[MM/RP] ND vs. UIW - ToP for Obvious Lie - Kowloon (1312) [Complete]

[Cannonshop]

initiative
[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 4, 4, total 8[/blockquote]

[Dave Baughman]

For plot purposes, I'm going to say that you forced your boarding as SM was maneuvering into position, so the bombardment is occuring concurrently with your action but you did prevent SM from contributing her FP to the operation.

[Cannonshop]

that works.

[Dave Baughman]

Two Hours Earlier...


"Sigma Anderson, Sword of Glory is tasked with destroying New Saigon Tower. Plan your bombardment for maximum secondary damage. Once the tower is down, engage targets of opportunity with priorty to fission power stations, transportation infrastructure, and population centers."

Precentor Omicron Eremiel Artemev smiled thinly as she examined the tactical display. Her commands were transmitted directly to the minds of her other captains thanks to the perfection of her ascended form, far beyond the capabilities of a mere frail body of flesh. Literally, at her mere thoughts, ships moved into action.

"Delta Nakamura, maneuver Vision of Justice to avoid any possible ground fire against your damaged sections. Maneuver for rolling naval autocannon fire against the flood control dams near Ia Drang. The air base is a secondary target; observation shows the garrison has already scattered. Primary targets at the airbase are runways and fuel storage."

"Sigma Meir, you will strafe Daunting Spirit's batteries across the government administrative centers at Nha Trang before moving to your primary target, the Camp John refinery complex. Utilize maximum firepower both against the industrial complex and the surrounding mountain ranges. I want maximum fallout dispersal into the atmosphere. These infidels must suffer the maximum penalty for their defiance."

"Delta Murkowsky, now that Vision of Provenance has rejoined us in orbit, I have a special mission for you. You are to enter orbit around the primary green belt region and initiate sustained rolling bombardment of coastal population centers and surface maritime traffic. Secondary targets are all loading/unloading facilities, fuel storage sites, and shallow-water fission plants. Be on the lookout for chemical storage areas that represent targets of opportunity for biosphere damage."

"Delta Lewis, Vulpes will neutralize the An Loc missile base then engage targets of opportunity as they present themselves. Your targeting criteria are the same as those issued to Sword of Justice."

"Finally, Sarah McEvedy will maneuver to geosynchronous orbit over Hue and completely destroy that nest of subhuman Clan filth. We will turn the entire city into a crater, no one will ever believe life could have been sustained in the scar we will reave across this world. It will be the ultimate statement of the price of collaboration with the Clans."

"Set now to your tasks, brothers and sisters. Go with the benediction of the Master."

Artemev turned now to address a young man, his brow shining with the silver lines of a mind-machine interface.

"Puriel, your fighters will launch the final attack on the enemy space station. Ensure that none of the infidels live. After that, engage any rescue craft that attempt to enter the area at your discretion. Leave a minimal combat air patrol to shield the WarShips, but deploy the rest of your force in an overwhelming show of force; however, if the station surrenders, end your attack. Marines form Vulpes will board her and de-orbit the station against a target of opportunity."

"Yes, dominus," the man said quietly, "Blake eleison!"





WOB warships maneuver for strategic orbital bombardment. Hex will be terrorized for 2d6 turns; on an 11-12 also all hex elements are destroyed.'

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 1, 5, total 6[/blockquote]


Additionally, a force of 20 FP of aerospace back by Leopard CVs (they provide logistical support only, not participants in the combat) move in to finish the space station

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 6, 2, total 8[/blockquote]

[Dave Baughman]

crit check against the station

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 4, 6, total 10[/blockquote]

[Dave Baughman]

crits [blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 2, 3, total 5[/blockquote]

[Dave Baughman]

5 Opponent receives -1 on all future rolls this combat (CO killed).

OOC: I'll leave it up to you CS to determine the definition of "CO" - it can be any important NPC who you think will have good narrative impact to kill off.

[Dave Baughman]

derp, 2 crits. 2nd crit

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 5, 1, total 6[/blockquote]

[Dave Baughman]

6 Valor saves the day: reduce damage done to you by 15%, increase damage done to your opponent by 10%.

not that it makes much a difference, but pertinent for book keeping.

[Cannonshop]

[ooc]Last station CO was that LT, given that she got a speaking part...yeah.  That's Lt. Denton going to get a ship named for her-and not just some no-thrust dropship hauler either, she'll have a ship with guns and engines...I'll do the RP for the Kowloonese/UIW side to-morrow or the next day, I still gotta process what happened.[/ooc]

[Dave Baughman]

Op Round 6 (after the bombardment)

With their 'god' dead and her neural commands silenced, the WOB formation loses cohesion and fairly quickly makes a break for the jump point.

Initiative [blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 1, 3, total 4[/blockquote]

[Cannonshop]

New Saigon

the city of New Saigon was on the northernmost tip of a peninsula reaching out into the Great Sea near the Equator.  The site had been chosen with care, being far from any active Tectonic plate boundaries and elevated by the folding of billions upon billions of tonnes of crustal rock smashed together millions of years ago.  A planned community, the first things to go in after the New Saigon Tower went up, were deep bombardment shelters-most of these went in before the city was built.  Kowloon had seen nuclear and orbital attacks-first fighting the Rim Worlds Republic in a failed bid to remain independent during the Age of War, and later, when the Star League Defense Forces, acting to support House Cameron's ally House Amaris during the uprisings of 2729, laid waste to the colonial founding city of Dinh Diep from orbit.

Imagine having your ancestors' worst nightmares played out above you...

The first shots cut the counterweight at the 200km level-sending a fifteen kilometer nickel-iron asteroid careening sunward (it was morning in New Saigon).  Wind resistance and gravity did the rest.   Forty million tonnes of endosteel, starslab, myomer, conduit and cabling slashed downward, thankfully breaking into chunks, but the pieces struck everything in their path at 8,400 miles per hour average speed.

New Saigon Cold Statistics:
Death Count: 53,000
Wounded/Trapped: 122,000
Total pre-bombardment population: 200,000

The bits that struck land, created impacts that could be measured by seismic sensors on the far side of the planet.  Those that struck ocean, released huge steam explosions, and generated a 'string' of ripples-Tsunamis inundated the North Coast of the main continent, and in a few hours, would be hammering the southern coast of the Finmark Continent.

Then, the secondary bombardment struck the Alpha Complex in New Saigon bay, breaching the containment vessels of 53 Plutonium-pebble-bed reactors.  The intent was obvious-Dinh Diep's reactor complex in 2729 had been a conventional Generation III reactor reliant on active safety measures, with a 'rod' structure and cooled by pumped water, which acted as neutron barrier.  When Dinh Diep's containment was broken by orbital fire, it created a super-Tchernobyl event that killed millions.

Alpha Complex's bunkers were made of sterner stuff than the original colony's reinforced concrete, and the structure's basic design meant that, instead of burning radioactive ash, dispersing to poison millions of acres, pebbles-still dangerous, but contained, spread out like buckshot.
Cleaning up Alpha Complex would require shovels, and buckets, and months, instead of the decades it took to handle the fallout from Dinh Diep.

(for aftermath, see HERE)

[Cannonshop]

Former WoB Superbattleship Sarah McEvedy

"We've got their net...sweet god, we've got their NET!! Kill Them."  Cheif Warrant Giao Truk Trung  was acting as 'captain'.  "We need to kill these sons of bitches..."

Initiative:
[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 1, 1, total 2[/blockquote]

[Cannonshop]

"Guns aren't tracking, something in that deader-fuckers have got secure-links on their software-won't engage 'friendly' IFF."

"Go to MANUAL." Giao snarled, "Get someone DOWN THERE and shove the damn things by HAND!!"

[Cannonshop]

Nha Tranh, 0530 Hours...

Most of the truly native population of Kowloon don't ignore raid sirens.  Shelters generally go in before the house does. Most of Nha Tranh's oldtown areas are built 'traditionally', but 'NewTown" was built under Lyran governance.

The shelters in oldtown were overfilled, understocked, and the spillover went to LCAF specification designed raid structures like the Central Train hubs, places that could handle a light artillery strike or three, or standard High-Explosive bombardment from the air.

"Government House" was the centre of the strike, a complex built to ape the fortifications of 'mechwarrior nobles in other portions of the realm, the orbital strikes bored into the site, destroying the outer layers and tunneling downward through 100 meters of bedrock in a concentrated thrust, shattering and discharging the quartz, and generating shockwaves across the city.  Tremor and windstorms followed accompanied by firestorms that, from orbit, were more visible thanks to the high reflective albedo of the choking midwinter snows-the damage was actually not as bad, as it looked from orbit...

Nha Tranh Death Toll: 255,679
Wounded/Trapped: 1, 133,981
Total Pre-Bombardment population: 1,505,972