Mission to Callan

## Combatants

United Republic of Orion
Imperium Security Bureau

## Commanders

Governor-General Julio Aosta
Colonel Farran

## Strength

RSS Lion12th Apollonir Battalion

5 Grand Army Agents

ISS Silencer5th Security Garrison

## Casualties

RSS Lion (Heavy Damage)6 Clone Troopers

ISS Silencer300 ISB Agents

> "*I am here to make my last stand to defend what remains of the Imperium, and I will not die before Foxist Traitors!*"
> ― Colonel Farran, 35 P.T.
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The **Mission to Callan** was a Military Operation carried out by the United Republic of Orion's Grand Army to arrest and/or neutralize ISB Colonel Farran's deserted forces holding out in the planet of Callan in the Apollonir Systems.

## **Background**

A few weeks prior to the deployment of Military forces to the Western Apollonir region of the Far North, scrapyard workers on the Magma Moon of Apollo, Chaeron, uncovered an information drive with old documents regarding military operations carried out by the Imperium Security Bureau during the peak of the Laake regime inside one of the scrapped starships.

The small port was given to the local Grand Army Colonel stationed there to oversee the scrapyard, with the military officer discovering a set of secret documents detailing the systematic executions and disappearances of political opposition to the Grand Marshal. The chip was then sent to Regent Enzo Fox in Mars, who immediately visited the former ISB Director Blackwood in the Grand Orion Republic Detention Center. After this visit, the Orian Military would learn of a secret military black site hidden in the backwater planet of Callan in the Western Apollonir.

In order to flush out the deserted forces in hiding and to gather intel for a potential assault, Regent Enzo ordered Grand Army Special Agent Kaya Ozgur and his squad to land on the planet under the disguise of being Imperial Army soldiers being sent to deliver a message to Farran from Laake.

## **The Mission**

Ozgur and his team landed from orbit a few kilometers out of the storm circle that covered the ISB black site, cautiously approaching the compound and later coming across a patrol of ISB Agents carrying out an execution. Giving their credentials as soldiers of the Imperial Military, they were escorted to the base in order to meet with Colonel Farran.

Kaya and the rest quickly witnessed the horrors of the labor camp, seeing political prisoners being executed around them, before being taken aboard the bridge of the warship ISS Silencer which hovered over the compound. Meeting with Farran, the Special Agent attempted to communicate a false message regarding a battle in Sol against a Foxite rebellion led by Enzo Fox. It's quickly revealed however, that Farran was already aware of Laake's downfall by Quisling's coup d' etat and then proceeded to take Ozgur and his team as prisoners before organizing a full preparation of the site in the case more Orian forces arrived to save the team.

Inside his cell, Kaya used his signal device to send out an S.O.S to the nearby Tiger Group that was already prepared to swoop in for battle. With the emergency signal reaching Governor-General Julio Aosta, the Aura-Class Battleship RSS Lion was deployed in order to conduct a raid on the black site. Aosta attempted to continue the ruse to deceive Farran, but his plan quickly broke down when the ISB Colonel used his Metahuman weather ability to heavily damage Lion with lightning, shooting it down from the sky in the process. With a battalion of Clone Troopers already surrounding the compound, Farran retreated to his office where he was visited by the Director of Darkwater, Otto Laake. After a short discussion, ending with Laake sparing Farran for his cowardice, the latter escaped with the former through a portal.

Back on the ground, the battalion made quick work of the outgunned and outnumbered ISB Agents, killing all of them. With Ozgur and his squad retrieved from their cell and with Farran nowhere to be found, Aosta ordered for an immediate retreat from the base. Aboard their escape battleship, the RSS Tiger, the Governor-General ordered an E-99 warhead be fired from the Tiger. The ISS Silencer and the black site were completely annihilated and the Orian forces then retreated to Apollo, ending the mission.

## **Aftermath**

After the Mission to Callan was officially finished by orders of the Joint Chiefs of the Military, the RSS Lion was sent to the Apollo Shipyards for immediate reparations from the heavy damage recieved during the operation. Callan was thoroughly searched by the Grand Army, who stumbled upon a small Vortex outpost they completely wiped out. Later, Colonel Farran would be officially be accepted into Darkwater with a pardon from the Regent himself, being made one of the Generals of the organization. The ISB documents of the operations carried out would be heavily redacted but nonetheless handed out to the public, documents regarding the Callan black site however were kept confidential by orders of the Regent.