Battle of Azerfar

**G-Corp Emperor**

* Imperator Class Dreadnaught
	+ Imperator
* G-Corp Acquisition Class Cruiser
* 15 G-Corp Commerce Class Destroyer
* 1 Orbital Defence Station

* Imperator
* 15 G-Corp Commerce Class Destroyers

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## **General Information:**

The Battle of Azerfar saw the end of the G-Corp Civil war, and the Death of the **G-Corp Emperor** The Battle was a full blown invasion of the planet and the destruction of the Emperors planet killing ship, the Imperator class Dreadnaught.

## **Prelude to Battle:**

Before the battle **Admiral Darren Shepheard** was involved in a repelling of G-Corp forces assaulting the Osiris listening base, which had detected communications from the **G-Corp Emperor** originating from the planet **Azerfar**. Intelligence deciphered the communications link and pinpointed the approximate location of the Emperors palace, after that is was just a case of remote probes and Commando Strike teams conducting recon on the planet, identifying a landing zone, orbital facilities including the Shipyard and command starbase, and ground facilities including G-Corp main HQ and the Emperor's palace. With that established a strike fleet was assembled around Earth as the Battle plans were drawn up by **Darren Shepheard** and **Jonathan Beach**.

## **The Battle:**

As the two taskforces entered orbit over **Azerfar** **Admiral Darren Shepheard** led Taskforce 17 against the G-Corp orbital command station as **Vice Admiral Oliver Sysco** led taskforce 16 against the vastly better defended shipyards. As the first shots of the final battle were fired Taskforce 16 face heavy fire, as they slowly picked away at the shipyards defending fleet, the shields on Dawn Under Heaven and Osiris started to weaken drastically as the Cruisers Redeemer and Nevada began to take internal damage as Legacy completely lost shields quickly followed by Nevada forcing them to withdraw, however Legacy refused the order, continuing the fight until the ship was destroyed with all hands only 5 minutes later.

Taskforce 17 was faring only slightly better with Bristol losing shields and suffering damage to main engineering, as Pegasus began to absorb the majority of the fire, Athena and Challenger focused down the G-Corp defenders, after a hard fought engagement resulting in Bristol being hardly battle capable by the end with a hull breach into engineering and Pegasus losing half of it's atmospheric stabilisers the G-Corp command station was destroyed.

Back over at the G-Corp shipyard **Vice Admiral Sysco's** taskforce was taking critical fire, now out of options and with the Dawn Under Heaven in a critical state as the 50 year old ship buckled under his feet he ordered abandon ship, giving a field promotion to then **Captain Stella Collins** before taking the broken Dawn Under Heaven straight into the G-Corp fleet in a ramming manoeuvre before detonating the FTL Core and reactor resulting in a massive explosion claiming the remains of the already badly damaged G-Corp fleet and the shipyard.

## **Arrival of the Phoenix:**

With Both taskforces having secured their orbital objectives Taskforce 16 now under the Command of **Vice Admiral Stella Collins** detected the Imperator Class Dreadnaught approaching from the planets surface, as the taskforce scrambled to spread out and increase to maximum speed to throw off the aim of the Imperators main weapon an energy spike was detected, as a laser shot through the vacuum of space colliding directly with the Imperators main weapons bringing it offline forcing it to retreat back to the planets surface as **Grand Admiral Beach** entered the battle aboard the newly constructed **Phoenix Class Dreadnaught** taking command of the battle as ground forces were transferred from Pegasus to Osiris to prepare for the ground assault.

## **Ground Assault:**

As the Osiris, Challenger and Athena descended into orbit they were met by a small G-Corp destroyer fleet, quickly dispatching with the destroyers Osiris made landfall and began unloading the troops establishing a FOB at Landing point Gamma. Before returning to orbit with the Challenger as the Athena became the command centre for the ground invasion. In need of reinforcements Taskforce 18 arrived in **Azerfar** orbit to strengthen the blockade, consisting of 2 Autumn Class Cruiser and 3 hammerhead Corvettes. With ground forces now established the 19th attack battalion begun the siege of the Capital City as **Darren Shepheard** and **Sam Wilson**  took a small shuttle and managed to destroy the anti-capital ship gun mounted on the G-Corp HQ tower, allowing for the Raven to move in and destroy the tower. As a new G-Corp fleet entered orbit and begun to assault the blocked, resulting in the destruction of Challenger.

## **Death of the G-Corp Emperor:**

With the orbital battle beginning to go badly **Grand Admiral Beach** begun the assault on the G-Corp emperors palace. With Phoenix, Athena and Redeemer charging the Imperator destroying the ship before **Darren Shepheard** and **Sam Wilson**  stormed the palace not willing to wait for the commando units still flying in from the capital. Facing heavy resistance **Darren Shepheard** and **Sam Wilson**  pushed through the palace managing to reach the throne room, however while monologuing the G-Corp Emperor shot **Darren Shepheard** and activated the palaces self destruct before **Sam Wilson**  could kill him, while escaping **Darren Shepheard** fell behind, deciding to stay behind and hold off the drone forces perusing them **Sam Wilson**  managed to escape before the building was destroyed.

In Orbit the battle had gone pear shaped, with the G-Corp fleet now invigorated by the death of their leader determined to fight to the end, the situation looked hopeless before a CBR squadron under the command of **Rosa Carter** entered the fray quickly turning the tide against G-Corp, at the end of the battle the Phoenix received a weak signal from the destroyed palace, as **Darren Shepheard** emerged from the rubble, being picked up by the Hiawatha before being put into intensive care, he would survive his injuries after 3 months in hospital. The aftermath of the battle would see the fall of G-Corp.