Strat Chpt 1

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==Strategos (A Great Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 1 - Strategos==
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Bannerhoft is…
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……two jumps away from everything, on the coreward side of the old territory of the Outworlds Alliance, it had once been home to an SLDF garrison.
Once. Long ago. When the 9th Royal CAAN regiment had been redeployed to Bannerhoff.
It's been a long time since then, and a lot has changed in the time since Major General Sir. Alban Lovegoode decided to make himself lord-and-master of ten million civilians in the wake of a coup by Stephan Amaris.
For one thing, the 9th Royal CAAN, or "Sons of Plunder" have moved their headquarters from this world to a more pleasing location. In the process, absorbing quite a lot of SLDF's hardware from cache sites left behind by the war, and swelling with recruits from the broken and defeated armies of centuries of conflict in the Inner Sphere (along with yet more, collected from their tributary populations in the abandoned regions of the Outworlds themselves!)
The key to their success, has long been a partnership with elements of Star League Intelligence Corps left behind by the passage of time, and their usefulness to the former Communications Ministry.
Not that there haven't been setbacks. During Lord Marshall Stephanie Lovegoode III"s reign in the 3040s and 3050s, there were some reserved caches lost to upstarts from outside, and operational security was almost compromised.
But even the occasional run-ins with protostates like the Thazi Confederacy weren't the problem, that currently and presently disturbed the rest of Lord Marshall Richard Lovegoode IX.
What is this? Simply put the complete loss by conquest of the market world of Tresspass, and with it, the possibility that the Sons may have lost the strategic initiative badly enough to endanger their primary mission in the Outworlds.
Worse still, this enemy seemed aware of more than they should, including the locations of secrets kept buried by the combined efforts of the descendants of the 9th CAAN, and the descendants of the Ministry of Communications.
"Check the mothball site, we may need to reactivate the fleet. There may be some worlds that need to be knocked down to their proper place."
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