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August 14, 3066 – We have arrived at the system, where the jumppoints are just 2 days away. Duke Essex escorts the group. Everything looks as expected. Solid amounts of commercial traffic, and nothing untoward. We have brought with us our naval flotilla, just in case they were needed, but it looks like they weren’t.
What else came with?
Delta Regiment
Dart Company (Fighters)
We brought some JumpShips and DropShips over to help us out!
August 16, 3066, After some initial skirmishes with their fighters, Dart Company forces down landings of our people. We unload Delta Regiment in a few places.
Errai was colonized to be an industrial world. That’s all it is, a huge manufacturing, mining, smelting, industrial world with roughly 300 million folks. It makes Mechs for non-battle needs, exoskeletons, weapons, transport, refines and purifies the ore it mines, creates the basic building supplies used in lots of other places and ships them out, and that sort of thing. It’s has a very vibrant, robust industrial economy.
It’s hilly or mountainous pretty much everywhere, and there are multiple mining consortiums and complexes on world that bring out stuff although it’s not a major mining world, like Acamar, Genoa, Nanking or colony Asmodeus. Instead it has a lot of gems and stones and other things that have industrial uses and are getting mined, so diamond cutters, gemstone refractors, inhibitors, and more are all made here. Other mines grab the smaller value stuff locally, so they don’t have to ship it.
Errai is a small world, just two days from the jump points, in a small system. Because of that, it’ s not that hard to defend, it’s not a spread out world or anything.
There are a few solid industrial complexes that are extremely large, and thus viable targets. Each of those has a small fort and garrison, some run locally, and some by the Warriors.
The only other place to have a garrison is the capital, where a battalion of Warriors lay.
We have landed Armor Battalion right by the capital, and they are going to engage in a campaign to capture that area and take out the Warriors.
We split a pair of companies into the three different industrial complexes, roughly equivalent to the local defense force.
Our goal is to have four different strikes occur at the same time, preventing support by each unit. We are not going to try and engage the local militia. We want to drive off the Warriors, and then make a play for Errai.
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