlin rushed to his mech and powered it up putting it in standby for the assault drop.
Building 443, Firebase Puma
Tai-i Coskum looked on at the sorry lot of these 4th Skye Guard scum, how could they have destroyed so much so fast if only he could be on the front lines and not babysitting/torturing/killing these animals. Today he had the 12th Sun Zhang Company Armor Commander with him watching the event and the dude already threw up twice. Good for him he needed a reminder that war is real. The Militia Commander looked at the current torture victim,
“Tesia, how is the flyboy?” he asked Heishi Tesia Franczak a female that knew how to get info from men.
“Sir, this one is dead that makes seven of the fourteen that prefer death over giving up intel. I am sorry, but this lot is tougher than we was briefed.”
“No worries, Tesia just move on to the next one we still have seven maybe one will break if not at least we won’t have to feed them anymore.” the commander said.
The alarm started to sound and the radio on the commander’s belt went active. “Sir! Unauthorized flyers! Looks like several aerospace, VTOLs and two Dropships!!”
“Activate all personnel we will kill them.” yes thought Coskum, Finally I will show my superiors that I should be fighting and not babysitting as he ran out the door to get into his Excalibur.
LCDS Piercer, Leopard Class DropShip
“Guards this is Devlin remember the building on the east side of the complex is where Intel says our guys are being held, we must not damage that building. Squadrons will bomb and harass the enemy that are in the middle of the base, My command lance will drop just outside of the base along with the other mechs from Concordia then she will land by the front of the base and unload the armor companies. WE will rescue our brothers never leave a man behind!” With that he terminated the link and waited for the drop.
The Aerospace squadrons were the first ones there and they all dived bomb all eleven planes dropped half of their payload, as they all pulled up at once and inspected the carnage on the ground four enemy tanks were destroyed six enemy mechs had moderate to heavy damage on them.
Leftenant-Kaptain Raksha saw the success of his units, “Well done, Wing, well done. set up for another pass and attack.”
As the wing was setting up for another pass Devlin and his command lance landed from the assault drop and made their way to the front passage (the only way in and out of the base by foot).
On the second pass the Aerospace Fighter used their lasers and strafe the enemy still another heavy hover transport and a blackjack blew up. An enemy mech decided to go outside the wall to see what was going on, Devlin suppose, but it ended up badly for him since Devlin lined up his powerful weapons and destroyed the Hatchetman with hits from a gauss and AC20.
The Cobra Transports were coming in low across the hills trying to avoid enemy fire the shock troops were ready, being in the infantry in this time period was the most dangerous and it took a special man or woman to step out on the battlefield with 100 ton bots moving around. Today Leutnant Klaeber had a mission that he could get everyone into, saving Guard members.
“As soon as the light turns green we jump and make our way to the building is that clear” Leutnant Klaeber said to his troops what he heard coming back on the infantry battle net made him proud…..”huuuuaaaahhhhhh, huuuuuaaaaahhhhh,huuuuuuuaaaaaahhhhh……….” The chanting continued until the enemy started firing at them.
The Aerospace Fighters were causing the most damage and the enemy seemed to have no way of stopping the Wing peeled off in pairs and just rolled in destroying at will within another ten minutes five more armor and three more mechs were destroyed. An enemy Hunchback did get a lucky shot off destroying one of the cobra transports as they were entering the base proper destroying the VTOL and all troops inside. The other ten VTOL dropped their cargo off safely and moved to a safe distance hoovering for the call to come back in for pickup.
All the fighting was now taking place at the front entrance, Militia Tanks and Mechs were being destroyed along with the Sun Zhang force but an Ontos heavy tank for the 12th Sun Zhang had a target solution on the dropship that landed a few moments ago Closing his eyes the gunner fired all medium lasers all hit at the exact location penetrating the Dropship taking out her power and the bay, causing 90% of the Skye Ranges Armor to be stuck inside a tomb.
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Example of a Superheavy BattleMech
Devlin moved his 200 ton Superheavy Battlemech into the entrance of the base and just started to cripple everything in his sight, destroying a Devastator Heavy tank and a hunchback along the way
The infantry made it to the door of the building penetrated it using shape charges, upon entering several troops threw up in their helmets. No matter what type of man or woman you were, no matter how much cold steel you.
think your blood is, nothing prepared anyone for the sight they saw. Seven bodies piled up in a corner cut and mutilated, flies were landing on the dead bodies. One female stripped naked with her legs and arms broken and slashes all over her body was hanging up and six other prisoners where huddle together in a 5x5 cell. One of the troopers called out “sir she is alive!!!! We need the medic over here.”
Devlin was punishing the enemy when he heard the battle net crackle and come to life.
“We have our boys come get us, seven dead one critical the other six will be ok. Sir, they tortured our guys, I mean it is sickening.”
The enemy must have known that the prisoners were rescued, the mechs all moved to the south side and jumped the wall running away, none of the enemy armor survived.
Next day
General Devlin looked over the new Intel report, looks like the Sun Zhang estimated losses sits at almost 2 full Battlemech battalions and 2 armor companies. Let’s hope this breaks them., Kreedo thought.
Actions taken in Defeat[]
Capital City Amagi
Chu-Sa Petrovich DiLenardo sat in the bathtub with rose pedals floating on top. How did it come to this?, she thought. Maybe Mies Kuria was right, she was not fit for command. Her unit had lost so much, all just cadets. She looked at the pad in her hand and signed the order, the order to retreat to move off planet, once they left, all that would be left is a battle torn world and a militia that could not defend a grocery store let alone a planet. The 12th Sun Zhang Cadre will move to the planet Shitara, under the command of her XO Sho-Sa Himiko Kogawa. As Petrovich got out of the tub she moved over to her display of her family swords. Slowly caressing her Katana she moved over and took her small samurai Tanto blade and thrust it into her gut thereby fulling a family honor tradition. In her dying moments she thought, At least I got my suicide right.
Tai-sa Schifferer was woken up by the thunderous sounds, he jumped up and ran to his window what he saw was all the 12th Sun Zhang Dropships taking off.
“Command Room! What in the hell is going on!!” Schifferer yelled
“Sir, they said they had orders to leave just before they took off a security team busted into Chu-Sa DiLenardo’s apt and she was found in the bathroom naked and dead from an apparent. Seppuku.” The voice said over the speakers.
“And you did not think to call me!!” Schifferer replied
“Sir, you beat me to it.”
Schifferer ended the call and made a mental note to kill that person he was just talking to.
“Sir” Comms Tech Spoke up.
“Yes?” General Devlin replied
“Sir reports from orbit the 12th Sun Zhang Dropships left the planet”
“Thanks Sergeant”
Well, that worked., General Devlin thought now if only the militia would just surrender.
Last Action of the Defeat Enemy[]
Firebase Puma
Kessel
March 6th, 3030
Local Time: 0800 GST
General Devlin looked out from the command perch and surveyed the furious work that was going on, had been going on since late on the 4th of March after the last militia mech went down or ran away. Something was not sitting right with his gut, and over the years he had learned to trust his gut. He reached for his SAT radio.
“Hauptmann Grossman and Lewis come in over”
Both of them said “yes sir” in almost the same time.
“Mcjomar, Oblivious nice to hear from you so quickly, SITREP” Devlin asked
<<“Sir, Grossman here, we just unloaded from our transport, and we have about a five hours’ march left before we arrive at your location.”>>
“Ok try to get here as fast as you can, we are shorthanded on Dropships until the others return from the JumpShips with supplies so you will have to run those mechs, I have a feeling I will need you two soon.” Devlin announced
<<“Roger Sir, out”>>
Kessel Capital City Amagi
Tai-sa Schifferer was still furious, even after he shot that dumb ass that failed to notify him about the 12th Sun Zhang departure. As he looked over the satellites imagines he was glad that the satellites were still secure even though the Steiner scum kept trying to break the code. He then noticed something, the first mistake that the enemy commander made, his forces were stretched thin and four of his Dropships where not on planet at the moment. Mmmm he said out loud to himself since no one else was there, "If I muster all my forces and attack I will outnumber the Guard three to one and if I can kill their commander the Guard will scatter like roaches exposed to light."
Marching Orders from high Up[]
Kessel Firebase Protection (formally known as Puma)
General Devlin hung up the SAT radio and sighed a little and thought to himself glad that is taken care off. Then Corporal Busca knocked on the door jam, ((“Sir, call is coming in from Lyran Command.”)) reported the Corporal.
“Thanks, Busca.” Devlin turned on the view screen and General Steiner’s face was already there.
“General Steiner, what can I do you for?”
<<“General Devlin it is I that will be doing you a service.”>> she said <<“It is my understanding that four of your Dropships are currently docked at the JumpShip Agir.”>>
“Yes, General your Intel is very accurate, they are picking up supplies and a couple of replacement MechWarriors, four Lieutenants to be exact.” Devlin said.
<<“Very good, General, there will be a week’s delay on their return back to you.”>> as she let that sink in she continued, <<“The reason being is that a mercenary group called BlackJack will be coming with them on their DropShip, they will be garrisoning the planet. If you have not won the planet by the time they get there do what you want with them, the commander understands and will comply, Steiner out.”>>
General Devlin just looked at the blank screen, Nondi Steiner never stops surprising him, sometimes he wonders if she enjoys the looks, she gets.
Corporal Busca showed back up at the door and Devlin thought boy she is a sneaky person.
“Sir, Intel report from our forward guards, the militia is making a move looks like everything they can muster and then some heading this way.”
“Thanks, Corporal sound the alarm and have Hauptmann-Kommandant Robel report to me.”
Siege of the Firebase Puma[]
Battlefield
2 hours later
General Devlin was thankful for the rain, simply because it had slowed the advancement of the enemy as the dirt gave way to mud. He would give credit to the militia they knew how to build a firebase; the main part of the base was concrete surrounded by a wall of concrete and dirt. What was even better was the only safe and quick way to the base was through a series of man-made valleys only jump mechs, infantry and aerospace could traverse through the mountain ranges that towered over these valleys, and now mud. His troops were on top of the mountains spotting for artillery although due to the nature of the mountains and the man-made valley landing hits on the enemy was still a problem. Radar showed that enemy fighters were inbound, so Devlin order his three squadrons to intercept and destroyed, with second objective to drop bombs on the enemy. The initial contact between the two aerospace units was just amazing. Contrails crisscrossing the sky and explosions. He watched as one of the Guards' Thunderbirds Heavy Aerospace Fighters did a maneuver to knock anyone’s socks off and position himself right behind a militia guardian fighter destroying it midair. On that first contact the Guard destroyed four militia fighters without much damage to themselves.
Things were starting to get hairy for the infantry, so Devlin order the cobra transports to go pick them up and bring them back to the barracks the enemy was about twenty minutes away from being in line of site. A fog rolled in after the rain anyway preventing the infantry from doing an accurate spotting job.
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Mechbuster Attack Fighter
The fighters broke free and started to bomb the tanks. Guard’s Aerofighters took out seven enemy tanks that were coming up from the south passage, but the militia was able to destroy five of the guard’s various tanks. Xenon took aim and destroyed an enemy Mechbuster conventional fighter with his gauss rifle and Devlin followed suit by destroying a mechbuster also with the gauss rifle. The enemy fighters were able to drop several HE bombs onto Devlin some of the damage was to the head of his machine as sparks fly in his cockpit a large medal sheet fell from up above causing a laceration on his right arm, thankfully it was not too bad. When Devlin looked at his status expecting the worse having five HE bombs dropped on him he saw that his arms and chest armor were still well over 90% intact the only thing he would have to worry about is his head he had lost nearly half of his armor in that attack. Devlin twisted his torso about 140 degree and waited for that fighter to come into range as soon as it did he fired his Gauss again destroying it.
Out of the fog on the east side came something Devlin did not expect nor did he know it was possible a secret passage through the mountain that only locals knew about, in just a few moments what was a clean and peaceful plateau became crowded with 40 IndustrialMechs firing LRMs at his position. Damnit, he thought I really hate IndustrialMechs. Two of the Guards mechs went down and stayed down they weren’t destroyed just cripple to the point of not being useful. Devlin was happy that he was in this mech and jump off the wall into the valley below to make a push towards the IndustrialMechs he sent a message to his armor and what was left of the mechs to focus on the enemy’s armor and mechs that he will take on these IndustrialMechs himself and then proceeded to
destroy an industrial mech mid-sentence. What was left of the squadrons helped Devlin by strafing the IndustrialMechs softening up their armor for him.
One Hour Later
The 7th & 9th companies had showed up for the fight from the north valley and rushed to engage the enemy mechs that was pushing in from the east. Things were looking up for the Guard The General thought as he punched a hole through another industrial mech making it the 7th's mech destroyed by his Gauss Rifle. Pretty soon he will close enough to use his fist he thought. Then an alert came across his battle computer 40 more enemy mechs coming in from behind the 7th and 9th company. When he went to make the call his radio went to static, an ECM unit is around, Damnit Devlin thought hopefully the commanders over there notice what was sneaking up on them.
Tai-sa Schifferer thought his plan was working perfectly his armor unit even though being slowed by the mud and bombs were making progress the local civilians showing up through the passage with their industrialmechs was brilliant. His two companies of mechs where about to the intersection and then he would be in range to fire against the enemy commander. The only issue he was having which the other commander was surely now having was that these man-made valleys caused an almost perfect block to any communication outside of a few meters causing an almost natural ECM affect. For that reason, he almost shits his pants when his unit got to the intersection only to run into more enemy mechs. Where in the hell did these guys come from? They were not part of the initial count for the enemy, they must have just got here ahead of the SecurityMechs being brought in from the factory. As the 9th Company of the 4th Skye Guards engaged the two companies of enemy mech units the 7th Company of the 4th Skye Guards were moving into position to engage when one of its Atlas’ on the back row fell over. When Hauptmann Grossman notice he called over the net.
“Company this is ‘Obvious’ what is going on.”
<<“Sir, about 44 'mechs just showed up behind us they are only firing machine guns. I guess they found a weak spot in the back.”>>, right as he said that a Victor went down that was right beside the Atlas.
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Battle damage Victor Assault 'Mech
“Ok 7th Company turn around and take care of these guys.” Hauptmann Grossman said over the com.
Things were looking bad now for Guards., the General thought, four more mechs from the reserve unit was down Xenon was out of Gauss ammo and was running low on AC20 ammo. The 7th & 9th companies were being overrun, and the armor unit was almost whipped out and still the enemy was advancing. The only positive was because of him and his air support almost all the Industrialmechs were destroyed, he was up to thirteen kills and the day was not even over yet. As the last of the IndustrialMechs went up in flames General Devlin turned his focus on the enemy armor battalion that had been whittled down to about a company and a half but was still coming. His left arm was in the red and his left leg in the yellow, all his gauss ammo and LRMs were gone but he still had his lasers and a few AC20 ammo left so he moved as quickly as possible toward the tank battle to lend a hand to his tank personnel.
Xenon was moving as fast as he could in his big fat mech 200 tons sounds really good but not when you need to be somewhere fast.
With Devlin softening up the tanks, the Guards tanks (what was left of them) were able to make a push and started to rack up the kills. Just then the radio broke the static and a woman’s voice became clear.
<<“I repeat this is First Leftenant Dorothy Guevarra of the Dropship Ajax we are inbound and will be dropping off the 2nd Battalion in 5 mic. I repeat this is…”>>
“Leftenant, good to hear your voice this is General Devlin drop the men off at point 1819 land and lend fire support over.”
With the showing of the dropship Tai-sa Schifferer knew it was over the planet was lost and his gamble was a bust right as he was thinking this a Warhammer from the 4th Skye Rangers put lasers into his cockpit killing the commander of the militia instantly.
Rejoicing and New Marching Orders[]
Main Street
Capital City Amagi
Kessel, Lyran Commonweath
As Devlin marched down main street in his war torn mech with all three battalions of mechs following behind him a sense of pride overcame him. In the 4th Skye Guards first real action as a regiment they came out on top. It took 31 days, he had lost 162 men mostly infantry and lost several mechs. But he gained a planet back from Kurita for the Lyran Commonwealth, gained about 20 mechs from the militia and 12th Sun Zhang that will be refurbished and used in the next battle and several of his people received awards and recognition for the deeds that was done in battle. As Devlin stopped at the foot of the capital building he exited his mech and went to the mic that was prepared for him. “People of Kessel rejoice do not be scared, the Lyran Commonwealth is back Kessel is now free under our flag instead of being occupied by Kurita. The governor has been removed and the rightful ruler has been placed in his stead.”
A week later the Dropships showed up from the JumpShip as the passengers came off the transport they were greeted by the General and his XO of the 4th Skye Guards. “Hello and welcome to the Fourth.” As General Devlin shook the hands of the four lieutenants they gave their name rank and callsign to him.
“Sir, Leftenant Markus Caspersen callsign Davash at your service.”
“Sir, Leftenant Callum Wraight callsign Swordlord at your service.”
“Sir, Leftenant Calum Evered callsign Phildor at your service.”
“Sir, Leftenant Ricard Holzman callsign Lorentz at your service”
General Devlin looked over the men and nodded approval. “Good my XO here will get you settled I have pressing matters to attend to, once again welcome and don’t worry this planet is won but I am sure there will be other planets and battles to fight.” With that Devlin walked away and right to the mercenary commander.
“Hello Maj McGirk, a long way from the periphery and pirating ways I see.”
Jack McGirk was actually taken by surprise he did not think anyone in the Lyran Commonwealth knew about his past.
“Um yes sir it is but I am here now in service of the Lyran Commonwealth with the hopes of kicking some snake tail.”
“All in due time I am sure once you get the new militia up and running here that the Steiner’s will make use of your hatred for Kurita.
“Yes, General.” Jack said also “I have a data crystal here for you from General Nondi Steiner” With that he gave a sharp salute and left.
General Devlin inserted the crystal when he got back to his office and read the message.
{(General Devlin, I have two things for you, first is at the end of the month pack up your things and move on. Your next target is the planet Vega. The second item is that I am leaving to personally oversee the Marik battlefront. I am leaving in charge an old friend of yours, he will be in charge of the Kurita front and has all the authority as I would. Please welcome Hauptmann-General Alexandria Fury when you get a chance, I am sure he will be calling in on you soon.)}