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Location: Planet Bjarred, Draconis
Combine
Description:
Garrison Duty
Duration of Contract:
10 Months (75 Days in REAL TIME)
Employer:
Star League Defense Force, Department of the Quartermaster
Employer Contact: Lieutenant
General Kwon Park
Mercenary Forces Recommended:
A Company Strength Detachment
Enemy Forces:
Unknown
Supporting Forces:
1 Trinary of Nova Cats under Star Captain Taegan
(A detachment from the 25th Division of the 15th Corps of the 4th Army of the
SLDF)
Bounty Per Word:
900 c-Bills
Minimum Bounty:
10,000 Word Transcript
Supplement Contracts Offered:
A Territorial Campaign
Bonus Salvage Bounty Target:
N/A
Bonus Salvage Category:
N/A
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PLANETARY DETAILS:
[3052]Bjarred is a rather small world beneath a large hot sun. Though it has
little open water on its surface, huge underground rivers run through
catacombs below the surface. Lush grasses, bushes, and trees cluster above
these subterranean waterways. As a result, vast lines of vegetation
crisscross the planet. Bjarred's barren mountains are rich in minerals and
metals, which attracted the first colonists, an Ozawa scout group, in the
early 23rd century.
Today, the Deep Ores Company is the sole industry on the planet. In contract
with the Metals of the Earth, the Deep Ores Company has kept other companies
away by frequently paying bribes to the planet's Chairman. Because the
Chairman has recently been demanding higher bribes, the CEO of Deep Ores,
Melissa Ozawa (a distant relation of the famous Ozawas) has decided to stop
paying. She believes that her company is now strong enough to stand
competition from any rival that appears on Bjarred.
Mountain bandits often raid Deep Ores' mines and camps. Defending the planet
and the mining concern is a battalion of the 4th Pesht Regulars commanded by
Colonel Brethby Stiverson. Their headquarters are in the capital of Bjarred,
Oasis V.
[3050] During the fighting with Clan Smoke Jaguar in March 3050, the
defending First and Second Bjarred Armoured Regiments took refuge in the
Bird's Roost, a crumbling Castle Brian. The Jaguar's hunted their prey
through the castle's maze of tunnels, and Trinary Striker suffered severe
casualties when part of the castle wall collapsed on top of it. The
survivors of Trinary Striker, along with First Trinary Battle and Binary
Elemental, of the Jaguar Grenadiers, eventually flushed out the defenders
and destroyed them.
[3059] During Operation Bulldog, the possession of Bjarred was decided by
the toss of a coin toss. In bidding to take the world single handedly,
Tai-Sa Katherine Oltion of the Sixth Ghost Regiment, in the service of the
SLDF, stated in combat there are only two elements: skill and chance.
Her opponent, Star Colonel Olivia Drummond of the Nova Cat 189th Striker
Cluster, impressed with the Tai-Sa's bid, agreed that the part of skill had
been cancelled out between them, leaving only chance. Tai-Sa Oltion then
flipped a coin, leaving chance to decide the fate of the world. Star Colonel
Drummond chose "edge", and lost, granting the Bjarred to the SLDF. The Nova
Cat forces were taken as bondsmen, and then freed to defend the world in the
name of the SLDF.
UPDATE: Bird's Roost has been
restored and is home to one of the SLDF's largest depots but when DCMS
forces were rotated offworld, the single unit stationed on planet was
insufficient.
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