Mission to the Demus Shipyards

Commanders| * Captain Jack Roberts
* Commander Sam Reed
* Commander Craz

Strength| * 1 Eclipse-class Science Corvette
	+ RWI Eclipse
* 1 GDA Freighter (stolen)
* 1 GDA Destroyer (stolen) (late battle)
* 2 GDA Destroyers
* Many GDA Falcon-class Fighters
* Many GDA Infantry Drones

Casualties| * 1 GDA Freighter
* Many GDA Infantry Drones

The **Mission to the Demus Shipyards**, or the **Infiltration of the Demus Shipyards**, was an operation undertaken by the crew of the RWI *Eclipse* during the Green Drone War. Their objective was to send a stealth strike team to the GDA (Green Drone Armada) shipyard facility and hijack a GDA Destroyer to bring back to RWI (Red Wood Industries) Command to reverse-engineer the Atlas Superlaser technology carried by the destroyer.

## History

### Prelude

#### Conflict on Demus

During the Green Drone War of 2733, a fleet led by the RWI *Valiant* conducted a battle that resulted in RWI stealing the Artifact, an ancient monolith that was the source of the GDA's power, from their base on Ravcor. After retreating to the planet Demus, the GDA attempted to retake the Artifact, but it was safely evacuated by the reinforcing RWI *Discovery* in the ensuing battle, which left the system to RWI's capital world of Icarus. Unfortunately, the *Valiant* crashed on Demus and the only remaining ship, the RWI *Eclipse*, a prototype science corvette under the command of Captain Jack Roberts, was trapped on the surface by the GDA fleet.

The crew of the *Eclipse* constructed a small base using wreckage from the *Valiant* and fended off multiple attacks from GDA Scourge-class Carriers and Falcon-class Fighters over the next few days. The crew soon attacked a GDA outpost with several rovers and the *Eclipse*, where they obtained the coordinates for the shipyards in orbit. Captain Roberts devised a plan to escape the planet and infiltrate the shipyards to steal a GDA Destroyer and bring it back to Icarus so that RWI's engineers could research the Atlas Superlaser. After a heated battle, the *Eclipse* evacuated into orbit.

### The Battle

#### Arriving at the Refueling Station

The *Eclipse* flew into an asteroid cluster, only to discover an abandoned refueling depot hidden within, which was guarded by multiple GDA fighters. The crew quickly destroyed all the fighters in order to prevent them from calling for reinforcements and giving away their location. Docked to the station was a GDA Freighter, stolen from CNL (Crazy North Logistics). After the crew explored the facility and looted its supplies, Roberts took his XO, Commander Sam Reed, and two crew members, Lieutenants Castle and Bashful, aboard the freighter and infiltrated the nearby shipyards.

#### Stealing the Destroyer

While the strike team was infiltrating the station, Roberts' other XO, Commander Craz of CNL, worked with the rest of the *Eclipse* crew to modify the *Eclipse* with a long-range rotor gun to help cover the strike team if they could get the destroyer out successfully. They also refueled and repaired the ship using fuel and supplies they found aboard the depot.

Meanwhile, the stealth team was successful in sneaking aboard the shipyards, until they were noticed by two GDA Infantry drones that sounded the alarm. Despite this, they made their way to a control room and then found their way to a fully-completed destroyer. While Reed boarded it and began the decryption process to undock the ship, Roberts, Castle, and Bash held off several squads of GDA troops using a modified cargo shuttle pod found by Bash. The *Eclipse* crew also made their way to the station to support them, using the rotor gun to take out the station's gun emplacements from afar. Although the station's defenses and fighter squadron destroyed the stolen freighter and heavily damaged the *Eclipse* and the stolen destroyer, they were able to escape the planet just as GDA reinforcements led by The Commander arrived in the system. He dispatched the two other destroyers docked at the station to pursue the RWI crew and prevent them from getting back to Icarus.

### Aftermath

The *Eclipse* crew and the destroyer crew hid out above an unidentified desert planet, where they found a destroyed CNL carrier in an asteroid field. GDA warships continued to attack them, but with the timely arrival of RWI reinforcements led by Captain Jonathan Hunter (former CO of the RWI *Valiant*), they were able to make it to Icarus and turn over the stolen destroyer to the Engineering Division. RWI soon attacked the GDA shipyards in force, either capturing or destroying them before returning to Icarus to fend off the GDA's invasion forces. The Atlas Laser was researched heavily and reverse-engineered. Two Atlas Lasers were implemented onto the newest Daedalus-class Battleship, the RWI *Zheng-He*, due to its specialized purposes with the Intelligence Division. This allowed RWI to match the GDA's firepower in the upcoming battles. RWI also implemented newer shields on all their starships to help defend them against the GDA's own lasers.