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Chapter 19
Non-Lethal Battle
He really wanted to join in, be part of the operation that will finally put an end to the war for good. However, Athrun's Zala doctor says absolutely not, and so he just watches those involve by the sidelines.
At an observation tower, Athrun can see rows of warships that just finished preflight warm upwards by vertical thrust engines while gravity control generators lightens the weight of the ships.
The small fleet of ships whose parts came from salvage from the hundreds of ships that littered the man made Debris Belt, taken down to Earth, repaired and reassembled to build one Agamemnon's, two Nelsons and three Drake's class ships. With the added Tau'ri technology on the six ships, they are now rated up to SGC Daedalus standards which are capable of taking on a Goa'uld Ha'tak.
The six ships slowly rise up to the sky and retract their landing gears and then activated their Active Stealth which made them disappear from radar as they turn to the northwards using the shortest route of Iceland where Heaven's Base is located.
On board the Agamemnon ships is Admiral Halberton, the one who leads the first part of Operation Reclaimer, the taking back of the Earth Alliance from Logos.
"ETA Mr. Robert?" Captain Robert Trask a survivor of the Eighth Fleet and one of many that responded to Admiral Halberton call to arms.
"Twelve minutes sir" Robert replied
"Alright, load up the stun bombs, reduce our altitude to 3,000 feet" the Admiral ordered "once were right above the lines we drop them and heads straight to Heaven's Base before any of them can react to our presence"
"Yes Sir"
"Sir we got 18 subs in the water, 10 Zaft and 8 EAF subs 3 miles out from Heaven's Base" reported by one of the crewmen manning the sensor station and showed it on the tactical screens
One weakness of their stun bombs is that its power dissipates when it hits a mass body of water, minimizing its effectiveness in stunning. The Admiral can't afford to have subs capable of launching MS and attacking them during the operation.
The Admiral then contacted the Archangel who is trailing behind the Tau'ri Fleet "Murrue, there are 18 subs in the water, take out those subs while we take out the surface ships"
"Yes sir, we can confirm location and we are heading out" and with that the Archangel dives into the sea
"Good hunting Murrue" he said
Archangel
Murrue turns towards her crew "Load Disablers and prepare to fire torpedoes tubes 1 to 6!" she orders her weapons officers "target the first six, hit their propulsion drive and have the valiant's target their horizontal launch bay"
Disablers are torpedoes designed to kill all forms of electronics which is based on the first shot of a Goa'uld Zat'nik'tel but only if it can detonate close to 10feet to be effective.
Meanwhile, every missile launchers on every ship in the Tau'ri fleet have been loaded up with specially designed rocket propelled stun bombs in cluster type and disabler missiles, courtesy from SGC eggheads who reverse engineered Wraith stun bomb and their hand held weapons to create their version of stunners.
Zaft Ship Minerva
It's just a two more days to the deadline for Heaven's base to surrender to Zaft. Plants Supreme Council Chairman Gilbert Durandal is on board Minerva and he's talking to delegates from the East Asia Republic and Eurasia about the benefits of an alliance with Zaft and the Plants.
Durandal needs this as more and more of the Supreme Council and his supporters are getting impatient with him, complaining that the cost of war has skyrocketed with little progress to show for it.
Still many people (on both sides), mostly the families of servicemen and women who were not doing much fighting as the majority of the troops are unable to deploy with complete equipment, lack of transportation or a steady flow of supplies are just loafing around doing nothing, which is fine by them because the lack of fighting means that no one is profiting in the War.
Durandal blames the Tau'ri interference as he is nowhere near of getting his 'Destiny Plan' up and running. The Tau'ri meddling has created a rift between him and the people who are demanding a peaceful end to the war before there is an increase of the loss of life.
His personal life also took a hit,
Captain Talia Gladys confronted him demanding the truth behind the lie and she was not happy with him at all when she got the truth out of him. She was about to resign her commission as Minerva's Captain, that is until Durandal twisted her arm with a threat that ended their relationship for good.
Durandal knew that, had she'd been allowed to resign it would pretty much demoralize Zaft, for the captain of the flagship, resigning during wartime won't sit well with the troops, plus the public will see it as a clear sign of problems within the command structure.
Both never look eye to eye with each other anymore as Captain Gladys continues to command the Minerva but only against her will…not while her son is in danger of being taken as a hostage.
The day started calm and quiet, and then slowly they felt the vibration and rumblings of what feels like the roar of rocket engines
"Captain, what is happening?" the Chairman shouted and then Captain Gladys called XO Arthur attention at the radar station
"Arthur!"
"There is nothing on the radar captain-we are going to and…what the!" he sounded shock and he's not the only one as they see on the big screens are 6 Earth Alliance spaceships, descending from 3 thousand feet above and approaching Heaven's Base
"Are those what I think they are?" Gladys said as she couldn't believe what she's seeing
Everyone watch in stun silence as they see 6 ships design only to operate in space are now moving in a wedge formation and dropping/launching something as they head towards Heaven's base.
Reacting quickly, Captain Gladys presses the red alert and screamed at the receiver on the PA
"BATTLESTATIONS! BATTLESTATIONS! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" she was about to order anti-aircraft fire but it was too late
At that moment, six EAF Spaceships not made to fly in the atmosphere, roared above the Zaft line and dropping their load of stun bombs and when they pass above the EA lines they drop another load and then went straight towards Heaven's Base.
When Admiral Halberton saw the bombs exploded all around the lines of EAF and Zaft vessels. The energy of the stun bombs swept thru them like a tidal wave which put everyone in its path become stunned or incapacitated temporarily.
Even inside their mobile suits, the stunner's energy reaches the pilots as they have no means to shield themselves from the paralyzing effects of a neural energy burst.
"All ships head towards your designated target area," the Admiral ordered "Launch all Mobile Suits, Edward!" the Admiral calls him "Signal Sanctuary Base," he said excited at the result of the first move was a success
"Time to storm Heaven's Gate!"
"Aye Sir"
The Tau'ri ships move around Heaven's base like Native American Indians circling a wagon train of settlers like in the old west.
The sight of flying ships designed only for space operations and not in an atmosphere draws everyone attention and not noticing that an armed force is attacking Heaven's Base from within via transport rings that was Asgard transported to the area.
Inside the base, where the transport rings appeared have suddenly came to life revealing the first assault group, a commando group calling themselves Spartans wearing MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armorwhich is a B.D.U. or Battle Dress Uniform, and they first secured a beachhead and then signal for more troops to arrive.
The MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor was created from reverse engineering of two captured Asgard's environmental/combat armored suits that Dr. Mackay and Dr. Daniel Jackson brought back from their abduction in the Pegasus Galaxy. The suit was brought back to Earth to be analyzed at Area 51 and then reverse engineered to create their own for extreme environment combat operations.
The Area 51scientists and engineers who work on making a new suit called Mjolnir and they also created a simulation program to train soldiers on how to use the armor. It was on that time that they also created a video game with a software company and it became the most popular game in the world.
Halo
SGC sent 20 of the suits to the Eirene Galaxy.
Thousands of ground troops from the Tau'ri base flooded in and followed the Spartans in taking control of the vital areas of Heaven's Base, firing their stunners and throwing stun grenades at anyone in their path.
The attack from within caught everyone by surprise as collaborators to the Tau'ri did their part to help seize the base with little damage and as little loss of life as possible.
X-1 Destroy Hanger Bay
Captain Neo Roanoke of the Earth Alliance Forces 81st Autonomous Mobile Group, commonly known as Phantom Pain have been in alert status ever since the order of a counter offensive will begin before the deadline. His unit team is composed of three Extendeds, Stella Loussier, Sting Oakley, and Auel Neider are working on a strategy to deal with the Minerva, her team of Red Suits pilots and their new mobile suit.
Their planning got as far as taking out the new Zaft machines when suddenly, the alert sounded
"What the hell going on out there" Captain Neo Roanoke yelled thru the noise and that's when 6 Spartans burst thru the door and fired their stunners on anything moving.
Stella was able to avoid the first shot, however, Sting and Auel was not so lucky. Roanoke took cover and returned fire with his service pistol.
"Darn it!" He took aim at the visor of the Spartan and fire. The next moment he sees the bullet bounce off on what looks like an energy shield in front of the Spartan
Meanwhile Stella was stalking towards one of the Spartan and jumps him with a knife like a madwoman. She got close but the Spartan she tried to stab just slap away the dagger and then grab her by the shirt and slam her on the floor and getting a stun blast. Stella fell into unconsciousness.
"Give it up Man!" said by one of the Spartans "You are alone and you team is down but unhurt so there is no point in raising this fight to the next level, surrender and you and the others won't be harmed"
"How can I be so sure?" Roanoke yelled questioning as he slaps a fresh clip to his pistol "Who are you and what are you offering"
"We are the Tau'ri and we can give you what Logos have denied you and your team,"
"And that would be?"
"Freedom and Answers"
Lunar Orbit above Daedalus Base
Group 1
10 minutes ago, the Phoenix Ascendant appeared out of a hyperspace window and began firing at Requiem's 'Relay One' using Alteran drones. The tremendous sublight speed and maneuver of the drone's streaks pass the first line made out of numerous mobile suits. All are taken by surprise when they sees the drones go pass them at incredible speeds
The drone's targets are the Drake-class ships carrying positron beam deflector in defense of Relay One and those drones hits the positron deflectors while sparing the ships connected to it.
When the last of the Drake's are out of the way, the Phoenix Ascendant move in closer to Relay One and then fired its heavy particle beam weapons on the relay. The beams of heavy particles are weapons capable of downing a Wraith Mothership in one shot which is why it has no problem in breaking the relay apart even when its last was raised, Lightwave barrier; it could not stop a multi-gigaton beam weapon.
As Relay One fell spectacularly, the Phoenix Ascendant then turned its sights on 'Relay Two' which is further ahead and with an entire fleet protecting it.
From its launch bays flew out gate fighters and mobile suits moving thru sublight speed the EAF fleet and their job is to keep them busy, keep them occupied, keep them off balance and keep them away from the ship while the Phoenix approach Relay Two and destroy it.
The Gundam Platoons and gate fighters are fighting off the EAF fleet but avoiding taking lives by using their stunners, however there are targets aimed for destruction and one of them are now at Captain John Wayne 'The Duke' Thunderhawk, cross hairs.
Duke flies his customized X105 Strike Noir with a sublight aile pack and headed straight towards a Girty Lue class warship from Phantom Pain named Nana Buluku.
The ship in question is on stealth (Mirage Colloid) mode and on an ambush position ready to pounce at the Phoenix Ascendant on the side.
Normally the ambush tactic work but they misjudge the Phoenix Ascendants superiority as the advance Alteran sensors have seen thru the Mirage Colloid and sent the Duke to intercept them.
Duke streak pass the Nana Buluku as to make them think that he did not see them. Duke then double back and fired shot from his 175mm grenade launcher on the ship's engine section and then fired his 57mm beam rifle at the ship's bridge section.
"Thought you could sneak up on us you bunch of yellow belly cowards" he said John Wayne style
Nana Buluku lost its Mirage Colloid which revealed the ship for all to see. The Duke pressed on the attack, destroying CIWS, missile launchers and Mass Drivers disabling their ability to launch their mobile suits.
Duke still continued on the attack and when he got close to the bridge section, Duke sees his target and blasted the bridge into smithereens with his rifle. For good measures, he pulled out his antiship sword and slashes off the bridge section to the ship to make sure no one on that bridge was alive especially the commander who happens to be a Blue Cosmos agent responsible for the death of thousands of coordinators at a refugee camp.
Duke stops and allowed the Nana Buluku drift out of the battlefield.
Meanwhile the rest of the Tau'ri took on the other EAF MS and MA defenders and warships and some of the EAF warships tried their luck in taking on the Ascendant, which is a big mistake.
Inside the Phoenix Ascendant, Col. Carter just watches the EAF in vain of trying to breach thru Alteran military grade shields. Beam and missile strikes barely registered on a barrier that can withstand a constant heavy plasma barrage from a dozen wraith Motherships.
Near Zaft Base Messiah
Group 2
The Eternal along with several ships from the EAF, Orb and Zaft who allied themselves to Terminal, are heading towards Messiah on a mission to destroy Zaft Neo-Genesis installed on the Messiah.
Looking at the combat boards, Colonel Waltfeld watches Group 1 rout the EAF fleet and then destroying the two relays successfully and with minimum loss of life.
"Your people finish their mission pretty quick" Col. Waltfeld remark and Ranma shrug his shoulder
"Yeah but the fight is kinda one sided though" Ranma said "There is nothing in the Earth Sphere that can go head on battle with the Phoenix Ascendant, Colonel Waltfeld."
"You sounded disappointed"
"We wanted to refrain from using the Phoenix as much as possible but circumstances gave us no choice but to use the ship instead of letting the Gundam Platoons do this mission on their own"
"You're Gundam Platoons is doing very well though" Waltfeld remark "even though half their numbers was lost, they shot down quite a good portion to the EAF fleet defending the relays. Not bad for just a group of green horns"
Ranma then receive a report from the Phoenix.
"Not one of them lost their lives thanks to their mobile suits fitted with the transporter ejectors so there is little loss of life if they get shot down. Still, I consider this as a marginally acceptable performance" said Ranma and this made Waltfeld curious
"Well at least they are alive, thanks to those transporter ejectors of yours, the only losses you have are the machines and that's a replaceable resource and that's a feature most appreciated by every mobile suit pilot in Terminal, Ranma" Waltfeld said
"I'll pass on your appreciation remarks to Col. Carter and Rodney when I head back" he said smiling
"Thanks Ranma"
"Ranma, the troops are ready and in position" Lacus spoke from the captain's chair
"Thanks Lacus" Ranma pick up his helmet and walk towards the entrance "If this go as planned, we can finally boot out Durandal from his ivory throne without turning him into a martyr or another Patrick Zala for idiots to follow."
From the launch bay stood the Strike Freedom, the advance version of the Freedom
"Lacus can you hear me" he called and she responds
"Loud and clear, Ranma"
"What's the status on Messiah defenses and the Zaft Fleet defending?"
"Messiah defenses are up and the Zaft Fleet is moving towards us on an intercept course" she said as Ranma looks at the incoming data from Eternal's sensors and analyze their status
"Looks like standard troops and no Gundams" he said
"These guys are from the newly formed 3rd Zaft reserve fleet, but they haven't seen any action yet, ever since the war started"
"A bunch of green horns" Ranma remarks "I guess Durandal really did put all his eggs in one basket" he said
"What?" Lacus did not understand what that meant so Waltfeld explained it to her
"I think Ranma was referring to the Gundams princess," Waltfeld said "Chairman Durandal took all of Zaft best G-weapons down to Earth for operation Ragnarok and left nothing here to protect the spacestation"
"Having one Gundam here would have made the mission more difficult for us to complete" he said
"If Durandal took all of the Gundams down on Earth, would that be a problem for Admiral Halberton mission?"
"Probably, that is if the Admiral didn't raise-up the shield around Heaven's base as planned and I am hoping he has"
"I hope so too, Ranma" Lacus said agreeing and then she open a line to the Zaft Fleet to plead for their cooperation and hopefully avoid a needless battle
"To the soldiers of Zaft, I am Lacus Clyne" she starts "Please allow us to pass," she starts "Genesis is a weapon built only for the subjugation of freedom. It is no different to the Earth Alliance Requiem. Allow us to pass to let us destroy it"
There was a momentary pause from Zaft but training and obligation as soldiers of Zaft override their reluctance and are fast approaching
"They are still coming; shall I order our fleet to engage, Ranma?"
"Do so, but you should start with a long range beam bombardment on the ships first Lacus" he then suggest "It think this is the perfect time to try out the new null beam, don't you think so, Lacus?"
Eternal
"The Null Beam" Lacus looks toward the front outside where the Eternal Single Beam Cannon once was is now a Nullifier Beam Gun in its place.
Based on the Wraith stunner the Nullifier Beam Gun is for neutralizing a ship without actually destroying the ship itself but this is only to be used on non shielded vessels.
Lacus is very happy about this particular piece of technology, one of many gifts from the Tau'ri have given to Terminal. She dislikes fighting but knows it's a necessary action for her cause to stop the war.
"Colonel Waltfeld should we" she asks a second opinion
"It's a good a time as any to use it princess" he said agreeing with Ranma
"Then at your pleasure Colonel, you may fire when ready" she said, sounding like she's in a good mood as the Eternal was about to open fire.
The Nullifier beam or Null beam, acted like a power drain as its energy coruscated across the Zaft ship, it drains electrical power on any machines and devices it touches leaving the vessel powerless and vulnerable and the crew stun temporarily.
The only drawback of the null beam is that, it is only effective on unshielded ships and if there were ships equip with energy shields then the null beam would be ineffective in a battle.
Fortunately, there is not one ship equip with an energy shield.
The Strike Freedom and its band of Mobile Suits flew thru the path the Eternal has made for them and taking on any Zaft MS blocking their path.
Like the null beam of the Eternal, their MS are also equipped with the same tech and so, the loss of life is at its minimum and this is something that's making Lacus very happy as the battle they are now waging will have the lowest casualty count and death toll ever.
The Strike Freedom burn thru the Zaft defenses like a blazing star as it takes out dozens of Zaft MS in its path without killing the pilots as there was nothing in Zaft arsenal that could stop the Strike Freedom from disabling the Neo-Genesis.
By the time it was over, both the EAF and Zaft no longer possess their WMD and the whole world saw the battles occurring in Heaven's Base, then at Daedalus base, Requiem gun and the Mobile Space Fortress Messiah where it carries the Neo-Genesis, was taken out by the Strike Freedom.
Across the world, many people felt a sigh of relief and even cheering after seeing those WMD weapons disabled or destroyed. No one felt comfortable with those weapons around as the possibility of either Djibril or Durandal will use those weapons as the means to an end for their personal agenda.
"That did it!" Ranma declared in the Strike Freedom and then open a line to all of his allies "Neo-Genesis is disabled, all forces fall back, mission successful" announced and feeling a bit proud of what he and his allies have done. And right then Lacus called him
"Ranma, we just got word from Admiral Halberton forces at Heaven's base" she said with cheerful enthusiasm
"Heaven's Base is secured with minimum loss of life and damage and by the time Zaft woke up from their slumber, the base entire forces and the EAF fleet have immediately pledge their support and loyalty to the admiral"
"Already, well that was fast"
"Indeed it was and quite a surprise for Zaft as well;" Lacus agreeing "It seems that, the EAF fleet protecting heaven's base has a big dislike of being ordered around by Logos"
"Really"
"According to the message the Admiral sent, the Atlantic Federation President Copland went on air live as soon as the base was secured. He made a presidential decree that all EA forces are to arrest and apprehend all known and supporters of Blue Cosmos, and it seems that the majority of the EAF complied"
"He made that decree, knowing that he will be in mortal danger" Ranma was surprise at AF president daring move and yet he understood why the president did that. The original plan was to whisk the president to safety first and then initiate the plan to apprehend every member of Blue Cosmos once agents loyal to the president are in place.
The plan was shot to hell when Djibril plans a counteroffensive earlier, Copland's people who are supposedly in position to make the arrest were not ready yet so he took the chance of every EAF soldiers and officers will heed his call.
His move shows a great deal of dislike of Blue Cosmos in the EAF ranks and this decree help gets rid of them.
"He knew the risks, and we just got word that, the White House came under attack by BC supporters just after the broadcast, fortunately, Secret Service Agents got him out and took him to the Pentagon where he's safe and well protected" Lacus reported "The AF military police are hunting what remains of Blue Cosmos right now"
"That's good to hear, but what about Durandal and Zaft, how did they react" Ranma asks
"Zaft didn't do anything after they wake up from being stunned and by the time Chairman Durandal ordered his forces to commence attack, the Admiral had the shields up and running which defeated the chairman attempt to take Heaven's base by force" hearing that, Ranma felt relieve at the news
Across the EAF, Blue Cosmos back officers, found themselves being rounded up by military police and EAF officers and soldiers complying to the presidents decree. The other branches in government, even the postal service subdued all BC members for the police to arrive and take them away.
The Blue Cosmos purge continues and in a live broadcast, Admiral Halberton declared the Tau'ri intentions to the world.
Heaven's Base under Tau'ri control
"Members of Logos, the shadow organization who is the puppeteer of Blue Cosmos within the Earth Alliance will be handed over to an International Tribunal to face charges of 'Crimes Against Humanity' the leader of Logos himself, Lord Djibril however is still at large and all EAF bases have complied with the president, except for Daedalus Base that have refused to acknowledge President Copland authority and are hereby declared renegade." He said and he was about to read the next page of his speech when an officer pass a note to him and what it says made him smile
"The total count of human losses on Earth and in space is about 250 casualties but only 15 deaths in total on both sides and as of today, The Plants Supreme Council has voted unanimously to accept the EAF offer of a ceasefire and an end to hostilities, and has informed Chairman Durandal on the council decision and advises him to have ALL Zaft forces withdraw from EAF territories including the areas around Heaven's Base"