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Chapter 4

August 21 Zeta Canis 22:00

The battle of Zeta Canis had been raging all across the planet with fleets of ships and air units clashing over the seas weathering the hurricane and rough seas while colossal armies clashed over the dunes as sand storms picked up from the strong winds burying units in the sands of the desert.

The situation of the Aeon had been an uphill battle as they had been in constant battle for survival with ground constantly been changed as battle line after battle lines were moved an broken from both sides, Xin and Valor had been able to take out one of the Cybran commanders on the heartland of the main continent (pretty much a super continent) while the lone isolated commander on one of the islands near Xin was still busy as always send fleet after fleet of ships to attack Xin.

“Valor I am sending some reinforcements to your forward position they should help hold the Cybrans for a while until I can get more forces to you as soon as I can.” Xin stated with signs of fatigue forming on him as through the assault he had a few close calls with a couple of Monkeylords striking from the sea hiding from the navy and infiltrating into his main base taken out a good chunk of his production and economy as well as taken shots on his ACU. If it were not for the shield upgrade he had on his ACU was the saving grace for him.

“Most appreciated some reinforcements from off world would be more appreciated though…” Valor spoke with sign of worry as this planet would be his tomb…our at least it would be one hell of story to tell…if he lived… if not it would be a rather honorable way to die in the name of the princess.

This hell of planet had thrown all it could at the Knights everything but an earthquake had happened to them, the cybran’s had been relentless with their attacks focusing on getting to the cities to extract the other symbionts that had not made it to the stronghold most of the population hadn’t arrived due to the armies clashing and the cities getting quarantined by the Aeon for pacification for when the planet was cleared of enemy signatures. Around ¾ of the main cities had been behind Aeon lines since the evacuation began and were still unable to extract due to firebases staying in the effective area of the cities.

With more and more forces coming online to wage war against each defensive line more and more attention was drawn towards the land masses instead of the sea, with this Valor sneaked a strike group around the main conflict and started to set up an artillery position and firebases to defend them as he set up 3 Emissary T3 heavy artillery positions as well as some Miasma T2 artillery for close fire support.

“I am beginning bombardment procedures on the Cybran defensive lines and will turn attention towards the main cybran Stronghold as soon as I am able to break through.” Valor stated as the base came online and started to upgrade.

“Very well I am focusing on the main Cybran naval force currently we are in a stalemate while I am getting more ships online.” Xin motioned on his tactical display as he began forming the fleet…again for another strike.

The lone Cybran on the island had been losing more ships then he could produce due to his economy and his position unable to support many structures due to the island being relatively small, Xin had been using this to his advantage but was still taken strikes from the cybran who had gotten quite few extra ships from his comrades to the North-West those battleships, carriers and destroyers were keeping him from getting over run. He was getting sloppy though with his forces as he was beginning to panic as the Aeon fleet got closer and closer to his naval yards.

As the final Omen came online Xin set his fleet for the cybran forces his fleet of 5 Omens, 3 Keefers (filled with Coronas, Shockers and Specters) 15 Exodus and 12 Infinities and a hand full of subs, the Cybran’s had 3 Galaxies, 2 Command, 12 Salem’s and 10 Sirens the numbers were in Xin’s favour as he would be able to field more air support than the Cybrans and he had more firepower with his destroyers and battleships.

“I am engaging the Cybrans navy again I will divert more forces towards your current position as soon as I am able, how are the front lines holding?” Xin asked as he tasked some transports with some T3 engineers to head towards Valors current forward line.

“Very well, may the Way guide the Cybrans to the bottom of the sea!” Valor stated as he returned his focus to the current push from the Cybrans to break his defensive line yet again, the battle in the heart of the desert had been a tough one as wreaks could be seen from a far as the winds and sand moved and buried the wreaks hiding what had occurred their as if it was never there. As the fleets clashed carriers came online releasing swarms of ASF, strategic bombers and gunships the ASF’s lead the charge and collided with the opposing force in a hail of missiles and flak guns as bombers and gunships went around the clash for air superiority they began to engage the fleet as the bombers attacked the designated targets prioritizing the Sirens and Commands as the gunships began to chew into the Salem’s and Galaxies, the Cybran bombers were currently been chased by a small group of ASF’s while the Infinities fired upon the passing bombers with their Zealot AA missiles tracking the targets and taken a few of them out.

As a few of the bomber passed over the fleet releasing their proton strategic bombs on the forward battleship and destroyer escorts they meet increased AA from the cruisers as 3 of the destroyers were taken out from the bombs and the splash from the proton bombs, while gunships swarmed the Salem's taken a few out as their numbers began to fall to the concentrated flak from the Salem’s, Sirens and the few Galaxies while the Commands stayed back building more air forces to gain an advantage in the skies to ensure that the fleet could continue to attack the Aeon. As wreckage after wreckage of aircraft came crashing down into the water some colliding on the enemy ships dealing some hull damage and a few knocking out some guns and turrets others jamming some of the turret platforms denying them movement for targeting. The aircraft began to dwindle at increase rates as the came closer to the center of the fleets and more and more ships went to the bottom as they closed in almost at knife fighting distance unleashing devastating firepower from each other’s their main guns tearing holes through the armour, disabling the guns and destroying them outright with concentrated fire, the fleets raged on but the Aeon were coming out on top of the fight thanks to the extra carrier support and air superiority they were getting from them.

This battle on the seas would continue for almost 2 hours with each side sending more and more forces to the skirmish but in the end the Cybrans weren’t able to get their forces to the area fast enough while the Aeon could reinforce quickly enough to stay alive and with the fact that valor was doing raids on any Cybran vessel made it even more difficult for them to win the battle, with naval superiority acquired Xin began to bombard the cybran on the eastern island with fire support from his Omen battleships while bombers did carpet bombing runs on the island and Specter gunships targeted any remaining structures and units the Cybran ACU had been blasted to scrap from the Omens and Specters firing away at its armour as it was destroyed going off in a blaze of Nuclear proportions destroying most of the Specters on the island and having a few had lost power from the EMP effect of the blast causing them to go offline and crash into the water and a few into the island itself.

As Xin watched the ACU cook off from his Strategic display he began to motion his forces north wards to assist Valor with his offence against the main Cybran stronghold send the remnants of his fleet the carriers themselves were still intact and able to produce more ASF’s, bombers and gunships for the battles ahead.

August 22 Zeta Canis 02:00

The night had been long fought with ships and aircraft of both sides littering the seas and the shores but the Aeon had proven victorious here but now the rest of planet was still in Cybran control as they needed to focus on acquire more territories so that the Cybrans weren’t able to encircle them and keep them at bay, while Xin held the oceans Valor was haven more difficulties with the Cybrans in the desert with the night keeping most of the visibility low but the units sensors were adequate enough to get the job done until the sandstorm rolled in turning the night time battlefield into a flurry of sand striping units armour and it was interfering with the sensors of a lot of the units effectively rendering the controls of the forces useless as the commanders would have to wait for the storm to clear and see what units had survived.

As the night battles raged on Valor received a transmission from Xin on his current situation in the South Western Continent and islands, Valor hadn’t heard any word from Xin since he wished him luck in his assault with the lone Cybran commander hoping he was able to help Xin enough with the raids on the channels near the coast heading towards Xin’s position.

“Valor I have claimed the southern Hemisphere and am mustering some more forces to head towards your defensive line. I will need a LZ for my ACU to set up a base in the meantime my fleet had moved towards the Cybrans outer perimeter and are in range of some of the fortifications and am beginning to bombard them as they are heading up to the remaining Cybran naval yard.” Xin stated as he prepared for his transports for the mass movement of engineers and units.

“The Way be praised I am designating a LZ to the west of my current position near some of my defensive lines any other support you can bring to bear to the fight would be appreciated.” Valor stated from his current fortified position behind the main defensive line near his factories, he had been setting up entire factory distracts for the offensives he had planned but so far had most of his forces on the defensive.

“Understood moving my transports to the designated area with some of my escorts ETA around 1 hour you will just need to keep the area clear of enemies for me to land safely and set up a forward operations base.” Xin stated as the transports lifted off for the long flight as he had enough transports to make the entire run with his ground forces in 2 runs hopefully they would be able to get there without any complications.
As he left on his transport he sent a secondary transport of engineers to head to the last known location of one of Valor’s Artillery bases to see if he could rebuild them and give some support while the growing tide of Aeon forces comes online.

August 21 Zeta Canis 02:30

Halfway to the LZ things were going fine for Xin and his transports but things in the ground seemed to be going from bad to worse, in the time it took Xin and his forces to get halfway to the LZ the Cybrans had pushed the defensive lines of Valor back 2 Km his LZ was still secure though but was beginning to get too hot to land safely. Valor had begun to form a counter assault to this mass offensive when the sound of something horrible going off that couldn’t be happening at a worse time.

STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED *STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED* STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED

The Cybrans had launched Nuclear warheads on the defensive line were none of Valor’s strategic defense systems were online, as the strategic display showed the missiles going up into the lower atmosphere heading towards the Aeon forces all Xin could do was watch in horror as the missiles landed destroying most of the center defences and annihilating most of the defending forces causing a breach in which the Cybrans took full effect of flooding hundreds of tanks, AA guns and Siege assault bots into the soft under belly that was the Aeon fire bases. The concentrated effect of the nukes glassed the sands forming giant pools of reflective glass making some units slip and fall others purely crushing the glass under their weight while others tread carved into it allowing them to traverse normally.

“Valor my forces are almost at the landing zone what is your current status!” Xin stated in panic as the Cybrans had constructed a strategic missile launcher this would be a problem if not taken care of soon as the plan Xin had would soon come crashing down if those nukes kept firing off.

“I am currently engaging the Cybrans on every front that I can they are tearing through most of my defenses and I am unable to mount an effective counter attack as of right now any support you can give me would be most appreciated.” Valor stated as he began to focus more on the approaching death that the Cybrans were unleashing onto his infrastructure and production lines.

“I am securing your old artillery base now and am rebuilding the Emissaries they will be up effective 5 minutes from now and I shall arrive 20 minutes from now you just need to hold the lines I will provide more support as it becomes available.” Xin stated as he began to manage his forces for an attack on the cybran threat at the LZ and on Valor’s defensive line.

Xin looked over the strategic data he was getting showing that most of the AA was in the front of the group thus Xin took advantage of this an issued his Carriers to launch all units to help Valor out as the fleet had been a lot closer than his transports they were providing fire support from their current locations but it didn’t seem to be enough splash damage to deal with the mass of units. As all the ASF’s, strategic bombers and gunships went flying towards the ever more chaotic battlefield they began to meet more and more resistance from the air as Gemini’s began to attack the bombers and gunships, the Coronas began dog fighting against the other ASF’s while receiving AA support from the ground as Valor had his base surrounded with enough AA to keep most strikes from the skies at bay.
As the ASF’s were preoccupied with each other this allowed the bombers and gunships to head further inland to assist in the defense which seemed to crumble little by little as the Cybrans fought to gain control of the territory.

“Valor I am transferring control of the Shockers and Specters to you may they help you in this dire time of need.” Xin stated as he those units should be able to buy him enough time for his forces to get there but 1st he needed to make sure the secondary force was ready.

“Most appreciated here Xin with these forces I shall sweep across these fools and cleanse them in the fires of their own wreckage.” Valor stated with a side of rage in his tone as he was getting sick and tired of these Cybran pests.

“May they fall at our combined might and the Way guide us through this dire time.” Xin stated as his LZ was coming into optical view of his ACU and transports.

The area around the LZ was littered with the wreckage of the Cybran counterassault and quite a few of the defences Valor had in place for the defence of the LZ it was still secure even with the Cybrans pushing more and more into the Aeon lines. The dust began to whirl up as the transports unloaded their cargo and began to move back to the base for the next group, with that Xin ordered his groups of engineers to start production on some more defences and moving his task force he shipped with him to start patrolling the immediate perimeter in case any stragglers showed up, as well as any units retreating from the push from Valor towards the Cybran front lines.

The set up went well as the engineers readied their factories for the mass scale production that was required for them to continue this assault from the desert region as ferrying the forces from the islands would take too long to be an effective immediate response to Cybran counter attacks. Within minutes the factories pumped out unit after unit at a high rate with all the engineers assisting them, Xin looked around to the sight of Valors forces advancing towards his position with most of them heavily damaged meaning the battle had been long and bloody as most forces were on their last legs/treads as they came into the perimeter of the new fortifications looking for some repairs as the engineers construed some air staging facilities and went to work repairing the group army.

“Xin welcome to the party hope your landing wasn’t too crowded the Cybrans have been defeated here we need to prepare to assault the main fortifications to the West alert me when you are ready for the push, I shall be rebuilding my forces and my infrastructure.” Valor stated with a grin on his face to have some company on the desert plains.
“Very well Valor I shall begin fortifications around my known perimeter immediately and shall be ready within the hour my transports shall be bringing more reinforcements soon from my main base.” Xin commented as he set off to build more point defenses and AA flak guns, while his engineers worked on more factory production.

The calmness of the desert sands seemed unnatural with how still the battle seemed to have slowed with neither side launching any form of an assault as they massed their armies for a massive confrontation for the dunes of the giant desert where the coming battles will reign, the wreckages that hadn’t been reclaimed seemed to be sinking into the sands as the winds began to pick up and the pools of glass seemed to have been merged into a large lake with the heat of all the weapons fire around the area it showed the reflection of the peaceful looking sky.

As Xin surveyed the desert sands the thoughts of what these Cybrans where doing here…the presence was more than expected for a small world of little resource value yet 6 ACU’s were here fighting against our forces yet there shouldn’t be this many…I need to find more data on the fact to be sure. As he was stuck in thought he didn’t realize the transports from his main base had returned with his secondary force, and then the reports came in of enemy movement detected near the outer perimeter from Xin’s firebase near his artillery positions.

“Valor we have scouts inbound probably getting visual for another nuclear strike!” Xin stated as his fire base guns started to unleash the plasma from the Oblivion cannons and the Miasma artillery was devastating the area where they units were traveling.

“If you can buy me enough time I can get a few more missiles up for defence but I need those scouts dead before they spot what were up too.” Valor stated as he was pouring his economy into some missiles for his two Patron strategic missile defences.

“Understood I have some gunships in route now to deal with these scouts they should be able to take them out before they get too close to get any optical data on the site.” Xin answered from his forward command post that was still busy with factories building with engineers assisting them, the units streaming out to formations behind the main defensive lines and Air staging Facilities.

As the wings of specter gunships dusted off from their refuel and repairs at the Air Staging Facilities, they headed towards the radar contacts near the outer borders of the eastern defense grid of a few point defences and some patrolling tanks and AA guns it was still under repairs from the Cybrans push through Valor’s bases, the engineers had been busy with building more factories and economic structures thus leaving a relatively small opening in the outer defensive line. The Gunships arrived at the outer point defences as they were being destroyed from the mass fire of the Cybran forces that were clearing through the patrol units as the Specters started assaulting the ground forces targeting the AA guns first there wasn’t many surprisingly so the Specters were able to deal with this ground assault as Xin transferred some engineers and started a mas rebuild of the point defences and some more AA guns as well as a few Shields of Light to allow for more effective defensive strength and offensive ability to return fire.

“Xin I have 2 missiles ready for now more are building as we speak but I need to start reviving my economy so you’re going to need to keep up the defenses for a while and your own base should be able to supply enough forces and resources to you to continue this, but radar had detected some more contacts to the north and east of the defensive line.” Valor stated as he started managing his engineers to reconstruct more economic structures.

“Understood Valor I have more forces arriving via transport through the straight we secured off the southern shore hopefully they will arrive sooner than later. As I’m sending out scout planes for some more Intel on the enemy movements we have been on the defensive for the last few hours and that needs to change soon or they will just wear us down and kill us off.” Xin stated as he was going over the Intel of the Cybran forces the Radar was showing but something seemed off they had a gap in there formations so Xin sent some scout planes to get a better clue, as well as the status report on his forces back as base and his little presents for the Cybran Stronghold they seemed to be around 75% finished and the others where about 2 hours away from joining the party so he would have to hold and keep them focused on his current positioning.

As Xin was busy with his forces one of the scout planes transmitted some interesting visuals of the incoming Cybran attack it was a massive wave of several Monkeylords at the tip of the formation and around a hundred Loyalists forming the mass of the army with Bangers in the center fir AA duty, Xin looked at the visual data as the plane was shot down by the Monkeylords Heavy Electron Bolters. The rate at which the Cybran force was approaching gave a small window of effective formation to occur they would need to pool a lot more forces and defences to get through this alive…again.

Xin started a mass assist on his factories to produce some Harbingers mark III to help the defense of the Aeon lines and maybe if they survived this form an effective counter-attack to the enemy, Xin checked the status of the Artillery bases he had setup earlier they were about operational just waiting for the last 2 Emissaries to finish they were 96% finished they would be extremely helpful in the defense but it would reveal them and the enemy would send mass bomber runs on them and they would be lost, they would be available support but Xin would have to choose when to use them in the meantime his main base reinforcements had arrived and the transports where landing and refuelling from the trip before they headed back to the main base for another pick up. The estimated time of arrival of the Cybran forces which seemed to be heading for the center of the Aeon lines was around 1 hour and if Xin could slow them down he would so he formed his Specters for a little hit and run as they would hit the outer units of the formation away from the enemies AA units and keep picking them off one by one while running away before they could get targets on them Xin would send a few wings of Coronas and some Shockers to assist on a few of the hits.

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Chapter 4

August 21 Zeta Canis 22:00

The battle of Zeta Canis had been raging all across the planet with fleets of ships and air units clashing over the seas weathering the hurricane and rough seas while colossal armies clashed over the dunes as sand storms picked up from the strong winds burying units in the sands of the desert.

The situation of the Aeon had been an uphill battle as they had been in constant battle for survival with ground constantly been changed as battle line after battle lines were moved an broken from both sides, Xin and Valor had been able to take out one of the Cybran commanders on the heartland of the main continent (pretty much a super continent) while the lone isolated commander on one of the islands near Xin was still busy as always send fleet after fleet of ships to attack Xin.

“Valor I am sending some reinforcements to your forward position they should help hold the Cybrans for a while until I can get more forces to you as soon as I can.” Xin stated with signs of fatigue forming on him as through the assault he had a few close calls with a couple of Monkeylords striking from the sea hiding from the navy and infiltrating into his main base taken out a good chunk of his production and economy as well as taken shots on his ACU. If it were not for the shield upgrade he had on his ACU was the saving grace for him.

“Most appreciated some reinforcements from off world would be more appreciated though…” Valor spoke with sign of worry as this planet would be his tomb…our at least it would be one hell of story to tell…if he lived… if not it would be a rather honorable way to die in the name of the princess.

This hell of planet had thrown all it could at the Knights everything but an earthquake had happened to them, the cybran’s had been relentless with their attacks focusing on getting to the cities to extract the other symbionts that had not made it to the stronghold most of the population hadn’t arrived due to the armies clashing and the cities getting quarantined by the Aeon for pacification for when the planet was cleared of enemy signatures. Around ¾ of the main cities had been behind Aeon lines since the evacuation began and were still unable to extract due to firebases staying in the effective area of the cities.

With more and more forces coming online to wage war against each defensive line more and more attention was drawn towards the land masses instead of the sea, with this Valor sneaked a strike group around the main conflict and started to set up an artillery position and firebases to defend them as he set up 3 Emissary T3 heavy artillery positions as well as some Miasma T2 artillery for close fire support.

“I am beginning bombardment procedures on the Cybran defensive lines and will turn attention towards the main cybran Stronghold as soon as I am able to break through.” Valor stated as the base came online and started to upgrade.

“Very well I am focusing on the main Cybran naval force currently we are in a stalemate while I am getting more ships online.” Xin motioned on his tactical display as he began forming the fleet…again for another strike.

The lone Cybran on the island had been losing more ships then he could produce due to his economy and his position unable to support many structures due to the island being relatively small, Xin had been using this to his advantage but was still taken strikes from the cybran who had gotten quite few extra ships from his comrades to the North-West those battleships, carriers and destroyers were keeping him from getting over run. He was getting sloppy though with his forces as he was beginning to panic as the Aeon fleet got closer and closer to his naval yards.

As the final Omen came online Xin set his fleet for the cybran forces his fleet of 5 Omens, 3 Keefers (filled with Coronas, Shockers and Specters) 15 Exodus and 12 Infinities and a hand full of subs, the Cybran’s had 3 Galaxies, 2 Command, 12 Salem’s and 10 Sirens the numbers were in Xin’s favour as he would be able to field more air support than the Cybrans and he had more firepower with his destroyers and battleships.

“I am engaging the Cybrans navy again I will divert more forces towards your current position as soon as I am able, how are the front lines holding?” Xin asked as he tasked some transports with some T3 engineers to head towards Valors current forward line.

“Very well, may the Way guide the Cybrans to the bottom of the sea!” Valor stated as he returned his focus to the current push from the Cybrans to break his defensive line yet again, the battle in the heart of the desert had been a tough one as wreaks could be seen from a far as the winds and sand moved and buried the wreaks hiding what had occurred their as if it was never there. As the fleets clashed carriers came online releasing swarms of ASF, strategic bombers and gunships the ASF’s lead the charge and collided with the opposing force in a hail of missiles and flak guns as bombers and gunships went around the clash for air superiority they began to engage the fleet as the bombers attacked the designated targets prioritizing the Sirens and Commands as the gunships began to chew into the Salem’s and Galaxies, the Cybran bombers were currently been chased by a small group of ASF’s while the Infinities fired upon the passing bombers with their Zealot AA missiles tracking the targets and taken a few of them out.

As a few of the bomber passed over the fleet releasing their proton strategic bombs on the forward battleship and destroyer escorts they meet increased AA from the cruisers as 3 of the destroyers were taken out from the bombs and the splash from the proton bombs, while gunships swarmed the Salem's taken a few out as their numbers began to fall to the concentrated flak from the Salem’s, Sirens and the few Galaxies while the Commands stayed back building more air forces to gain an advantage in the skies to ensure that the fleet could continue to attack the Aeon. As wreckage after wreckage of aircraft came crashing down into the water some colliding on the enemy ships dealing some hull damage and a few knocking out some guns and turrets others jamming some of the turret platforms denying them movement for targeting. The aircraft began to dwindle at increase rates as the came closer to the center of the fleets and more and more ships went to the bottom as they closed in almost at knife fighting distance unleashing devastating firepower from each other’s their main guns tearing holes through the armour, disabling the guns and destroying them outright with concentrated fire, the fleets raged on but the Aeon were coming out on top of the fight thanks to the extra carrier support and air superiority they were getting from them.

This battle on the seas would continue for almost 2 hours with each side sending more and more forces to the skirmish but in the end the Cybrans weren’t able to get their forces to the area fast enough while the Aeon could reinforce quickly enough to stay alive and with the fact that valor was doing raids on any Cybran vessel made it even more difficult for them to win the battle, with naval superiority acquired Xin began to bombard the cybran on the eastern island with fire support from his Omen battleships while bombers did carpet bombing runs on the island and Specter gunships targeted any remaining structures and units the Cybran ACU had been blasted to scrap from the Omens and Specters firing away at its armour as it was destroyed going off in a blaze of Nuclear proportions destroying most of the Specters on the island and having a few had lost power from the EMP effect of the blast causing them to go offline and crash into the water and a few into the island itself.

As Xin watched the ACU cook off from his Strategic display he began to motion his forces north wards to assist Valor with his offence against the main Cybran stronghold send the remnants of his fleet the carriers themselves were still intact and able to produce more ASF’s, bombers and gunships for the battles ahead.

August 22 Zeta Canis 02:00

The night had been long fought with ships and aircraft of both sides littering the seas and the shores but the Aeon had proven victorious here but now the rest of planet was still in Cybran control as they needed to focus on acquire more territories so that the Cybrans weren’t able to encircle them and keep them at bay, while Xin held the oceans Valor was haven more difficulties with the Cybrans in the desert with the night keeping most of the visibility low but the units sensors were adequate enough to get the job done until the sandstorm rolled in turning the night time battlefield into a flurry of sand striping units armour and it was interfering with the sensors of a lot of the units effectively rendering the controls of the forces useless as the commanders would have to wait for the storm to clear and see what units had survived.

As the night battles raged on Valor received a transmission from Xin on his current situation in the South Western Continent and islands, Valor hadn’t heard any word from Xin since he wished him luck in his assault with the lone Cybran commander hoping he was able to help Xin enough with the raids on the channels near the coast heading towards Xin’s position.

“Valor I have claimed the southern Hemisphere and am mustering some more forces to head towards your defensive line. I will need a LZ for my ACU to set up a base in the meantime my fleet had moved towards the Cybrans outer perimeter and are in range of some of the fortifications and am beginning to bombard them as they are heading up to the remaining Cybran naval yard.” Xin stated as he prepared for his transports for the mass movement of engineers and units.

“The Way be praised I am designating a LZ to the west of my current position near some of my defensive lines any other support you can bring to bear to the fight would be appreciated.” Valor stated from his current fortified position behind the main defensive line near his factories, he had been setting up entire factory distracts for the offensives he had planned but so far had most of his forces on the defensive.

“Understood moving my transports to the designated area with some of my escorts ETA around 1 hour you will just need to keep the area clear of enemies for me to land safely and set up a forward operations base.” Xin stated as the transports lifted off for the long flight as he had enough transports to make the entire run with his ground forces in 2 runs hopefully they would be able to get there without any complications.
As he left on his transport he sent a secondary transport of engineers to head to the last known location of one of Valor’s Artillery bases to see if he could rebuild them and give some support while the growing tide of Aeon forces comes online.

August 21 Zeta Canis 02:30

Halfway to the LZ things were going fine for Xin and his transports but things in the ground seemed to be going from bad to worse, in the time it took Xin and his forces to get halfway to the LZ the Cybrans had pushed the defensive lines of Valor back 2 Km his LZ was still secure though but was beginning to get too hot to land safely. Valor had begun to form a counter assault to this mass offensive when the sound of something horrible going off that couldn’t be happening at a worse time.

STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED *STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED* STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED

The Cybrans had launched Nuclear warheads on the defensive line were none of Valor’s strategic defense systems were online, as the strategic display showed the missiles going up into the lower atmosphere heading towards the Aeon forces all Xin could do was watch in horror as the missiles landed destroying most of the center defences and annihilating most of the defending forces causing a breach in which the Cybrans took full effect of flooding hundreds of tanks, AA guns and Siege assault bots into the soft under belly that was the Aeon fire bases. The concentrated effect of the nukes glassed the sands forming giant pools of reflective glass making some units slip and fall others purely crushing the glass under their weight while others tread carved into it allowing them to traverse normally.

“Valor my forces are almost at the landing zone what is your current status!” Xin stated in panic as the Cybrans had constructed a strategic missile launcher this would be a problem if not taken care of soon as the plan Xin had would soon come crashing down if those nukes kept firing off.

“I am currently engaging the Cybrans on every front that I can they are tearing through most of my defenses and I am unable to mount an effective counter attack as of right now any support you can give me would be most appreciated.” Valor stated as he began to focus more on the approaching death that the Cybrans were unleashing onto his infrastructure and production lines.

“I am securing your old artillery base now and am rebuilding the Emissaries they will be up effective 5 minutes from now and I shall arrive 20 minutes from now you just need to hold the lines I will provide more support as it becomes available.” Xin stated as he began to manage his forces for an attack on the cybran threat at the LZ and on Valor’s defensive line.

Xin looked over the strategic data he was getting showing that most of the AA was in the front of the group thus Xin took advantage of this an issued his Carriers to launch all units to help Valor out as the fleet had been a lot closer than his transports they were providing fire support from their current locations but it didn’t seem to be enough splash damage to deal with the mass of units. As all the ASF’s, strategic bombers and gunships went flying towards the ever more chaotic battlefield they began to meet more and more resistance from the air as Gemini’s began to attack the bombers and gunships, the Coronas began dog fighting against the other ASF’s while receiving AA support from the ground as Valor had his base surrounded with enough AA to keep most strikes from the skies at bay.
As the ASF’s were preoccupied with each other this allowed the bombers and gunships to head further inland to assist in the defense which seemed to crumble little by little as the Cybrans fought to gain control of the territory.

“Valor I am transferring control of the Shockers and Specters to you may they help you in this dire time of need.” Xin stated as he those units should be able to buy him enough time for his forces to get there but 1st he needed to make sure the secondary force was ready.

“Most appreciated here Xin with these forces I shall sweep across these fools and cleanse them in the fires of their own wreckage.” Valor stated with a side of rage in his tone as he was getting sick and tired of these Cybran pests.

“May they fall at our combined might and the Way guide us through this dire time.” Xin stated as his LZ was coming into optical view of his ACU and transports.

The area around the LZ was littered with the wreckage of the Cybran counterassault and quite a few of the defences Valor had in place for the defence of the LZ it was still secure even with the Cybrans pushing more and more into the Aeon lines. The dust began to whirl up as the transports unloaded their cargo and began to move back to the base for the next group, with that Xin ordered his groups of engineers to start production on some more defences and moving his task force he shipped with him to start patrolling the immediate perimeter in case any stragglers showed up, as well as any units retreating from the push from Valor towards the Cybran front lines.

The set up went well as the engineers readied their factories for the mass scale production that was required for them to continue this assault from the desert region as ferrying the forces from the islands would take too long to be an effective immediate response to Cybran counter attacks. Within minutes the factories pumped out unit after unit at a high rate with all the engineers assisting them, Xin looked around to the sight of Valors forces advancing towards his position with most of them heavily damaged meaning the battle had been long and bloody as most forces were on their last legs/treads as they came into the perimeter of the new fortifications looking for some repairs as the engineers construed some air staging facilities and went to work repairing the group army.

“Xin welcome to the party hope your landing wasn’t too crowded the Cybrans have been defeated here we need to prepare to assault the main fortifications to the West alert me when you are ready for the push, I shall be rebuilding my forces and my infrastructure.” Valor stated with a grin on his face to have some company on the desert plains.
“Very well Valor I shall begin fortifications around my known perimeter immediately and shall be ready within the hour my transports shall be bringing more reinforcements soon from my main base.” Xin commented as he set off to build more point defenses and AA flak guns, while his engineers worked on more factory production.

The calmness of the desert sands seemed unnatural with how still the battle seemed to have slowed with neither side launching any form of an assault as they massed their armies for a massive confrontation for the dunes of the giant desert where the coming battles will reign, the wreckages that hadn’t been reclaimed seemed to be sinking into the sands as the winds began to pick up and the pools of glass seemed to have been merged into a large lake with the heat of all the weapons fire around the area it showed the reflection of the peaceful looking sky.

As Xin surveyed the desert sands the thoughts of what these Cybrans where doing here…the presence was more than expected for a small world of little resource value yet 6 ACU’s were here fighting against our forces yet there shouldn’t be this many…I need to find more data on the fact to be sure. As he was stuck in thought he didn’t realize the transports from his main base had returned with his secondary force, and then the reports came in of enemy movement detected near the outer perimeter from Xin’s firebase near his artillery positions.

“Valor we have scouts inbound probably getting visual for another nuclear strike!” Xin stated as his fire base guns started to unleash the plasma from the Oblivion cannons and the Miasma artillery was devastating the area where they units were traveling.

“If you can buy me enough time I can get a few more missiles up for defence but I need those scouts dead before they spot what were up too.” Valor stated as he was pouring his economy into some missiles for his two Patron strategic missile defences.

“Understood I have some gunships in route now to deal with these scouts they should be able to take them out before they get too close to get any optical data on the site.” Xin answered from his forward command post that was still busy with factories building with engineers assisting them, the units streaming out to formations behind the main defensive lines and Air staging Facilities.

As the wings of specter gunships dusted off from their refuel and repairs at the Air Staging Facilities, they headed towards the radar contacts near the outer borders of the eastern defense grid of a few point defences and some patrolling tanks and AA guns it was still under repairs from the Cybrans push through Valor’s bases, the engineers had been busy with building more factories and economic structures thus leaving a relatively small opening in the outer defensive line. The Gunships arrived at the outer point defences as they were being destroyed from the mass fire of the Cybran forces that were clearing through the patrol units as the Specters started assaulting the ground forces targeting the AA guns first there wasn’t many surprisingly so the Specters were able to deal with this ground assault as Xin transferred some engineers and started a mas rebuild of the point defences and some more AA guns as well as a few Shields of Light to allow for more effective defensive strength and offensive ability to return fire.

“Xin I have 2 missiles ready for now more are building as we speak but I need to start reviving my economy so you’re going to need to keep up the defenses for a while and your own base should be able to supply enough forces and resources to you to continue this, but radar had detected some more contacts to the north and east of the defensive line.” Valor stated as he started managing his engineers to reconstruct more economic structures.

“Understood Valor I have more forces arriving via transport through the straight we secured off the southern shore hopefully they will arrive sooner than later. As I’m sending out scout planes for some more Intel on the enemy movements we have been on the defensive for the last few hours and that needs to change soon or they will just wear us down and kill us off.” Xin stated as he was going over the Intel of the Cybran forces the Radar was showing but something seemed off they had a gap in there formations so Xin sent some scout planes to get a better clue, as well as the status report on his forces back as base and his little presents for the Cybran Stronghold they seemed to be around 75% finished and the others where about 2 hours away from joining the party so he would have to hold and keep them focused on his current positioning.

As Xin was busy with his forces one of the scout planes transmitted some interesting visuals of the incoming Cybran attack it was a massive wave of several Monkeylords at the tip of the formation and around a hundred Loyalists forming the mass of the army with Bangers in the center fir AA duty, Xin looked at the visual data as the plane was shot down by the Monkeylords Heavy Electron Bolters. The rate at which the Cybran force was approaching gave a small window of effective formation to occur they would need to pool a lot more forces and defences to get through this alive…again.

Xin started a mass assist on his factories to produce some Harbingers mark III to help the defense of the Aeon lines and maybe if they survived this form an effective counter-attack to the enemy, Xin checked the status of the Artillery bases he had setup earlier they were about operational just waiting for the last 2 Emissaries to finish they were 96% finished they would be extremely helpful in the defense but it would reveal them and the enemy would send mass bomber runs on them and they would be lost, they would be available support but Xin would have to choose when to use them in the meantime his main base reinforcements had arrived and the transports where landing and refuelling from the trip before they headed back to the main base for another pick up. The estimated time of arrival of the Cybran forces which seemed to be heading for the center of the Aeon lines was around 1 hour and if Xin could slow them down he would so he formed his Specters for a little hit and run as they would hit the outer units of the formation away from the enemies AA units and keep picking them off one by one while running away before they could get targets on them Xin would send a few wings of Coronas and some Shockers to assist on a few of the hits.