HANGAR DEC #14
Hennings Brought over his Vid Board.. Hack jumps down from the railing to stand with them , as Henning begins. Shadow grabbed anther sandwich as he watched the board and Listened.
From what we have seen, thus far, and it cost us a shauttle and a fighter, as we flew two of each for recons.... other Flagships are doing, or have done, the same thing...
Major cities are build round with high walls... don't know why they needed walls...but they have them...near as we can tell, they a roughly 20 feet high. Doesn' matter much, when you can drop troops in with shuttles.
he brings up a map that shows Beautiful trees, and a wide sparling blue river. he adjusts the view so the City is in the Middle...
This is Jerl, The Capitol city. We think The Most High is Hiding in there, and we assume , below the surface. Captain Si says, there are extensive passages and such below all the cities, , thier Industry runs underground, to help preserve the environment. There are, indeed factories and such on the surface, but they seem to be in , more barren lands. Since Captain Si is the Only Angel on this boat from Paradise, we have to assume she knows what she is talking about. he smiled a bit at Admiral Hack who nodded with a slight smile.
Now , there is a mountain range , with this divide here.. The City was
build , so that the River splits the place in two, we assume the water and Solar are the main drivers for energy , they use for their power , of all sorts.. The river is roughly a mile wide, The Circumference of the city is close to 8 miles. ... Now...with Jerl as the center of the clock face... the river runs from 9:00, to 4:00... The Mountain range runs from 7:00... You will not it has 4 roads at the North , south , east and West .. those are wide roads...on earth...maybe 20 lanes... don't know why the need roads that wide. But the the views we have show them to be , in near perfect shape...
Rivets speaks up...well them roads and the round cities.. its almost like they are giving us a Bulls eye fer the ships's guns..
Hack nodded,This cities must have been built the way there were, going back 100's of 1000s of years. when they , may have fought each other, like we do on earth, and Hover cars still need ways to drive... they aren't very good at going over Mountains.
Hennings shrugs and agrees, then he has two yellowish squares one at 3:00...one at 10:00 These? are bases... from what we can discern from the recon pics, the one at 10 :00 Is the Marine base.... the other at 3:00 is an airbase... again, what recon pics we git show everything from fighters up a strange aircraft, they call Gunboats... we are trying to find out more about the Gunboats.. our Prisoners, Not including AP-LO, have said they are Four Man aircraft with twin Heavy pulse guns fore and aft and to each side.. The Pilot fires the guns on the bow, there other three crew are Gunners ..They could make life miserable for Cap ships, . Destroyers, sloops and Corvettes could be brought down by them, depending on where they attack and how much of a pounding they dish out.. they are rather Long, we assume they can carry
bombs and such. They have never seen deep space , because their size isn't worth the space for having less fighters. They do send them into space, so we can expect to see them harassing the Cap ships.
each ship should Keep a flight of fighters for home defense then...I should think?
Hack's half smile agreed with Captain Morris,Nil said, that they have small outposts along the mountains. by small they are taking, between 100-400 troops with some shuttles thrown in, they have walls as well, and they have armor. She said, the 'tnaks" for want of a beter word, are a big bigger then our Panzers, they have no smaller one, but armor cars are about the size of our Stuarts. The armored cars use heavy wheels, the Tanks are Hover capable, though? how high they can get in the air is unknown
Hennings Looked at Shadow who ahd just taken a bit of his club sandwich.. he frowned at the LC..
I'm listening, Sir..gott eat now so i can address my pilots while they eat..
Hennings shakes his head with a bit of a smile..here are two things we don't know... how many AA guns are stationed about, and how many Ground troops they can send at us.... one would think they are Infinate? But i don't think so... sooner or later they might just have some ones Granpa with rifle and soem kid with a slingshot..
The other thing we do not know, is ....if.... There are 'Fallen Angels". That Vid we got, i reapted over their airwaves for two reasosns... one? ist to show everyone down there, we recived it, the second is to get them to contact us. Now? This is the most important thing you two have to convey to you people..... we have to give the 'fallen Angel" things a try. If they prove false? then we'll be stackign alot more bodies they any one , ever, in the History of The Black... if there is a resistance group, like this. Not only , can they add to our manpower, but it will give us people to put in place ocne we take over
I say? What should happen if we are repelled...
Hack looked up , his eyes cold m his face grim.Then we shells that ball of dirt, back to whatever stone age they had.. and? if this does not work out to capture Paradise Prime. They we give it to the Skith..
Hennings looked uneasy.
Paradise 2 and 3 are a horror show. The Skith have a deep, deep hate for the Angels, that boarder on their hate for The Qarl..They won't wipe the race out completely, but there aren't going to be enough of them to sail The Black on a whim. Should we conquer Prime, we will set folks and place and have a military Prescence. but we will also have Angels in the Government , and we will dissolve their treaty with the Empire... Angels from Prime will be permitted to do commerce and such. but they will be watched, very closely....but? we have a ways to go
here it is , by the Numbers then...
1.... shelling bases, the city and the Mountains, there are two ships per major city.
2... Fighters go down to try to clean up as many aircrafts as they are able and secure a Cap over a beachhead..
3... Shuttles will be launched the same time the fights launch, then , they will proceed to an area we will mark later, once we see the safest place is to set up.
4... once the beach heads are secure. Ground troops will move towards the cities, which? we hope will be battered enough to have us attack with out a sustained siege
5.. Because of the River.. we have two Cap ships attacking the same city, One from the North, one from the south. Bronberry's troops will come in from the north, ours, from the south . What nwe hope to do, is flush those who do not want to fight... to the east and west...
6... needless to say, this won't be clean... you will have people who want to surrender.. you'll have zealots who will try to take as many of us with them , as they are able, ..and you'll have the poor folks in the Middle...who want to protect their homes, and their lives. However this ends,,, one thing you can be certain, anyone who is a friend of Paradise, will hate us with a passion, and those who hate angels, , we will be the Biggest heroes in The Black.
That's the best we got.... Get your people fueled and ready