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| Battle of Gienah (3152) | |||||||
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| Part of The IlClan Era | |||||||
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| (Attacker) Wolf's Dragoons |
(Defender) Clan Wolf |
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| Othar | Haya Tetsuhara | ||||||
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| Normal | |||||||
The Battle of Gienah was a early IlClan Era military operation undertaken by a single Wolf's Dragoons battalion against one and half Wolf Clusters, in June 3152.[1]
Contents
Operation Brief[edit]
The battle took place in a reduced area of Gienah, inside the capital and surrounding area.
Operation History[edit]
Factions & Known Units Involved in the Conflict[edit]
Clan Wolf[edit]
Wolf's Dragoons[edit]
Origin of Conflict[edit]
Wolf's Dragoons took part on the IlClan Trial on Terra and, due in part to their own tactical mistakes and to Wolf Khan Alaric Ward's orders, they were decimated in the battle. The survivors, already furious, were raging when the now IlKhan payed them for their services with thirty coins of silver, as a calculated insult. After relieving and judging the previous commanding officers, Colonel Charles Kincaid, the new Dragoons' leader, sent the survivors against the Wolf Empire, searching revenge. For months, they struck targets inside the Empire, sometimes on their own, sometimes under contract, mostly winning. The recently resurrected Zeta Battalion obtained most of the successes, being almost unstoppable. But for the Dragoons, not even that wasn't enough, so Kincaid planned a daring attack against the Empire's heart.[2]
First Battle[edit]
Zeta arrived on 29 May 3152 at Gienah's Nadir's jump point, but posing as a Yellow Sun Free Guild JumpShip, their arrival was undetected. Zeta's DropShips moved to the planet... and the 6 June, his JumpShip Talbot arrived at the same jump point. With two assault DropShips previously taken to the Wolves, the Elgrim and Falgrim, they easily took control of the jump point, easily destroying the only guard ship, the Pack Mule and captured the Tiamat (Individual Invader-class JumpShip). At the same time, Zeta's DropShips announced their real colors, when they were reaching Gienah's orbit.[3]
His appearance stunned Othar, specially because, to make a so deep strike, the Dragoons would have to jumped through uninhabited systems to avoid detection, risking themselves to lose the entire unit. Othar offered a proper batchall, to bid for the planet's defense, but the Dragoons ignored him; there were nothing they want to say or hear from or to the so called Clan Wolf Viceroy. While Zeta landed, their fighter escort cleared low orbit of surveillance and communication satellites, blinding the Wolves.<[2]
Zeta landed south of Alliago City, in an unpopulated area, and Othar sent the Ninety-first to engage them. The Wolves' DropShips landed nearby, and they became targeted by the Long Toms guns of Zeta's DropShips. Two of their Unions were destroyed on the ground or attempting to take off; only the third managed to escape. The Wolves' aerospace fighters also attacked three Wolves approaching Broadsword DropShips, downing two. A Wolves Star of Mechs attempted to harass Zeta and draw them into a forest, but in vain: the Dragoons' Mechs downed four of their Mechs, without suffering any losses. The bulk of the Ninety-first still hadn't entered in combat, but the losses had demoralized them, so Othar ordered his leader, Josip (Clan Wolf) to retreat to Alliago City on foot.[4]
Alliago City[edit]
The Dragoons didn't allowed the Wolves to retreat unmolested: their fighters harassed the Ninety-first all the way, so only two Trinaries arrived to Alliago City. After the surviving wolves reached the capital, Zeta boarded their DropShips and landed besides Alliago City, with their forces engaging Othar's Den Keshik and the Ninety-first in brutal combat. By 11 June, the Ninety-first had effectively ceased to exist, and all surviving members of the Keshik withdrawn into the center of the city, but Zeta followed them, catching Othar's command star into a pincer attack. The battle raged across the city, but the Wolves payed a hard price: with only minor losses they downed Othar's Blood Reaper, but his surviving starmates shielded him and escorted him to safety. Still remained some Wolves able to fight, but the city, and the planet, belonged to the Dragoons.[5]
Aftermath[edit]
However, Zeta hadn't interest on staying: the 12 June, after six days of unrelenting combat, they boarded their DropShips and departed, lifting off and returning to their JumpShip, leaving behind a broken and shattered garrison, with both the Keshik and the Ninety-first destroyed, and a humbled and broken Star Colonel Othar. As they hadn't tell nothing to the population, Gienah's lower castes were unable to understand their attack, but Othar knew better: they had proved than the IlClan's realm could be hurt, and than the Empire was terribly vulnerable. Still worse, a message from Alaric Ward from Terra, the first in about a year, could be read as he won't be sending forces to the Empire soon. In fact, Zeta had another secondary mission, which they also had accomplished: to steal a sibko of Alaric Ward, to give their members to all other Clans as a present or raise the ones they kept, to use them against the Wolves one day.[6][7]