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Ghost Fleet - Plot Phases
Pre-Phase
- A freighter being used as an Interior blacksite orbiting around Neptune is hit and several hundred military survivors deemed too dangerous to leave on earth are extracted, however this action draws in a survey ship with Vaida warren Erbians aboard.
- Uptime Vaida initiate contact with their downtime ancestors and a covert meeting on CONUS is arranged.
- The Lake Tahoe Affair occurs over several days where both parties lay out possibilities, compromises, and then calculate possibilities.
- The onsite Vaida warren are more or less shown the current options that 'uptime' humanity have at their disposal, all of which have mass grave consequences for the empire.
- Numbers are run, odds are calculated, and new conspirators are born.
- Facilitated by the Vaida, initial contact is made with major US resistance groups and Russian/NATO military remnants to the east of the Urals.
- The uptime Vaida freighter group along with a large number of commercial vessels that had been part of the fleet leave with an escort, their destination being the Sundala Starzone as observations indicate it is still there. Aboard are the fleet's civilian dependents and any noncombatants that are not needed for theater side construction operations.
- Covert construction begins on Dysnomia Base, originally only established as a temporary mining colony for the extraction of Callenite Ore (the only known source beyond the Starzone), it is later hollowed out and setup as a hidden forward operating base for stealth craft slipping in and out of the solar system.
Phase One
Operation ATHENS
Operation KORMORAN
- Operation COLOSSUS kicks off, six stealth fast attacks are cut from the fleet and deployed toward the Shil core, their task being the mapping and documenting any and all Imperial facilities both civilian and military and the leaving of stealth spy sats to monitor all of these sites. The primary goal being the plotting of primary Shil MSRs to earth and to develop a target list for the coming merchant raiding operations.
- The 'KORMORAN Fleet' is established and split into operational task groups,
- Task Group BEDLAM
- Centered around the supercarrier UASV Thomas Cochrane.
- 1x Hood Class Strikeship
- 2x Samar Class Assault Carriers
- 4x Ajax Class Guided Missile Cruisers
- 20x Midway Class Guided Missile Destroyer(s)
- 20x Ernest King Class Frigate(s)
- 4x Blackfish Class Stealth Fast Attack Ships
- 1x Blackfish Class Stealth Fast Attack Ships, Special Ops Support Version
- Task Group PENDULUM
- Centered around the strikeship UASV Belgrano.
- Plus and additional Hood Class Strikeship
- 2x Samar Class Assault Carriers
- 4x Ajax Class Guided Missile Cruisers
- 20x Midway Class Guided Missile Destroyer(s)
- 20x Ernest King Class Frigate(s)
- 4x Blackfish Class Stealth Fast Attack Ships
- 1x Blackfish Class Stealth Fast Attack Ships, Special Ops Support Version
- Strike Group Vicksburg
- Centered around the Ajax Class Guided Missile Cruiser UASV Vicksburg
- 10x Midway Class Guided Missile Destroyer(s)
- 10x Ernest King Class Frigate(s)
- Revenant Class Special Use Stealth Ship UASV Tang
- Strike Group Vella
- Centered around the Ajax Class Guided Missile Cruiser UASV Vella
- 10x Midway Class Guided Missile Destroyer(s)
- 10x Ernest King Class Frigate(s)
- Revenant Class Special Use Stealth Ship UASV Talon
Operation HOMELAND
- Scouting operations select four systems for forward bases and anchorages to support Ghost Fleet operations.
- Epsilon Eridani B
- Aegir Anchorage
Built into a sixteen kilometer deep canyon on one of the many moons of Aegir, like most of the other 'bases' used by the fleet it started life as a source of raw materials in a hidden and out of the way location. The infrastructure and location soon served to convince those in charge that building this location up would be in their best interests mostly due to the ability to employ the location as a shipyard and for its 'backyard' distance to Sol. Throughout the campaign this location served as the main repair depot and the source of new vessels.
- Alpha Complex
Built on the sole habitable world in the Epsilon Eridani star system, like most such complexes it was heavily camouflaged and tucked into natural features to aid in hiding it's location, in this case built into the edge of a large overhanging mountain range. It's purpose is for the terrestrial training of humans or dissident Imperials for operations on Earth and the galaxy at large.
- Gamma Complex
Planetoid nuclear weapons production and storage site.
- Epsilon Indi B
- Raake Anchorage
Another deep canyon moon base, intended to serve the stealth fleet.
- Gliese 525
- Bastion Anchorage
Another deep canyon moon base, a fleet anchorage and ship production site.
- Beta Complex
- Gliese 9851-C
- Baker Anchorage
Another deep canyon moon base, intended to serve as a operations base further 'toward' the Shil core worlds.
- Delta Site
A moon base complex deep inside a shadowed crater, it is a dedicated nuclear weapons production site after the celestial body was identified as carrying a large amount of uranium ore.
Operation REDOUBT
Operation BLACK WATCH
Phase Two
- The Imperium becomes aware they are fighting humans from an alternate future timeline.
Phase Three
- Ghost Fleet's merchant hunting campaign goes fully unmanned and expands beyond the approaches to earth.
Phase Four
- WITCHING HOUR elements commence a mass targeted assassination campaign against primary Imperial and collaborationist leadership on Earth and within the solar system.
- The 2034 Christmas Day Offensive / Great Human Ethrovi Rebellion begins.
- Imperial Fleet inside the Solar System is destroyed.
- All Imperial assets in and near Sol off earth are captured, or if they resist, destroyed with nuclear strikes.
- Red zones and some yellow zones are swept clean of Imperial presence by USTERCOM or Fleet forces.
- Conventional forces smuggled onto the surface over the past several years move to staging areas.
- Remaining fueling/trade routes toward the earth approaches are severed by nuclear strikes and the Jovian planets they once orbited are mined.
- A large scale operation is commenced by BLACK WATCH elements targeting major command and control figures within the Imperium, collateral damage is not considered an issue. 35% of the 'in uniform' Royal House are killed over 96 hours, half of the remaining are gravely wounded, the Empress is nearly killed in an airstrike that kills a Sev admiral briefing her on the current situation of the Earth approaches.