Operation Starlight

**Operation Starlight** is the planned response of the Nesarian Empire to the potential event of another magical resurgence and a massed invasion of demonic forces. Once a major demonic threat is confirmed, Operation Starlight calls for the immediate and complete mobilisation of the Imperial populace into a state of total war. The measures of the plan are extreme, but they are a response to an extreme, existential threat; the harsh, bloody lessons of the Imperial Civil War have not been forgotten.

Operation Starlight involves the imposition of martial law, the suspension of many civil liberties (such as habeas corpus), the establishment of Inquisitorial authority over the military, and the immediate conscription of all able-bodied male citizens without children, which may be extended to all able-bodied males and then all able-bodied citizens if necessary. If the situation demands, Operation Starlight also involves the immediate evacuation of civilians in areas suffering major demonic invasion. Foreign military and material assistance is to be asked for, but is to be rejected if it shall not completely submit to Imperial authority; foreigners getting in the way of the Imperial response are considered worse than there being no foreign aid at all.

Operation Starlight demands immediate and absolute loyalty from Imperial citizens; the right to freedom of speech is sharply curtailed, and all orders from the state must be obeyed without question for the duration of the operation. Failure to comply with orders is assumed to be proof of treason and siding with the enemy, and consequently incurs immediate execution. Merely criticising the state response is not treason, but suggesting any kind of action against the state is considered treason, and grounds for execution. The Imperial State believes that no chances can be taken when it comes to permitting demonic cultists to live.

The Imperial Armed Forces are to be dispatched to points of demonic invasion, and are ordered not to take risks to destroy the enemy, but rather to hold them in place until the wider population can be mobilised to overwelm the demonic forces. If the demons are coming from a single clearly defined dimensional rift, fortifications and gun emplacements are to be constructed around the rift, and a combination of artillery bombardment and air strikes are to be used on the invaders.

Any signs of magical mutation are to be met with immediate execution, before the mutation progresses to a stage where the victim can be a danger to mortals. No exceptions are to be made based on status, rank or identity; Operation Starlight authorises the execution of the Emperor himself should be begin to mutate, though in this case it must be authorised by an Inquisitor.

Operation Starlight also involves a campaign of mass media communication. Citizens are to be informed of the crisis and the government response through all available channels of communication; flyers, posters, television, radio, text messages, physical and online newspapers, social media, government websites and all major search engines. Where necessary, these methods of communication are to be completely shut down where there is evidence that a method has been compromised by demons or demonic cultists.