Battle of the Pegasus System Part I
Lt. Phillip Francisco(the 2nd in command of all the T.F.R.* defense fleet and of the command ship: USS Peter King under the command of Captain Eric Peterson.) to Captain Peterson "Captain Peterson, I'm detecting several ships dropping out of hyperspace 45,000 meters off our Port side." Captain Peterson "Are they friendly or hostile?" Lt. Francisco "Unknown Sir." Captain Eric Peterson "tell all ships go Battle stations, Raise shields, bring all Weapons systems online, Launch all fighters and bombers. Captain Daniels contact Generals Oliver Johnson and Callister Gregor to prepare for an invasion if we failure to defend the space above Pegasus Prime." Lt. Francisco "Yes, sir." As the battle began Captain Eric Peterson remember from one of his lessons in studying Military leaders he thought of a Quote by United Kingdom Air force military officer and leader Hugh Dowding 1st Baron Dowding: "The best defense of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never be attack in force. If we are moderately strong we shall Probably be attacked and the attacks will gradually be bought to a standstill. If we are weak in fighter strength, the attacks will not be bought to a standstill and the productive capacity of the country will be virtually destroyed."
As the C.I.E.* Imperial fleet approached the Pegasus system Lt. Celia Emilio(the 2nd in command of the C.I.E. fleet and of the command ship super-carrier: Chalybe Robore under the command of Captain Diego) aboard the Chalybe Robore to Captain Antonio Diego "Captain Diego, Sir we're coming out of Hyperspace." Captain Diego "Tell all ships to Raise Shields, bring all weapon systems online, launch all fighters and bombers and jam all outgoing transmissions from the Pegasus system to not let the enemy force request reinforcements." Lt. Celia Emilio "Yes, sir." As the C.I.E. fleet dropped out of Hyper-space and did as Captain Antonio Diego looked at his ships sensors to get senor readings of where the T.F.R. fleet was and saw on his ships sensors that the T.F.R. fleet is skipping the edge of the main planet's: Pegasus Prime's atmosphere just outside of the planet's atmosphere to have the Maximum effect of their Planetary defense spacecraft fighters and bombers knowing that the T.F.R. defense fleet has slim to now chance of pull a victory out has their military solution.
"As soon the order to attack the enemy fleet come from Celia Emilio I and my fellow Squadron of fighter pilot comrades got into our fighters and took off to engage the enemy fleet fighters I ordered my fighter pilot comrades to remember their combat training secession scenarios, watch each others backs and good hunting."-Alma Cara.
The 2 fleets had a Massive space battle that lasted for 12 hours and ended with T.F.R. defense fleet being destroyed and with the C.I.E. Imperial Fleet victorious and but took heavy losses from the high skilled T.F.R. fighter and bomber pilots and Planetary defense weapons systems that could reach the C.I.E. Imperial Fleet and cause as much damage and mayhem in the C.I.E. Invasion fleet before the C.I.E. Naval fighter and bomber forces where able to get through the T.F.R. Highly powered Planetary Shield protecting the planet from capital ship energy weapons fire. Although they where able to disable and destroy the T.F.R. Planetary defense weapons systems that could reach their fleet they failed to destroy the T.F.R. Planetary shield generator because the T.F.R. heavily reinforced the defenses around the Planetary shield generate with massive amounts of anti-spacecraft turrets and missile weapons that where able to shoot any enemy fighters or bombers that were trying to destroying the T.F.R. Planetary shield generator. The C.I.E. Imperial fleet fighter and bomber forces lost all but 274 C.I.E. fighters(Including Alma Cara that was able to survive the Brutal battle with the T.F.R. fighter and bomber pilots.) and 137 bombers that managed to survive the brutal battle fighter dogfight with the T.F.R. Fighter and bomber Pilots.
As for their fleet they lost all their cruisers, destroyers and frigates with their super-carrier taking heavy damaged from a few T.F.R. fighter squadrons that where able to break through the C.I.E. Anti-spacecraft defense systems to allow a few T.F.R. bomber squadrons coming through to try to cause as much damage to destroy the C.I.E. super-carrier or at least disable the C.I.E. super-carrier from being a creditable threat to the T.F.R. forces; As well with their battleships taking heavy to moderate damage from T.F.R. defense forces in the space Battle over Pegasus Prime; During battle for the Pegasus system, Captain Eric Peterson ordered 2 of his defensive fleet's destroyers to split off as far from the other capital ship weapons range to work together with fighter and bomber support to due hit and run tactics on the C.I.E. Imperial fleet and to defend Pegasus Prime. The C.I.E. Captain Antonio Diego ordered all of his destroyers and all his frigates in his Invasion fleet to split off to a few squadrons to engage the attacking T.F.R. destroyers to destroy them along with some fighter and bomber support.
"Over the course of hours of intense dogfighting against our enemy fighter pilots I found myself in at least 3 intense dogfights with 4 Terran Fighters and nearly lost my live. During the dogfights I found that the Terran Fighter pilots are excellent dogfighters in dogfighting with fighters and were able to outmaneuver me and my fighter a few times and get behind me and I was only just barely maneuver out of their gun sights escaping with my live. After each dogfight I got on my communicator and checked to see how was still alive in my squadron. During this battle I spotted at least 10 enemy bomber squadrons heading towards our fleet with fighter escorts. As my fellow Pilots engaged the enemy bomber squadrons fighter escorts and I was able to slip through the enemy fighter escorts; As I approached an enemy bomber and took aim to attack I saw that the bomber fired 2 missiles at me; I was forced to do evasive maneuvers to evade the missile and deployed decoys targets to fool the missiles guides systems to which it worked for one of them as the other one was able know that the target decoys where fakes. I was forced to use all the skills I learned in combat fighter class to maneuver behind the missile and fire my Miniature anti-spacecraft laser guns to take out the enemy missile." Alma Cara.
With the space above Pegasus Prime cleared however after seeing his fighter and bomber force all but destroyed, Captain Antonio Diego ordered his communication officer to open a holographic transmission to his superior Naval officer, Fleet Admiral, Admiral Bautista Durant requested other C.I.E. super-carrier to reinforce his fleet with more fighter and bomber forces to have as fighter and bomber support for the his fleet as well with invasion forces under the command of Galactic Brigadier General, General Lex Faith. As Admiral Bautista Durant answered Captain Antonio Diego call for reinforcements to replenish his fighter and bomber forces for his invasion of the Pegasus system; Captain Antonio Diego saw a holographic communication of Admiral Bautista Durant and saw him standing on the bridge of his ship giving orders to other holographic communications of other C.I.E. Naval Military officers. He heard in Admiral Bautista Durant's conversation with his follow officers and heard from all the C.I.E. Naval Military officers request more super-carriers to replenish their fighter and bomber forces for close air-support for their Planetary invasion forces.
As Admiral Bautista Durant finished his conversation with the other Naval Military officers and turned his attention to Captain Antonio Diego in a commanding tone of voice, Admiral Bautista Durant "How may I help you Captain Antonio Diego? I'm ready busy organizing reinforcements to enforce our Galactic wide invasion of the T.F.R.? Came you Please just get to the point of what you need?" Captain Antonio Diego in a come calm tone of voice, Captain Antonio Diego "Very well Admiral, I'm requesting a if possible available a super-carrier to reinforce my invasion forces." Admiral Bautista Durant in a sad tone of Voice, Admiral Bautista Durant "I'm afraid that I can't give you what is requested the super-carriers that I have remaining under my command I sending to other more important Military and civilian targets of the T.F.R." Captain Antonio Diego in an equally sadden tone of Voice, "That's unfortunate thank you Admiral Durant and May the force be with you." Admiral Bautista Durant "To you as well Captain Antonio Diego may the force be with you." Captain Antonio Diego ended his holographic transmission to Admiral Bautista Durant. Following his conversion with Admiral Bautista Durant Captain Antonio Diego contacted the C.I.E. ground invasion forces under the command of Galactic Brigadier General, General Lex Faith waiting for the space above the planet to but cleared for them to begin their invasion is clear and may begin that their invasion. Galactic Brigadier General, General Lex Faith Invasion forces have 3.150 Million troops, 32 advance tanks and 21,000 artillery laser cannons.
August 12, 2097(August 12, 105 BBY)
"As I and my troops watched from camera drones recording the space battle over the Planet with C.I.E. invasion forces on our news network unfolding in front of us we saw that our Galactic Naval defense force is being destroyed by the overwhelming power of the C.I.E. Imperial fleet. However Myself and my troops saw how our T.F.R. pilots are some of the best fighter and bomber pilots in the galaxy thanks to our Military's Intense Ariel combat training and scenarios to training our pilots. As we our fighters and bombers pilots as well with our Anti-spacecraft Planetary defense continued to fight a brutal with the C.I.E. fighter and bomber pilots we began to make bets on how many enemy fighter and bombers our pilots and Anti-spacecraft defenses would shoot down. We saw the dramatic and brutal epic failure for the C.I.E. fighter and bomber forces attack on our Planetary shield generator me and my fellow troops felt a sense of pity and sympathy for the C.I.E. fighter and bomber pilots that where just following orders and doing their duty to their nation where being killed in the most brutal and efficient ways possible. As the space battle of the Planet concluded we saw from some of our drone cameras before they were destroyed by C.I.E. fighters and bombers that our Galactic Naval forces caused enough damage to the C.I.E. fleet to estimate C.I.E. super-carrier for a least a few days." -Jason Mark.
As the C.I.E. Galactic Brigadier General, General Lex Faith began her invasion of the Pegasus system she ordered what was left of Captain Antonio Diego fighter and bomber forces as well with ordering Captain Antonio Diego to being in his remaining Capital ships(except for their super-carrier) to come with the Planet's atmosphere dangerously within enemy weapons range to use their capital ship anti-spacecraft weapons and defense systems to create small fighter screen area on the outskirts of all 4 of the Planet's continents with enemy forces to land her invasion forces. Over the next days General Lex Faith's invasion forces where able to establish a foothold on the Planet but took high losses in establishing the foothold. The C.I.E. fighter and bomber forces were all but destroyed by the T.F.R. and E.C.R.* reserves of Fighter and bomber forces as well as the T.F.R. Anti-spacecraft Planetary defenses. For what C.I.E. Fighters and bombers pilots(including Alma Cara.) that where able to survive their mission to set up a fighter screen area on the outskirts of all 4 of the Planet's continents with enemy forces retreated into their Massive Galactic Military space-to-ground class ship and super-carrier hangers.
Out 54 of the C.I.E. Massive Galactic Military space-to-ground class ships that tried to land on Pegasus Prime the C.I.E. loss 18 of their Massive Galactic Military space-to-ground class ships resulting in roughly 1.044 million troops, 10 advance tanks and 6,960 laser artillery cannons getting killed and equipment destroyed. After they were able to setup a foothold General Lex Faith ordered all her invasion forces anti-spacecraft weapon and defense systems to be on high alert to be of the constant look out for Enemy fighters and bombers and eliminate than as soon as possible and that they were the frontline Anti-spacecraft defense to protect their forces because their fighter and bomber force is all but wide out by the enemy fighter and bomber forces that now have Air superiority over them. General Lex Faith decided to divided her invasion forces into 8 armies(1 army for herself to command and the rest for her Generals of the army, Lt. Generals Etc.) to attack the T.F.R. and E.C.R. closest to their Front lines. General Lex Faith decided to attack the T.F.R. forces in 2 places along their front lines. The 1st move would be that on all the Planet's continents where there are Enemy forces grouped is massive armies she would order an assault on the T.F.R. front lines center to draw as any T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces from their center. 2nd they would attack from the sides of the T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces and few weeks later; Once her forces were able punch a whole from the sides of the T.F.R. and E.C.R. front lines she would sent reinforcements to her forces that punched a hole in the T.F.R. and E.C.R. front to put them to the center of the T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces and cut off and hold the T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces that might be coming from their forces that were pushing them back to cut the T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces in half and blocking the front half of the T.F.R. and E.C.R. from returning to their forces.
1 of General Lex Faith's 2nd in command: Lt. General Belva Cicely an over eager and cocky Lt. General decided interpret her orders differently by her superior officer and decided to make her battlefield plans from heard some interesting scouting mission from her scouting companies she send ahead of her forces to scout enemy troop movements. Her scout companies told her from their Holographic transmissions that they where able decode some enemy Radio transmissions that they where able to decode. They heard that enemy forces center of their defensive frontline had a inner budge in their lines and that their forces had a minimal amount of troops and military equipment. After hearing this she send a few weeks with her follow army commanders developing battlefield plans, movement of military equipment and resources where they where needed. Their battlefield plans where that they would have roughly 2/3's of they Military forces and equipment to do a massive front assault on the 3rd continent on the T.F.R. and E.C.R. from lines with a moderate amount of anti-spacecraft defensive weapons to protect her force from enemy fighter and bomber forces. Finally on August 30, 2097 Lt. General Belva Cicely executed her battlefield plans and began her attack of the T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces.
As General Belva Cicely forces began their march to into the T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces inner budge of their frontlines everything when well at 1st but after a few days of traveling into the enemy's inner budge of their frontline General Belva Cicely could sense that her assault of the T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces was going way to easy and is beginning to feel uneasy and concern and ordered all her forces assaulting the T.F.R. and E.C.R. to haul any further advance into enemy territory and be on high alert; However her orders come to late because as she was giving her orders the enemy forces spring their trap and their own counter attack on her forces. On the outer edges of their inner budge the T.F.R. and E.C.R. revealed their 6 armored tanks companies, 4 Infantry Divisions of troops as well 3 Brigades of Laser Artillery cannons and launch counter strike spearhead to strike at the enemy's valuable flanks. With a few days the T.F.R. and E.C.R. counter strike spearhead where able to quickly cut thought the enemy's defensive line and meet up with out other closing the inner budge in their defensive lines and cut off all enemy forces trapped within their frontlines.
After seen this clever trap plan by her enemy she ordered all her forces now trapped in a pocket within the enemy's frontline to immediately counter attack of the enemy forces that closed the budge on them but that was as well to late because as soon as the enemy force close their budge the enemy reveal that they lied to her scout companies over their radio transmissions to tell her that their frontline forces near the edge of their inner budge where in fact heavily enforced with over 16 Brigades of Infantry and 8 Brigades of laser artillery cannons and began their assault on her forces as soon as they where cut off. Over the follow weeks both her forces trap in the pocket within the T.F.R. and E.C.R. frontlines fought desperate battles with the T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces; The results after weeks of fighting terrible losses on her forces and with permission after seen that she couldn't recue her forces she grant her follow officers the permission to surrender to save lives. The battle with T.F.R. and E.C.R. resulted in over 87,750 C.I.E. troops losing their lives and with over 43,875 C.I.E. troops being captured by T.F.R. and E.C.R. forces and take as prisoners of war.
As for the T.F.R. Galactic Brigadier General, General Oliver Johnson when he saw the C.I.E. invasion forces gaining a foothold him decided to use his Fighter and bombers forces to try to disrupt C.I.E. troops movements. He order his 8 armies to execute his defensive plan to create a defense in depth with his forces around Strategic locations on the planet. He ordered his follow officers in his forces to dig in, set up ambush points to ambush the enemy, and traps around their Strategic locations and hold their fire went the enemy forces were right on top of them and open fire to surprise them. For 1 of his highly experienced and skilled Generals of the army, General King Daniels the commanding officer of the General Oliver Johnson's 4th army decided to set up a trap for his enemy adversary's. He remembered back in his Military Academy studies of Human Military leaders of a German Field Marshall the served in their home-world's Bloodiest wars: WWII, Field Marshall Erin Rommel how he used tactics and strategies of double envelopment in which he lured his adversary's by have some decoy military untils retreat selling his adversary's the idea that they have broken through and then spring a trap and strike at his adversary's forces valuable flanks and encircle them and eliminate them as a threat.
He called his follow officers send the follow week planning, movement of necessary military equipment and resources decided to send false radio transmissions that they knew that their enemy recon companies would try to decode them. The false Radio transmissions they would send would tell their enemy that they have an inner budge in their lines and that their forces had a minimal amount of troops and military equipment. They would also send in the false radio transmissions that out their outer edges of their inner budge that them only have a moderate amount of only Infantry Brigades and some laser artillery cannons. As their plans where put into motion they saw that C.I.E. forces facing them bought the false radio transmissions and so they where coming into their inner budge and near their inner budge frontlines to engage them they unveiled they true plans. They have secretly On the outer edges of their inner budge have set up a large counter strike force made up of 6 armored tanks companies, 4 Infantry Divisions of troops as well 3 Brigades of Laser Artillery cannons to launch counter strike spearhead to strike at the enemy's valuable flanks. With a few days their counter strike spearhead where able to quickly cut thought the enemy's defensive lines and meet up with out other closing the inner budge in their defensive lines and cut off all enemy forces trapped within their frontlines.
After his forces plan of double envelopment completed and worked with trapping over 175,500 troops, 8 advance tanks and 1,170 laser artillery cannons of his adversary's forces in a pocket within their frontline's he ordered his heavily enforced forces around the pocket to began their assault on the enemy forces as soon as they where cut off. Over the follow weeks both his and the enemy forces trap in the pocket within their frontlines fought desperate battles with each other's forces; The results after weeks of fighting terrible losses on the enemy's forces side before they surrendered to his forces. They estimated that their enemy lost over 87,750 troops and with all their military equipment ceased by them and with over 43,875 troops being captured by their forces and take as prisoners of war. As for their losses they lost roughly 50,143 troops, 178 advance tanks and 334 laser artillery cannons; They have over 23,078 of their troops wounded, 84 advanced tanks and 154 laser artillery cannons damaged from the battle with the C.I.E. forces.
"As I lie on a hospital infirmary bed from myself failing pay attention to the changed surroundings and suffer the consequences from a laser artillery cannon blast land just a few ft. from me causing me to fly back over 10 ft. away from a skirmish with the C.I.E. forces. As I landed on the ground I could feel that a huge amount of pain and could not feel my lower right arm and bottom upper half of my right leg. I could feel as the pain become unbearable I must have blacked out from the pain. The next thing I knew I was in a Bacta healing tank with a breathing mask on. As I looked around in the tank I see that I lost my lower right arm and the bottom upper half of my right leg. After a few days of recuperating I was pull out of the Bacta healing tank and placed in a hospital bed. After a few days from the I fell into a depression for a few days over the lost of my organic right arm and leg however I came to realize that my Medical insurance Policy that the Military provides Myself and my fellow troops to have the opinion of getting if they want to if they lost 1 of their organic limbs could have a robotic replace. Now here I'm lying in a Infirmary bed recovering from robotic replacement surgery. I could feel my new robotic right arm and leg and I'm now satisfied that I'm not someone with a single arm, 2 legs or 2 arms and a single leg and have very limited options in live." -Jason Mark.
*The T.F.R. stands for Terran Federal Republic.
*C.I.E. stands for Cattusian Imperial Empire.
*The E.C.R. stands for Eleven Confederation Republic.