Fallen Grace - Printable Version

She let out a breath.

"It's simple. Operation Fallen Grace. Sometime ago, the President was contacted by the current head of the Royal Navy's ONI - Lelouch D'aramis. While I don't know why, he's decided to turn against King Charles. Apparently convincing both President Connors, and Director Belka. The operation involves a deep strike into the gallic core systems, an attack on a valor, and the attack on King Charles himself. To ensure the Republic wouldn't be double crossed, the President secured a hostage from D'aramis, as well as the Royal Navy's operation codes for the strike window."

Maria looked down, and took a deep breath. It was a bit hard to believe. She wasn't trying to be convincing. There was no spin on the information. Thats just what it was.

Extract from intelligence report by Agent Sage

It has been two days since we arrived in Gallia under the hospitality of Logarus' Unione Corse. Thionville, their easternmost base is cramped yet discreet, and provides a suitable basing point for my sorties further into Gallia.
So far I have concentrated on Lorraine, several routes to the core Gallic worlds, and the planned areas of the operation's strikes.

Lorraine, despite being rather cut off from the rest of the Navy, is quite the fortress. The lanes (already quite formidable themselves) in the north of the system also have a battleship and its complement stationed to protect the system.

The safest route to the Core would be through Council space.
The Champagne system is well-defended, with a Corse base to fall back to if needs be. Heading through another Council system, Artois - defended by an Alsace class battleship - would bring us to Picardy.

From there, we can easily head to the capital or the contested Burgundy system. Bourbon Base is a fallback point here, away from the heavy entrenchment of the Navy and Council near Macon.
Interestingly, I found a useful spot for interdicting cargo for any future raiding parties.

A direct return from Burgundy to Lorraine may be difficult due to what appears to be a launching point for the Maltese. We encountered them in Omicron-80 as expected, but I did not realise they'd set up quite so well.

To the south of Burgundy is Dauphine, where the Royalists have holed up following the Council's flight south. Some lanes are unguarded, but the gates are watched. There is a dust cloud to the north-east that we can use to escape to Franche-Compte, and then back to Burgundy.

For our exit from Gallia, the same way we came in will suffice, without the need to be truly discrete. However, even with Raven, myself, the other Republic agents, the Vanguards own spies and the 141 Task Force... I don't know how we can pull this off and get out alive.