TBntG-3 Chpt 45

=The Bull and the Genie=
==Chapter 45 - Book III - The Clan Invasion==
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==Katherine's No Good, Very Bad Day==
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===Command HQ Seige===
UMC BaseOshika, Draconis Combine
Katherine stared at the memo. She closed her eyes. Opened them. Closed them again. 
 
The Goddamned Memo was still there. 
 
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FROM: CINC, MARY CHENG
TO: CO: 1ST INFANTRY REGIMENT, SECOND BATTALION, 3RD DIVISION. 
RE: OCCUPATIONAL DUTIES. 
 
Major combat operations on Oshika have terminated, and UMC forces are moving to relief and occupational duties. Due to the destruction of most law enforcement agencies and the complicity of many officials in BDS crimes against citizens and property, it has been decided to place Oshika under the temporary authority of the UMC Occupation Command until a legitimate civilian government can be reconstituted. You are hereby appointed to the position of military governor for the city of New Kyoto and associated towns and rural areas (see section B). 
 
Your duties will include, but not be restricted to, the following:
 
1. Ensuring that no BDS aligned soldiers or irregular forces operate in your area. 
 
2. Assist with taking Class A-C war crimes suspects into custody, while ensuring that they are not exposed to vigilante action on the part of local individuals or groups.
 
3. Assist in the rebuilding and protection of vital infrastructure. Said infrastructure does not include military facilities, which are to be sealed and inventoried for later conversion to civilian uses and/or demolition. 
 
4. Assist in the creation of a civil authority, which will carry out the majority of operational governance. However, you will still be in over all charge until the termination of the Occupation so any civil authority will be subordinate to your authority. 
 
5. Provide assistance to the War Crimes Investigatory Teams which will be operating in your area. This assistance may include but not be limited to, providing escort and assistance in taking suspects into custody. 
 
6. Maintain law and order. Most notably in some liberated worlds there have been actions of vigilante justice against those claimed to have worked with the Black Dragons. Any such individuals must be protected, and if the accusations are credible, provided trial in an impartial court. 
7. The following units will be attached to your regiment:
 
1. VA-37. All fighters will be configured for fast troop insertion. 
2. 15th Canopian military police company. 
3. 27th light infantry battalion, equipped for non-lethal crowd control. 
Other units to follow as available. 
Be advised that a primary component of the Black Dragon's propoganda included claims that UMC officers would take out their frustrations on the local population. Your forces must at all times behave in a manner befitting their office. There is to be no toleration of the mistreatment of civilians, and any such actions, regardless of severity, are to both be reported to higher authorities and punished after a finding of guilty in a properly constituted court. 
We are about to win the war. It is important that we not lose the peace.
 
Gen. Mary Cheng. 
 
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Katherine let her head hit the desk.
 
"Something wrong?" Diplomat asked, the captain staring at his boss. 
 
"You know how I hate nobility who trade on their position?"
 
"Yes?"
 
"Would I be a hypocrite if I asked Mom and Dad to put is in line for the landings on Luthien?"
 
"That bad?" She handed him the memo. "Just over one and a half million people, not counting outlying cities."
 
"That bad." Diplomat shrugged. "I suppose they could. Probably replace you with one of the Lyran nobles the clans kicked off their lands. I heard rumors that some of them were demanding to be allowed to take possession of the Dragon's spoils in compen—"
 
"Fine, fine! No need to rub it in." Katherine leaned back. "Okay, first thing, we need to yell at logistics. We have plenty of machine guns, SRM launchers, and anti-mech systems. We don't have foam and tear gas and less-than-lethal loadouts. First order, if a unit doesn't have a less-than-lethal payload and they're not defending something like a hospital or puppy orphanage, they back off. We don't need someone to trigger a slaughter protecting… I dunno, the Dragon's Liquor Store.
 
"Those were already looted well before we took possession. So it would probably be the Dragon's Regretful Hangover. The good news is, from what I've heard, some of the people take it as an honor that the Fox's own child was needed to occupy them. So nepotism is useful for something, it seems."
 
"Ha. Ha. Get all the company and battalion officers in so we can pretend to be ready for this."
 
What a fucking horrible day. Still… What had Mom said? Right. Half Done, Well Done, but not finished. Time to get to work.
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