Chronicles of The Omniverse Archived Caldonia

[Tiko]

as written by Tiko

As the sun broke over the crest of the Tananeen Mountains in the east and swept its light across the Dying Sands of Caldonia, it carried with it the tidings of war. The town of Valenar was filled with an armed military presence that walked the streets with guns in arm, and two Tirian militia outposts had been seized under the cover of darkness - their personnel stripped of weapons. Neither had been prepared for the jeeps that had rolled up, or the flood of Shintenchi soldiers that had spilled forth, and both had surrendered without resistance. They had been equipped for dealing with local bandits, not armed military.

From Shintenchi more vehicles were making their way across the Great Sato Bridge into Caldonia, but for all their presence, not a single shot had been fired in the night. Tensions were high, and fear thick in the air for the locals, but the Shintenchi soldiers moved with precision and calculated intent rather than rampant violence.

 

[Tiko]

as written by barney_fife

The Shogunate moved swiftly through the highway that connected Caldonia with the Great Seto Bridge. Massive trucks carrying supplies, soldiers, and equipment moved in a single column formation. The initial advances had proven bloodless, with the settlements surrendering without incident.

This proved to be quite a boon for General Tadmichi Kuribayashi of the Sato Shogunate Global Military Forces. His staff car moved swiftly along the road behind a pair of flatbed trucks with HAW206 Tanks resting on the back of them.

Along with the hundreds of tons of weapons, ammunition, and equipment. Taiyou 2(1/2) ton trucks carrying troops moved through towards the small town of Valenar.

Kuribayashi had chosen to use this small town as a command outpost until additional towns had been taken.

 

[Tiko]

as written by Azrican

High above Caldonia the air screamed near the maw of a large, slender craft pulsing through the sky at mach speeds. The sleek contours and coupling blocks were just as alien as the other smaller craft the AOF had begun exploring the skies of Valore with but now on a far more massive scale. As it began to reach the Caldonian coast several dozen miles above sea level the strategic bomber's altitude would be as low as protocol allowed for this particular mission: nominally a reconnaissance flight but, if necessary, the Viking was loaded with a full contingent in it's 170 ton internal silo. Her nearly twenty crew, three pilots and some sixteen other personnel for navigation and weapons as well, were tense at their stations as the powerful aviation radar was trained into focus on the rusty, arid looking continent approaching them.

At least a hundred meters long, the Viking was almost impossible to miss on advanced warning radar but speed alone provided an amount of stealth most craft that size might not easily achieve. Manifested as the Viking having less of a signature and more of a ‘shadow’, by the time the Naval Aviation bomber would be spotted on ground-based radar it was actually be several hundred miles inland already.

 

[Tiko]

as written by barney_fife

Somewhere in the crags of the Caldonia mountains.

High in the mountains roughly 50 kilomters south of what the TIB Called the Têmardo Waystation, Michael Samuelle, a highly seasoned IIA veteran, along with his Accomplice; Walter Birkhoff were hovering over the flickering blue holographic readout, Walter's fingers were dancing along the keypad as he looked up to Michael occasionally.

"This plan of Marlene's stinks, you know that right?" Walter said, as Michael nodded. "We're going to carry out the plan, that's M's orders, and that's Operation's orders, we fire the Pile driver on her last known location to smoke the TIB out, then we create the diversion and facilitate the escape, she'll capture Drulovic and the agents that were investigating the Killing, we'll interrogate and dispose of them publicly to send another message." He replied, as Walter frowned, his eyes looking down to the screen. The interface for the computer system was for the ParaSOL Command and control network utilized by the Shintenchi Shogunate. His mission from a hacker perspective was fairly simple, using social engineering he managed to gain several passwords through planted rootkits, keyloggers, and various other hardware implanted through phishing schemes and social engineering to infect large portions of the Shintenchi's ParaSOL System.

A few well placed keystrokes could have the Pile Driver over Caldonia before the end of the day, a few more Keystrokes could have it fired on Têmardo Waystation, causing enough of a commotion to where the second phase of the plan could be enacted.

Walter set to work, cracking at ParaSOL's computer defenses.

"...aaaand I'm in." He said, looking up to Michael.

"I'm starting the repositioning sequence now, I'll rework the tracking software the Taiyou use.. they shouldn't be able to track it for now."

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High above Valore, one of the Pile Drivers which had been maintaining a steady orbit around the equatorial region of Valore, began to alter it's orbit very slightly. Perhaps the Taiyou were re-positioning it for another test run in the Shintenchi countryside. The Pile Driver's orbit would intersect Têmardo Waystation, and the Shogunate Open Ocean Weapons Testing Range.