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THEATRE OF OPS PROCYON / OMICRON ERIDANI
MISSION CLASS OPERATION: GALACTIC SHIELD
TASK ORIGINATOR UFN


Commander, the situation in Procyon is steadily going from bad to worse and it does not look like it is going to get any better. Though we have been an observation force in the past years, maintaining neutrality in the region as talks continue between the Empirians and the Vesperons over control of the region, a new variable has been introduced to this conflict.

We now have confirmed reports that the Vesperons, in an attempt to tip the scales, have been employing the use of mercernary raiders and Insurgents, to further destabilize the region and claim victory. They have also initiated a direct attack on the stations within the Procyon regions.

The UFN has broken off its diplomatic status with the Vesperons and as of this morning, they were effectively no longer a tentative member of GALCOM.

In addition, the Procyon and Procin stations are under heavy attack and will most likely be under hostile control by the time we have new forces in the region.

This mission, commanders, is the largest co-ordinated strike in the history of GALCOM. Never before has a strike of this magnitude, ever been executed to such a scale. This strike will be co-ordinated on several fronts as follows:

PRIME FLEET will proceed to Canaan and (1) deploy a marine strike team from the 15th Space Marine Battalion to destroy the Badran and Frellis starbases as well as all supporting assets in the vicinity (2) proceed to Omicron Eridani and capture the Eridani and Ramis stations. On successful completion, the fleet is to maintain a patrol profile in the system until otherwise advised.

ORION FLEET will proceed to Procyon and (1) deploy a marine strike team from the 7th Orbital Marine Battalion to destroy the raider base on Actis-IV as well as the Insurgent base on Actis-V (2) defend or re-capture the Procyon station.

ISS FLEET will proceed to Procyon and (1) deploy a marine strike team from the 666th Covert Ops Arm to assist the 7th Orbital Marine Battalion in the destruction of the raider and Insurgent bases on Actis-IV and Actis-V (2) defend or re-capture the Procin station.

WRAITH FLEET will remain on patrol profile in Polaris and (1) deploy marine strike teams from the 15th Space Marine Battalion and the 7th Orbital Marine Battalion to destroy all Insurgent bases detected on Polaris-1 and Polaris-2 (2) vector all non-military traffic out of Polaris 2, preventing them from entering the strike zone. The task of the Wraith Fleet is particularly to terminate, with extreme prejudice, any and all hostile ships, related to the conflict in an attempt to prevent them from entering Procyon.

SCID Fleet will patrol all areas of conflict within Procyon and terminate any and all detected space or planetary Insurgent assets.

Commanders, keep it simple. Keep it clean. Make it swift.


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At the same time, the GALCOM cloning project comes under fire after one of the GCV-Svoboda's Interceptor pilots, who was cloned in an emergency and returned to the flight roster, suffers a degradation of memory and personality constructs. This pilot, originally killed during the conflict with the Vesperons in January of 3001, causes much upheaval amongst the crew of the Svoboda. (TOL)

October 3001 - Fleet Commander Gareth DeSylva is acting as an envoy on the Earth Command station of Warmage when a bomb is detonated within his quarters. A large section of the station is damaged, DeSylva's quarters, and those of his wife, are completely destroyed, and their remains are never recovered. A memorial service is held later that month. Commander Gary Renwick takes over command of the GCV-First Light, and command of the InSystem Support fleet is handed to Fleet Commander Jeehun Ristar.

February 3003 - A group of ships are thrown into the thick of a new plot when they discover that the many threads that tie Vorne’s defection and the Gammulan war are all linked to one source - a source known only as the BSP. As they delve further, they find a conspiracy that encompasses not only worlds, but entire races - and no one is safe from the holocaust that is coming... (Fragments)

June 3004 - The crew of the GCV-Chikuma are told that the Supreme Commander himself has been killed and are vectored into unknown space on a secret mission. The ship's commander, Commander Stone, is fooled into taking the mission by Fleet Commander Stiles of Orion Fleet. The mission is, in fact, a preemptive strike, aimed not at the Gammulans, but at the Droidans and their homeworld. Through great bravery and self sacrifice, the Chikuma's crew are able to retake their ship from the homicidal Marine Colonel Mallone, discover the true target for their mission, and destroy the R.A.N.D.O.M device that is set to obliterate the Droidan homeworld. The Chikuma is later scuttled due to the severe damage it sustained during the mission, the crew reassigned. Fleet Commander Karl Savage takes over Orion Fleet.(PS)

June 3006 - The Gammulan Empire, allied with the Valkyrie, attempt an invasion of Mandorian and Kandorian territories. War erupts, and fighting lasts for six months, until the Gammulan forces are pushed back into Gammulan and Valkerie territories. GALCOM is instrumental in this war effort in sending support troops to aid the Kandorians and Mandorians in this war. In this first test of GALCOM's power outside of it's own territories, it proves that Gammulan expansion by force will not be tolerated.

13th March 3008 - The Gammulan War Council is overturned and a new order is established. The Gammulan fleet masses for an immediate invasion of Terran space. (Prelude)

March 3008 - The Second Gammulan War erupts. For four days, March 14th to the 18th, a wave of Gammulan forces systematically obliterate the advance facilities of GALCOM's Wraith Fleet from hiding places in asteroid belts and debris fields in and around Gammulan, Credian, and Terran space. They then mass for a frontal attack on Sol from Lyrius. The last remnants of Wraith Fleet manage to hold off the Gammulan forces in a sixteen hour running battle through Sirius space, until Prime and Orion Fleet reinforcements arrive to bolster the flagging fleet and hold the Gammulans back.

This battle, known as the Wraith Massacre, would be the first confrontation of a war that would ultimately last until 3014.

Terran bases and colonies in the Sirius, Polaris, and Procyon systems are captured and the residents placed under arrest in their homes by Gammulan forces. Rumours of atrocities being committed in the Procyon system filter through to Terran media services. By the end of the war, civilian casualties are estimated at around 3.2 million lives. The raider presence in Sirius is eliminated, with Starstation Pixan being destroyed. The trader stations of Centron and Velari are captured by Gammulan forces. The GCV-First Light is destroyed defending retreating Wrath Fleet ships.(Fragments / GWII)

May 3008 - The capture of the Insurgent Akira, during the early days of the Second Gammulan War, threatens to destabilise UFN-Insurgent relations further. Rattler, Insurgent One, realises that a war between the UFN and the Insurgents would simply weaken both groups and leave Terran space vulnerable to the encroaching Gammulan forces. As a result, he recruits a group of Insurgent and GALCOM commanders in order to liberate Akira, before his incarceration triggers a war that neither side can win. Along with a paid Mercenary component, they attempt to infiltrate a secret Earth Command base to liberate Akira. (ITF)

May 3008 - In the second major space confrontation in the Second Gammulan War, a combined EarthCOM and GALCOM fleet pushes through to hold the Lyrius region of Sirius. Nearly fifteen Terran capital ships are lost, as opposed to twenty five Gammulan capital ships. The Gammulans reinforce their position behind the Lennen jumpate.

October 3008 - While repeated clashes occur between Terran and Gammulan forces across the Lyrius-Lennen battlefield, reserve Gammulan forces are pushing into Insurgent and Raider territory. By the end of October 3008, Gammulan forces occupy Barnard's Star, Polaris, and Procyon. the Raiders are quickly vanquished, but the invasion of Barnard's Star costs Gammulan forces heavily as the Insurgents resist the Gammulan incursion, before pulling back and filtering through to their secret base in Credian territory.

April 3009 - Terran forces mount another push, managing to smash their way into Lennen and hold the Lennen side of the Polaris-2 jump point. The Battle of Lennen costs Terran forces nearly ten thousand lives, while the Gammulans manage to escape relatively unscathed, falling back and abandoning Lennen when they become outnumbered.

Construction begins on Starstation Liberty, a fortified outpost built in the remains of Pixan Starstation, that will house the Terran Area Command. It's construction takes approximately four months.

December 3009 - A combined GALCOM Prime, Orion, and EarthCOM force, codenamed Unicorn, manages to penetrate Barnard's Star and establish a foothold in the Zilon region. With support from the science outpost Toron 1 in Krystar, as well as Trader security forces from the trading outpost at Toron 2 in Rebellan, they begin a concentrated campaign against Gammulan forces in the area.

May 3010 - The Battle of Two Fronts is fought in Sygan, the old home of the Insurgency and now a Gammulan stronghold. The remains of the Unicorn force launch a final attack on the Gammulan forces operating out of Starstation Sygan, and are joined by a second force of Wraith Fleet craft attacking from Lennen. In an eight hour battle, Starstation Sygan is destroyed and the Gammulan Fleet is all but obliterated. This is the first major Gammulan loss in the war. Gammulan forces begin to regroup in Polaris and Procyon. In what is to become a standard tactic, Gammulan forces scatter when the call to retreat is made and hide throughout the Barnard's Star and Tau Ranis systems, continuing to make sporadic raids and attacks until the end of the war..

October 3010 - The 133rd Space Marine Battalion (Strike), nicknamed the "Serpent's Cross", defect in their entirety to Gammulan forces. In a battle known as the Turning War, the 133rd Space Marine Battalion turn on their counterparts, the 143rd Space Marine Battalion (Strike) in the midst of a fight with Gammulan forces. All of the ships of the 143rd are destroyed and the Serpent's Cross disappear behind enemy lines.

EarthCOM renegade hunters manage to capture only two of the renegade vessels. Interrogation of the Command Crews of these craft reveals that the Commanding Officer of the 133rd Space Marine Battalion, Fleet Commander Terence Dreyton, a talented GALCOM officer, was lured to defect with the promise of a High Command position in the Gammulan Empire.

The 133rd Space Marine Battalion took with it 30 GALCOM capital ships and around 25,000 GALCOM personnel. A month later, three of the Battalion's transports are discovered in Polaris-2, loaded with nearly ten thousand dead Terrans, presumably those who refused to defect.

By the end of the war, only 10 of the ships of the 133rd Space Marine Battalion would be recovered or destroyed. It is assumed that the remaining craft and their crew were retained by the Gammulans for study and research.

April 3011 - A concerted Gammulan counterstrike lays siege to Starstation Liberty in Lennen. Over the course of a week, Gammulan forces blockade the station, fending off four attempts to recapture the station. Eventually, the crew of the Liberty evacuate, and half of the evacuation craft are destroyed, the remainder being picked up by Terran forces in the area. The Command Crew of the station remain on board, capitulating to the Gammulan forces, before self-destructing the station. In doing so, they destroy both themselves and six Gammulan capital ships attempting to board the station.

The loss of a foothold in Lennen leads to Terran forces having to withdraw to Lyrius. For the first time in the war, Sol begins to be fortified in anticipation of Gammulan forces breaking through. Over the next year, Terran forces manage to hold off numerous Gammulan assaults, taking heavy losses. This time becomes known as the Dark Days.

January 3012 - GALCOM diplomats strike a bargain with Syrion forces. The enigmatic biomechanicals agree to mobilise a part of their army to provide a military force that can guard the GALCOM territories and defend them from an attack from the rear, as occurred in the First Gammulan War. As a result, EarthCOM and the GALCOM allied races are able to throw their remaining ships into the war effort. The Vesperons and Empirians are initially reluctant to commit, but as the Terran war effort falters in Sirius and the Gammulans threaten to penetrate Sol itself, they realise that an invasion of Sol means that an attack on Empirian and Vesperon territories could be imminent.

March 3012 - With the new ships, the combined GALCOM and EarthCOM forces are able to push back into Lennen and recommence attacks on the bulk of the Gammulan forces in Polaris-2. In a large scale battle known as the Battle of Longreach-424, named after a comet that was passing through the area of the battle, GALCOM and allied fighters use the tail of the comet to launch a series of hit and fade attacks on Gammulan forces, until they retreat from Lennen.

The close of the Battle of Longreach-424, after approximately five days, sees the loss of 38 GALCOM and EarthCOM allied capital ships and around 65 Gammulan capital ships. The GALCOM and Terran forces begin construction of a more heavily fortified starstation in orbit around Lennen, to house Area Command, and it is christened on it's completion as Starstation Victory.

June 3012 - Luis Ontego, a 35 year old Terran GACOM scientist, develops the Area Defense Shield, a type of shield generator able to project stable, large scale 360 degree defensive fields. This new technology is earmarked for inclusion into the new GALCOM battlecruiser under development to assist in the war effort, code named Starion.

September 3013 - The turning point of the war for the Terrans occurs when they launch the final strike of a covert operation in the Polaris-2 region. A large scale Hyperion manufacturing facility and a major Gammulan Fleet preparing to attack Sol is discovered and destroyed with the use of two powerful nuclear devices mounted on ships flown by pilots operating out of the GCV-Armidale, a GALCOM military ship.

January 3014 - With the loss of the GCV-Armidale, a new Megaron class carrier is released into the InSystem Support Fleet, and is christened the GCV-First Light, in memory of the original ship. Commander Gary Renwick is made commander of this new ship.

February 3014 - With the tide of the war beginning to turn in Terran favour, and Terran resources running desperately low, the Starion project is put on hold indefinitely.

July 3014 - In a decisive strike against Gammulan forces, a large GALCOM / EarthCOM fleet pushes through the remaining Gammulan defences in Polaris-2 to strike directly at the Gammulan starbase and war command in Polaris-1. At the same time, a small group of ISS and Wraith covert marines penetrate Procyon space to plant a tactical nuclear device on the secondary command facility in orbit around Actis IV. With the back of the Gammulan command broken in these two places, the Gammulans begin a steady withdrawal through the Credian quadrant.

August 3014 - GALCOM and UFN diplomats begin negotiations with Credian and Zelon forces to try and close the space lanes to future Gammulan forces. These negotiations are for the most part unsuccesful, although the Zelons agree to limit Gammulan military fleet movement through their territory, as well as to impose trade sanctions on the Gammulans in retaliation for the war.