Operation Black Eye

== Summary ==
Operation Black Eye was a large-scale military operation that took place on the 16th of March, 2601. The battle lasted until June 13th. It was fought primarily between the AcDragonian Free State and the Divine Dragonian Empire over control of the city of Skylark and more importantly the massive star port and the rocket manufacturing complexes there. The operation had two completely different meanings for both parties fighting. It was also a gigantic ruse by the AcDragonians. The Black Dragons were operating behind the scenes for portions of this battle.
The Dragonians were fighting to repel the AcDragonians from the city in order to keep the space port open and keep the rocket/missile manufacturing facilities out of their hands. The AcDragonians on the other hand were fighting to capture the city with the intent on using the space port and manufacturing base to manufacture a HIVE class scatter missile to knock down the Osiris Network.
The battle was a military victory for Dragonia in that they inflicted greater total damage to the AcDragonian Army North however the battle was a tactical victory for AcDragonia because their ultimate goal was never to capture and hold the city but merely occupy the space port and missile manufacturing plants long enough to construct their munition, which they did. The battle overall was a net loss for both sides in that Dragonia did not see the AcDragonian's ultimate plan and that AcDragonia did not foresee the widespread unintended consequences of their destruction of the Osiris Network.
== End Result ==
"What have we done? In our efforts to blind our enemy we not only blinded ourselves but our entire people. What was that famous quote from ancient history? Something about an eye for an eye and the world going blind and what not?" - General Meredith HopkinsThe battle ended when the Osiris Network was destroyed. The resulting catastrophe of this was immediately noticed and globally widespread. The network being destroyed immediately killed global command and control for not only Dragonia, but AcDragonia as well as the military SatNet was based on the satellites that were brought down. Not only that, it also controlled the map imaging system that the military used to project AO battle maps to plan operations, effectively knocking out the ability to plan widespread operations in real time, causing people to revert back to paper maps. This also killed the GPS tracking systems that were used for navigation in both the civilian world and military. This also disabled a number of weapons on both sides that rely on GPS in order to accurately be targeted, such as ballistic missiles and other long-range guided systems.
The most widespread effect was the destruction of the Ultra-High speed global CommNET which resulted in the rapid communication, logistic and economic breakdown of the Dragonian population. While regional networks were rapidly spun up, Dragonia didn't invest in a global spanning traditional wired network as a back up after the Osiris Network was created. This meant that while the CommNET wasn't completely destroyed, it was severely hindered both in terms of speed, through put, and communication ability, with sections of the planet being cut off from one another. The almost integrally linked economy and social structure of Dragonia soon suffered a breakdown the likes of which Dragonia hadn't seen since the very earliest days of colonization on the planet. The Civil War, which was incredibly unpopular from the outset and disliked by most citizens, paled in comparison to the immediate swift backlash that the global unrest that was fomenting caused.
Despite this, the complete breakdown of the military SatNet allowed for AcDragonia, which was far more used to operating without such a massive apparatus behind them, to mount a number of increasingly successful operations against the Grand Army who had become so reliant on the Osiris Network that they were practically paralyzed and unable to mount further effective operations. From this point out, the AcDragonians were on the offense, but despite this the Grand Army put up an almost impenetrable defense in many locations. The Dragonian's ultimate objective switched from defeating the AcDragonians outright to containment and the immediate restoration of the Osiris Network. This also prompted the Grand Army to recall the Sword Arm from extended battle ops not only to provide the killing blow to the AcDragonians but to also restore the Osiris Network as they had spare satellites that they use for battle ops available to them.
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