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April 11th 2234, Shanxi System, Shanxi, New Peking
The Retaking of New Peking only took a day but it reduced the City to rubble. Almost everything outside of the Administrative District was destroyed in the Alliance counteroffensive by either the Stubbornly defending Turians or the Advancing Alliance Army. With fresh reinforcements from the Alliance Streaming in the 212th and 327th Legions joined the 501st in retaking Shanxi while the Navy was preparing for the arrival of the 3rd and 5th fleet to carry the fight to the enemy.
Before that could happen however Shanxi needed to be cleared out and secured. That was proving to be a hard task. The Turians knew that they had no way out of here so they fought till the last man in most cases. Some small turian units did surrender but of the estimated remaining enemy force it was proving unimportant.
Multiple offers for surrender of the Turian forces were denied by General Desolas and so the Alliance started preparing for the offensive on the Turian stronghold which was located in the now abandoned city of New Nanking.
The Navy wanted to bomb it from orbit, the Army wanted it turned into a shell crater filled no mans land. Alliance Intelligence wanted the General so it was decided that the General was to be captured and not reduced to atoms. Unfortunately, that meant that General Williams, General Skywalker, General Bly and General Cody were all stuck in Shanxi command setting up a plan.
"It being a port city we can distract them by land and then have one of the legions delivered via Dropships to the port. From what my troops gathered they are bad at handling water so they shouldn't anticipate an attack from the port itself" said Williams
"That could work but the question is who will it fall to?" asked Skywalker.
"My 327th nor your 501st can stand up to Cody's 212th when it comes to aerial Assaults so I suggest the 212th go" said Bly turning to Cody who was looking at the holotable.
"I can do that but you will have to provide a distraction large enough to pull majority of their forces away from the Port. Bombers from the navy can deal with the AA guns before we land but the more enemy troops are left at the port the longer we will need to clear it out before we can push for the Generals Command Center"
"An attack on these 2 points will likely divert everything there. My scouts say they are the 2 most lightly defended spots." Said Williams as he highlighted a few lines.
"Area too small for a full attack, if we attack on a longer line while focusing our attack on those spots, we can not only divert their reinforcements but also lock all of them in combat. Once Cody lands and starts moving on the Generals bunker, we can exploit the openings we would create in enemy lines by encircling the enemy soldiers. Even they will have to surrender then" said Skywalker
April 12th
The Turians knew an attack was coming, that much was certain as no sane military would let them live and these humans proved capable at warfare. The major indication that an attack was coming were the enemy troop massing's and scouting parties that could be observed from the highest buildings in the occupied city. The attack was kicked off in the middle of the night with an artillery barrage by Human forces waking up every turian.
It continued well into the morning when it started moving closer to the city and the main defensive positions. Soldiers that Survived the artillery saw huge amounts of soldiers and vehicles moving their way. Anyone else would have surrendered when faces with odds like these but Turians who were raised in a militarized society and indoctrinated from a young age didn't think of surrendering until it was ordered by their commander.
As the Humans got closer the Turians opened fire but even then their numbers proved too much for the few surviving Turians and they either died or retreated to the main defensive line. As the fighting kicked off properly and the causulties started rising a panicked radio call came in. Human forces flew through the flak fire and landed in the port district giving them a clear way to the Turian HQ. General Desolas gave the order for all forces to retreat to the emergency line. Encircling the HQ and giving everyone a weapon, be they wounded or half dead, they wouldn't go down without a fight.
As the humans encircled them they stopped for a while and gave General Desolas an ultimatum. Surrender or face certain death. The General denied, even if it was unpopular with a growing number of soldiers who though they were here illegally and didn't want to fight, they accepted it and prepared for a fight as was the Turian way. They fought hard, with nowhere to retreat to and their backs against the wall they fought till the last bullet. It took the Humans 2 hours to make the first breach in their line where the fighting devolved into brutal hand to hand combat.
After another 2 hours another breach, followed by another and another. With Human forces streaming in through the many breaches in their lines many Turians surrendered, mainly those that fought from day one and respect the Human soldiers for what they did, protecting their civilians at any cost and never leaving their own behind. General Desolas was captured together with his command staff and on the 14th of April, after 12 days of fighting, Shanxi was liberated and the following day the Systems Alliance declared War on the as of yet unknown government of the Turians.
April 15th 2234, Shanxi System, 100,000 Km exclusion zone around the Alien construct
"My fellow countrymen and women" started of the Prime Minister in her usual way "I am certain all of you have heard of the communications blackout with our colony, Shanxi. You all noticed the Military mobilizing and are wondering what is going on. On the 2nd of April 2234 at 2:34 AM European time. SSV Glacier, one of our Cruisers, experienced first contact with an Alien race. This however turned out with the destruction of SSV Glacier by the alien ships. Quickly following its destruction at 9:56 AM European time Shanxi itself came under Alien attack by an invasion force. Yesterday the last pocket of enemy resistance was destroyed on Shanxi following 12 days of brutal fighting. It is today that I inform you with a heavy heart that the Human Systems Alliance is in a State of War with the Turian state"
"Even if I didn't vote for her I will give her that, she does know how to drop a bomb shell" said Drescher as she and her entire bridge crew watched the news feed from earth. "Alright people lets get to work, are the fleets ready?
"3rd and 5th fleet are reporting green across the board ma'am" reported her XO
"SSV Savanna reported that the transit using the construct is safe. Just like the Turian POWs said, there is a colony there. The Legions are ready to move behind us, Admiral" reported her communications officer
"Give out the order, have the ships move through the construct at 30 second intervals. Once we arrive in system I want all ships to move into formation, Venators are to deploy all their wings and the 5th fleet is to guard the construct." Ordered Drescher as her own ship moved to jump
The jump itself was anticlimactic, just like when entering hyperspace the stars stretched for a moment before they appeared where they wanted to be. The arrival of the SSV Savanna obviously alerted the small defense fleet above the colony as it was moving towards the construct but as more and more ships started arriving the commander of those 6 ships obviously realized just how dire the situation was as they pulled back to the colony.
For all 3 fleets to arrive and move into formation it took 3 hours. Once all ships were accounted for the 2nd and 3rd fleet moved to the colony, that was giving the codename of "Africa" due to its arid climate.
The space battle was over quickly due to only 6 Turian ships being present. As such the task now remained in the hands of the Army and the navy was relegated to a support role.
The Alliance Army was a very large apparatus containing hundreds of Legions and as such its general staff was equally large. Still, they could not afford to lose one since finding a suitable officer for the role of a general was a hard task. Paradoxically to that however the Army frowned on Generals that led from the back and most Generals embraced the tradition of joining their soldiers in battle. When a planetary invasion occurred, a General was expected to be in either the 1st or 2nd wave of transports.
Amongst them the 501st Legion, also called the 501st Shock or Skywalkers Fist, stood out as its almost entire Command staff made planetfall in the first wave and fought in setting up the LZ aswell as the FOB for the whole Legion. General Skywalker proving a favorite amongst the troops.
Skywalker together with part of his command was now riding inside of the LAAT, all of them in their armor with blasters at the ready. The ride itself was, as always, terrible. Flak shells went off in the sky, shaking the LAAT. The pilot preformed various manouvers to make it as hard as possible for them to be hit before they reach the ground.
The doors opened and they rushed out with the LAAT quickly pulling up to provide aerial support. Finding the LZ to be clear Skywalker ordered his soldiers to set up prefabricated Fortifications until the engineering company arrived to set up FOB proper. Which would arrive in the 3rd or 4th wave, depending on the situation on ground. Seeing no enemies moving to them the soldiers relaxed a bit. As day turned to night and the FOB was quickly being set up the soldiers tried getting some sleep since they knew that General Skywalker would order an attack either tomorrow of the day after tomorrow.
April 17th 2234, Serpent Nebula, Citadel
Being part of the council had many advantages like a high payroll or power. The downsides outweighed to pros however. One of them was the amount of stress that one would experience in their career. The biggest downside was during the weekly meetings the councilors would have, if for some reason they were interrupted during one of them then the situation was bad, if a person came in while their council secretaries tried to stop them then it was very bad and if someone, usually Turian, came in running then it was extremely bad and almost always was military in nature.
Tevos on the other hand was experiencing stress that made her 784 years of life seem like nothing. Earlier in the month the Turians attacked a new race and were beaten out of the system. The Asari republics, in their oh so wise ways, were bickering between eachother which matriarch from which republic should represent the citadel and now they were being kicked in the bottom with a reminder that the galaxy will not wait for the Asari to talk things over before it moved on leaving them behind.
The Turian running inside was the aid of the Turian councilor. Sparatus was a good politician by Turian standards, why he wasn't the Turian councilor was a mystery to Tevos. He told them that the Colony of Magna reported the arrival of ships that matched those of the new ships and that the new Species was invading them after that the Communications with the colony were cut but not before stating that the amount of ships that arrived in System.
That was the largest shock to all 3 of them. And another reason to hate the Turians for Tevos. The Aliens came with 296 Ships, several of which were dreadnought sized and were in breach of Galactic Law by the amount surpassing the Asari and Salarians combined, falling just short of 3 ships to also beat out the Turians. Standard protocol was to show a bit of force in the event of first contact by sending a small fleet of 50 ships to guard the diplomats of the Citadel.
Recent events however made it so that the small fleet would probably be interpreted as a hostile force by these aliens and would be certainly shot at. Tevos excused herself before calling the Matriarch council. Over Half of the matriarchs as always didn't think it was worth their time to answer the call, even with the current situation known to them, thinking not showing up would force the others to give them concessions.
Tevos asked a simple question to all of them, asking if they found a matriarch to send. Expecting the answer already she was still shocked to find out that the Matriarchs only bickered and haven't yet reached a conclusion. Disconnected immedietly she told her aid to cancel all apointments for the next few days and called Matriarch Lidanya informing her of a her new orders. Taking a two dozen ships as escort the moved out herself to the colony of Magna.
She didn't care if she was kicked off the council she wouldn't let the council be involved in another war and risk her daughters dying because of Turian stupidity. She wouldn't mourn the death of another child of hers like she did 300 years ago.
Her escort was troublesome as the captains refused to let her jump into the system alone but she was adamant that if these aliens saw any kind of Turian ship they would immedietly open fire so she ordered them to stay just outside of the system allowing them to jump in if the situation turned bad.
Once the Destiny accenssion jumped into the Magna System she was for one hell of a surprise. 94 Ships were positioned around the Mass Relay with their weapons pointing at the exit vector. She immedietly ordered the message that she was a diplomat to be send in all languages, particularly Turian, even a video was send depicting 2 creatures approaching eachother and shaking hands.
The fact that they weren't shot at was great news, it ment that they either understood or thought of them as a new set of Aliens. Then a communications Request came in and the Asari world was forever changed when they saw who the Aliens were.