Operation Fury Scorpion

## Belligerents

Orion Expeditionary Corps
ONI Navy

Alvitr Central Security
ACS Ground Forces

## Commanders and leaders

LTG. Coburn (OEC)
Col. Munson (OEC)
Maj. North (S-O-D)

Adrian Lux

## Strength

OEC soldiers
Sky Legion
JSOC
ONI Navy

30,000+ ACS troops
ACS Air Force

300+ OEC soldiers
8 SCAR Aviators
20+ C-7E Stallion
2 UH-64 Hawk

10,000+ ACS troopers

**Operation Fury Scorpion**, informally known as the **battle of Lancaster**, is the military operational name for the ONI's *First Strike* against Alvitr Central Security forces on international ground, away from Orion and Nero. On August 2061, the ONI launched a full scale invasion to take the city of Lancaster in the Mansfield Province of Ansaris.

## Background and Development

Intelligence from Special Operations Detachment reconnaissance units deep behind Alvitr Central Security lines in the Mansfield Province saw Adrian Lux being present within one of the cities in the Mansfield Province. Lux being a key figure in the ACS meant that the ONI could launch a double strike to capture both Lux, and seize control over the entirety of South Ansaris from ACS occupation.

The commencement of the operation began at 0700 with two separate attacks conducted by the Orion Expeditionary Corps. Majority of the OEC and the ONI Navy were to attack the city from the East, seizing control of the sea port and the naval base before moving inland. The 7th Infantry Division was tasked with clearing the city from the North.

## Execution of the operation

Elements of the Orion Expeditionary Corps and 2nd Naval Fleet attacked Lancaster via a joint amphibious an air assault to the city's seaport, naval port, and any other key defencive positions in the East that bordered the ocean. Elements of the 7th Infantry Division, namely the 2nd Brigade Combat Team and 1st Armoured Brigade Combat Team attacked the city via land to the North. A simultaneous attack on both ends of the city would spread the Alvitr Central Security forces thin. A third attack by the 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team would fly in with the Combat Aviation Brigade 50 kilometres South of the 2nd BCT's attack zone, landing behind enemy lines and disrupting ACS reinforcements. Landing Zones Alamo to Landing Zone Indiana were the nine zones identified and used by the 1st IBCT in their attack.

## Assets

ONI Army

* 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team
* 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team
* 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team
* 1st Armoured Brigade Combat Team
* Combat Aviation Brigade
* Special Operations Detachment
* Special Combat Aviation Regiment

Sky Legion

* 1st Operations Fighter Group

ONI Navy

* 2nd Naval Fleet

## Operation Objectives

1st IBCT took heavy casualties as they flew into the city, being subjected to anti-air flak fire that shot down multiple air transports en route to their designated landing zones. Many infantry companies were displaced, but nevertheless, majority of the 1st IBCT reached their landing zones and disrupted ACS forces and positionings until being reinforced by the 2nd IBCT and 1st ABCT.

At the same time, a Special Operations Detachment unit, Alpha Team fly to the ACS Garrison deep inside the city to locate and retrieve actionable intelligence about Adrian Lux's potential safehouses and hiding places in the city. After pinpointing one safehouse location to a metro city in the city, Alpha Team links up with elements of Blackjack Company and fight their way through the streets of Lancaster before coming up on a dry hole at the first hideout.

Bravo Team is immediately sent to the second hideout location in the neighbouring town of Goulburn after Alpha Team's failure. There, Bravo Team manages to locate and capture with ease. However, as the team attempted to return to their extraction vehicle, the UH-64 Hawk is destroyed by ACS forces reinforcing the town, sending the entire place into lockdown. In order to get Bravo Team and he HVT out of the town, Stalker Six with the assistance of element's of the 12th Cavalry Regiment and Combat Aviation Brigade, Stalker Six manages to provide enough support in the city for Bravo Team and the HVT to escape the town.