War for Dannan Turn 9, Month 6 45 AE
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War for Dannan Turn 9, Month 6 45 AE
Government Support: UnlimitedBudget: 315 Total Mobilizational Capacity; 115 Available
-100 for 2 Months Societal Level Programs
-30 for 5 Months Superconductor Plants
-30 for 1 Month Athluas Evacuations
-40 for 1 Month Armor Production Program
Recon In Force East Of Duillech(Credit @Adronio)
AAR by Major Ardion Colla
Following the Enemy's breakout towards Duillech and the 29th Guards Armored Corps arrival at the front lines, the decision was made to commit to a mobile defense. Following Doctrine, A Company, 3rd Battalion was committed to the first wave of Recon in Force operations. Forming a light company team out of A Company's 3 mechanized infantry platoons and a platoon of Type-36BDs on loan, a total of 13 Type-36B IFV's and 4 Type-36BD assault guns.
Conditions were poor, with very heavy precipitation starting as A Company entered its AO. The terrain was composed of two ridges, with a valley that included a small river at the lowest point that split the frontline in two. I organized my force for movement to contact, with the 2nd platoon operating 5 minutes ahead of the rest of the company team as a recon screen. The intention was to move up to our ridgeline, which was 2.7km from suspected enemy forward positions, wait for the rest of the company to arrive then push forward through the best-covered terrain to establish a beachhead at the enemy's side of the valley. The tank platoon would stay behind and form a support fire position.
Things went according to plan, with the 2nd platoon taking a peek over the ridge and identifying enemy power armored infantry in hasty entrenchments at the other side of the valley, as well as a suspicious 'thermal cloud' about 3km left of the first position. It turns out that an enemy IFV was lurking there. 2nd platoon then pulled back into cover, waiting for the rest of the company team. During the approach of the company team, the 1st platoon took sporadic laser carbine fire from the spotted infantry position, which was ineffective and showed terrible fire discipline on the part of the enemy.
The 2nd platoon followed the plan and moved forward in pairs, punching for the defilade in front of the river, taking more sporadic but ineffective small arms fire. 1st and 3rd platoons followed close behind, prioritizing speed as the augmented reality system allowed for very rapid information sharing throughout the company team while suppressing the spotted enemy infantry position with 30mm ABHE fire on the move. One of the vehicles of the 1st platoon took a pass-through hit from a laser rifle but suffered no internal damage. Another laser rifle managed to hit one of the 3rd platoon's vehicles, but due to the effects of precipitation, the armor managed to hold. The assault gun platoon got into support by fire position at this point, but the platoon leader's vehicle was suffering issues with its information-sharing systems, which took some time to sort out. The 2nd platoon made the crossing and spotted two more enemy positions in front and to the right of the first position. These two positions together formed a platoon fighting position, the far-right one holding a squad's worth of troops and the center-right holding two squads' worth. I ordered the 2nd platoon to reorient towards the far-right position, while I led the 1st and 3rd platoon towards the center-right position. None of the enemy fighting positions here were mutually supporting. Despite this, the 3rd platoon lost an IFV on the approach to another laser rifle hit, with all hands lost.
All three mechanized infantry platoons were in line and still mounted up, attacking an enemy platoon-sized formation spread out across two positions. I called in an artillery strike on the left-most position that wasn't getting engaged and ordered the assault to proceed until they reached within 100 meters of the enemy positions, at which point they would dismount and carry the attack through. At this point, the assault gun platoon had sorted out its issues and started providing some fire support. As ordered, all three infantry platoons closed within 100 meters, dismounted, and carried the attack through. Enemy return fire was minimal, with most of the enemy cowering and what seems to be improvised anti-tank laser rifles getting knocked out. Despite that, one of the 1st platoon's IFVs took a close-range hit from a laser rifle, which killed the driver and knocked out the engine. The infantry closed in very aggressively and overtook the enemy, all the enemy infantry in the trenches except for two sallies who were hiding in a dugout without their power armor. They were instead taken prisoner. Only 3 KIA and 2 WIA were taken by the infantry during this. The artillery barrage hit the last enemy infantry position with a simultaneous 18-shell barrage which seemed to have a good effect on the target, although a lack of spotters prevented any serious BDA from being conducted.
At this point, our IFVs started taking long-range flanking fire from the left, something larger than a laser rifle. This fire was ineffective, but steadily improving in accuracy. As such the decision was made to conduct a retrograde, with the infantry ordered to mount up and some of the smoke dischargers used to provide concealment. The assault gun platoon managed to spot two IFVs moving down our left flank, along the valley, and engaged, hitting once to no effect due to the extended ranges involved. The enemy IFVs returned fire, brewing up one of the assault guns. The assault gun platoon then switched to shooting smoke shells to cover the maneuvers of the rest of the company team. Despite this, the enemy IFVs managed to hit two of the 3rd platoon's IFVs through the side, killing 3 soldiers mounted up but failing to disable either vehicle. During this covering action, the assault gun platoon proceeded to lose the platoon commander's vehicle with all hands, and the 2nd platoon temporarily bogged, but no further losses were taken with the company team disengaging in good order. The two enemy IFVs were also hit by an MLRS strike, although damage is expected to be minimal.
In total, A Company lost 2 IFVs, one destroyed and one damaged and abandoned, 2 assault guns destroyed, 24 KIA, 2 WIA, and 1 MIA. In return, we killed 40 enemy infantry and captured 2 prisoners, as well as an unknown number of killed and wounded from the artillery barrage. The enemy entrenchments were amateurish, their positions spread out and not mutually supporting. Despite this, a section of two IFVs acting as a QRF was enough to force a disengagement and cause losses. In addition, the laser rifle is a threat to the type-36B even from the front and with heavy precipitation degrading their firepower, although the suppressive effect of massed 30mm fire was enough to significantly reduce the danger and allow for a rapid assault. The augmented reality information-sharing system was also a significant advantage, allowing for a much higher tempo of offensive operations while improving coordination and reducing friction.
Broader Strategic Picture:
Operations of the Alien Enemy have focused primarily on the destruction of the 67th and 189th CAAs as both formations were trapped in the north with the majority of its armored strength committed to them. Due to the situation and the inherent limitations of Case Cerulean a breakout attempt was rejected owing to the lack of mobility of the formations and the amount of forces that they kept tied down. These operations took the majority of time for the Alien enemies' heavy forces, allowing mechanized units to focus on reducing their capacity for resistance and striking at dispersed infantry units. The leadership of the broader front has focused on the implementation of Cerulean, ensuring that new equipment can be paired with experienced units for second-stage exploitation operations.
In the period without significant armored forces on the Southern front, all armored corps got to experience something of a happy time, striking against strung-out infantry at little cost. So far the attrition across those sectors of the front has been entirely favoring local units, with platoon after platoon of enemy infantry disappearing to short attacks and more general recon operations. Compared to optimistic predictions the impact of artillery has been a suppressive one with gains limited due to the sheer defensive capabilities of their armor. At current estimates, their infantry strength across the front has dropped by something along the lines of a quarter, even if significant portions are injured rather than irrecoverable.
Increased frontal attrition has not stopped or broken apart the rigidity of the defensive lines even when armor has not been available to the enemy. Large numbers of effective anti-tank weaponry through the use of heavy rifles to destroy any current form of power armor have severely limited any possibility of deep penetration. After the armor was tasked south and had finished the general encirclement and destruction of the Northern force, the Alien Enemy continued to make minor gains, solidifying its hold on Duillech and consolidating the front line with minor gains across the Northern shore. The overwhelming presence of armor has led to something of a mobile defense, surrendering ground where unable to hold but limiting the gains of the Alien Enemy to locations where armor has been available with steady expansions of gray frontal areas deeper into the Alien Enemies defensive lines.
Implementation of Cerulean itself has succeeded to a large extent as all four armored cores are in position, several units have moved into Type 36Cs and their derivatives, and the 58th Armored Corps has received the honor of evaluating the Type 45. Heavy mechanization with new production Type 36C's equipped with Type 45 ATGM systems has also been delivered for new armies, pairing them with new equipment before shipping them to the front. These formations represent a massive concentration of forces and one that the enemy has so far not significantly reacted to. Immediate operations to take advantage of the discrepancy have already been drawn up as not only can the defense be stabilized but a true counter-offensive can be initiated in several vulnerable sectors.
The fortified bunker complex along with the 7th Special Attack Division has fallen late into the month as relentless bombardment along with a constant drive to capture it has taken a toll. Detonation of the scuttling charge at the lowest power possible has proceeded, kicking up a massive amount of soil and dirt while destroying the majority of the bunker complex and what is estimated to be a further brigade of enemy forces. The use of lighter armor in close-range clearance operations has been something of a curiosity, but it has likely been done to preserve higher-quality assets. Post-detonation impacts in Milta have been comparatively minor with reductions in sunlight and several windows destroyed, but generally negligible blast effects.
[]Plan Red: The logical next phase of the offensive is to continue low-commitment offensive actions across the front. The current style of enemy defensive placement of a few armored assets into strong positions to cover infantry units can be maximally exploited with several breakthroughs achieved. Sectoral recon in-force operations can proceed with divisional breakthroughs on weak areas across the entire Southern sector of the front. The terrain and weather are steadily worsening and the increased chance of slowing down due to impassable conditions can apply equally to both forces. This will inherently limit operations to more stable sectors as full-scale penetration in poor terrain cannot be guaranteed. If additional forces are deployed, staying too low commitment attacks will minimize losses and avoid anything similar to Curach.
[]Plan Green: The alien armored assets have been the core of all offensive operations but they can be concentrated and overwhelmed. Directly committing operations by three armored cores to sufficiently engage and destroy the Alien Armored force can reduce their potential for acting in the theater and immediately seize the initiative comprehensively. This will be done by establishing two main areas of advance, punching through the Northern and Central sectors of the front to force the commitment of limited armor. Artillery fire missions will be increased across the entire front alongside expanded cruise missile strikes on rear-line bases that have been identified by limited drone use. If their spearhead can be destroyed attacks can begin in all sectors as there will be no force in being to degrade or stop them.
[]Plan Orange: Using continued operational surprise in the theme of the original plan orange, operations can commence to cut into the vulnerable flank of the enemy with the commitment of the 58th Armored used to heavily engage the main spearhead. The heavy armor is poorly suited for the terrain anyway and by having it engage hours before mainline operation starts, significant numbers of tanks can be pulled off. Preparatory bombardments will be focused on creating an altered tactical picture, signaling for an offensive in a sector using a heavier-than-ever number of guns before breaking that record in the Southern Sector. Exploitation operations with amphibious units will continue as a logical extension, seeking to delay the flow of reinforcements and achieving a sufficient degree of operational surprise to destabilize and break the comparatively slow infantry.
[]Plan Yellow: There are more alien weak points than strong points and taking advantage of that is going to be essential to collapsing the general defensive effort. Every IFV that is destroyed will cause a steady collapse of interception fires and a steady building reduction in the interception of nuclear shells. Mass fire plans can be conducted once initial breakthroughs are made, using the breakthrough as something of a hole for artillery shells to be delivered through, unhinging other areas of the front. The dispersion of armor units will prevent the total exploitation of a breakthrough but it will also ensure that any opportunity can be taken advantage of. There is no second line of defense and even lower quantity exploitation attacks can contribute to a general collapse of the frontline strength of the Alien Enemy.
Communications Interceptions:
With the sending of a corporate update to standardized communication, a more general breach of military communications has been achieved along with partial access to otherwise civilian databases. The most relevant and immediate aspects of this are less revolutionary than expected, but it has been confirmed that the military leadership of the entire expedition has been brought planetside. This has rendered smaller operational orders still immune to conventional encryption but domestic systems have continued to adapt for the rapid decryption of messages and further cryptographic breaches. Current programs have to an extent split the department, with some dedicated to cracking military coms while others are in effect stealing information from the corporate libraries.
Military ones have broadly provided a general guide to operations and any large drops that have been authorized by the corporate leadership, but minute tactical information is not available to any significant extent. This will give warning to broader operations and eliminate any sense of surprise as long as the Alien Enemy does not know we are listening, but it remains principally a strategic rather than a tactical advantage. The cultural information alone gathered from the number of files sent over and the dedicated programs to expand computing performance are in themselves the more important find and have served to radically re-define the goals for the invasion, the likely internal narrative taken by the corporates, and put into question several fundamental assumptions.
Principally, the Alien Enemies state is organized on the principle of a dominant culture with several secondary cultures, organized in what could be considered a republican model of governance. This leads to the political system strongly favoring individual planets for representation, with each sending two representatives to a central administrative body tasked with updating external law, diplomacy, and operating military formations. This program was put in place what we estimate four hundred and fifty years ago as a drive towards expanding colonization and settlement that eventually aged out the system it was responsible for. Due to the need to have significant terrestrial bodies with at least half a million citizens on them for representation and to influence the center, it has become something of a habit for corporations to act unilaterally, securing a wider breadth of governmental influence.
The Coalition of Liberated Planets itself is closer to a lobby group than a colonizer or anything that would be comprehensible to current society. Their focus is less on the direct exploitation of primitives, but more on their uses for political influence, profit, and securing more wealth for themselves. In that, even according to their charter, their colonization process is entirely alien to any conventional understanding as rather than the land having an inherent value the goal is to collect the value from the population. From this, the original conclusions of their effort are broadly incorrect as the company likely would have been entirely fine with a cursory deal made in the initial stages of the war. Further, several confirmations on their goals for the planet itself have been found, with a plot towards making the world a corporate-dominated factory as they seemingly have solved many of the issues inherent to the automation crisis that has faced post-exchange society.
The further step of revelations on their goals has come with the siege of the bunker, as apparently due to several factors, they have been able to detect the presence of an "old-era" artifact. Apparently, due to some technologies available to several of their elites, several types of artifacts are identifiable by a quasi-IFF system. Initially, the system itself was only selected due to recovered maps as a target, with them assuming that Dannan would be replete with artifacts. Initial board meetings expressed severe disappointment for only recovering one signal but now that the retrieval operation is underway, several on the board have begun discussions of more comprehensive extraction programs across the planet and system once the war has been over. The IFF device seems to have a limited ability to detect artifacts at close range, pinpointing the bunker and likely causing the prioritization of landing sites in the area. Already the military commanders have talked of a third, fourth, and fifth wave of reinforcements to secure the area and ensure that artifacts can continue to be extracted.
Current reinforcements have entered the system with a confirmed effort by the Alien Enemy to manufacture more drop-pods for further landings. These are still likely to be limited and easily countered but the military command has so far avoided any commitments of forces, focusing more on preparing the capacity. Ship repairs of combat tonnage have proceeded apace with two frigates that are meant to operate over-orbit repaired with a mixture of spare and locally fabricated parts to maintain orbital control. The crews available to the CLP are of a lower grade than previously available due to casualties but the board has celebrated this as a reduction in costs first and foremost, and the automated systems on board partially compensate for crew incompetence.
Current Programs for Mobilization:
Superconductor Plants(Military): Focusing on sourcing the current radical leap in superconductors is the highest priority for all technical and military projects dealing with high-power applications. The technology is a radical leap from current superconductors and offers true high-temperature performance across most ranges. Alignment of molecules in the primary lattice is imperfect as made due to the feature size, but more than sufficient to achieve primary superconductivity across most segments under reasonable temperatures. Conventional operation with liquid Ethane coolant is expected and in the range of two-stage cooling systems for large circuits, only requiring a limited top-up. All production established will go towards the army with civilian developments delayed until the end of the war. Initial yields are not expected for at least nine months, with it likely taking eighteen for high-yield production. (36+15 Cannon Omake)
Funding for the mass program of superconductor construction has started with plans implemented for sixteen new small-scale foundries integrated into underground production networks. The primary purpose of the program has been to supply military demand with the mass allocation of lithography equipment along with specialized personnel to rapidly raise production. The timetable available has been, if anything, partially optimistic but first batches can be yielded in six months at a lower grade with higher bin rates only coming in a few months more. Technical improvements made to the superconducting material are not expected but as the supply improves several simplification and improved techniques may be developed.
Athluas Evacuations: With the demands of the war placed on the civilian population and the need to relocate millions away from the line of advance, massive programs can begin on Athlaus to move the population to Avalon and Tir Na Nog. This will involve significant relocation programs from the countryside along with the movement of most of the industry in the city. Initial production will not be set up for several months post-relocation but it will ensure that the capacity is not entirely lost. Operations are expected to take two months and will have some impact on morale, but surrendering citizens to the Alien Enemy will have far worse consequences. (41)
Moving thirty million civilians across an active frontal zone of resistance has been one of the largest logistical challenges of the current war. Six evacuation routes have been organized to avoid the overloading of a single harbor along with a no-conditions movement of people behind the lines. Current approaches have used additional trucks to move civilians back from near the front first with interior corridors slowed to allow for steady movement. Effectively nationalized ferries have formed the major system of moving populations despite the approaching hurricane season and the start of hypercanes forming. Steady movements of personnel are going to in practice take 3 months instead of the originally planned two with everyone outside the most remote rural populations relocated to the central island chain.
Armor Production Program: More Type 45 Tanks and IFVs are needed on every front, especially as large-scale mechanized action is looking overwhelmingly more likely. Both machines are technically obsolete as released but they are needed by the tens of thousands on the front. Conversions of factory production are underway in other sectors but far more plants are needed. Experts from UNISA teams can be broken off for the establishment of a dozen new factories capable of high throughput armored production in the upcoming fight for the central island chain. Combined efforts with even Sygner will bring production numbers up in the next three months, ensuring that all armored corps can be equipped in seven months enabling additional armored units to be raised. (103) (art crit)
The establishment of four new UNISA plants across the primary industrial belt has continued with funding along with the expectation of four more large factories being established once further assets are allocated. Production from the first wave of plants is not expected to start for the next three months as local teams are trained and prepared for large-scale production, representing significant capacity gains above the current UNISA plants. Both the Type 45 IFV and Tank are expected to be built on a similar chassis with significant variation around the armor package, providing heavy equipment in even mix to armored units. The unification of the transmission has allowed for improvements to be made to the base chassis, enhancing performance and allowing further improvements to be made on a unified scale.
Type 45 "Morvran" Tank: A unified seventy-two-ton tank system incorporating a heavy diesel-electric power train capable of developing 3kw of motive power using both generators and batteries with a sustained 2MW generator capacity. The armor has been built into a unified slope to provide enough protection across the entire front aspect to resist IFV fire at an extreme back slope to provide enough carbon-polymer thickness. The lack of advanced carbon components has limited high-end experimental armor utilization, with more conventional laser-resistant composites used. Secondary screens using lighter polymer-ceramic blocks as with Type 36 manufacturing have been placed on the side to resist rifle fire but are capable of little past that. Armament has been built around a single Milta 152mm L75 LGG on a limited 180-degree forward traverse, providing capable penetration power against all alien vehicles, if with a severely reduced capacity for explosive and smoke shells. Reliability is poor with initial batches proving temperamental due to the quad electric drive motors and consistent problems with mud.
Type 45 "Nuadu" IFV: Directly building on recent technical advances and the Type 45 tank and using the same chassis and drivetrain, some mass reductions have been nonetheless accomplished. Plating arrays have been shifted towards a configuration with a greater internal volume with a central unmanned turret with a 30mm and an automatic loading Type 45 ATGM system with four internal reloads. The crew compartment is if anything cramped as the rear of the vehicle has been dedicated to an eight-man capacity that disembarks through two corridors, using two side benches and two front-back facing seats to reduce volume. Space-saving measures have moved the crew pod to the front, reclining them and effectively replacing the frontal gas system with a crew capsule. This along with denser polymer-ceramic anti-laser screens on the side has still allowed the IFV to be lighter than the tank, coming in at only 68 tons. Bogging problems are still equally severe as even on a lighter frame the machine is still heavy for its operational requirements.
Preparations for Orbital Counter-Attack: With recent technical revolutions much of the design of the Orbital Fast Attack Craft needs to be revised and modernized. Initial propulsive sections will be designed in a similar way to likely follow-on designs with the primary armament of first-generation craft centered around high-velocity BPLs on an intercept velocity-assisted trajectory. Alien terminal fire can be armored against as a part of the fore diamondoid coat for fusion scramjet operations using a central open cycle z pinch with negligible reaction mass injection. Takeoff will take dedicated runways with significant boosters but that will be sufficient for mounting the initial offensive. To protect against alien particle weapons, the craft will be focused on orbital and near-orbital operations, maintaining a high acceleration cone until ordinance release. Efficiency at maximum pumping rate will be poor, but sufficient to overmatch observed acceleration for a few hours. First production is unlikely to come for at least a year, with scaling likely to come rapidly afterward. (113) (art crit)
The immediate technical challenges of achieving high-power fusion reactions at an acceptable weight of confinement have posed a series of questions and problems. Any DT reaction has been dismissed for the massive waste of neutron energy from neutron emissions along with the immense danger of launch operations under its power. Using charge-mass ratios instead rather than attempting a radical breach in reactions, a flow-stabilized z-pinch capable of achieving plasma temperatures for strongly positive DD fusion has been achieved with imperfect tritium filtering. The powers of the method are numerous as eleven percent of the power is still wasted in neutron radiation. Confinement energy despite the reaction's strength is still massive and far less efficient than a comparative DT reaction but the efficiency and cooling gains are significant enough to pursue it as an option. The craft itself is built with the primary pinch behind the main section and surrounded by thin shielded hydrogen tanks. Limitations in using Deuterium for both remass and fuel are numerous but acceptable for current tactical purposes.
Type 46 "Arawn" Atmospheric Corvette: Built around or more technically in front of a 600GW Z-Pinch capable of both an atmospheric scramjet mode and a more conventional hydrogen injection system the craft is to a large extent a fusion reactor attached to a series of missiles and a small crew. The frontal section is a block of high-resistance carbon armor with some areas covered in lower-density polymer built onto a nearly monolithic HEA-Y frame. Slush Deuterium makes up the majority of the fuel with superconducting systems run on ethylene coolant set to run the length of the design to efficiently transmit nearly 2 GW to the confinement mechanism to maintain the reaction. The accompanying 300MW of thermal load required for full-scale operations is rejected through fuel pre-heating and composite CNT radiators in space. Radiation management for those around the craft is questionable and a primary armament is a large number of conventional forward launch angled VLS cells with armored covers, delivering seventy-six BPL-tipped missiles to the enemy.
Tech Gained: Helium Catalyzed Deuterium Fusion: Rejection of tritium from high throughput DD fusion reactions can be achieved at high mass flow rates through a pinch or magnetic mirror. This technique allows for reactions to be optimized towards high-efficiency confinement with a far lower neutron burden, effectively locally breeding Helium 3 before immediately reacting it with another deuterium atom to produce the majority of reaction power. Implementation of this in a lower-power reactor is impractical due to the benefits of the square-cube law for fusion confinement. Reactors of at least 100 GW of power are required even with a more compact FS-Z-Pinch for any reasonable scale implementation. Amplification factor scales rapidly with increasing size, but so do material and cooling requirements rendering the current systems impractical for anything but warship drives.
News and Agitation: Increasing the throughput of domestic broadcasters and ensuring that there is a wider variety of mostly factual state media that is not spin or click-focused will stabilize the general digital atmosphere. To several members of the civilian public, the war is slowly being lost with massive casualties but the situation will be reversed in a few months as second-generation forces adapted to the type of combat required are made available in large quantities. Keeping channels as neutral as possible and detailing each victory will be essential to keep morale up and make sure that every civilian at home knows what needs to be done. Formal broadcasts to the Lirrir as a constantly running radio show will be funded as an afterthought, ensuring that the public has a coherent view of the war. (81)
Expanding domestic broadcasting has come with a background of strong factual measures to improve civilian support for the war and retroactively justify the sacrifices that need to be made. The Alien Enemy is relentless in its attack and pressure on the lines, but there is no shortage of heroic stands and no shortage of smaller victories that can be used to improve morale. The military is improving its capabilities every day as new production goes online and new assets are shipped to the front. It is still likely that the current island chain will fall, but the resistance is far stronger and more capable than on Curach, further large-scale relocations of the population have if anything served to raise morale. Urban overcrowding will be a major problem during the war but the average civilian will appreciate being alive far more than having their bedroom. Lirrir-focused messaging has come with the establishment of a dedicated 24-hour radio channel that the ambassador has coordinated for local broadcasting, using 8kb/s of the link to raise support for the Authority.
Active Infiltration of Collaborationists: Moving Department Six operations along with AID teams to Curach for the suppression of the collaborationist government will be a first step in reducing its combat capacity. Using submarines dedicated to special operations small teams can be snuck behind enemy lines for the targeted assassinations of their leadership cadre of the collaborationist government. They are having a prolonged period of safety and coming out of their holes, but a few special forces troops in plainclothes can ensure that they never come back up. The main goal of the operation will be the effective decapitation of current assets to allow for three loyalist contacts to be moved up to influential roles for reconstruction. (39)
Initial operations against the Collaborationist government have failed to deliver the full results promised but have still managed to ensure that several ministers have stayed down. Four bombing attacks have been attempted through a combination of AID and Department Four troops, with impact achieved on one of them, vaporizing the education and industrial ministers and some of their families. Placing radicalized elements of PSC cells into offensive positions and adequately arming them has if anything achieved greater results for the lesser commitment of assets, as it only takes mild preparatory fires to ensure a massacre can take place to intimidate local collaborationist assets. Current authority is strengthening but still weak, allowing for any official with a known route to be fired at, even if the strategy is losing its effectiveness. Continued maneuvers in the ruins of Curach have represented something of a lawless zone that the local government has so far failed to act on, easily allowing the re-organization of forces.
Available Mobilization Programs:
[]Establishment of New Electronics Plants: More mature designs for a combined sixty-four core conventional chipset interlinked with a lower node bridging circuit and two 90nm optical cores will more than quadruple general computing power. The non-monolithic design alone has moved electronics down another node with the optical cores providing rapid calculation capacity that would otherwise not be available. Applications for neural network modeling alone promise to be immense and if funded now could achieve initial technical yields in twelve months, revolutionizing military equipment and the economy. (-40 Mobilization Capacity for 3 Months)
[]Next Generation Nuclear Production: Centrifugal liquid core systems can be built terrestrially with active filtering components built-in on a base level. This will improve the production of plutonium along with several other essential isotopes yielding limited electricity from the reactor cores. Most of the designs involved will practically be variations on older liquid fuel drive engines with the goal of rapid self-replication of enriched components to feed into more reactors and drives. Expansion of the program itself will take most of a year, especially as the doubling of plutonium yields will be needed for the rapid establishment of more fast spectrum reactors. (-10 Mobilization Capacity for 12 Months)
[]Decentralization of Energy System Production: Solar and battery production has not previously been considered a high-priority industry to be of military necessity but now that the war is moving to a new stage, it still needs to be hardened. Battery production plants will be broken up and steadily moved into better camouflage areas with photovoltaic plants rapidly following behind them. Solar systems offer an unparalleled advantage in durability and portability compared to any other source of power generation and can provide some resilience to the general grid. Emergency generators are of course being built already but having more options for electricity is unlikely to damage anything. (-15 Mobilization Capacity for 6 Months)
[]Urban Metro Systems: A full train system under each significant city is going to be a major investment both in digging it out and the necessary heavy equipment but they are unmatched in moving resources and materials. Underground trains are resistant to bombardment and can be loaded with enough cargo to sustain industry and troop movements even in cities under siege. Construction programs will start now but are not going to be completed for at least six months as the scale of mobilization required will be massive. Larger cities will be prioritized for the effort with them likely to be fully reinforced in the first four months. The construction programs are deeply inefficient and will likely be demolished post-war. (-20 Mobilization Capacity for 6 Months) (Construction Project)
[]Expand Housing Allocations: Building larger housing along the central Mouran chain will likely be taken as a bad sign but if massive numbers of refugees are inbound cities need to be prepared to house them. The program will mostly focus on the construction of expedient standardized housing as was done in the immediate post-exchange era. Little originality and flourish will be available, but for the next few months over fifty million apartments of adequate quality can be built. This will continue to expand the urban centers, and theoretically, if more jobs open up can even start some economic growth. (-20 Mobilization Capacity for 4 Months)
[]Seabed Mining and Refining Programs: High-quality HEA-Y production is inherently dependent on Yttrium with few exceptions. Nodule mining of the seafloor has been attempted several times with results slowing after the mass use of asteroid mining. Resuming those programs with an eye toward rare earths will be essential for increasing supplies. Enough of it will not be available to stick it on every application where it would offer an advantage, but most vehicles can have a few reinforced parts that will reduce wear. Refining industries are going to be massively power-hungry and polluting, but that in itself is a problem after the war. (-20 Mobilization Capacity for 2 Months)
[]Standardized High Effect Grenades: Improvements in explosive composition are going to be necessary to adequately hinder the advance of the Alien Enemy. Taking some cues from nuclear refining mixed reaction ClF3 can be used along with several gelling agents to ensure adequate adhesion to lensing and combat systems. The rapid oxidation of the Alien Enemies' carbon armor can be achieved along with degrading their diamondoid optics through intensive oxidization. Handling of the grenades themselves will pose several challenges but strong Teflon internal coating can prevent the rapid degradation of the grenade systems, allow adequate penetration of all alien systems, and enable their effective use as an anti-armor system. Variations on the system will be built into rocket-propelled flamethrowers, allowing the reduction of enemy armored strength from at least four hundred meters. (-20 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Restart Theoretical Infantry Programs: Experience with new capacitor systems, alien small arms, and several other material sciences breakthroughs have revolutionized the standard concept of an infantry rifle. Improvements in HEA films and the general gains in rifle body design have shifted the program towards more conventional weaponry. A caseless 12mm round is expected to be sufficient to match the performance of the 15mm at most ranges while an enlarged muzzle break and internal counterweight system stabilize the gun for rapid-return fire. Heat rejection in the firing chamber will be achieved through redirection away, using the gun as a thermal block. Armor developments can logically proceed from current suits with improved mobility and armor granted through partial battery-powered leg power assistance that is recharged from associated vehicles. (-25 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Support Weapon Production Programs: The 15mm MG is instrumental in resisting larger Alien Enemy assaults at longer ranges as either grenade launcher cannot engage at long ranges. Mild wartime modernizations with a second-generation HEA frame along with improved polymer furniture can bring the gun to a more modern standard, reducing carry weight and making it far more handleable as a GPMG. Sighting improvements will let it integrate more closely with modern AR systems, enhancing target designation and the precision of suppressing fire. Ammunition itself can move to lighter bimetallic cases across all platforms, reducing carry weights and allowing for each squad to contain a machine gun section. Production improvements are going to accompany the modernization, bringing infantry to a new standard and capability for local fires. (-25 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Advanced Tank Programs: Building a genuine challenge to the armored assets of the Alien Enemy is a massive technical undertaking but one that must be undertaken. A massive superconducting battery system can be paired with a railgun that runs the length of the tank taking advantage of hull traversal and a hydropneumatics suspension to aim munitions. Using a more capable SMES system across much of the lower tank, immediate power in the range of 1500GW can be achieved for the millisecond an armature is traversing the barrel. Internal superconducting elements along with improvements in high transmission alloys will make up the rails themselves to improve the comparative performance of the system. The current goal for the project itself is the launch of a 12 kg projectile armature at 10 km/s, achieving adequate effect to destroy any armor from the front. First production optimistically will start in six months, more practically in nine as the project remains immensely technical. (-45 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Advanced MLRS Systems: Designing a new heavy MLRS system to be mounted on a Type 39 chassis is necessary if sufficient heavy shock-fire is to be provided. Ground and sea-skimming missiles will have to be developed, but those can be done on a standardized 250mm platform without excessive issues. The missiles themselves will be far harder to make than the platform itself, as the tubes will require little further work. The rounds will take time to produce and time to issue in mass, but at combat ranges of less than 100 km, they will be able to deliver adequate suppressive fires. The timeframe for the program is expected to be around six months, with mass examples available by winter. (-25 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Attritional Drones: The fundamental dominance of SPLAA is a consistent problem for every form of attack but it can partially be worked around. As there are no satellite communications and a general state of moderate jamming, this leaves few comfortable options for the utilization of hunter-killer drones. Current proposals from Milta, General Aerospace, and Lunos are an entirely autonomous self-contained system. Produced by the millions and capable of independently locating and intercepting infantry in a set region, it will ensure an adequate suppressive effect. Direct contact with a light cumulative charge will be challenging, reducing casualty-causing effect but the less the Alien Enemy can rest the greater the effect of all other forces. (-25 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Second Generation Airframes: The Type 45 is insufficient in a lot of ways due to the missile's primary armament it has brought onto the field when conducting operations against more capable Alien interception measures. Protection systems onboard are deeply inadequate for something that could best be approximated as a hit-scan laser system. Initial technical development for a comparative laser system with thicker frontal armoring along with a minimal traverse pulse laser can start now. The program will entirely focus on making a veritable aerial tank, capable of bringing up a heavy SMES system to power a high-strength pulse laser. Frontal protection would only be sufficient for exposure to VTOL fire with both engines' S-ducts prepared to similar standards for most combat engagements. First examples of the likely Type 47 are not expected for at least eighteen months, but it is expected to entirely revolutionize air combat through its existence. (-20 Mobilization Capacity for 3 Months)
[]Accelerate Submarine Construction: There are not enough submarine dockyards to significantly raise production, but some measures can still be taken to accelerate production. Section building machinery can be expanded to produce more equipment for new submarines while missile production can be increased to compensate for any deficiencies. The new boats are going to have more issues than previous examples and the reactor cores will be built to a lower standard but any mobile anti-orbital strength cannot be under-estimated. (-40 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Emergency Starch Reserves: Building up the surge capacity of generation three starch organisms will be essential for maintaining continuous resistance against the enemy. These will mostly be built in the old way with massive plots of organisms organized at the shore and harvested using the available surplus labor. Yields are not expected to be great and the flavoring factories will have to be moved to continuous operation but a massive reserve of calories can be built up if the fighting takes several years, buying time for smaller-scale systems to be constructed. (-15 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Government Wire-Taps: Monitoring core communications of the members of the civilian government to keep any collaborationist temptations down will be an important first step. If the legislators wanted to have privacy they should not be actively working as a part of the wartime government. Any corruption uncovered in the process will be forwarded to relevant authorities but likely ignored until after the war if it is not massively degrading military production to keep operational security. Most of the monitoring will come with the installation of backdoors and direct division four analysis of them to ensure that morale is staying high and the other aspects of society are not actively burning down. (-15 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Expand Alien Agitprop: Department Eight has so far focused on cultural output to hook the Alien soldiers in but with further programs, this can be expanded in effect. Direct propaganda can be done at the main level interspersed with the shows along with explicit instructions on how to defect, methods to survive a defection, and how to cross lines. Bonuses for the capture of intact armored vehicles have been raised with significant financial assistance in their state currency through the provision of gold, a promise for later repatriation as they are not technically in a war and comfortable living conditions in rear line areas. Cultural sensitivity groups have been forced to work significantly harder to adjust current generative content and avoid insensitivity, but at this point, domestic films are at least equivalent in general themes to captured bootlegs across all industries and categories. (-15 Mobilization Capacity)
[]Refound the Ecology Department: The presence of alien bodies has allowed for a revolution in new developments of technologies. The bodies of the Alien Enemy are badly optimized and replete with vulnerabilities for viable attack vectors. Immune recognition is slow without much of a redundant automatic mechanism. Further, lacking capabilities in signaling cascades in essential oxygen exchange organs speaks to a species that is poorly adapted for existence much less combat operations. Immediate vectors for deployment will focus on targeting these systems, aiming to reduce oxygen uptake and re-direct metabolic processes. Standardized fifth-generation systems will be adapted for the task of colonizing filters and breathing media for the constant production of new vectors. Viable agents can be made and released within two months, degrading enemy capacity until they can deploy adequate retroviral vectors to eliminate likely vulnerability routes. (-25 Mobilization Capacity)
6-Hour Moratorium Vote by Plan
Also, a map of current forces and locations
Elf War Spreadsheet 45-6
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