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Admiral Panerelli stood in the bridge of The Aldington and looked at the battle map with satisfaction, Dernel had suffered casualties, but so did everyone else. Dernel had lost 20 Asi class patrol boats, all 4 of the Gram class cruisers front two railguns had been melted to uselessness, about 3 Excalibur class destroyers had been damaged by ATS missiles from Leonism. The other carrier, The Plaiedes had taken heavy damage from a volley that Leonism had aimed specifically at capital ships. Even with all this damage it wasn't much compared to the whole of the fleet, acceptable casualties. The leonists were on the run, for now. Even with this Panerelli wouldn't advance, he wanted to make it clear that we will only be playing the defensive game here. "You come to my home, you lose, I go to yours, I lose." Now with that he would send the damaged ships back to Dernel to be repaired and replaced by the other parts of the fleet waiting for deployment.

The Satanic Fleet arrives in the south, and moves to link up with its forces around the Island.

Cossack Peoples wrote:

Imperial Naval Base Construction Site, 08:31

The three plastuns nearly went without resistance in The Sigometh Dynasty, apart from some border checkpoints they had to overwhelm and keep quiet for the time being. At the end of Wednesday the Eighth, Rostov had brought the army to bear at the construction site for the Marine of Leonism. Rostov himself, the grizzled lower general, inexplicably wished to ride on top of the artillery plastun’s mobile SAM vehicle with other soldiers, who he heckled about their conduct and unbecoming appearance of their uniforms.

Once the formation had stopped five kilometers from their destination at the shore, he hopped off and began to organize the seizure of the future facility. At noon, a light artillery barrage would target anything the VI-92 helicopters could spot, particularly any ships that could be used for evacuation. With WURCo. Type 9 Howitzers and their motorized counterparts ranging up to nearly fifteen kilometers, they would try and sink any hope of evacuation for the enemy in the base. The attack would begin in the evening as the infantry dismounted and armored vehicles fueled up.

Omega Basis construction site, The Sigometh Dynasty

Six Allianz class freighters were anchored near the shore or at the provisional harbour of the Imperial base construction site.

Each had had a crew of 90, meaning a total of 540 sailors were now at the base. In addition, the Nordstern and the Sturmtaube had carried the survivors from the two sunken freighters, Lachmöwe and Goldregen, in total an additional 143 men and women.

The sailors were all part of the Merchant Fleet, thus no professional soldiers, but instead reservists like all able-bodied Imperial citizens.

The freighters had not carried much in the way of military equipment: A standard issue M22A2 carbine for each crew member, twelve IWM PA-9 Panzerfaust anti-tank recoilless rifles, four ImpTec SSG14 sniper rifles and two ImpTec MG-11 machine guns.

Like in the naval battle that had just taken place, the LL9 portable point-defense lasers, of which each freighter had carried one, might play a key role. They were like a small scale version of the "Illuminator" class point defense laser, useful for intercepting grenades and rockets (but not bullets).

Other Imperial military assets at the site included a single F77 aerospace shuttle with a MedEvac team and six R44 aerospace superiority fighters from Epsilon-Green squadron, which had previously hunted the submarine in the Cossack Strait
They had been modified to carry torpedoes and sonar buoys, limiting the normally plentiful ordinance available against ground forces or aerial threats.

When the base personnel became aware of the incoming threat from over 1200 Cossack soldiers, they requested reinforcements immediately
But none would be able to reach them in time except for the two aerospace-craft in the Imperial Armed Forces that were capable of hypersonic travel: The F77 and the R44. F77s were still very expensive and rare, while R44s were more numerous but already needed in a lot of places.

Thus the only support on offer were three F77 shuttles carrying three Dekurien (30 men) of Imperiales Heer special forces, and a single Halbstaffel of 6 R44 fighters equipped for the fighter-bomber role.
They would arrive within the next hour.

Once again, a numerically inferior Imperial force would have to fend off more numerous Compact forces.

An interesting question was wheter the local The Sigometh Dynasty military would resist the blatant infringement of their territory by their northern neighbour, with which they had previously been on good terms.

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Leonism wrote:

ISS Leeste

On the new flagship of the South Sea Fleet, Admiral I. Klasse Ludwig Ehler was studying the casualty reports. He was still uncertain of his decision to withdraw from the battle, as the Compact seemed to run low on missiles and especially the Cossack Fleet had taken a heavy beating. While the ISS Souverän was sinking, Ehler still had four combat ready battleships and over a dozen Perzen class heavy cruisers. It was remarkable how these two seemingly outdated designs, based mainly around naval artillery guns, had fared comparably well in this battle. The smaller Bremen class corvettes and the larger Pilum class missile cruisers had fared the worst. Two Dominator class carriers, prime targets for the Compact, had also been sunk. The Skylancer class frigates, possibly Ehler's most valuable assets, had all survived the battle largely unscathed, although the Fliegenfänger had lost most of its weapons.

When Raumwaffe scouts relayed new reconnaissance footage of Compact reinforcements from Greater catarapania, Ehler knew he had made the right decision. Withdraw, regroup, assess. The Imperium and its allies would ultimately have to win the war, not just one battle.

Looking again at the casualty reports and comparing them with the casualty assessments for the enemy fleet, Ehler was sure that this First Battle of the Strait had been a draw, or even a phyrric victory for the Compact...

OOC: Pyrrhic it may be but its proof that the South can still win and on that note...

General Broadcast

"My Southern Brothers. We stand here today after the first conflict of the North-South War. The Battle for the Strait has ended in a Compact victory. Truly, we are meant to be the saviors of the South. A guiding light for all southerners. Northern imperialism, however, is not yet crushed. Leonism still intends to build their colonial garrisons and have caused the New vedan Civil War to spiral even more out of control. I want to point out that it was a Leonist spy who killed Kragnorak, a candidate for the Presidency who wasn't very pro-internationalist, and they sabotaged the elections.

Even now, they seek to bring the war home. I say no. The Compact still stands. We are united in our goals of shared freedom. Of shared prosperity. Of hope for a Free South. A Compact that is built on brotherhood and is dedicated to defending all Southerners from the North. We will not hesitate and we will not waver. This war is not over. It will not be over until the Northerners have agreed to leave the South and take their garrisons with them. History will side with us and we hope that all who listen to this message side with our noble cause of freedom."

Aigania - Satanic empire BORDER. MIDNIGHT.

“Delta-9 to Border Control. Long range sensors have detected a group of slaves crossing into Aigania through the Smugglers Pass” “Roger" - "We will send a medical team inmediatly. Hold the position”. The decommissioned and refurbished tank rushed throughout the partially flooded swamp and thick vegetation.

“Look Mama, we are already there!” the tiny and emaciated girl whispered in the group as they were crawling toward the border. Alas it was too late. A Pit Lord riding a Nightmare has spotted them with his hunting Cerberus.
“RUN!!”

Delta-9 accelerated to the border, it cannot risk to cause an incident so it can only watch for the distance as the refugees run to the river with the demon approaching them lefting a trailblaze of fire.

“We are almost there!” they shouted, the Pit Lord has nearly reached them, Delta-9 was on the other side on top of a small hill. Then a howl thundered the night, a genetically engineered escaped dragon, waiting to the chance to cross to the Empire hiding beneath the waters, awakened by the magic of the Demon and launched towards the fleeing slaves with its mouth wide open. An orange flame began to form between its jaws.

“Delta-9 to Border Control. Red Alert. Enemy Detected. Primary Function. Protection of Lives”, “Target Adquired. Opening Fire.” and a blue streak of Cherenkov radiation trailed the plasma shot, filling the air with an ozone smell, towards the dragon. Unfortunately the Pit Lord shooted at the same time a mana enhanced fireball filling the air with a sulphurous stench towards the escaping slaves, while the Dragon was about to incinerate them.

**COMMUNICATIONS INTERRUPTED**

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I updated the War in the South dispatch with all the relevant posts from the last two days:

So, New Rogernomics, what does it mean to spread "MMPH?" :)

Treadwellia wrote:

So, New Rogernomics, what does it mean to spread "MMPH?" :)

I imagine it would involve a great big feast, good cheer, and copious amounts of alcohol.

Leonism wrote:

An interesting question was wheter the local The Sigometh Dynasty military would resist the blatant infringement of their territory by their northern neighbour, with which they had previously been on good terms.

"What? A Cossack army deep within your borders? Must be a GPS glitch in a heavily armed trade caravan, for sure."