ALR (ATwT) Chpt 12

==A Legacy Reforged (ATwT) - Chapter 12 ==
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===Heavy Raid===
Andrea Moreira Firebase
Marduk, Robinson PDZ 
Draconis March, Federated Suns
20th March, 3118
What would later be described as an assassination attempt is launched against Marduk and specifically the Order of Sortek. The strike which amounted to a combined arms regiment, similar in make up to a Sword of Light Regiment of the DCMS struck at the Order of Sortek, its own Household Guard and the planetary militia. While the unit was built like a Sword of Light Regiment and equipped with Draconis Combine sourced equipment they did not fight with the Elite reputation of such a command and the combined forces deployed by the defenders were able to contain the attacking forces, pin them into their landing zones and force them back off the world within five days of heavy fighting.
The main attack was however only a diversion during the main attack there was a concentrated effort to destroy BattleMechs of Capellan origin believing those to be piloted primarily by the commanders of the Order of Sortek, as the unit was fashioned after a Warrior House, the attackers specifically ignored machines of Davion construction even though there was better chance of taking those down to target Capellan designs. This strategy only truly became apparent during the analysis of the battle with gun camera footage and sensor readings examined by the Order of Sortek and the Department of Military Intelligence but it proved very costly to the attackers giving the defenders several openings during the battle.
Also launched during the main battle was a secondary more stealth attack using both conventional and Battle Armor equipped troopers who struck directly at the Order of Sortek’s man base of operations. The Monastery as the Order called it was designed like a Star League era Castle Brian and built into the side of a mountain it was designed to soak up a tremendous amount of damage from an outward attack but like all large facilities it needed to have access ways for water and air ventilation. Conventional troopers had been able to breach several of these points at the same time before ambushing defenders at several entrance points, two of these are then breached by Battle Armored troops causing even more chaos within the facility.
Unfortunately for the attackers that while they had been able to breach the first layer of defenses the facility was built like a honeycomb inside and it was designed to survive a sustained attack with each layer providing its own layers of armor, armaments, and waves of defenders. During an attack every member of the Order of Sortek was expected to throw themselves into the defense of their home and during the Orders few years they had recruited a huge amount of support personnel way over and above where the unit had started with just two DropShips. Over two hundred members of the support staff and of the conventional brigades of the Order of Sortek are killed during the strike against The Monastery, a dagger blow to the command.
Analysis of the battle points to the attack being directed at the Order of Sortek and specifically at command members of the unit and those of Capellan birth of which nearly fifty percent of the unit’s Capellan BattleMechs are heavily damaged to the point of being crippled and will take years to fully repair. While these attacks were effective at striking the Capellan designs it was not at eliminating the leaders of the unit as the Order had come from a nation which was an amalgamation of the Capellan Confederation and Federated Suns and her commanders piloted Mechs of both nation's origin. To further confuse attacks in the future, Imarra Sortek directs the quartermasters to buy BattleMechs from within the Federated Suns that originated from all five Succession States and she encourages her company commanders to chose any of the new designs available in this new universe. Unfortunately, buying Clan designs is nearly impossible in the Federated Suns outside the Sea Fox trading world of Spica with neither the Raven Alliance or Nova Cat's Den currently viable trading partners to the Federated Suns.
The equipment that was used during the attack was mainly of Draconis Combine and Raven Alliance origin but also a lot of the equipment was available to be bought straight off the shelf, the enemy unit did not fight like a Draconis Combine Sword of Light Regiment which it was supposed to be and DMI reports suggested that there were no such units near Marduk during the attack. None of the enemy warriors who were downed during combat survive to be interrogated with many of them taking their own lives instead of being captured the origin of the attack is for now a mystery.
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