Planetfall

[Unseelie]

Segments of Staff Briefings, Marlborough Pile:

On Environmental Suits:

...Of course, there is some question as to whether the Kusari will actually attempt to take the world...If they do, its going to turn into a hell hole incredibly fast. You all know what its like out there for a man with a cracked seal...Nearly every hit will be fatal or debilitating. Those nancy's from London aren't going to be used to the suits, they're going to make mistakes. Thats why we're spreading you all throughout their squads, to nanny them like the virgins they are. Their suits are generally brand new, not worn in at all. That'll end up causing problems, too. You all know what its like, moving in a fresh suit. Add to that the thought that your entire regiment has the same problem, and then imagine you've never worn suits before this month...Its not going to be fun. Your assignments are under your chairs. Get the Londoners used to the suits. Make them sleep in them if necessary. Dismissed.

Fallback Procedures:

...The habitable zones have been divided into three group: Black, Yellow, and Dense. Each Zone has a different retreat procedure. We'll start with Dense Zones. You all know where the dense zones are. The Habitation towers and Colony Domes, where our children and wives and brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents are. These are where we're most interested in preserving life. We display overwhelming force in those areas, or we retreat. We do not engage in seige behaviors, we surrender these zones to the Kusari. They're obligated to treat the civilians as noncoms and with all due respect. Anything else, and the BAF will start delivering MOX bombs to Kusari cities. They know this, and our analysts believe, strongly, that they're going to abide by conventions. Yellow Zones are the Industrial centers. They're to be vented, room by room, as the enemy advances. Artillery and plasma weapons are already being entrenched there. The power systems already in place will allow us to produce withering blasts nearly indefinitely. Capture of the installations will have to be done by small arms fire, or they'll have captured empty ground. Use your own discretion for abandoning these positions, the arms installations wont be reversible without a strong corps of engineers and a great deal of time. Black Zones are last line of defense areas. The toxic outback and Marlborough Core. The Core surrounds the Starport, and is heavily fortified. If we lose the port, we lose the planet, that simple. We expect squads from the Yellow Zones to be forced into the Toxic outback as the yellow are overrun. Those squads are to adopt guerrilla 2 and 5 procedures. We expect the Dense zones to fall early, and to put a large humanitarian strain on the enemy, as they're right now being supplied by DirectDemand shipments from the starport, leaving us the strongpoint of the starport and the major fighting in the Yellow zones...

Marlborough Proper:
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