Operation Starlight

*Mutineers* | German Morocco

**Operation Starlight** or also known by its French official name **Plan "*Lumière des étoiles*"** or Plan LE or the **North African Liberation Campaign** was the final and last strategical conflct of the period after the Second Great War in 1947, several months after the German peace treaty and the statemale on the border, prior to the Oslo conference ending the state of uncertainty.
Devastated after the disater of the Battle of the Rock by coastal batteries. The aging Darian's Fleet was not up to the task against modern weaponry and in a concluding for its, the remaning of the fleet was neutralised in the Raid on Algiers. Experimental Anti-Bunker bombs showed devastating results. With that the Exiles military ceased any major operation for the remaining of the war.
By 1947, the surrender of Germany have created situation in Morrocco, where the authority was unsure if they were to surrender to the Western powers or hold out due to the double treaties signed by Marshal Rommel and Chancellor Doetniz respectively. The undersupplied German North African Brigade was the only German forces left in this territory. On the side of the Exiles, while 600,000 troops are still at arms, morale are at all time low, with a massive rate of desertion among the white troops and harsh measures to counteract mutinous activities and desertion in the colonial indigenous forces in unrest by social upheaval and political collapse in the rank of the anxious exiles leaders.

Battle and De Gaulle's Surrender
The Fleet of the Federation began its incursion into the coast of Algeria, reinforced by the Battle Group Clyde of the British Navy began on March 3, 1947. Operation Starlight is underway for a massive naval invasion of the Exiles-held North Africa. Despite the state of alertness, Exiles coastal forts were heavily damaged prior by bomber raids. MARPAC fleet fought a small naval sorties off the coast of Tunis where the remaining cruisers and 1 battleship of the Exiles fleet tried to intercept the MARPAC fleet. Little resistance can be offered in Oran aside from its damaged ships in dock firing from their few operational turrets before it was silenced. Landing by Republican Marines and Naval Riflemen quickly neutralised the batteries, fierce resistance occured on the streets, however were forced to withdraw from the city as a mass mutiny occurred among the Algierian. In Algiers, the underground National Committee for Peace and Democracy seized power after a massive Algerian mutiny and riot broke out in the city, remaining troops under command of General Alphonse Juin withdrew from the city as control of most of the city's infrastrctures lost to the partisans as well as the arrest of the Corps headquarter of the Exiles 1st Corps, however Juin was not able to, as he was shot in his temporary HQ being his house when partisans and commandos seized it.
General Charles de Gaulle gathered remaining forces that have successfully escaped Oran to regroup and start an counter-attack to seize back Oran before the MARPAC could finish loading off its armoured forces. Fierces battle occured over the course of 14 days but a general ceasefire was called and General de Gaulle asked to surrender after news came that the larger formation that escaped Algers have been annihilated, in its retreat by bombers and intercepted by the forces landing in Bougie with its 200,000 strong forces captured or dispersed.

In this hour of our last battle, where the martial courage of our valiant heroes came to a futile ends, we look back at our time, a period which does not exceed the life of a man, France was invaded seven times and practiced seven regimes, because everything hangs in the misfortunes of the people. So many upheavals have accumulated in our public life poisons which are poisoned by our old Gallic propensity for divisions and quarrels. The Third Republic ended in the memory of many, and we in our youthful hearts cried for her salvation in the dictatorship of the military man to purge the evil of anarchy that have taken over our poor fatherland.
No doubt its beginnings seem advantageous. In the midst of the enthusiasm of some and the resignation of others, in the rigor of the order that it imposes, in favor of a dazzling decor and one-sided propaganda, it first takes a a turn of dynamism that contrasts with the anarchy that had preceded it. But it is the destiny of the dictatorship to exaggerate its undertakings. At the end the spring breaks. The grandiose edifice crumbles in misfortune and in blood. The nation finds itself broken, lower than it was before the adventure began, we found ourselves, Frenchmen waging wars against our own countrymen.

There is, moreover, for us, a question of life and death, in the world and in the century in which we are, where the position, the independence and even the existence of our country are at stake. We have to ensure the fate of France in the midst of all the obstacles that stand in its way and that of peace. We have to deploy among our brothers the men what we are able to help our poor and old mother Earth. Let us be lucid enough and strong enough to give ourselves and to observe the rules of national life which tend to unite us when, relentlessly, we are inclined to be divided against ourselves! Our whole history is the alternation of the immense sorrows of a dispersed people, and the fruitful grandeur of a nation once more. All together, sons and daughters of the same mother, we share her sorrows and her successes, we fought for her glory but today lets us not be the defeated, but know well in your heart that France and the French people today are the victors, lets us not delude ourselves to the shallow dogmas of the past, but open your heart the call of the country, All of them are our people, the proud, the brave, the great French people of which we are. What does it matterin the present drama, our differences and our parties. We believe. Help us. Love each other. First, we deserve it. And then, to make the dear great France prosper, we have to, yes, we have to walk hand in hand. These convictions are ours. They don't have a party. They are neither left nor right. They have only one object which is to be useful to the country. Lets us say the last farewell to the past and return to the continent.

Aftermath
In the aftermath of the Armistice of Oran, the MARPAC, itself exhausted of forces, unwilling to pursuit further military campaigns, allowed the forces of the Exiles Military to withdraw from all territories of French North Africa and start the process disarm and accept reconcilation and reeducation to return to the Continent, the Armistice provides for a 3 years period for all remaining Exiles to surrender their weapons and avoid prosecution under the laws of the new North African Republics or the Social Republic on crimes of counter-revolutionary sabotage and high treason. This event occured as the sametime as the Coup in Senegal and the establishment of the semi-state "Republic of Senegal-Gambia" of the Exiles, in the hinterland of Algeria and Mali, the Exiles remnants scattered throughout the region known as the Military Operation Zone, areas that are de-jure under control of the North African Republics but de-facto under control of the numbers of Exiles desert regiments yet to disarm, funded and fueled by their stubborn leaders in Senegal and other tribal interests and new nations in Africa that dread the coming of Communism via the French Army.