Cogoria
TNPer
The Planetary Militias of the small Epoch Charismites were pouring out of the landing ships, counter attacking Epsilon Eradu IV, a planet taken in the first 6 months of the war. The fleet pickets had miscalculated, the meteor belt had indeed rear echelons of the Expansion Fleet were paying a steep price in blood and the supply lines of the 3rd Expansion Fleet were now at risk.
In orbit fortresses burned and began to fall into the atmosphere as on the ground Charismite legions smashed into the Caillte reserve Levies. The Levies lacked the gear of the Assault Brigades of the Caillte Army, but the Levies had the benefit of numbers, the cost of the advances mattered little to the Caillte defenders, as they marched over the tangled wreckage of their dead. outright attack was the order of the day and the enemy was to be repulsed regardless of any losses. The Charismites warbled their incomprehensible battle cries, songs that made ear drums bleed and weak minds falter. But the Caillte were not weak, their minds were fortresses of fanaticism to the cause, the location of Home would be ascertained, and they would enact their great Return. And anyone who opposed the Return would bleed. The levies in their long coats tramped ever onwards into the maelstrom of gunfire. regiment after regiment was ground into the mud.
Quatermaster General Exon 411 tallied the costs on the lists being produced by his staff, ostensibly a logistics officer he was fighting the war for the planet that became a supply depot the only way he knew how. By calculating cost and expenditure against the gains being made. And so far he was in the black 4 million infantry units had been expended so far but they were of the easily replaceable Levies, the only true loss they had sustained was a cargo barge that had been loaded with equipment for the Assault Brigades off world. A few reports were coming from some of the less farsighted officers requesting permission to use some weapons of similar barges, but they didn't think about what came after the battle they now fought.
In the Charismite Flagship high in orbit, another was carrying out similar calculations and did not like the answers. She was High Priestess of the 90th Charismatic Chantry and she required help to take back her shrine world.
In orbit fortresses burned and began to fall into the atmosphere as on the ground Charismite legions smashed into the Caillte reserve Levies. The Levies lacked the gear of the Assault Brigades of the Caillte Army, but the Levies had the benefit of numbers, the cost of the advances mattered little to the Caillte defenders, as they marched over the tangled wreckage of their dead. outright attack was the order of the day and the enemy was to be repulsed regardless of any losses. The Charismites warbled their incomprehensible battle cries, songs that made ear drums bleed and weak minds falter. But the Caillte were not weak, their minds were fortresses of fanaticism to the cause, the location of Home would be ascertained, and they would enact their great Return. And anyone who opposed the Return would bleed. The levies in their long coats tramped ever onwards into the maelstrom of gunfire. regiment after regiment was ground into the mud.
Quatermaster General Exon 411 tallied the costs on the lists being produced by his staff, ostensibly a logistics officer he was fighting the war for the planet that became a supply depot the only way he knew how. By calculating cost and expenditure against the gains being made. And so far he was in the black 4 million infantry units had been expended so far but they were of the easily replaceable Levies, the only true loss they had sustained was a cargo barge that had been loaded with equipment for the Assault Brigades off world. A few reports were coming from some of the less farsighted officers requesting permission to use some weapons of similar barges, but they didn't think about what came after the battle they now fought.
In the Charismite Flagship high in orbit, another was carrying out similar calculations and did not like the answers. She was High Priestess of the 90th Charismatic Chantry and she required help to take back her shrine world.