Takamo Universe - The Five Galaxies

Preparations for the Battles of the Frontiers  Western Front The Battle of Lombran Nebula (2699) was a battle on the Western Front during the Emperor’s War. The fleets and armies of the Union of Planets, in response to a Naplian buildup in the Great Desert Rift, devised a plan to conduct an offensive through the Lombran Nebula and the Lower Kalita Starfields into the Naplian held regions of the Great Desert Rift. The Naplians had their own plans for an attack in the north through the Starsystems of Orta, and the United Consortium, then hooking right and across the northern border of Union of Planets, supplemented with attacks through the Lombran Nebula to prevent the Union of Planets from transferring units to the greater threat in the north. The United Consortium United Consortium military planning assumed that the other Human powers would uphold United Consortium neutrality by expelling any invader. The possibility that the war in Audria might lead to a Naplia...

Success Naplian Emperor Ronal Bonate faced the new millennium, according to the Terran calendar) with a sense of accomplishment. Operation Danzha had split Tanaka's force in two, to say nothing of the drubbing Bonate had given the sheresh Admiral Ergen. Terran Admiral Reese's command, the 31st Fleet Group, was cut off and had no alternative but to continue on to the Outland Colonies, which would be considerably smaller by the time he arrived. Admiral Lombran in the Outland Colonies had impressively turned the Naplian demonstration into a full-on invasion that was steadily pushing the Outlanders eastward. Bonate's vanguard divisions had reached the eastern frontier of Terra, completely severing the Terrans from their northern colonial empires. More importantly, the Terrans were cut off from the Grand Alliance. Even Co-Emperor Benaltep had sent a grudging communique of congratulations. Adding to his satisfaction was the mountain of serjaum that his forces had secu...

Open Secret “Danzha” is the Ffawe term for a lunging sword thrust past an opponent ending in a slashing movement that cuts the target from behind as the swordsman angles down and pulls the blade inward. The codename of the operation told Bonate’s subordinates precisely what he planned to do to the Terrans.  Downward Cut Not realizing that the Naplian drive on Outland Colonies was a feint, Admiral Reese halted his forward progress toward the Outland Colonies as ordered but, vacillating between obeying Tanaka’s directive and plunging forward to save the Outlanders, he did not turn back for a full week. As the 31st Fleet Group paused at Donovan's Rest, Bonate’s main force got underway, angling back to the southwest. The movement brought the Naplians into contact with the eastern pickets of Admiral Ergen’s task force, driving in his right flank. Reminding Ergen in a very tangible way of his mentor, Admiral Golen’s favorite saying, “Accept that Bonate is al...

Northern Front On the 22nd of September, 2699 (Terran Standard Calendar) Bonate signaled the code word "Danzha" to all of his starship divisions. Operation Twirling Blade (In Ffawe, “Gelfan”) began when Naplian forces drove deeper into the frontier provinces of the Starsystems of Orta virtually unopposed. The naval force that Bonate had used to bait the Terran 31st Fleet Group launched its feint offensive into the Outland Colonies, drawing the Terrans farther north and east. In the same week, orbital jump divisions from the 7th Flieda (Jump) Division and 22nd Rieda (Rapid Landing) Division (General Turka Do’Enst Commanding) executed surprise landings on Haja-4 cityworld and the Amerton provincial capitol world Demmero-3 in the Union of Planets. The orbital forts of Embran, a Dyson swarm of deep space fortresses intended to thwart an invasion of the starsystem, proved to be a massive waste of resources. Naplian fireships demolished principal fortifications while res...

Olympus Mons News Service  September 21st, 2699  Red Sands, Mars      Admittedly disturbed by the news from the Northwestern Frontier, President Saitois hurrying her aboard the navy cruiser Ahmad Yani after scrapping plans for a more ceremonious landing at the New Annapolis Starbase in order to meet with the War Cabinet at Whitehook Stardrome in the event of renewed Naplian aggression.       The War Cabinet is awaiting the arrival of the president at Whitehook early tomorrow to brief him on the latest developments. Mr. Saito plans to study the War Cabinet reports while traveling to Camp Trevor in the Tharsis Uplands. After debarking from the Ahmad Yani at about 8 a.m. Olympus time zone (12 p.m. Eastern time zone - Earth) the president will first meet with General Andrew Watsal , his military attache, and Rear Admiral Russell Vess, the presidential physician. He is expected to stop long enough to hold a brief vid-conference wit...

Surprise! “To defeat Bonate, you have to accept that he is always one step ahead of you.” Admiral Ergen recalled his mentor’s advice as the alerts from his eastern pickets told him of that Bonate’s main force was smashing into his right flank.  Bonate’s Fleet Group had hooked around the right flank of the Terrans with the intention of capturing Dyla starsystem and then push directly east towards the Outland Colonies frontier. He did not need to defeat the Terrans, and he had no intention of squandering his strength in a decades-long campaign to snuff out the Terrans. Not yet. First, he would cut them off from their colonial allies and the despicable Briddarri. The Grissan Nast vanguard pushed into Dyla starsystem during a week-long fight that destroyed a significant part of Ergen’s cruiser force. By the end of the second week, Bonate’s ground forces had acquired most of the crucial surface objectives and the 842nd Dragge Division, supported by the surviving dreadnau...

Briddarri Dreadnaught Briddarri Battleship Briddarri Cruiser Briddarri Frigate Admiral Ergen Briddarri Admiral Ergen, who had linked up with Tanaka’s main force in late 2698, expected that he would have a minor role in the battle when Bonate’s main force advanced to Akmela. The thirteen starship divisions under his command formed the easternmost section of the allied line arcing southeast to the Dyla Starsystem. The Royal Briddarri Navy, pressed as it was on all fronts, had given Ergen’s distant force a low priority for starship and most notably ground armies, anti-aircraft batteries, anti-starship artillery, and air support. Of his thirteen divisions, two were reservist divisions and another was 523rd Iesian Cruiser Division, equipped with antiquated “Clipper” cruisers. Considering their training and equipment, they had to cover a long front and formed a weak point of the Terran defense system. This stemmed from the Terran High Command's belief ...