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Mar 16, 3064 – JumpShips arrive at the Zenith point, and load up the troops and vessels that escaped our battle.
Mar 18, 3064 – After getting a recharge at the Zenith recharge station, they pop back out.
Mar 27, 3064 – We have gotten a lot of locals away from the area, and warned them off. We are ready to go. We send out our forces as close as we feel we can get (about 40 miles away) in a local city and have set up local fornications, pretending to be a part of this camp.
The explosives rock the earth, and work as expected (always use about three times what you think is needed, just in case)
A resounding crack is heard, and much of the Brian Castle falls about 30-40 feet. The front and middle do, but sides and back stay, relatively, firm, although cracks appear in the foundation and more.
Imagine a building so huge and large, that it can hold thousands of troops, support personnel, techs, and more. It can hold hundreds of mechs and tanks, hundreds of tons of supplies, has full facilities from mess halls and barracks to a state of the art medical facility, to prisons and a up to date command and control center with the latest equipment. It has more than a thousand tons of supplies like ammo and guns and personal equipment. It has three separate water wells, as well as enough food for six months for the entire complex, and stored water in case of spoilage.
Now imagine that this sprawling building is in the mountains, and has massive defenses, like gun emplacements, mines ,massive walls and turrets and more. It has very little walls on the outside at all, and the mountain itself is the castle’s fortifications, in a meaningful way. It has numerous gates and entrances in the center, that can be opened to let out tanks, fighters, mechs, and more.
Now imagine that this giant building drops twenty feet. Imagine all of the things that would be torn. People dead, doors to storage rooms, beds, and so forth closed by rock and walls. Tilting floors. Broken materiel. The gates to let out the mechs and tanks are mostly broken. Trapped, inside of this falling castle, is everything the 1st RCT has.
Well, not really, they have a few infantry regiments elsewhere, a few tanks elsewhere. At this point, there’s no need to fight, no need to come out of the three or four doors that still work. More than 200 mechs are bearing down on this position, more than 30 fighters are buzzing it and more than 30 tanks are nearby and closing.
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