DMM Registered Contract

Registered Contract: CZ-SC-08-01

Region:	Jade Falcon Occupation Zone
System:	Antares
Galactic Coordinates:	X: -125.97 Y: 300.44
Planet:	Antares
Capital City:	Antares City
Primary Terrain:	Tropical
Contract Type:	Siege Campaign
Contract Duration:	8 Months (120 Days in REAL TIME)
Employer:	Lyran Alliance in support of the SLDF
Employer Contact:	Ambassador Angus McCleod
Forces Recommended:	A Battalion Strength Detachment
Supporting Forces:	SLDF XI Corps under General Charles Antonescu
Enemy Forces:	1st Falcon Jaegers
Supplement Contracts Offered:	A Combat Campaign
Bounty Per Word:	1,000 C-Bills
Minimum Bounty:	48,000 Word Transcript
Bonus Salvage Bounty Target:	144,000 Word Transcript
Bonus Salvage Category:	Type-B Salvage

PLANETARY DETAILS:
[3050] Of minor strategic importance to the Federated Commonwealth, the world of Antares was only lightly defended by a militia battalion and a series of fortifications constructed by the locals. Clan Jade Falcon's Star League records named Antares as the site of an SLDF replenishment and resupply base, and so the Falcon Khans ordered the base taken at all costs. Gyrfalcon Galaxy landed on Antares, in July 3050, with heavy aerospace support and destroyed the planetary militia's fighters on the ground. The capital, Antares City, fell quickly, despite the militia's valiant effort. The town of Alba proved harder to take.

Unknown to its inhabitants, Alba was situated almost on top of the old Star League base. Because Alba contained the planet's largest water purification plant, the battle there was among the bloodiest of the forth wave. The Falcons, initially reluctant to risk damaging the water purifier by using massed airstrikes, suffered severe casualties, especially the Second Falcon Jaegers. When Khan Crichell's logistics officers informed him that Jumpships could deliver a water purifier from Clan space in two and a half months, Crichell ordered the fighters to bomb the town flat. The stunned survivors watched as the Jade Falcon engineers unearthed the huge Star League base beneath their town.

The Star League-era supplies and the base facility made Antares a valuable prize. When ilKhan Ulric Kerensky forced Clan Jade Falcon to share control of Antares with Clan Steel Viper, he precipitated a brutal series of Trials of Possession for the base which increased the Falcons hatred for their fellow Clan.

EMPLOYER SITUATION REPORT:
This is it, the Star League has put the weight of the Third Army into a new campaign to retake worlds taken by Clan Jade Falcon. The Lyran Alliance will be footing the bill to reinforce the SLDF's XI Corps in a Siege campaign against the elite 1st Falcon Jaegers barricaded in the Star League-era base. They have tried to strike out at the SLDF in a few skirmishes but the SLDF has pulled back from the shear skill and firepower of the clan cluster. The XI Corps is primarily made of Light Horse BattleMech regiments and other non-BattleMech regiments. Other operations will commence along the falcon border during this contract. Once we are successful in the Siege the XI Corps will move on to secondary planetary targets while it is expected that you will defend the planet when the clan sends a counter-force.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
1) Use your heavy and assault hardware to protect the quicker XI Corps units harassing the clanners.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
1) If it remains unlikely that the Jaegers are not going to ask for a Hegira by the contract end date, work with the XI to assault base.