General John Lynch GCO OLL ONS
Fort Akkadira, central Esrin Province
Sun's Dawn 5, 3E5 , 1100 hours [UDT-7]
John acknowledged all of the General's and high ranking officers, re-assuring General Khan that he'd address her concerns in due time and greeted the Caledonian general and then returned the friendly greeting from Greenville before asking them to all sit down at the elongated mahony conference table that dominated the center of the room. The room itself was decently large, approximately fifty yards in width and just as long in length, the conference table took up the center of the room, with the front wall dominated by several built in monitors on the edges of the wall while the center was occupied by a large central monitor. All were turned on but appeared to be in a dormant state, a 3D representation of the logos of the CDI and the Legion floating next to each other.
John waited for all six of the officers to sit down before snapping at one of his enlisted aides in the room, who promptly closed all of the shades on the windows of the room and flicked on the low LED lighting that briefly illuminated the room just enough to see everything and everyone. She then stepped outside and brought a cart into the room, with seven laptops, each emblazoned with the CDI logo with the sword of the Legion behind it, colored blue. The aide promptly distributed the military-grade laptops to each of the officers and Lynch promptly instructed them to open the laptops, at which point the OS would automatically boot up the system and display a digital map of the Itailia mainland. At the front of the room, John stood with a laser pointer in his hand near the large monitor as it flicked on and projected the same map, and he began the briefing. " Ladies, Gentlemen, thank you for coming. This briefing will take a bit, so you will find coffee, tea and refreshments behind you on the white tables at the back of the room. The laptops that were distributed have been programmed to hold all files relative to this briefing, you'll be able to search them by hitting the F7 key. Otherwise, they'll follow along with the visual presentations I'll be doing here on the main monitor. Operation Red Nepos is our primary plan for defending the Drakkar Province and essentially the whole Empire. The main proponent of this plan is of course, the Rubicon Line."
John paused and with the laser ran it over the line, which appeared in the form of a thick red line just a few fingers from the Rodarion border. " The Rubicon Line, which you were already all briefed on with the files my office sent over, was built about a decade ago and has subsequently been maintained since. If you watched the news, you will have noticed that the entirety of the Imperial Legion has been recalled home and deployed along the border. It numbers currently about four million in total, but we've deployed our most veteran Legions along the border, numbering just under a million soldiers. The Line's readiness will be fully complete in approximately five hours and at which point, it shall be ready for war. Gentlemen, we shall, we need, to hold them at this Line. To go over how the Line works, it's first phase is a large field of barbed wire, with hidden spotter outposts and racks to direct fire and act as human fire control. A few meters behind where the wire stops is a number of about five thousand hulls of old LY4A2 Wolfhound tanks which were pulled out of storage. Each of the tanks has been equipped with a remote control system and from there, operators in the various Castra's will use the tanks to fire upon the advancing enemy. Behind the tank network is a massive network of trenches with numerous pillboxes, bunkers, centers and firing stations which is where a majority of our men shall be stationed. Our goal is to ensure with fire from the trenches, Castra's and tanks that the enemy never breaches the wire. If they do, we hold them at the trenches. In addition to this, each of the 311 Castra's have built in airstrips, missile silo's and artillery emplacements, which will be used to infinitely shell the Rodarions to their heaven."
John sighed and then a secondary thinner line appeared on the map, blue in color, and went from border to border, by the cities of Arpissa, Leve, and Pezamy. " This is what we have dubbed the "The Net" and our secondary defense line, a fallback point should the Line fall. General Khan, I'm aware you have a high amount of mechanized elements, so we'd advise deploying those along with any similar units from your other forces at this secondary line. It'll be used if any stray breaches occur, such as a lone company or brigade. In addition, should the Line fall, we'll use this as the next point to wear the enemy down."
" Gentlemen, that is Phase I. Phase II is a rather simple Phase; while we're holding the Line and holding their full attention, do note the word full, Emmerian, Itailian and any other available Special Forces units will use deploy from various locations and perform a massive SEAD campaign. I'm sure you are all aware of the massive S-400 network they have managed to assemble and it is vital to Phase III that they are neutralized. Once the SEAD campaign is complete, instantaneously, thousands of bombers here in Itailia will be launched from airbases all over the nine provinces and execute a massive strike on the Rodarion lands. In your files, it will say we'll be targeting major cities and military installations. Any questions? "
Praefectus Gaius Oranius Laevinus
Palatine de Laevinus, Praefectus's Office
Sun's Dawn 5, 3E5 12:01 PM [UDT-7]
" They did what?!?"
The young Praefectus spit out his coffee at the middle aged political aide of his who just informed him of the dozens of attacks all over the city, primarily the massacre in the pagan district and the bold attack on the Imperial Police Authority's city headquarters. The attack was finally neutralized, but it left many dead. " They managed to kill around forty policemen before they were taken down. Similarily, we have hundreds of dead in Narcium and reports from police put the LRA and insurgents coming from the Laeceum District. "
" Shut it down. Get the Justicars in there, I want that district quarantined off immediately. Anything even moves with a firearm and they get shot. Get Barius on the phone if he's still alive, I'm issuing a Protocol 11 over the entire city. Also, have Sarah patch me into Don Flavius's office."
The aide nodded and within minutes, the phone on Gaius's desk was ringing, the ruler, one of the members of the Council of Ten, Don Flavius, on the other end. Gaius took in a deep breath before he took the red phone off of it's receiver and held it too his ear. " Sorry for disturbing you m'lord, but we have a situation here in Nece. It's gone hot; these insurgents just launched dozens of attacks all over the city. I've mobilized the Justicars to block off the Christian district, but the police have been neutralized with their chain of command and reaction stations taken down. "
The response was quick from the Don, no hesitation in his voice, and what he said made Gaius pale " The Order? You sure that's a wise idea sir? I've issued a Protocol 11 yes, but I have no desire to see this city become a war zo-"
One could hear yelling from the other end of the phone and Gaius went silent " Yes sir, I'll prepare the city and be at your Palatine in a few minutes."
The phone call was terminated and Gaius walked out of his spacious office and opened the double french doors, revealing a lobby and his secretary's office. " Sarah, send everyone home and tell them to get out of the city. Now. Also, have my detail ready, I'm taking the chopper to Diolia now."
Sarah nodded as the Praefectus was quickly surrounded by black clothed members of his personal security detail as they made their way towards the roof top chopper.
Eques Galus Titius Bato
Order of the Drake Chapterhouse, Diolia, Drakkar
Sun's Dawn 5, 3E5, 12:05 [UDT-7]
" Let's move it boys, wheels up in ten minutes! "
Galus set down the black phone that was tied into the Chapterhouse's intercom system and grabbed his TAG-34 rifle off of the table he had sent it on and quickly moved through the hallways, filled with dozens of his fellow brothers and sisters, garbed in black tactical wear and MPBAS armor vests, filled to the brim with magazines and their full combat load. Galus was apart of a unique organization, the Order of the Drake, which was one of the 10 Order's in the Empire. There was one Order per Great House, and they answered directly to said House. They operated in a grey legal area and were usually very mysterious, and as such, viewed negatively or feared by the public usually. Typically, they sat around doing intelligence work mostly but the order had just come down four minutes ago from the Don himself to mobilize to Nece and help exterminate the insurgency once and for all.
Galus's force was a respectable size, all eight hundred Knights from this Chapterhouse, as well as another twenty four hundred Knight's from Chapterhouses all over the province. Normally, they would load up in their C-10 Minotaurs and land in at the international airport in Nece, but reports had come in about a MANPAD shooting down an Arthuristan cargo plane that was attempting to land, so it was decided that the Knights would parachute in outside the city and then move into the city. They also had around three dozen LA-217 Reaver gunships on station to provide close air support within the city. Gods, the battle shall be quick, and glorious.
It took Galus just a few minutes to scour the building and ensure all of his men and women were on the awaiting C-10 outside on their private airstrip before jogging into the awaiting C-10 himself, a seat up top at the front of the plane saved for him by the pilot, who Galus waved on and thanked as he departed towards the cockpit. Within a few seconds, the enormous strategic lifter had already taken off, all the men and women inside solemn as the grave as they were prepared to do their jobs.
