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- Sunday 03.10.2789 A.D. Standard Calendar

5:30 AM OCST (Oshima City Standard Timezone) - Orbital Observation Platform C-531N

Oshiman Territorial Defense Force ODE Element ELINT satellite begins to pick up unusual exotic particulates within city limits, an automated report is sent to the Oshiman Central Defense Command but is regarded as a glitch. Twenty minutes later various space-time distortions begin to be detected and an additional report is sent and is again disregarded as a glitch due to a lack of effect on FTL traffic in and around the planet.

6:15 AM OCST - Oshima-Gooth L1 Lagrangian Point

The Kannon-Class Frigate UNV Bonneville transitions into normal space inside the designated 'slip zone' near Oshima's L1 Point with its moon, on board is Unit 550 of the 405th Naval Special Warfare Group known as Cadaver One. Down one team member from a failed attempt at retrieving Marii technology from disputed space. Somewhat rested, their mettle will soon be tested on the surface of Oshima. For now the vessel moves at steerage speed toward the Oshima City Lift Station.

6:45 AM OCST - Residential Block 32

The recently divorced Corporal of the Union Marine Reserve awakens in a dark small apartment, today is Polce Private Robert Yulles's first day on out of the security forces academy and first shift with the local police forces. It will take him an hour to wash off the night's mourning for his marriage and celebrations for his graduation. He rides off into the rising sun toward a new destiny he isn't yet aware of.

7:00 AM OCST - Camp Morrei - Marine Air Station Sack Field

Captain Hessler watches the sun rise out of the corner of his eye as he goes over the numerous checks required before they can begin turning the various thermonuclear turbofans that give the Ghoul gunship its lifting power. With the exception of its plasma and energy weaponry it is unarmed and scheduled for a test flight in one hour to check on a new upgrade package that had been fitted a few days ago.

7:15 AM OCST - Oshima City Outskirts

Yulles stops at a fuel station to refuel his bike, finds a girl that looks slightly out of place, brief conversation before he turns for a moment and vanishes. He shrugs and continues into the station.

7:30 AM OCST - Intersection of Brightwood and Highway 7

Odd winds, shifting visuals, though still deserted aside from the occasional car or shop owner noticing the odd movements, spacial distortions begin.

7:45 AM OCST - Military Barrier Station A31

Bonneville docks at a military platform orbiting near the space elevator counterweight station, the team meets their 'handler' Marine One Star Hummel, he begins the debrief as they walk toward a holo-chamber to examine the mission.

9:00 AM OCST - Oshima City Precinct/District 25

Yulles, now if full uniform and kit sits in a squad car with the precinct captain next to him riding shotgun. He is a retired Marine colonel doing his customary first ride with a new police. Hes nearly a hundred and twenty with grey hair and somewhat overweight. Hes walking Yulles through various special situations in his assigned area as message traffic flashes across their COM system about a disturbance at a nearby intersection, they respond.

They arrive just as the gate forms in the center part of the Brightwood/Highway 7 intersection, emerging with handguns, though Yulles later swaps his for a caseless rifle. Both men and patrolmen from three other cars watch stunned with a crowd of people circling the object as the vanguard of the Imperial Army steps out into the bright light of an Oshiman morning. (Orks and Goblins with light caster guns?) One of the creatures looks around stunned before raising his hand and lowering it quickly, the leading elements of creatures firing into the crowd before sword and board elements push forward. Yulles and the Retired Colonial open fire in time with the rest of the patrol officers.

9:10 AM OCST

A general alert reaches the planetary defense command, less then two miles from the intersection and the gate emergence point and goes out to the network. Territorial forces are put on alert and reserve formations are activated automatically with numerous individuals getting their summons via personal contact methods.

9:40 AM OCST

Police forces are now fully mobilized with numerous special response teams and regular patrol elements slowing the out pouring of what can only be described as a fantasy army, holding them back just long enough for civilians to escape. Yulles is among them, falling back bit by bit the retired colonial using the car to provide cover and communications as they continue a fighting retreat. Both are wounded with the RC nursing a arrow in his thigh.

9:45 AM OCST

Captain Hessler and Condor 341 are overhead now having been handed off to the law enforcement command net, at present he hovers over the combat zone, occasionally chasing elf-like beings jumping over the roof tops keeping with the policy of containing the invaders. He is on post overhead when a second disturbance occurs… and dragons begin pushing into the airspace. He is the first to engage with direct plasma weapon fire. A larger creature with a rider nearly brings him down with a collision only to be saved by the rapidly scrambled air assets from Sack Field. A massive air battle breaks out overhead between dragons, some living, some machine.

10:00 AM OCST - Bonneville Drop Deck

The briefing hadn't even started when the flash message traffic reached Hummel, the team and the general scramble onto the Bonneville which begins to position itself over the warzone far below. Hummel briefs the team and the Marine security contingent now in ground combat gear on the situation and that they will soon be deployed directly into the enemy's rear. Cadaver One and three seven man squads are dropped from low orbit, with the latter placed around three local police held strong points, Cadaver One is inserted into a park far behind the lines to begin recon, targeted killing, and demolition operations.

With its troops away the Bonneville begins to lower its altitude, moving into a position over the city's outskirts to provide its deck as a forward arming point and step off point for resupply operations into the city.

10:20 AM OCST - Joint Base Oshima

Those not cut off by the fighting inside city limits have begun to stream into Joint Base Oshima, which Camp Morrei is apart of. Men and women in civilian attire and in some cases bed cloths are scrambling into equipment depots as clerks and logistics men pull out arsenals and equipment storage bins in deployment configuration. Combat uniforms are thrown on, skin suits are slipped into, gear is put on and weapons are checked, rechecked, and then loaded. A mixed force of territorials and Marines are streaming out of this mess toward an assembly point where vehicles and dropships are loading up troops with any semblance of organization. A pair of Marine Colonels arrive and begin organizing the clusterfuck and before long the first elements begin forming up into convoys as planetary command begins feeding the commanders on the ground the situation.

One element mostly composed of territorials is designated as the main blocking force, composed of reservists and part time troops they are loaded on board numerous light and medium lift dropships to be shuttled around the combat zone into the western end of the battle area. Their job is simple, hold the line and keep the hostiles from moving on the city center. A Marine mech unit is attached to provide heavy support.

*The remaining forces composed mostly of Union Colonial Marines but with some territorials form up into three mechanized companies with each centered on a element of tanks before pushing out toward the city. Two take the southern and northern areas of the combat zone with one reinforced by a group of mechs takes the center with the goal of pushing pushing the enemy off their portal and toward the hopefully entrenched territorials in the east.