Chapter 21: Eve Of the Invasion... (M.A.Rs Side)

As The Federation Fleet Entered the Klendathu System, Ships of all Sizes, From the Corvette Transport from the Fleet Command, To the Luna-Class Ships and Modified Luna Class Transports From M.A.Rs that is in their cargo, Regiments of Soldiers and Tanks, Standby as they are Waiting to Unleash their Wrath..., While Larger In size compared to the Federation ships, it Slowly accompanied by Wings of Marauder Bombers and Federation Tac-bombers.... In the Center of the Fleet is the Ark Mechanicus "Armegeddon" that eclipsed all the Ships in Federation Arsenal...

While Hot blooded Captains dream of Commanding such a Vessel... While some are Wary of their new Comrade, as they Assessed the ship that is filled with Arsenal that could obliterate the Federation Fleet and still take on Klendathu...

Alexander was In a Briefing Room...

That was Accompanied by Hundreds of Elysian Drop Troopers...

Elysians... I am Informed you are the best of the best... and You have your Mission aside from the rest of the Feddies, and I will say it once more...

Your Objectives are simple...

. Locate a Spot suitable for Base building and Clear it form bugs infestations that survive our Bombardments, to Make our Base up and Running, you will scout ahead and we will provide Artillery Support once done...

. Kill any Plasma Bugs as in the surrounding area of the Base, And if it's too heavily defended, Don't hesitate to call in Artillery Support...

. Support the Mobile Infantry and our Men if Possible, but not to the extent of sacrificing your lives...

and you will be provided Sentinels, Taurox and Tauros as Heavy Support, and of it's damage you are free to Discard them... Sentinel, Taurox and Tauros can be replaced, but you Men aren't... Do you get it?

"SIR YES SIR!!" as all the Elysians spoke as one...

Good... now Head to your Designated Valkyries and be prepared for the Operation...

As the Trooper left...

Alexander closed his eyes as he is counting the cost of such a Venture... And Look at the Plan of the System...

Operation "Salvation"

A Plan To Build a Self-Sustainable, Expandable Star Fort in Klendathu space and Provide a Easier Dropoff point and a Staging grounds for Future Invasions... Though He is unaware, if what happened is canon or not, he better not take risk of the Men that he Recruited...

He and only Sky Marshall Dienes knew about the plan...

While Rico and his Teammates are Eager to kill some bugs, He looked at the Knife once last time for Good luck... As they headed to the Landing Boats awaiting the Green Lights...

The Luna Class Ships Launched their Orbital Bombardments, Glassing parts of Klendathu, While the Marauder Bombers Flew into Orbit to Provide Extensive Carpet Bombing, Blanketing the sands with High explosives Bombs and and Returned to the Ark Mechanicus and Modified Carriers for Reloading and refueling....

Plasma Balls Scattered in the air, not as Coherent but not unified due to the Bombardment given by M.A.Rs Fleet

as they Narrowly Miss the Fleet...

[Operation is a Go, The Operation is a Go]

As the Communication Rang throughout the Fleet

Hundreds if not Thousands of Landing crafts and Valkyries Swoop down to the Planet below, And a Portion of the Valkyrie Split from the Battle Group going to Low Altitude as they released their cargos....

as the Detached Valkyries near their objectives sites... Elysians are ready to dropped off

"Elysians, this is what we are Born to do!!"

"Dropping off....now Go Go Go!"

"Grav chutes... Open now!!"

as a Thousand Elysian Drop to the Ground, With the Valkyries that dropped them, still remaining in the air to provide Cover support... and a Wings of Valkyrie Spectres transport dropped off Sentinels and Tauros...

Some of the Elysian manned the Empty Vehicles and checked if they are still operational... they were split into 3 Groups, One Group Searched for a Suitable Building Sites avoiding the Sinkholes using their Jets, While another head to the Higher Grounds and act as a Sniper position to assist the invasion, with a Sentinels detachment now acted as a Detector nearby for any invasive Arachnids that is digging under them.. and Last Group went on a Search and Destroy mission to hunt down any nearby Plasma Bugs...

The Base Searcher managed to find a Empty land and upon checking the Sensors from the Tauros that there were no Bug holes at the moment, It was neither too far from the Frontline nor it was close... They contacted the Alexander... and activated a Golden beacon... As it lit up, it's bedazzling Golden light in the middle of the night stunning the Mobile Infantry momentarily...

A Loading Bay in the Ark Mechanicus that was near Orbit Opened, hundreds of Pre-fabricated Buildings and Walls whose bottom is covered in A mixture of Ceramite and Auramite coating, Flooding out of the Bay, as if there was no end... and a Company of TechPriests Enginseers and Kriegs Engineers Enter their Specialized Valkyries to accompany to the Build Site... The moment their Valkyries touched down... They immediately begun to Unwrapped the Retros that were attached to the nearest Buildings and Manned the Construction arms..

After finishing the Vital buildings and Propped the Airfield up for the Incoming Marauders Valkyrie that ran out of fuel and ammunition, They went for the wall, 3 Very Finely Thick wall that is big and Stable to fit 3 Basilisk side by side on top of the walls and still have Bunkers installed inside the walls had been created Encircling the base, as More Enginseers were recruited by 4 Field Commands each handling a sector of the base, Making the process more faster,

While the TechPriests are building Turrets on top of the wall and at the Base, While Outside the Base, Krieg Began to Build Trenches in the sands just Infront of the Base, Though with difficulty they managed to get a Decent Trench lines, then the Called For General Retreat happened... they didn't hesitate nor Panic, as they faithfully carried out the tasks almost Completely done... when a Horde of Battered Mobile Infantry rushing toward the base... the Motar teams and Earthshakers Loaded their Rounds and Fired at the Writhing mass Of Xenos that was chasing the Mobile infantry, and the Vehicles now Rushing out of the Mechanized Command, Chimeras and Leman Russes Shelled out Hundreds of Rounds to kept the Arachnids at bay, and the Aliens are stopped by a invincible wall of Lead and Lasers, The Earthshakers now focused on the Bigger target, aimed at the Tank Bugs now loaded with Promethium rounds as they cooked the bugs from inside out causing a Flame wall... Buying more time for the Mobile infantry to load up to The Fleet now under fire from Bug Batteries that survive the Opening Bombardments...

Alexander Army Managed to retrieve the last of the Mobile Infantry they could find, and headed back to base.. and Bolstered the Defenses there... Holding out as the Last Mobile Infantry Was loaded in the Valkyries,

Alexander gave a Controlled Orbital Bombardments that shot in the base surroundings, giving the Engineseer time to build up Defenses and more and more Turrets was Constructed, giving support to the Defense lines as Punisher Cannons rang out nonstop and the screams of the bugs, were all that was needed to know it was doing the job and it's tracers lit up the night and Plasma Turrets shot at the Plasma Balls hurling toward the base, Dissipated its danger... and Giving ample time the Enginseers to Construct Void Shields on the walls... the Marauders now station at the base dropped illumination flares nonstop turning the night as Morning, and M.A.Rs Ground forces stayed behind as their weapons stood one thing before total annihilation...

"They Held The Line" was the words that describe M.A.Rs Soldiers from the Mobile Infantry survivors

"Shield Bearers" Was the Monicker from those that fought alongside them.... Their Determination that held the unexpected constructed Base, Was beyond what High Command expected.... Despite the Shining moment in such times, it was a Catastrophic Operation....

Despite the Extensive Bombing runs and the Orbital Bombardments that Alexander Provided, the Arachnids managed to Crippled the Fleet except Alexander's that had Void Shields, and More than 45000 Federation Casualties rate on the First hour, among half of them were Crippled and loss of Limb, Federation analyst said, if it weren't for the Alexander Regiments, that number of Deaths could be Doubled or even tripled to the Casualties list...

The Base Alexander Made Will be left alone...

The New Sky Marshall deemed the Base to be... "In too deep" to provide any support from the Federation and the Horrors will not be reenacted... Only when they shaved the Planets one at a time on the outskirts will they used the base that Alexander created...

and only Alexander Fleet only authorized and able to safely Drop "Supplies" to the Lone Star fort

The Base Was Named "Broke Hope"

Despite how the operation was a failure, that base saved more Soldiers and Many those that survive, paid respects to the Soldiers that saved them believing that they were gone for good..., And There were some rumors from loose tongue from the Sailors from M.A.Rs is that the Base Survived and it was still growing... and now Field Enormous Robots that could even be seen from Orbit ....

(A/N: Titans? Let me check my Backlog... Yup, We get Titans after the First movie? well that I did Mentioned After the First movie of the Starship troopers will be in the Kaurava Conflict the Soulstorm game... and the added Cluster storm I going to do to Alex there... Promotion always the fastest when there is conflict and my estimation is that, I underestimated the complications of Dragging the Adeptus Custodes and Mechanicus Explorers to the conflict... instead of Paperwork... and Promotion is higher... when a company Custodes is Vouching Alex to rank up?)