Post by Aiman on Mar 4, 2022 16:33:40 GMT
(This is the autoresolve to a larger parent RP: Seven Ortina Sunsets)
Arkan Isthmus
Eastern Ortina
Ground, Kaskan Cultural Institute
After hours of protracted fighting around Zeya-1 and the Kaskan Cultural Institute, where the 334th Singapore Infantry Division (SID) had been entrenched, Mai units have finally broken through. It was now official - the invasion has begun proper.
The 334 SID’s positions was practically destroyed. Initially they stubbornly held on, pounding the Mai divisions crossing the bridge with long range fires, and dug in deep, resisting counter-fire from the Mai tank destroyer divisions behind their lead unit, the 343 MRD. However, air cover over Interniki and its surrounding regions quickly dwindled. The first opening air war severely crippled RANGSI air capabilities, and there were not enough aircraft to intercept against all the aircraft Mai was throwing in the second air war.
The inevitable and the unthinkable happened - all air wings from Pelangi to Interniki were lost. With the airspace shifting to Mai’s favour, Mai aircraft began to hunt down targets of opportunity down on the ground.
Anti-tank missiles and bombs destroyed the artillery companies of 334 SID’s Brigade A, along with many other entrenched tank positions along the ridge. But they still held on, with infantry ATGM and mortar positions taking the lead to stem the Mai advance.
What finally silenced Brigade A was an anti-bunker bomb from the 506th SBW, who had just finished destroying the 987th FBW’s airbase. The entire mountain literally collapsed into a massive landslide, the liquidized sea of dirt and rock piling onto the southern roads. Brigade A was swept along by the landslide, which then engulfed the entirety of Brigade C’s positions, drowning everyone in a sea of dirt.
With the horrifying end of Brigade A and C, Brigade B knew their defensive line was lost and began to retreat northwards to Soverniki, under the heavy fire from Mai gunships.
The Mai units then crossed the bridge and captured Zeya-1. Within the city, the seeker swarms were largely successful in pacifying the city militia brigade. The Ant Company SOF were meanwhile thwarted in their attempts to extract HVTs, ambushed and surrounded by the Friends of Mai. Knowing that any more fighting was pointless when they have already failed their mission, and with no division to return to, the Ant Company surrendered.
The sun has set over Ortina.
Gulf of Falanga
Eastern Ortina
Bridge to Soverniki, Night
The night offers no respite.
In the age of modern warfare, where night optics and thermals were as standard issue as skivvies, the night was of no time to rest - it was a time to extend the assault, the limited visibility and the fatigue of RANGSI soldiers were excellent opportunities exploited to the fullest by the Mais.
Reports about the area around Interniki basically painted a grim picture. With 334 SID and RANGSI air cover out of play, the 770 SID that was sent to intercept the 1000 MMD’s landings became extremely vulnerable. Constant air strikes and gunship runs disrupted any of their efforts to build fortified defensive positions along the coast, and after suffering heavy casualties, the 770 SID was forced to retreat and seek shelter within Interniki to reduce further losses. 1000 MMD’s amphibious assault went practically uncontested, and opened a second front towards Pelangi.
To the north near Soverniki, the 334 SID Brigade B, now battered and almost left with little to no vehicles from the constant gunship strikes along the way, hastily dug in with improvised fighting positions near the bridge leading to Soverniki. They received an ominous message from REGICOM: “You are the only manoeuvre unit available to defend Soverniki and the Refinery controls within.”
If the situation permitted, they would have crossed the bridge, and dug in within Soverniki itself, but with them now mostly on foot, they were not able to reach in time. Now, the only ones on the bridge were the brigade’s combat engineering teams, wiring explosives and mining the bridge.
Everyone knew. This was the end of the line.
The six Mai divisions that crossed the Arkan Isthmus, after reorganising for a few hours in Zeya-1, were now hot on their heels, moving in force to attack what was left of the 334 SID guarding the bridge to Soverniki. Their gunships, as usual, moved to strike first pounding ground positions with missiles and autocannon fire. What was left of Brigade B’s air defence assets moved to respond. SAMs and tracers streaked through the night sky. A few gunships were mowed down, but the Mai aerial advance was undeterred. Calling in SEAD missions and painting RANGSI SPAAGs as targets, Restevian-made fighter-bombers from the 215th FBW screamed overhead and launched anti-radiation missiles. Within minutes, the last of Brigade B’s SPAAG vehicles were destroyed. A limited number of MANPADS launchers that they managed to scavenge from supply trucks was all that was left of their air defences. With the open terrain and lack of cover, the only way to use them was for suicidal close-range attacks. Everytime one manages to score a kill, another gunship would simply atomise them with a hail of autocannon fire.
Brigade B was truly on its last legs. The last remaining infantry company or so was being pushed to the bridge and the Mai combat units were dangerously near to overwhelming them. Their defensive lines were now a stretch of smoking positions, burning vehicles and scattered corpses.
“HQ to CE units! The enemy WILL overrun our positions! Status report!”
“CE to HQ, we are almost done! We are wiring the explosives to the detonator now! We need a few more minutes!”
“HQ to CE units be advised: we have NO few more minutes! We need to blow up the bridge NOW! I repeat! We need to blow up the bridge no-”
Gunfire, explosions, and then the radio line was cut. The last infantry company, and the Brigade HQ, has been overrun by the Mai’s 343 MRD.
All that was left was a section of panicking combat engineers, who were now fumbling with the wires under the stress of combat. Bullets were now whizzing past them, and the tarmac all around them was exploding with mortar fire.
A Union-made Javelin gunship suddenly emerged from below right in front of the combat engineers. It was like time stopped. They dropped whatever they were holding, their mouths agape behind their full-face helmets, as they started to accept the new fact that they have failed.
But then a miracle happened. A missile, seemingly out of nowhere, slammed into the Mai Javelin’s fuselage. It immediately swerved to the right, spiralling out of control and crashed into the frozen ice sea below.
A lone RANGSI Paladin IV strike fighter swooped down from the skies and began launching air-to-air missiles at the Mai gunships. The Paladin IV then turned back, dropping bombs on the Mai convoys, and then returned to the bridge, hovering in place as its underbelly railgun thumped away keeping the Mai advance at bay with accurate cannon fires.
“Finish..it…”
That was all the two words the pilot managed to say through the open-channel. The combat engineers on the ground snapped out of it and nodded without replying back, focusing on completing their task.
It was then a few minutes later, the now unmistakable scream of Restevian-made fighters that RANGSI troops had learnt to fear, was then heard shrieking through the night sky. The Mai fighter descended and swooped onto the Paladin IV like a bird of prey, an air-to-air missile slamming into its right engine. The RANGSI strike fighter was spinning out of control, but in its final moments it managed to engage its main thrusters at maximum. The Paladin IV then boosted into the nearest Mai Javelin that was arriving on station to reinforce the Mai attack, the resulting crash destroying both of them.
But the lone Paladin IV has done what it set out to do. The detonator was ready. A combat engineer stood defiantly before the incoming Mai forces, the detonator in his hand.
“Majulah Singapura! Allahu Akbar!”
With that, the bridge of Soverniki was destroyed in a giant explosion, its tremors felt all the way even to the city of Pelangi. Brigade B of the 334th Singapore Infantry Division finally accomplished its mission to halt the Mai advance to Soverniki- at the grave cost of itself. Mai reports of the lone Paladin IV strike fighter would be met with confused looks from air traffic and radar officers in the 101 ADB, as there had been no official signs of the supposed RANGSI aircraft in its logs. In RANGSI social media, the Paladin IV in question was hailed as the ‘Kaskan’s Miracle’, in reference to local myths surrounding the now-destroyed Kaskan Institute, which was said to have had a concentration of ‘divine power’ from all the places of worship congregated upon it.
Gulf of Falanga
Eastern Ortina
Pelangi City, Dawn
The destruction of the Soverniki Bridge forced the Mai units to divert to the Coastal Highway, the alternate route from which they can then move into Soverniki. The only obstacles in the way were the few remaining units left to defend the city of Pelangi - the 910 SID and the 020 SAR.
910 SID moved to set up defensive positions to block the Coastal Highway, while the 020 SAR kept overwatch over the B26 Highway and were ready to provide 910 SID with long-range fires. However, their effective strength had been halved, due to the air attacks that it suffered earlier at the hands of the Mai’s 415th FBW.
Contact was soon imminent. The 1000 MMD linked up with the 9 TD and moved to engage the 020 SAR in an attempt to fix them in place while the rest of the Mai advance attacked in force through the Coastal Highway in a head-on engagement with the 910 SID.
A fierce battle ensued. With all of REGICOM’s hopes pinned on these two units, they were given priority access to whatever the RANGSI garrison had left of the 5th Singapore Artillery Division. 910 SID made liberal use of 5 SAD’s assets, calling in long-range SAMs to repulse numerous gunships and fighter-bombers and ballistic missiles for the Mai ground units. A back-and-forth of Mai attacks and repulses went on for 2 days.
After 2 days, 5 SAD’s new location was finally sniffed out by Mai Stalkers and they were promptly made to disappear from the map by EPA-made suborbital gunships, who launched telephone-sized kinetic poles that absolutely devastated the entire artillery division. With their long-range ballistic fires gone, the Mai advance was reinvigorated and the already battered 910 SID and 020 SAR were finally destroyed by a final Mai thrust.
With all resistance gone, Mai units finally moved to occupy Soverniki. After a few hours of clearing out militia resistance and pacifying the rest with seeker swarms, Soverniki, and its Ancerium control facilities, were now firmly in Mai hands.
With that, the Mai victory was clear. All RANGSI air forces were destroyed and any combat units sent from other regions to capture Soverniki would simply be taken out by absolute Mai air superiority. REGICOM and the RANGSI Regional Governor surrendered, knowing that further fighting would only be a waste of lives, if it already had not been.
With that, Operation Diver Green, the Mai operation to seize ancerium refineries that were forcefully nationalised by RANGSI following the market crash, was over in 6 days to Mai Mai Pham’s decisive victory. Outcomes of the peace negotiations between the RANGSI Governor and Theresa Mai led to new laws enshrining Mai as the majority holder of the shares in the ancerium refinery. The Governor was even thankful enough to retain minority shares in it despite the clear defeat.
The conflict was received with shock and restrained anger from the RANGSI central government in Vladano. Their defeat of their military garrison was a severe embarrassment, and many generals debated on whether to send an invasion force to punish the Mais for the immense destruction and civilian casualties. However, with the ongoing economic crisis and greater tensions surrounding the galactic Unaligned, it was prudently decided that war with the Mais was not an option, and the Foreign Service was instructed to see if they can normalise relations with Mai. However this would be a difficult task given the anti-Mai hatreds that has started to spread from Delvea to other RANGSI planets.
The conflict however brought many important lessons for RANGSI’s TRADOC by analysing their own errors as well as the strategy employed by the Mais, key among which was the superiority of air power.
Arkan Isthmus
Eastern Ortina
Ground, Kaskan Cultural Institute
After hours of protracted fighting around Zeya-1 and the Kaskan Cultural Institute, where the 334th Singapore Infantry Division (SID) had been entrenched, Mai units have finally broken through. It was now official - the invasion has begun proper.
The 334 SID’s positions was practically destroyed. Initially they stubbornly held on, pounding the Mai divisions crossing the bridge with long range fires, and dug in deep, resisting counter-fire from the Mai tank destroyer divisions behind their lead unit, the 343 MRD. However, air cover over Interniki and its surrounding regions quickly dwindled. The first opening air war severely crippled RANGSI air capabilities, and there were not enough aircraft to intercept against all the aircraft Mai was throwing in the second air war.
The inevitable and the unthinkable happened - all air wings from Pelangi to Interniki were lost. With the airspace shifting to Mai’s favour, Mai aircraft began to hunt down targets of opportunity down on the ground.
Anti-tank missiles and bombs destroyed the artillery companies of 334 SID’s Brigade A, along with many other entrenched tank positions along the ridge. But they still held on, with infantry ATGM and mortar positions taking the lead to stem the Mai advance.
What finally silenced Brigade A was an anti-bunker bomb from the 506th SBW, who had just finished destroying the 987th FBW’s airbase. The entire mountain literally collapsed into a massive landslide, the liquidized sea of dirt and rock piling onto the southern roads. Brigade A was swept along by the landslide, which then engulfed the entirety of Brigade C’s positions, drowning everyone in a sea of dirt.
With the horrifying end of Brigade A and C, Brigade B knew their defensive line was lost and began to retreat northwards to Soverniki, under the heavy fire from Mai gunships.
The Mai units then crossed the bridge and captured Zeya-1. Within the city, the seeker swarms were largely successful in pacifying the city militia brigade. The Ant Company SOF were meanwhile thwarted in their attempts to extract HVTs, ambushed and surrounded by the Friends of Mai. Knowing that any more fighting was pointless when they have already failed their mission, and with no division to return to, the Ant Company surrendered.
The sun has set over Ortina.
Gulf of Falanga
Eastern Ortina
Bridge to Soverniki, Night
The night offers no respite.
In the age of modern warfare, where night optics and thermals were as standard issue as skivvies, the night was of no time to rest - it was a time to extend the assault, the limited visibility and the fatigue of RANGSI soldiers were excellent opportunities exploited to the fullest by the Mais.
Reports about the area around Interniki basically painted a grim picture. With 334 SID and RANGSI air cover out of play, the 770 SID that was sent to intercept the 1000 MMD’s landings became extremely vulnerable. Constant air strikes and gunship runs disrupted any of their efforts to build fortified defensive positions along the coast, and after suffering heavy casualties, the 770 SID was forced to retreat and seek shelter within Interniki to reduce further losses. 1000 MMD’s amphibious assault went practically uncontested, and opened a second front towards Pelangi.
To the north near Soverniki, the 334 SID Brigade B, now battered and almost left with little to no vehicles from the constant gunship strikes along the way, hastily dug in with improvised fighting positions near the bridge leading to Soverniki. They received an ominous message from REGICOM: “You are the only manoeuvre unit available to defend Soverniki and the Refinery controls within.”
If the situation permitted, they would have crossed the bridge, and dug in within Soverniki itself, but with them now mostly on foot, they were not able to reach in time. Now, the only ones on the bridge were the brigade’s combat engineering teams, wiring explosives and mining the bridge.
Everyone knew. This was the end of the line.
The six Mai divisions that crossed the Arkan Isthmus, after reorganising for a few hours in Zeya-1, were now hot on their heels, moving in force to attack what was left of the 334 SID guarding the bridge to Soverniki. Their gunships, as usual, moved to strike first pounding ground positions with missiles and autocannon fire. What was left of Brigade B’s air defence assets moved to respond. SAMs and tracers streaked through the night sky. A few gunships were mowed down, but the Mai aerial advance was undeterred. Calling in SEAD missions and painting RANGSI SPAAGs as targets, Restevian-made fighter-bombers from the 215th FBW screamed overhead and launched anti-radiation missiles. Within minutes, the last of Brigade B’s SPAAG vehicles were destroyed. A limited number of MANPADS launchers that they managed to scavenge from supply trucks was all that was left of their air defences. With the open terrain and lack of cover, the only way to use them was for suicidal close-range attacks. Everytime one manages to score a kill, another gunship would simply atomise them with a hail of autocannon fire.
Brigade B was truly on its last legs. The last remaining infantry company or so was being pushed to the bridge and the Mai combat units were dangerously near to overwhelming them. Their defensive lines were now a stretch of smoking positions, burning vehicles and scattered corpses.
“HQ to CE units! The enemy WILL overrun our positions! Status report!”
“CE to HQ, we are almost done! We are wiring the explosives to the detonator now! We need a few more minutes!”
“HQ to CE units be advised: we have NO few more minutes! We need to blow up the bridge NOW! I repeat! We need to blow up the bridge no-”
Gunfire, explosions, and then the radio line was cut. The last infantry company, and the Brigade HQ, has been overrun by the Mai’s 343 MRD.
All that was left was a section of panicking combat engineers, who were now fumbling with the wires under the stress of combat. Bullets were now whizzing past them, and the tarmac all around them was exploding with mortar fire.
A Union-made Javelin gunship suddenly emerged from below right in front of the combat engineers. It was like time stopped. They dropped whatever they were holding, their mouths agape behind their full-face helmets, as they started to accept the new fact that they have failed.
But then a miracle happened. A missile, seemingly out of nowhere, slammed into the Mai Javelin’s fuselage. It immediately swerved to the right, spiralling out of control and crashed into the frozen ice sea below.
A lone RANGSI Paladin IV strike fighter swooped down from the skies and began launching air-to-air missiles at the Mai gunships. The Paladin IV then turned back, dropping bombs on the Mai convoys, and then returned to the bridge, hovering in place as its underbelly railgun thumped away keeping the Mai advance at bay with accurate cannon fires.
“Finish..it…”
That was all the two words the pilot managed to say through the open-channel. The combat engineers on the ground snapped out of it and nodded without replying back, focusing on completing their task.
It was then a few minutes later, the now unmistakable scream of Restevian-made fighters that RANGSI troops had learnt to fear, was then heard shrieking through the night sky. The Mai fighter descended and swooped onto the Paladin IV like a bird of prey, an air-to-air missile slamming into its right engine. The RANGSI strike fighter was spinning out of control, but in its final moments it managed to engage its main thrusters at maximum. The Paladin IV then boosted into the nearest Mai Javelin that was arriving on station to reinforce the Mai attack, the resulting crash destroying both of them.
But the lone Paladin IV has done what it set out to do. The detonator was ready. A combat engineer stood defiantly before the incoming Mai forces, the detonator in his hand.
“Majulah Singapura! Allahu Akbar!”
With that, the bridge of Soverniki was destroyed in a giant explosion, its tremors felt all the way even to the city of Pelangi. Brigade B of the 334th Singapore Infantry Division finally accomplished its mission to halt the Mai advance to Soverniki- at the grave cost of itself. Mai reports of the lone Paladin IV strike fighter would be met with confused looks from air traffic and radar officers in the 101 ADB, as there had been no official signs of the supposed RANGSI aircraft in its logs. In RANGSI social media, the Paladin IV in question was hailed as the ‘Kaskan’s Miracle’, in reference to local myths surrounding the now-destroyed Kaskan Institute, which was said to have had a concentration of ‘divine power’ from all the places of worship congregated upon it.
Gulf of Falanga
Eastern Ortina
Pelangi City, Dawn
The destruction of the Soverniki Bridge forced the Mai units to divert to the Coastal Highway, the alternate route from which they can then move into Soverniki. The only obstacles in the way were the few remaining units left to defend the city of Pelangi - the 910 SID and the 020 SAR.
910 SID moved to set up defensive positions to block the Coastal Highway, while the 020 SAR kept overwatch over the B26 Highway and were ready to provide 910 SID with long-range fires. However, their effective strength had been halved, due to the air attacks that it suffered earlier at the hands of the Mai’s 415th FBW.
Contact was soon imminent. The 1000 MMD linked up with the 9 TD and moved to engage the 020 SAR in an attempt to fix them in place while the rest of the Mai advance attacked in force through the Coastal Highway in a head-on engagement with the 910 SID.
A fierce battle ensued. With all of REGICOM’s hopes pinned on these two units, they were given priority access to whatever the RANGSI garrison had left of the 5th Singapore Artillery Division. 910 SID made liberal use of 5 SAD’s assets, calling in long-range SAMs to repulse numerous gunships and fighter-bombers and ballistic missiles for the Mai ground units. A back-and-forth of Mai attacks and repulses went on for 2 days.
After 2 days, 5 SAD’s new location was finally sniffed out by Mai Stalkers and they were promptly made to disappear from the map by EPA-made suborbital gunships, who launched telephone-sized kinetic poles that absolutely devastated the entire artillery division. With their long-range ballistic fires gone, the Mai advance was reinvigorated and the already battered 910 SID and 020 SAR were finally destroyed by a final Mai thrust.
With all resistance gone, Mai units finally moved to occupy Soverniki. After a few hours of clearing out militia resistance and pacifying the rest with seeker swarms, Soverniki, and its Ancerium control facilities, were now firmly in Mai hands.
With that, the Mai victory was clear. All RANGSI air forces were destroyed and any combat units sent from other regions to capture Soverniki would simply be taken out by absolute Mai air superiority. REGICOM and the RANGSI Regional Governor surrendered, knowing that further fighting would only be a waste of lives, if it already had not been.
With that, Operation Diver Green, the Mai operation to seize ancerium refineries that were forcefully nationalised by RANGSI following the market crash, was over in 6 days to Mai Mai Pham’s decisive victory. Outcomes of the peace negotiations between the RANGSI Governor and Theresa Mai led to new laws enshrining Mai as the majority holder of the shares in the ancerium refinery. The Governor was even thankful enough to retain minority shares in it despite the clear defeat.
The conflict was received with shock and restrained anger from the RANGSI central government in Vladano. Their defeat of their military garrison was a severe embarrassment, and many generals debated on whether to send an invasion force to punish the Mais for the immense destruction and civilian casualties. However, with the ongoing economic crisis and greater tensions surrounding the galactic Unaligned, it was prudently decided that war with the Mais was not an option, and the Foreign Service was instructed to see if they can normalise relations with Mai. However this would be a difficult task given the anti-Mai hatreds that has started to spread from Delvea to other RANGSI planets.
The conflict however brought many important lessons for RANGSI’s TRADOC by analysing their own errors as well as the strategy employed by the Mais, key among which was the superiority of air power.