ITN Kaze no Tani
Shokaku Class Carrier
CMDT Ayako Katamura
Operation: Divine Destiny
Taiyou Hyperspace Gate

The operation began quite swiftly, the hyperspace gate flashed brightly as another hundred ships flashed through, a majority of them were supply ships, but they added to the already sheer number of Taiyou ships in the area, already thousands of ships had assembled beyond the gate, a staging area that would mark the first days of this war. Taiyou ships would be seen as far as the eye could see. Shogun Battleships, alongside their Yamato cousins, positioned themselves to drive into the heart of the Sol system. But it would take time. Each Taiyou ship would be bristling with guns, the pride and joy of the Imperial Navy, accentuated with clean lines and a very traditional, yet futuristic Japanese design. Enemies need tread carefully when the Imperial Navy is afoot.

The Kaze no Tani, an ugly Taiyou ship, cruised at breakneck speed through the Imperial foothold, Commandant Ayako Katamura would be staring outwards, at the sea of Taiyou ships that were coming in through the Hyperspace gate. Turning to face the star charts, she would shake her head quietly.

"We need to start seizing worlds to ease the burden on our logistics, we cannot ship weapons and armor from the Empire and hope to maintain this offensive, we're going to have to rely on our own conquered worlds to keep this war machine chugging forward. I am confident the Shogun will approve of my tactics. We need to maintain a supply chain linking various worlds here and here...." She said as she loomed over the command table.

"Planet hopping is the Empire's best bet in taking down the Coalition, and pushing them to their holes, where we will crush them." She said, grinning as she adjusted her uniform.

"I want a report on my desk by the end of the night, I want the Shogun's blessing to move forward with my fleet." She added, her Lieutenant nodding. "I will carry out your order, and inform the Shogun upon his return that he is to approve your plan." He said, nodding and then he went back to his station.

All in all everything was quiet in the Taiyou foothold. Every day, several thousand ships would come through the Hyperspace Gate, most of them logistical vessels, some of them however, were warships, to prepare the foothold to drive into the heart of Coalition space, but first.

Their directive was to seize Terra.

RHB Wrecked Dreams(-Transmitting Transponder Code: ITN Higashi No Eden-)
Stolen Agano Class Light Cruiser
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Operation: Long Haul
Taiyou Hyperspace Gate



The Captain of the Stolen Agano Class Cruiser, Wrecked Dreams, was a squat, tanned man. He came from a world in the fringes of the galaxy, under twin binary stars, his people lived and died. His strong brow, and crooked nose was a defining feature about him, coupled with his striking blue eyes and deep, black hair. He stood in a large overcoat, one hand on an ornate cane as he watched the viewscreen and listened to the comms traffic. His crew around him were frantically keeping themselves clear. They were surrounded by ITN ships on all sides.

At the previous checkpoint they had slipped in with the mass supply run, transmitting their false codes under the "ITN Higashi No Eden" Which was a Missile Cruiser lost over a hundred years ago and listed as MIA.

The heavily modified ship blended in perfectly. Once they got a lock on command ships in the area, and could crack the Imperial encryption codes once again, they would begin transmitting back to the Everlasting, which was sitting a few systems away with the rest of the Brigade, posied for a quick insertion near an old hyperspace gate that was listed as derelict. Instead of cleaning it up, it was left there to decay. The Brigade used it often, modified it to act as a slingshot to catapult their fleet anywhere within a resonable range that they wanted, solar alignments permitting.

The first leg of Operation: Long Haul was complete as they settled into a holding pattern with the rest of the countless ITN supply ships. Soon they'd have what they wanted, and the entire air aboard the bridge was buzzing with anticipation.

RHB Wrecked Dreams(-Transmitting Transponder Code: ITN Higashi No Eden-)
Stolen Agano Class Light Cruiser
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Operation: Long Haul(Phase II)
Taiyou Hyperspace Gate

The bridge was a hive of activity. Comms traffic flooded into the small space, and extra crewman had been called up to monitor it. There were wires and taps and recording devices strewn about, all conected to the central Comms Console, which was constantly streaming live traffic to the Combat Control Room on the Everlasting.

They had heard the news, about the attacks on the Orbital Defense Grid. Things were going as predicted. Captain Maynard of the Wrecked Dreams was pleased with his crew, "Perhaps a 1.5% raise in hauls for the crew... I'll talk to the Cap'n about it, how do you like the sound of that?!?"

A loud cheer rose throughout the ship. The Cap'n would give them their raise. Without them, none of this would be possible. They continued streaming data, keeping their waltz with the rest of the supply ships floating around the Hyperspace Gate. Slowly but surely they made their way away from the pack, and towards Sol itself, the inner core. They would drop the ITN Transponder Code halfway through and keep themselves off the grid completely. It would make monitoring traffic more difficult, but they would just be one more civilian merchant ship trying to escape the ravages of war.

Operation: Long Haul Phase III was in affect.


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RHB Mass Division(-Transmitting Transponder Code: CNS Harriet Liebman -)
Stolen Farriday Class Battleship
1st Red Landing Group
Operation: Long Haul Phase III
Location: Uknown


Their prize loomed ahead of them. Explosions rocked around, and they let the auto turrets run to pick off any 'enemy' ships that strayed too close. Too close to victory. Too close to the completion. They were blending in as one of the many ships called to aid the Terran Orbital Defense Grid, and they posed quite well for a ship that was listed KIA halfway across the galaxy. The entire ship was geared up. Two Squads of Mechanized suits, outfitted with Hull Cutters. The special Chainsaw-esque weapons were made with hardened teeth, bent for one goal: Slicing into the outer hull of Capital ships and lower. Their EMP emitters prevented them from more advanced functions. That, and they were all stolen, salvaged, scrounged and scrapped older models of the newer stuff the UCON, Aschen, and Taiyou employed. The Red Hand Members would argue that it was the pilot that made the suit, and they were about to prove just that.

It was closing in on time.

Ex-Corporal Duncan McCoullough sat in the cockpit of "Dirty Grey" His MICA-Evo. A large pipe hung loosely from his lips, the smoke clouding around since the artifical gravity didn't have too much pull on it. The rest of "Battering Squad" was playing cards on an overturned, emptied crate that once held the massive Hull Cutter that gleamed on his mech's left arm. Today was a good day for some other guy to die. And there would be death...

ITN Kabuki
Shogun class Battleship
CMDT Kenji Tenzai
Operation: Divine Destiny


"I've got several pings on the scanner systems here, the Transponder Code is the Hitagashi no Eden, a code that was locked out years ago." The Young Lieutenant, by the name of Shiro Kobayashi would say. Eyes on the prize for a moment. Bringing his eyes to the Commandant he spoke. "What are your orders, sir?"

"Break from the formation, intercept and engage, I want them destroyed before they compromise our location to the Coalition." He ordered before nodding to several Helm officers whom were all in charge of where the ship was going. This was evidenced by the massive Shogun class Battleship, which was easily twice the size of her older, Yamato counterpart would break from the formation of ships.

"Main engines full speed, forward guns, burst fire, take them out." The Commandant ordered as the Shogun Class moved into position, it's engines engaged, the Hitagashi no Eden wouldn't stand a chance, as the Taiyou Empire locked their transponder codes out whenever they went MIA, it was heartless but it was to protect the collective. All 5.6km of Shogun Battleship moved to engage.

"Target and fire." The Commandant ordered.

Keyboard clacking and the relaying of targeting information would soon be given. The forward guns on the Kabuki would spring to life, slowly and surely rotating on it's turret, cannons subtly adjusting to bear aim, Shogun Battleships were meant for range, and surely it would catch this enemy by surprise.

It was over in seconds, a one-two-three punch from the main guns sent three massive pulses of wave-force energy searing towards the enemy ship. It didn't matter if was a civilian ship, the Taiyou didn't care. Three Blue pulses of energy. Each carrying the equivalent of ten category five hurricanes, each more then capable of punching through the hull of even those of a battleship class. Each pulse seared at the speed of light, targeted for the Wrecked Dreams. Even as they dropped the transponder code, they were still noticed by one Commandant, and he was determined to catch them.

ITN Kaze no Tani
CMDT Ayako Katamura
Shogun Jyunichi
Operation: Divine Destiny
Launch Countdown - 5 Hours

"Are we set for launch, Commandant?" Shogun Jyunichi asked as he stood from his seat on the bridge of this mighty Shokaku class Carrier. Ayako would bow deeply, and show her respect to the Shogun.

"Twenty Five thousand ships, ten thousand of them supply are ready for departure to the Sol system to coordinate with Operation Looming Glacier, we await your order." She said as she bowed deeply to the man.

"I will relay the order to the fleet, so we can launch and arrive when the Aschen carry out operation Looming Glacier." She said and then bowed one last time, promptly ducking out of the Command section of the bridge, and returning to her own section to relay the orders.

"Set the coordinates and spool up the hyper-drive systems, broadcast coordinates to all the ships in the fleet, we enter Hyperspace in five hours."

And with that, the clock was set.