Progress At SierraGround troops at Sierra gain 4 dominion.
Progress At NovemberGround troops at November gain 4 dominion.
Holding at JuliettGround troops at Juliett become the first to observe a Liiran invasion force.
It's rather remarkably similar to an orbital bombardment.
Dozens of hardened projectiles are fired into the planet, their source in orbit and well beyond the GREAT regiment's means of scanning or classifying, and bury themselves deeply. Seismic sensors detect continued reverberations long after the initial bombardment, as though the projectiles were... digging themselves deeper into the planet.
Within hours, sinous tendrils begin growing out of the impact sites and lace around the perimeter like the frills of a venus flytrap. A short few days later, the first of their infantry boil out of the ground.
The Liiran infantry are definitely not Liir. Eight-legged and low to the ground, they resemble something more akin to particularly fleshy ants or overgrown centipedes- and they crawl over terrain with an unnerving jerking gait- alternating between sudden motion and complete stillness seemingly without transition. Six clawed legs give them envious traction and ability to cling to vertical surfaces, and their two forearms appear to be armed with some kind of thermal beam weapon- though Gaian infantry seldom see it used. Overall, they seem fleshy and susceptible to small-arms fire- but there are a lot of them and they have the unnerving propensity to burrow into and out of cracks and crevices.
Worse, more than one Gaian scouting report shows smaller, paler, and softer looking specimens- indicating that these creatures are rapidly breeding on site.
There are no hostilities between the two forces, and as long as the Gaians move back whenever the creatures approach, they seem harmless enough- but their alien movement and swarming numbers make the Gaians on the ground
very glad they don't have to fight through them.
Progress at RomeoGround troops at Romeo gain 3 dominion, reduced from last round due to the shift in deployment.
Progress At KiloGround troops at Kilo gain 4 dominion.
Progress at MikeGround troops at Mike gain 4 dominion.
TangoPerhaps, had a poet been the first to lay eyes on the Tango system after crossing the Aperture, they would have described it as 'Numinous' or some other ten-penny word for the haunting feeling you get when you tread over a threshold that was not built for your feet, and over which you were never intended to cross.
The Pacemaster that first enters Tango, however, lacks a poet. In lieu of that, the crew swear and make superstitious warding gestures in a way that only a Pacemaster crew can- all done very carefully in order to not interfere with ship's functionality.
Tango's star burns quite cold- a massive red hyper-giant of staggering proportion. Considerably north of a billion miles in diameter, she burns an ancient light on a single, moonless world of considerable size floating far in her outer orbit. Yet that world is not the only orbital body in the system.
Hundreds of deltohedrons, oriented with their poles matching the sun, orbit silently. They vary in size, but not one is shorter tip to tip than a kilometer, and the largest is nearly thirty. Their material is akin to smoky glass, partially penetrable to sensors, but returning nonsensical readings after an inordinantly long delay. They don't seem to have any hostile function, or any function at all that the Pacemaster's meager sensors are capable of detecting, and the Pacemaster sidles on by on her way to drop troops off on the planet's surface.
Ground LandingThe entire surface of Tango is covered in the same material as the deltohedrons, sheets and sheets of the material butting up into fantastical mountain ranges of razor-edged splendor. Here and there a bizarre spiral of an unidentifiable metal whorls across the surface, but those exceptions are the only relief in the material.
It's rather unsettling when soldiers start realizing that this planet should at least be coated in a thick layer of stellar dust- unless the life on this planet consists of world-champion hide and seek roombas.
Progress on such a planet is exceedingly slow, and collecting survey data is impossible. There's no atmosphere, and all the readings on the glassy material return impossible and chaotic readings. Attempts to cut into the glassy material are partially successful, but it's insanely slow going that's quickly abandoned in favor of further exploration.
1 Dominion Gained
Design Phase of Year 3 ResourcesDice: 6
T: 12160 + 2500
O: 49639 + 7500
M: 11568 + 7500
E: 10463 + 5000
S: 543 + 500
Bioplastic armor auto-completed!Garrotte auto-completed!L'Épée des Astres: 3/10 [3] | 5T + 100M+ 50E | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Oscar
Fleets
Ground - 2/10 [We] 8/10
3x GREAT - 1x Bumble Attached
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Sierra
Fleets
-Fleet Gaia
2 C&C Expedition
2 Galactica Expedition
3 Crowd Control Forays
1 Bore PD Foray
1 Strike Foray
2 Budget transport
3 Rapid escort
Overall Issues: Missing 157 Hornet Fighters from overall loadout.
Ground - 8/10
3x GREAT - 1x Bumble Attached
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November
Fleets
Ground - 8/10
3x GREAT - 1x Bumble Attached
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Juliet
Ground - 4/10
1x GREAT
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Romeo
Fleets
-Fleet Iris-Hong
2 C&C expedition
1 Galactica
1 Budget transport
2 Rapid escort
-Fleet Nautilus
1 Budget transport
Ground - 7/10
2x GREAT - 1x Bumble Attached
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Kilo
Fleets
Ground - 8/10
3x GREAT - 1x Bumble Attached
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Mike
Fleets
-Fleet Reindeer
1 Galactica -> Crippled Bore Drive, Heavy overall damage, 20% vessel cost* to fix
1 Budget transport
Overall Issues: Missing 170 Hornet Fighters from overall loadout Missing 4 bumble drones from overall loadout.
Ground - 8/10
3x GREAT - 1x Bumble Attached
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Tango
Fleets
-Fleet Nautilus
1 Budget transport
Ground - 1/10
3x GREAT - 1x Bumble Attached
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Gaia
Fleets
-Fleet Progress
1 Cargomaster
-Fleet Khumalo
1 Cargomaster
Ground - 10/10
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