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Battle Report of the Battle of Dawn.

Introduction

The Battle of Dawn was fought on New Years Eve of year 2006. It featured most of the Roudland, Friendly Alien and Super Roman space fleet against the Alpha Empire Scout Ship Starscream.

Space

Admiral Praxia had been ordered to lead the suprise attack from the Onyx on the Alpha Empire ship that had threatened her nation. She was only a child during the time of Exodus and she had heard from the Perto Clan refugees great tales of bravery during the Battle of Teal Arch and also of the fearful accuracy and cold nature of the Alpha Empire. She was well aware of what she was about to face, a small ship but never the less the most dangerous she will likely encounter in her life time.

From the evidence gathered by the Faal-Corum, the Ragnerok Class Scout ship hadn't changed since the Exile. It was still a ship barely 30 metres long, armed with nano torpedoes and protected by Null Shielding. The pilot would be heading straight towards the Alliance ignoring everything in their path until they find signs of the Friendly Aliens and destroy them.

Admiral Praxia pondered this on the command hub of the Onyx whilst looking at the confident faces of the crew around her. She sat strapped down into her chair in the centre of the command hub, watching crew float past preparing for battle.

"Open a channel to the Unity please I'll take it here"

Praxia reached down and grabbed a slim wired telephone from a receptical on her chair.

"This is Onyx Actual, is your fleet ready commander?"

a mumured reply could be heard from the microphone...

"Excellent, remember to polarise your hull plating if you take any hits from the nano torpedoes, they will chew away your armour in no time otherwise. Onyx Actual out."

Praxia breathed a small sigh of relief, the Super Roman ships were very important for the trap and it was important they were ready as soon as possible just encase the Starscream increased its speed whilst it got closer to the Allaince.

"Same again for the Conciliator please"

"Aye this is Onyx Actual... I see well as long as the Big D and Big V are ready that will suffice. Don't take this personnely but your fleet isn't planned to destroy the Starscream."

...

"Oh really, I will have to take you up on that offer Vice Admiral Owen... ha ha indeed ask him, Onyx Actual out." Praxia returned the telephone to her chair and smiled just a little.

"What happened Admiral?" asked the ships XO (Executive Officer) Tyru.

"Oh I think we have a little bet going now."

"At this time. Playing with fate if you ask me."

"Aye, but its worth looking forward to winning a bet. Do we know the location of the Starscream?"

"Negative, but we predict it will take another 20 minutes before it comes in visual range."

"I see well keep an eye out anyway."

Atmosphere

The Starscream had lauched two Trisault Pods towards Planetfall City, the SMART anti-ballistic missile system kicked into action firing swift missiles into the path of the Trisault Pods. Explosions of fire shook the air sending the pods into confused fightpaths but the pods corrected themselves with tiny engine thrusts. The two pods still came screaming down into the heart of Friendly Aliens. But then in a stroke of pure luck two missiles exploded near one of the pods sending it into an uncontrollable spin. During this spin the pod reveiled its large flat side and more missiles launched from the ground managed to get a clean impact and the pod exploded into a burst of flames.

However this left one pod still shooting into the ground, Sundancers which had broken from their Orions tried to support the missiles in their attempt to shoot this last pod down.

Unfortunatly the pod was too fast and too hardy. It came too close to Planetfall for further attempts to be shot down and thus the SMART system stood down. It had managed to double the odds of the soldiers on the ground and the LADF hoped that the guards were ready for what they were about to face.

Ground

The surviving pod managed to aim with increadible accuracy towards the Government District of Planetfall, it almost seemed like it was heading straight for the Sovereign Tower which stood dwarfing all the other towers in the district. The ground forces moved into the District to protect BazZeRg and the Council began to fire on the pod in a last ditch attempt to bring it down. General Armour walkers started firing furiously with everything they had towards the sky, fortunatly the pod only 200 metres or so from the Sovereign Tower began to slow. Fire began to slowly catch up with the falling pod until the side of it was peppered with ARC cannon rounds and Sabots. The limited Null Shielding of the pod managed to protect it from the first few hits but then they began to fail until one sabot managed to make a glancing hit. The hit had manage to effect the controlled dissent of the pod and it was knocked off course.

Metres from the ground, fire ceased as the pod crash landed into the neighbouring Environmental Bureau Tower which was just next the Sovereign Tower.

Silence fell on the guards. What was the fate of the dreaded Spies?

The Predator Dog Squad was incharge of the main defence of the stairs leading up to the Sovereign Tower (the last true defendable area before BazZeRg). They had 30 Eldars with them, about 100 GIGA Vets, 5 Walkers and numerous support personnel. Unfortunatly the guard was spread quite thin with guards posted at all important areas like Military HQ. No one could predict what move the Alpha Empire would make.

The Dog Squad was not convinced a crash would kill the Spies. Unknown to the guard around them they were communicating between each other discussing with each other what action they should take. Once they had come to a decision it was obvious by the quick relax in posture that they had done so.

They had decided that the stairs was the only real way to enter the tower from the ground and the Spies would know this. Unknown to most the outer surface of the Tower was studded with electrified barbs to prevent any climbing along the outside. Thus Dog Squad members began to communicate to all the Doyens of the guard around them organising suitable firing positions. All that could be heard is the chatter of the unmasked GIGA vets and support personnel and the numerous stomps of the walkers getting into position. It was obvious now that the Spies were heading for Sovereign Tower and BazZeRg, guard from all around the other positions in the Government District began to slowly gravitate towards the crash site in the Environmental Bureau, it would be their task to flush the Spies out of the Bureau.

With soldiers slowly pouring into the Bureau; tension began to rise among the guard. Then reports came in that the pod had been located but it was empty! Then seconds later