CHS5-6

==Chapter Six - Book 5 – Chappy's Howling Siegers==
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===OPERATION ALAMO===
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====Watching the Vultures Gather====
Headquarters of 5th Sword of Light
Dieron, Draconis Combine
March 10th, 3031
Tai-sho Conti watched as the dropships landed on his planet. He gave the enemy credit when they invaded, they did it well, two landing sites for Davion, two landing sites for the Lyrans, the other landings interested him more, their dropships were all black, no markings and all the equipment was black, even their uniforms were sanitized. He could not tell if they were different units from the same organization or just one massive unit, Five separate landings for that unit. He wrote a memo to his intelligence unit to find out who was with the Davion and Lyrans forces. He then sent a message to his XO to give him the green light and signal the 27th and 12th Dieron Regulars stationed at Ashio to divert from mission plan and come directly to Dieron. With their batteries they can skip one jump and make it here in fifteen days, which will be perfect, their arrival along with the fleet that is on its way will arrive at the same time, his units might be battered by that time but so will the invaders with two fresh reinforce regiments showing up at the perfect time he will crush the invaders.
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====Urgent Message from Home====
Mobile Headquarters of Allied CommandGeneral Chapman office
600 miles from the Capital
Dieron, Draconis Combine
March 10th, 3031
General Chapman just returned to the mobile Headquarters after defeating the enemy that tried to attack on the east flank, his wife did the same thing to the west. Matthew thought that both battles were too easy, in fact after looking over the fourteen successful battles in the last four days, either the enemy was not prepared for such a massive assault or their units are all light and medium with a very high green pilots to veterans ratio. There was a knock at the door.
“Enter” was all that the General said
Captain Bri Ritney walked in the office, she was always helping with the admin part of running the war, in which Matthew was eternally grateful for. She was one of the shortest MechWarrior he had ever served with. What she lacked in height she defiantly made up in looks and curves. Which was the problem sometimes since she was almost always slightly out of uniform. For months he tried to tell her to cover her breasts, but she always said they were too big to stay cover that the buttons would just pop so here we are again. Matthew thought the cleavage was out and she was proud of it. Captain Ritney walked over and placed a data pad on the desk, Matthew tried not to look staying focus on his computer.
 
“What’s this?” Matthew asked
“It the battle report that you asked the armor commander to make.”
“Why did he not just give it to me then and not you, Captain.”
Captain Ritney sighed, “Because he like all men like me.”
Matthew made the mistake and locked eye contact with the Captain.
“I mean you like me too right?” she asked 
Matthew cleared his voice and stood up. “I like how you help me with the admin duties while we are deployed, I like that you are an excellent warrior on the field.”
With that she walked out and said over her shoulder. “Call me if you need me, I will be cleaning my gun.”
Matthew sat down again and started making his week one report for First Prince Davion. The Federated Suns units did not see much action in the first week. The 36th Avalon Hussars' Landing Zone was about a day march from the closest enemy city, and the 56th Avalon Hussars' Landing Zone was near a port town their objective was to take the port with little damage as possible. The Lyrans first week even though very successful there was still heavy losses, mostly in equipment. The 4th Skye Rangers took over a port city that was supplying goods to a underwater facility in the Tibet Ocean. They were also successful in taking over a military base in the southern region of the Scales of the Dragonet. This military base was also a location of a spring water facility, due to the location, up on a hill the Dieron forces elected to stay within the outer walls one of the Dieron armor lances was composed of four Bure II Superheavy tanks. This lance accounted for two destroyed mechs and pilots with seven other mechs severely damaged. However, the Skye Rangers had three mech companies verses two armor companies of the Dieron planetary militia so in the end the Rangers were able to take over the base. Matthew already knew that his unit destroyed the enemy that came out to meet them his wife took a company of mechs and armor and greeted two armor and one mech company destroying nearly every unit of the 44th Dieron Regulars, and he took the same size force and went against a mech and armor company destroying the Dieron regulars. His children’s units were able to achieve their goals with no problems either. Matthew was just about to look at his older son’s report when a knock at the door jam made him stop.
((“Sir, sorry for the interruption but there is a priority one message that just came down from the Accuser.”)) Captain Ritney announced.
“Thanks, captain. I will take it in here.”
The screen went from the regiment logo to the Federation logo, then the President popped up.
<<“General, I hope all is well, news reports of a Lyran, Davion, and unknown force invading Dieron has reached us. So far, your plan is working, but there are some rumblings in the congress since you have not been seen personally in about five months. Staying in touch with all the forces via video has helped but I am afraid that if we don’t see a live video where questions can be asked or a live in person from you, your cover will be blown. I hope to hear from you soon, Congress is in session for the next week before their break.”>>
Matthew called Captain MacBeth, fleet commander.
“Wade.” Matthew said once Captain MacBeth came online.
((“Yes sir, how can I help you.”))
“I need you to start OPERATION TELEGRAPH we have three days to get it online most of the asset should already be in place.”
((“Sir, I will start coordinating now.”))
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====Long Distance Budget Request====
Hall of Congress
Niles (Capital World of Freedom Federation)
Freedom Federation
March 10th, 3031
Intern President Malik Henry looked over the Great White Hall of the Congress of the Federation. It was named Great White Hall because well simply put as he scanned the room it was white. The walls, pillars, ceiling, were all painted white with white marble tile for the floors. Even the desk of the congress members was white and the chairs. The only two things that were not white, the paintings on the wall, still a work in progress, meaning paintings are slowly being added as history unfolds in this young nation. The second was the gravel. He looked down toward his hand and there was the gravel just resting in his palm. His mind focused again, and the noise of the arguments came back to him in a rush. Congress was arguing about the war. A third of congress wanted to end the war now and hunker down, bring all the forces back to an area that these people deemed easy to defend and wait for the Combines counterattack, leaving a dozen or so planets defenseless. Those planets plus a few others wanted the war to expand and take the war all the way to Luthien. The rest wanted to end the war, but overfund the expedition that General Chapman announce to discover the lost colonies of the old OutWorlds Alliance. While arguing about this the constant thing they all agreed on and wanted to know is where their General was. The President was about to hammer the gravel in an attempt to put the congress in order. When a loud whine came across the speakers and the lights dimmed. On the massive twenty by ten-meter video display came to life first the symbol of the Federation showed in a 3D model. Congress slowly became quiet. Then the unit standard for the Federation Siegers Command Regiment, formerly known as the Chappy’s Revenge Command Regiment when this symbol showed all the congress stopped everything and sat down.
 
The next image was their General, older looking tired, the background looked like a makeshift office in a tent, with the flaps moving with the wind you could see Mechs moving in the background and also you could hear a war going on in the distance.
General Matthew Chapman looked up at the high exalted place where President Henry was.
“President Henry,” then he looked around the great hall. “Ladies and Gentlemen esteem members of Congress I greet you, and on the behalf of the Federation Military I am here to offer up answers and strategies for the next budget bill.”
Whispers throughout the hall was loud enough that President Henry could hear, and he wondered how his General was pulling this off. Matthew looked at the Congress and shook his head.
<<“No this is no trick, no AI simulation, or no prerecorded scripted. I am alive and conducting a war to liberate as many planets as possible that we can. My location is top secret so as long as your question doesn’t pertain to my unit or where I am at, I will answer your questions with about a 10 second delay. 
First, I would like to address some recent standard questions;One, we are still close allies with the Federated Suns and will continue to be close friends until we are not.Two, yes, the war it seems is winding down for the Federated Suns on the Draconis Combine boarder with that being said it is prudent that we re-evaluated our objectives on that front so that we are not stretch to thin.Three, building a strong standing army both for the Federation as a whole and for each planet is still a top priority and I have just sent you a packet detailing those plans and the plans to rebuild lost infrastructure on all planets.Four, the Expeditionary fleet is almost fully staff, fully funded and will be leaving Devils Breath orbit within four months. They have all the information they need and know not to get within four jumps of the Union. Now let’s answer some questions, the esteem Congressperson from Brasha your question please.”>>
President Henry was in dumbfounded, first because somehow his General did the impossible, which was pretty standard for him, and is conducting a full live question and answer minus the 10 second delay. Also, secondly the General had every congressperson eating out of his hand all the anger, the dissolution, the mistrust all gone. The General did it and he saved the Republic again.
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President Manson
Office of the President
Thirty minutes after Congress vote
Malik Henry looked at his General in disbelief. “So, you are telling me that you had the foresight to have warships that are HPG capable lined up from Dieron to Niles just in case you had to make a call?”
General Chapman looked at his friend, his President. <<“Sir, for the most part yes, this way we bypass most of the COMSTAR equipment. Now, I am not saying it wasn’t risky I really don’t want COMSTAR to know that my techs on Devil’s Breath know how to operate HPGs. So how did the vote go?”>>
President Henry smiled and said. “The vote was nearly unanimous the bill passed you have an increase of 15% and fully funded for a year.”
 
<<“That’s good news, and unless the Combine does some major counter strike, I foresee the war winding down before the end of next year budget period. Then we can switch to defense spending and Project Jericho”>> Chapman replied.
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