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Grievous University Atrocities Revealed
by Major Kassiopeia
With heavy heart I write this news report onboard the SNC Mercury, bound east, having assumed command of my brigade and the Spartan Expedition Force.
Only a week ago, a Spartan intelligence unit conducting normal operations inside Spartan territorial waters was encountered by a makeshift boat. Upon intercepting the vessel, the two passengers of it, whose name shall remain withheld for the time being for their own security, declared their desire to defect to the Spartan Federation. With them was a wealth of damning evidence of actions inside University bases that are in violation of everything from the UN Charter to common sense of decency.
[Images of drones and even normal citizens being subject to testing Doktor Mengele would be envious of, including extreme temperatures, electric shocks, consummation of corrosive substances, etc. Also included is footage of horribly malformed humans, apparently victims of heavyhanded and primitive experiments in genetic engineering.]
Faced with this evidence, the Spartan Junta has pursued the matter with University Base, demanding that their activity be ceased and inspectors from all factions be allowed access to their facilities to ensure that this has indeed taken place. These demands, based on a wholesome sense of the importance of human rights, have fallen on deaf ears.
After this diplomatic crisis had broiled for some time, the Junta also came to the conclusion that the Merchant Exchange situated in the very base of University Base has been posing a major threat to the Spartan economoy and through that Sparta's sovereignity. In a speech held before the Junta, Lieutenant Colonel Maniac said that:
"The Merchant Exchange has only been constructed a year ago, and already the University is flooding our markets with their cheap and decadent products. Already our Helots are being corrupted by their cultural and economic imperialism. If we don’t defend ourselves, it would only be a matter of time before we were forced to become minions of Zakharov's brutal amoral society."
The statement was met with a storm of rousing applause.
It is therefore that, with reluctance, the Spartan Federation considers as of Mission Year 2151 the University of Planet its foe and opponent in vendetta and war. Offensive operations will be initiated immediately.
A declaration of war has been delivered to the University ambassador to Sparta yesterday, who was then allowed to return to her homeland with her staff.
Intelligence data suggests that several University bases have immediately initiated the construction of Perimeter Defences after this occurred, implying that they are well aware of our intentions and have taken them seriously. The University administration has no intent to capitulate, however.
Added a few hours later:
To report on the actual war actions taken a few hours ago, The Phalanx has its own war correspondant, Lieutenant Isela Grosskreutz from the Ministry of Information. Due to heavy electronical jamming and scarce resources, the Lieutenant is forced to communicate text-only. Her first report to us follows.
Operation Arcadia Initiated by Spartan Expedition Force
by Lieutenant Grosskreutz
Earlier today the Spartan Expedition Force, SEF, approached a piece of University shoreline onboard the transport unit SNC Mercury. On the Mercury to lead the assault was Major Kassiopeia. The operation to invade University territory to put an end to the ongoing atrocities and hostilities was codenamed "Arcadia".
The vessel lowered anchor several dozens of meters before the shoreline and the actual expedition force was sent to the land by manner of special landing boats. The SEF had prepared for a brutal landfall and was prepade for a prolonged battle from the moment they would disembark, but the coastal area was, much to everyone's surprise, found empty of any University activity. The Major confirmed one last time the Junta's decision to break the Treaty of Friendship with the University of Planet.
Then with careful and reserved actions the SEF then established itself on the landing zone. I can not divulge their entire strengths or abilities here, but I can tell you as I type this that several units were armed with particle impactors and that most of the SEF was a mobile force using rover and speeder chassis. This was because the actual target of the landing was a hundred or so kilometers further inland: University Base.
The decision to assault University Base was an obvious one after some consideration, Major Kassiopeia told me when I had the opportunity to ask him about it after the initial operations were over. It was relatively close to Spartan territory and thus ideal for a quick offensive operation, and above all, it was the home of the current University administration, the toppling of which was the primary objective of the Expedition Force.
But I get ahead of things. After securing a foothold on the landing zone most of the Expedition Force set forward up the rolling hills and plains to engage the defenders of University Base. As its white citadels appeared into our view after a few hours of undisturbed travel, the entire SEF was again surprised to discover that there was no resistance at all. The rudimentary perimeter defence system was apparently meant only for staving off hordes of mindworms, not a well-balanced military machine. Only a few automated guns opened fire, but no Spartan soldiers were injured in this nominal first battle operation.
As we continued on towards central University Base, having penetrated the environmental isolation hub of it, groups of people started to emerge to the streets, waving hands at us and cheering. The streets got so cramped that our assault ground to a halt, and the commanding officers were starting to wonder if this was some sort of cowardly ploy by the University military. When I myself descended from the rover I was travelling in to talk with the University citizens, I was told that we were being greeted as liberators, a reaction we hadn't quite expected but had suspected all along despite the propaganda broadcast and netflashes we had received from the UoP.
Apparently, as several of our intel and political analysts had postulated, the University is in fact being governed by a small academic elite, numbering only a meagre three to five percent of the entire population. This almost infinitesimally small minority had, with its control over the armed forces and simple commodities such as water and food, subjugated the massive working classes under its control. This included businessmen, simple drones, and even academics of the humanities and environmental scientists who were of the ecologially friendly, dare I say Gaian, persuasion.
And so after installing a few loudspeaker to kindly ask the masses to give way, we proceeded towards the University main heaquarters, a large stack of towers dominating the University Base cityscape. Major Kassiopeia's personal rover unit, Shinsengumi, took the lead in the offence as we navigated our way through the streets.
A few hundred meters before the headquarters there was not enough room for the speeders to maneuvre, and the Major saw it best to emit from them and proceed to the building complex on foot. The impact guns of the rovers were mostly detached to create heavy weapons platforms that could be carried and operated by a handful of men - a Spartan innovation that allows great flexibility in combat operations, especially in urban environments.
As the men of the Shinsengumi approached the main doors of the headquarters, bustling and loud sounds were heard from within. The brigade took positions in the nick of time as a barrage of bullets shattered the glass walls and doors. Simultaniously intel reports of the entire University administration fleeing the base started to leak in. Shinsengumi promptly attacked the headquarters building and eliminated all resistance.
Later studying and interviewing has revealed that this resistance was set up by a University militia, an arm of the UoP armed forces, which is loyal to Zakharov and his cronies to the point of fanaticism. The main military arm of the University has already surrendered to the SEF, and only this rogue militia remains.
The takeover of the University HQ building was the only major combat event of this operation so far. But that will happen after this? Details are not divulged for obvious reasons, but Major Kassiopeia had this to say:
"The base formerly known as University Base will from now on be called Arcadia University. This name was suggested to me by a citizen, and it is meant to symbolize new hope for the local people, the Arcadians. Arcadia refers not only to an actual locale in Greece but to a symbolic place of idyllic paradise, and its Greek roots are greatly appreciated as a to our direction.
The current plans for Arcadia University are to establish a provisional government here, which can preside over the rebuilding of the Arcadian faction after we have liberated it from Zakharovian yoke.
I am personally taking over as Governor General of the faction for now, which will from this day be known as "Arcadia", as opposed to the now obsolote "University of Planet". The UoP is now nothing but a group of pompous despotic academicians and their armed forces.
Although I will continue in my former duties as Senior Diplomatic Officer as well. I have discussed with representatives of the common Arcadians, the 97 percent of them, and they have lauded our actions and given their support to the Federation until Zakharov and his henchmen have been completely ousted. Then a democratic process may elect a new, ethical and moral administration for the Arcadian faction.
I am certain that the thoughts of all Spartans are with the Arcadians, who have suffered under the ruthless University administration. Yet the end to their misery is near, and I'm sure there is also great joy for the Arcadians already set free in Arcadia University. I've already heard f massive fleeing taking place in other UoP-controlled bases, as Arcadians try to make their way to Spartan-controlled territory."
by Major Kassiopeia
With heavy heart I write this news report onboard the SNC Mercury, bound east, having assumed command of my brigade and the Spartan Expedition Force.
Only a week ago, a Spartan intelligence unit conducting normal operations inside Spartan territorial waters was encountered by a makeshift boat. Upon intercepting the vessel, the two passengers of it, whose name shall remain withheld for the time being for their own security, declared their desire to defect to the Spartan Federation. With them was a wealth of damning evidence of actions inside University bases that are in violation of everything from the UN Charter to common sense of decency.
[Images of drones and even normal citizens being subject to testing Doktor Mengele would be envious of, including extreme temperatures, electric shocks, consummation of corrosive substances, etc. Also included is footage of horribly malformed humans, apparently victims of heavyhanded and primitive experiments in genetic engineering.]
Faced with this evidence, the Spartan Junta has pursued the matter with University Base, demanding that their activity be ceased and inspectors from all factions be allowed access to their facilities to ensure that this has indeed taken place. These demands, based on a wholesome sense of the importance of human rights, have fallen on deaf ears.
After this diplomatic crisis had broiled for some time, the Junta also came to the conclusion that the Merchant Exchange situated in the very base of University Base has been posing a major threat to the Spartan economoy and through that Sparta's sovereignity. In a speech held before the Junta, Lieutenant Colonel Maniac said that:
"The Merchant Exchange has only been constructed a year ago, and already the University is flooding our markets with their cheap and decadent products. Already our Helots are being corrupted by their cultural and economic imperialism. If we don’t defend ourselves, it would only be a matter of time before we were forced to become minions of Zakharov's brutal amoral society."
The statement was met with a storm of rousing applause.
It is therefore that, with reluctance, the Spartan Federation considers as of Mission Year 2151 the University of Planet its foe and opponent in vendetta and war. Offensive operations will be initiated immediately.
A declaration of war has been delivered to the University ambassador to Sparta yesterday, who was then allowed to return to her homeland with her staff.
Intelligence data suggests that several University bases have immediately initiated the construction of Perimeter Defences after this occurred, implying that they are well aware of our intentions and have taken them seriously. The University administration has no intent to capitulate, however.
Added a few hours later:
To report on the actual war actions taken a few hours ago, The Phalanx has its own war correspondant, Lieutenant Isela Grosskreutz from the Ministry of Information. Due to heavy electronical jamming and scarce resources, the Lieutenant is forced to communicate text-only. Her first report to us follows.
Operation Arcadia Initiated by Spartan Expedition Force
by Lieutenant Grosskreutz
Earlier today the Spartan Expedition Force, SEF, approached a piece of University shoreline onboard the transport unit SNC Mercury. On the Mercury to lead the assault was Major Kassiopeia. The operation to invade University territory to put an end to the ongoing atrocities and hostilities was codenamed "Arcadia".
The vessel lowered anchor several dozens of meters before the shoreline and the actual expedition force was sent to the land by manner of special landing boats. The SEF had prepared for a brutal landfall and was prepade for a prolonged battle from the moment they would disembark, but the coastal area was, much to everyone's surprise, found empty of any University activity. The Major confirmed one last time the Junta's decision to break the Treaty of Friendship with the University of Planet.
Then with careful and reserved actions the SEF then established itself on the landing zone. I can not divulge their entire strengths or abilities here, but I can tell you as I type this that several units were armed with particle impactors and that most of the SEF was a mobile force using rover and speeder chassis. This was because the actual target of the landing was a hundred or so kilometers further inland: University Base.
The decision to assault University Base was an obvious one after some consideration, Major Kassiopeia told me when I had the opportunity to ask him about it after the initial operations were over. It was relatively close to Spartan territory and thus ideal for a quick offensive operation, and above all, it was the home of the current University administration, the toppling of which was the primary objective of the Expedition Force.
But I get ahead of things. After securing a foothold on the landing zone most of the Expedition Force set forward up the rolling hills and plains to engage the defenders of University Base. As its white citadels appeared into our view after a few hours of undisturbed travel, the entire SEF was again surprised to discover that there was no resistance at all. The rudimentary perimeter defence system was apparently meant only for staving off hordes of mindworms, not a well-balanced military machine. Only a few automated guns opened fire, but no Spartan soldiers were injured in this nominal first battle operation.
As we continued on towards central University Base, having penetrated the environmental isolation hub of it, groups of people started to emerge to the streets, waving hands at us and cheering. The streets got so cramped that our assault ground to a halt, and the commanding officers were starting to wonder if this was some sort of cowardly ploy by the University military. When I myself descended from the rover I was travelling in to talk with the University citizens, I was told that we were being greeted as liberators, a reaction we hadn't quite expected but had suspected all along despite the propaganda broadcast and netflashes we had received from the UoP.
Apparently, as several of our intel and political analysts had postulated, the University is in fact being governed by a small academic elite, numbering only a meagre three to five percent of the entire population. This almost infinitesimally small minority had, with its control over the armed forces and simple commodities such as water and food, subjugated the massive working classes under its control. This included businessmen, simple drones, and even academics of the humanities and environmental scientists who were of the ecologially friendly, dare I say Gaian, persuasion.
And so after installing a few loudspeaker to kindly ask the masses to give way, we proceeded towards the University main heaquarters, a large stack of towers dominating the University Base cityscape. Major Kassiopeia's personal rover unit, Shinsengumi, took the lead in the offence as we navigated our way through the streets.
A few hundred meters before the headquarters there was not enough room for the speeders to maneuvre, and the Major saw it best to emit from them and proceed to the building complex on foot. The impact guns of the rovers were mostly detached to create heavy weapons platforms that could be carried and operated by a handful of men - a Spartan innovation that allows great flexibility in combat operations, especially in urban environments.
As the men of the Shinsengumi approached the main doors of the headquarters, bustling and loud sounds were heard from within. The brigade took positions in the nick of time as a barrage of bullets shattered the glass walls and doors. Simultaniously intel reports of the entire University administration fleeing the base started to leak in. Shinsengumi promptly attacked the headquarters building and eliminated all resistance.
Later studying and interviewing has revealed that this resistance was set up by a University militia, an arm of the UoP armed forces, which is loyal to Zakharov and his cronies to the point of fanaticism. The main military arm of the University has already surrendered to the SEF, and only this rogue militia remains.
The takeover of the University HQ building was the only major combat event of this operation so far. But that will happen after this? Details are not divulged for obvious reasons, but Major Kassiopeia had this to say:
"The base formerly known as University Base will from now on be called Arcadia University. This name was suggested to me by a citizen, and it is meant to symbolize new hope for the local people, the Arcadians. Arcadia refers not only to an actual locale in Greece but to a symbolic place of idyllic paradise, and its Greek roots are greatly appreciated as a to our direction.
The current plans for Arcadia University are to establish a provisional government here, which can preside over the rebuilding of the Arcadian faction after we have liberated it from Zakharovian yoke.
I am personally taking over as Governor General of the faction for now, which will from this day be known as "Arcadia", as opposed to the now obsolote "University of Planet". The UoP is now nothing but a group of pompous despotic academicians and their armed forces.
Although I will continue in my former duties as Senior Diplomatic Officer as well. I have discussed with representatives of the common Arcadians, the 97 percent of them, and they have lauded our actions and given their support to the Federation until Zakharov and his henchmen have been completely ousted. Then a democratic process may elect a new, ethical and moral administration for the Arcadian faction.
I am certain that the thoughts of all Spartans are with the Arcadians, who have suffered under the ruthless University administration. Yet the end to their misery is near, and I'm sure there is also great joy for the Arcadians already set free in Arcadia University. I've already heard f massive fleeing taking place in other UoP-controlled bases, as Arcadians try to make their way to Spartan-controlled territory."
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