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The Kingdom of Avalon

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Gyrfalcon:
August 4, 489 - While the Kingdom’s research establishment is in full swing turning prototype technologies into functional designs, the civilian sector marks the first launch of a civilian-flagged freighter belonging to le Marechal Interplanetary Freight.

Under King Adeluf’s reign, the Kingdom’s civilian space sector has been growing in leaps and bounds with the Navy’s own freighters and colony ship, alongside the establishment of twelve civilian mining ventures on five different comets. The minerals mined are currently being funneled to Io to help supply the new colony.

March 4, 490 - The first three Crete-B-class transports are laid down, with delivery expected in a little more than 2 years.

 March 27, 490 - The last of the raft of technologies for Project Phoenix are completed, and research picks up on the interrupted projects, with civilian technologies once again the main focus. The military shipyards around Earth begin retooling to produce the new ships, with twelve new hulls expected to be put down within the year. Meanwhile, factories on Earth are hard at work producing the new ordnance and fighters for the Navy. In short order, Selune is bustling with work as 13 new hulls are under construction alongside two refit projects.

The Governor of Earth, Erek Froissart is forced to do some very creative accounting to keep the outgoing expenditures from the King’s attention. Around 1,600 MCr per month, or 45% of the Kingdom’s expenditures is going towards the naval programs in the shipyards. To help balance the budget, an audit of the civilian mining operations is done and a number are diverted to the civilian economy as their output (primarily Duranium) is or will be Io’s primary mining export. While purchase of minerals from civilian sources remains an expenditure, it goes a long way to balancing the second largest line item on the Kingdom’s books.

August 15, 491 - The 1st Corvette Squadron clears the drydocks of Selune to little fanfare, assembling on the far side of the sprawling dockyards from Earth. A second squadron of corvettes is laid down, while the first begins their workup.

May 21, 492 - The first three Crete-class transports are launched, joined by the single Rio Grande-C that has so far been refitted. This allows the Kingdom to perform a combat drop with seven brigades of troops. The King orders a second squadron of transports laid down - once complete, the Army is directed to start removing the Legion remnants scattered around the Sol system, working their way up by scale of resistance.

August 6, 494 - The second squadron of Crete-class transports is launched. Together with the refitted Rio Grande-C ships, the King decrees that Expeditionary Force #4 will be tasked to clear the Moon of hostile forces.


Expeditionary Force #4
Navy Elements
Transport Division #1 - 3x Rio Grande-C Troop Transports - Carpathian, Matterhorn, Mount Everest
Transport Squadron #3 - 3x Crete-B Troop Transports - Himalayas, Krakatoa, Mont Blanc
Transport Squadron #4 - 3x Crete-B Troop Transports - Mount Rainier, Pyrenees, Rockies

Army Elements
Division XIII
- IAUX Infantry Auxilia III
- IAUX Infantry Auxilia IV
- LAUX Light Armiger Auxilia II
- MAUX Medium Armiger Auxilia II
Division XIV
- IBRG Infantry Brigade II
- IBRG Infantry Brigade III
- LBRG Light Armiger Brigade I
- MAUX Medium Armiger Brigade III
Division XVI
- IAUX Infantry Auxilia VII
- IAUX Infantry Auxilia VIII
- LBRG Light Armiger Brigade II
- LBRG Light Armiger Brigade III


August 8, 494 - The Expeditionary Force completes loading the Army units and sets out for the Moon.

The hostile forces have an orbital signature of 15,900 tons, compared to the expeditionary force’s drop capacity of 225,000 tons.

The combat drop goes off without a hitch, and the expeditionary force turns back to Earth to begin loading a second wave.

Meanwhile, the Army engages the hostile Legion forces. Initial estimates suggest they are facing around 1600 Legionnaire units, supported by around 100 IFV and two dozen main battle tanks.

The Army achieves 16 breakthroughs as their combat landings penetrate Legion defenses across the moon. Over 500 Legionnaires are destroyed in the fierce fighting for around 160 Armsmen and 16 Armigers.

Fighting over the rest of the next day continued in the same lopsided fashion, with the majority of the MBTs wiped out by an Armiger strike with few losses in return. By the end of the first day, the Legion’s back has been broken, and little remains to be done except to mop up the remnants.

The fleet elements are ordered to load the Corps of Engineers to begin bringing the ruins online before the Expeditionary Force moves out to the next targets.

Division XIII - 87% (32 LVLOG lost)
- Medium Armiger Auxilia II - 99% (1 MVAA lost)
- Light Armiger Auxilia II - 94% (9 LVGEN, 8 LVAA, 1 ILOG lost)
- Infantry Auxilia III - 92% (55 IPW, 33 ILAV, 27 ICAP, 5 ILOG lost)
- Infantry Auxilia IV - 100%
Division XIV - 87% (32 LVLOG lost)
- Medium Armiger Auxilia III - 100%
- Light Armiger Brigade I - 100%
- Infantry Brigade II - 95% (27 IPWI, 21 IHCAP, 19 ILAV, 1 ILOG lost)
- Infantry Brigade III - 98% (10 IPWI, 7 IHCAP, 8 ILAV lost)
Division XVI - 89% (27 LVLOG lost)
- Light Armiger Brigade II - 100%
- Light Armiger Brigade III - 98% (3 LVGEN, 2 LVAA lost)
- Infantry Auxilia VII - 98% (11 IPW, 7 IHCAP, 4 ILAV, 1 ILOG lost)
- Infantry Auxilia VIII - 99% (2 IPW,  IHCAP, 1 ILAV lost)

The battle was a resounding success for the Army and a testament to the reorganization. Damage to the Brigades was light, with all units above 90% of their pre-invasion strength and several emerging completely unscathed. Once the engineers are deployed on Luna, the Army will attack Mimas, Umbriel and Nereid where similar levels of resistance are expected.

After the current wave of invasions, the Army will rest and refit before moving on to larger concentrations - Metis, Dione and in particular Titan, where an unknown construct is present.

That will leave Mars as the final challenge for the Army, and the deployment there will wait on further expansion of the Army and the complete refit of the transport squadrons.

September 9, 494 - Mimas is invaded. In the initial orbital drops, nearly 90% of the estimated Legion forces are destroyed for the loss of two armsmen and five Armigers.

October 14, 494 - Engineers from the 2nd Construction Regiment uncover a cache of drives of esoteric design. Initial investigation suggests they may be capable of FTL travel between systems, though the mechanics and methods are unknown.

October 15, 494 - Umbriel is invaded. Initial estimates suggest that around 1,000 Legionnaires are present. Around a quarter are destroyed in the first hours of fighting against moderate losses for the Army. After reorganizing from the drop, the Army advances with the Armigers taking the lead, suffering 4 Armiger losses versus over 200 Legionnaire robots destroyed.

December 8, 494 - Nereid is invaded. The largest enemy concentration EF4 has yet faced, over 2,000 Legionnaires are present defending the installation. Despite that, the Army is forcing 3 to 1 losses on the robots, achieving multiple breakthroughs.

December 11, 494 - Expeditionary Force #4 has completed their objectives, wiping out the smaller Legion forces in the Sol system. In total around a hundred abandoned installations have been opened up for reclamation. The Divisions involved in EF4 will return to Earth for rest and refit. Once completed, the Army will be able to move on to the next phase of operations.

Once returned to Earth, many awards are handed out to the victorious officers and enlisted of the Royal Army. Perhaps the most meritorious goes to Colonel Sigune Boneth. Over her 10 year career, she has commanded the Army’s 6th Medium Regimental Combat Team during the Second Battle of Io, and has led the MAUX Auxilia II successfully during the most recent campaign. Units under her command have destroyed over 12,000 tons of enemy forces, the most of any officer in service.

January 3, 495 - The Corps of Engineers have finished with the ruins on Luna. The following buildings were recovered:


--- Code: (Luna) ---Population: 0m
Research Facility: 1
Construction Factory: 4
Ordnance Factory: 1
Fighter Factory: 1
Mine: 2
Automated Mine: 6
Fuel Refinery: 1
Maintenance Facility: 1
Financial Centre: 1
Terraforming Installation: 1
Deep Space Tracking Station: 1
Mass Driver: 1
Sector Command: 1
--- End code ---

It appears that Luna was once a naval outpost for the Ancients, but without any TN minerals to encourage development, the King is loath to invest resources in attempting to found and maintain a colony there. Instead, contracts are issued to move the installations on Luna to Earth and Io where they can be better put to use.

March 7, 495 - Expeditionary Force #4 has returned to Earth and has presented their total losses for the campaign to the Crown. These were remarkably light for the number of battles fought, totalling less than 500 Armsmen and 50 Armigers.


--- Code: ---LVLOG x 366
IHQ x 1
IPWI x 242
ILAV x 121
IHCAP x 119
ILOG x 36
LVAA x 13
LVGEN x 16
MVAA x 14
--- End code ---

Replacements will take 21 months to train and equip, at which point the Rio Grande transports will all be refitted and several more brigades will be ready, preparing the Army for the coming battles.

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