TA16

==Chapter 16 - The Armada==
October, 3167 CE
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[Everything is mathmatical...]
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To: Star Lord Alaric Ward
The smallest portion of the evacuation effort was used on the Pentagon Worlds cluster.  This is, in retrospect obvious, many of those worlds experienced severe depopulation prior to the emergency.
The evacuation of the Kerensky Cluster was the most difficult for other reasons. However.  There were internal wars that erupted between Clans, then between forces within Clans. Of course, armed resistance to evacuation by commanders and leaders who flat out refused.
That wasn't what devoured the 14th and 21st Cutter Divisions.  For that, you have to do the math.
KF physics became a thing with the invention and perfection of fusion engine technology.  While the first pathfinders from Terra were nuclear powered with fission systems, the physics upon which those first jump drives were created came from fusion research.
A star, is a fusion generator.
An exploding star, then, is a gigantic thermonuclear detonation that crosses borders between baryonic matter, and the forces that created the universe...and those, impact hyperspace physics.
You might say they present a rather harsh impact.  In blue-water terms, imagine trying to sail a submarine in the ocean, right after a dinosaur killer comet hits that ocean.  As the precession wave approaches, space bends, and this is more specifically hyperspace.
The 14th CD were wiped out trying to chart alternate routes around the expanding distortion sphere in hyperspace that was outracing the actual shockwave of the the supernova (yes, more than one) triggered to kill the colonies in the Kerensky cluster's spinward side. The 21st was shattered the same way along the rimward edge, but at least they gathered and transmitted data letting us know what the expansion rate of the distortion was.
It was moving at exactly 1.1 times the speed of light-nearly a tenth faster than C in normal space.
This precession is actually predicted in Fuchida's 18th theorem proof-the so-called until today. The 'useless' 18th proof deleted from most hyperspace physics courses due to being untestable.
Well, it was untestable before someone blew up a handful of stars for us.
I've almost finished the letters to the families of those crews.  Attached, you will find their names and god help us all. That list isn't finished yet.
It's going to get longer.
The 32nd Cutter Squadron has secured an alternate route to the most distant of the Kerenskyist cluster worlds-but it's a narrow window to reach them before the shockwaves close the door.  Dispatched FWLS Odysseus and LCS Linus Marsden's groups to help things along, and sent a destroyer squadron to make sure the Clanners on that end play nice. 
We had to use controlled orbital bombardment to break resistance on Foster.  They had 'mechs and power armor and my Marines are infantry.  It was a bloodbath, but we broke the Star Adder units that were bottling up the enclaves there.
Some of the locals have started calling the relief effort Clan Killer Whale. We're not going to use that, please don't mention it in your next speech.
On brighter news, we've successfully evacuated Strana Mechty. Commodore Richland from the FedSuns contingent confirmed survivors on York-they were driven back to pre-industrial conditions, ****** medieval, but they at least remembered what technology looked like.  Evacuation of the ex-Blood Spirit descendants is going through AFFs's contingent. They're taking the direct route to avoid violence in the event that the Adders ever figure out their ancestors didn't successfully finish their genocide.  I'm thinking they'll integrate better on Kowloon, but it's up to the Star League council what happens to them.
Efforts to evacuate the Escorpion Imperio have been remarkably non-violent.  In the interest of preventing conflict with their former attackers, I'm also recommending to the Council and First Lord that the Scorpion evacuees be settled in the Quarantine zone. Relocating them on Arluna's southern continent, near Ciudad Oxford's old site.  With inoculations it shouldn't be hard to integrate one Spanish-speaking population in with the others. The remnant Clanner descendants on Arluna are from pre-schism Jade Falcon stock, so Kerenskyism isn't unknown there.
They of course are going to lobby for the Northern Landmass on Kowloon.  I don't know how mom would take that, you should ask Aunt Sharon to broach the topic rather than delivering a fait accompli-my people aren't exactly happy to have new settlers show up with a land-grant uninvited, though I doubt anyone would refuse them charity, it could be a source of resentment.
The cooperative garrisons in the main Clan holding have been remarkably intelligent about building emergency shelters and presenting organized evacuation plans.  Where we haven't had to fight the locals.  Where we HAVE had to fight them, they have proven to be completely disorganized afterward.  I've had to assign officers to oversee their leadership and provide instruction on basic logistics and planning.
Currently, Foster's the worst of the lot.  The Clans on Foster have been consistently unable to bang two rocks together without outside direction.  Londerholm's nearly as bad for different reasons, but the real puzzler is Huntress.
The people on Huntress seem to think we're supposed to adopt them directly.  I am not a Clanner.  I may need to request you send a Clan Wolf officer to take the stupid bastards, because I don't want to have another Foster situation.
On the Phase Two front; We've identified the launching point, and date, of the darts that started this. Based on proximity and KF physics models, it has to be an outpost or colony. Telescopic shows us a limited view.  Lots of traffic.
-R. Admiral Clarissa Ngo,
LCN Special Operations division.
October, 3167.
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