Battle of Gienah (3152)
Sarna News
| Battle of Gienah (3152) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of The IlClan Era | |||||||
|
|||||||
| Factions | |||||||
| (Attacker) Wolf's Dragoons |
(Defender) Clan Wolf |
||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Othar | Haya Tetsuhara | ||||||
| Conditions | |||||||
| 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
The battle took place in a reduced area of Gienah.
Operation History
Factions & Known Units Involved in the Conflict
Clan Wolf
- Den Keshik
- 91st Wolf Guards Cluster
Wolf's Dragoons
Origin of Conflict
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. The survivors, already furious, were raging when knew than the now IlKhan payed their services with thirty coins of silver. After relieving and judging the 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 was enough, so he planned a daring attack against the Empire's heart.[2]
First Battle
Zeta arrived the 29 May 3152 at Gienah's Nadir's jump point, but posing as a Yellow Suns Free Guild JumpShip, their arrival was undetected. Zeta's DropShips moved to the planet... and the 6 June, his his JumpShip Talbot arrived at the same jump point. With two assault DropShips, the Elgrim and Falgrim, they easily took control of the jump point, easily destroying the only gaurd ship, the [[Pack Mule and captured the Tiamat (JumpShip).[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 the Wolf Viceroy. While Zeta landed, their fighter escort cleared low orbit of surveillance and communication satellites, blinding the Wolves.[4]
Zeta landed south of Alliago City, in an unpopulated area. 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; only the third managed to escape. The Wolves' aerospace fighters also attacked three Wolves approaching Broadsword DropShips, downing two. A third escaped. A Wolves Star of Mechs attempted to draw Zeta into a forest, but in vain: the Dragoons' Mechjs 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 top retreat to Alliago City on foot.[5]
Alliago City
The Dragoons didn't allowed the Wolves to retreat unmolested: their fighters harrased the 91th all the way, so only two Trinaries arrived to Alliago City. After the surviving wolves arrived to the capital, Zeta boarded their DropShips and landed besides the capital, with their forces engaging Othar's Den Keshik and the 91st in brutal combat. By 11 June, 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 the 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.[6]
Aftermath
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 91st annihilated, 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: to stole a sibko of Alaric Ward, to gave their members to all other Clans as a present or raise the ones they keep, to use them against the Wolves one day.[7][8]