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From the Log of Admiral Dae: The Pacification of the Greater Tehn Sector

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December 8, 2019 at 1:19pm
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Here's last week's edition if you didn't catch it: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/forum/ohio-state-football/2019/11/109660/...

Wow, what a season, what a season. It's not over yet, and you can bet your last dollar that Clemson is going to do all it can to end the Buckeyes' glorious run in Glendale, but I have faith that our team is going to pull through and make it to New Orleans for our first title game since 2014. 

Proud of this team, proud of our coaches, proud of Ryan Day. This is already a better season than any since 2014, regardless of what happens in Glendale, but let's see Ohio State finish strong. 

Anyway, here's the latest edition of Admiral Dae Riyan's log: 

Stardate 12819.121

True greatness is not measured in situations bereft of adversity. We do not remember the great storied heroes of ancient history because they triumphed without difficulty, nor do we enshrine the stories of war heroes because they seized their conquests easily, or defended their bastions without hardship or sacrifice. We honor and remember victory torn away from the maw of certain defeat, we canonize impossible reversals of fortune, heroic last stands, hopeless sorties that against the incalculable weight of the universe's indifference somehow become victories. 

The battle against the Wiscyite Armada--our second since this campaign began, but certainly the last--began so inauspiciously that I might have doubted we were the invincible conquerors we thought ourselves to be. 

First, the order of battle: we outnumbered the Wiscyites by a margin of 3:2, certainly not a crushing superiority, but enough that victory might more or less be assumed. Additionally, we had the clear edge in tonnage and capital ship numbers, almost 3:1 in this regard. This was in neutral space, in the Indee Expanse at the very center of the Greater Tehn Sector, where neither we nor our opponents could bring any stationary defenses to bear, nor call upon additional reinforcements. Where the Wiscyites possessed a hidden advantage was in their numbers of small, fast light cruisers. These light cruisers, unbeknownst to us, had been retrofitted since our last engagement with slipscreens that would effectively camouflage them from most ordinary homing weapons. They were also fitted with reactive modular armor plating that proved highly effective against projectile weapons like our point defense railguns. 

In addition to these countermeasures, the Wiscyites had also learned from our last battle, and had devised a new, aggressive strategy that minimized our advantages. This strategy involved quick, lightning-fast sorties with their light cruiser squadrons, drawing off our capital ships, separating them from the bulk of the fleet, and destroying them. Using this method they deleted nearly fifty of our best ships while losing very few of their own. 

Commodore Feeldz, usually dependable, was completely outmatched in these early engagements, while Marine Commander Chae-Yong had his hands full. No longer a field officer--despite his protests--he was relegated to administrative duties, and could only watch from the bridge of my flagship as his marine teams scrambled from ship to ship, putting out fires, beating back boarding operations, and containing aggressive assaults from the Wiscyite marines. 

With half our fleet in disarray and the Wiscyites on the offensive, the situation looked dire. But that was when I played my secret card. 

I arranged our fleet in what appeared to be an orderly retreat and created a false slipspace aperture. The Wiscyites fell for the trap, believing that they had us on the run, and pressed their advantage. Just as the Wiscyites closed in for a devastating strafing run with fighters and cruisers, our capital ship the Krizmann broke from formation, unleashing a flurry of BX-3 class ion mines. The Wiscyites plowed right into the resulting ion storm, damaging their guidance systems, shields, and targeting arrays. 

Our ships pivoted and, with Commodore Feeldz's ship leading the way, launched a swift counterattack. Sadly, this did not manage to do much more than blunt their attack. The Wiscyites were caught off guard, but recovered quickly and fell back to the covering fire of their capital ships. 

Although we'd scored a blow, our enemies soon returned the favor, their behemoth flagship the Teh-Lorr deleting several of the ships in Taskforces 7 and 3, including brave Subcommander Okdah's ship. Okdah, thankfully, escaped on a pod and managed to survive. 

A brief stalemate ensued, which we used as an opportunity to reassess our strategy and reorganize our forces. 

When we drove out again in formation, our ranks were changed--no more massed attacks, now we would assault the Wiscyites in small, nimble taskforces with clear assignments. Our ships' superior sublight drives proved the difference here, as now that we were fighting the Wiscyites speed-for-speed their inferior weapons systems began to show their deficiencies. Additionally many of their ships were still functionally blind from the recent ion storm, meaning that they could only use point-to-point weapons. 

We targeted the cruisers first, knocking out their quicker ships from distance before engaging the bulk of their capital ships in what became a very one-sided slogging match, heavy guns on heavy guns. On his urging, Chae-Yong was recommissioned as a field marine and sent off to join his men on a daring raid on the Wiscyite flagship, the Konne. But it was not Chae-Yong, in the end, who blasted his way through the ship's on-board defenses and detonated the ion mine in the Konne's engine room--it was an unsung, noncommissioned marine called Prok-Torr. 

With the Konne destroyed and their forces in utter disarray, the depleted and dispirited Wiscyites once more fled, but this time we would not leave enough of their forces intact to threaten us again. With Commodore Feeldz leading the operation, we sought out and destroyed every Wiscyite ship we could find, scouring the Greater Tehn Sector of our enemy. 

With the sector firmly under our control, we turn our attention toward the galaxy at large. In the Feezta Spiral Arm, the great Klem Zone Imperium awaits us, their forces amassed, their cunning leader Daybo no doubt remembering his victories over Supreme Commander May-Ar and thinking this next battle will be no different. Let us prove him wrong. 

All Glory to the Bukki Empire!

Signing off for now, 

Admiral Dae-Riyan, Supreme Commander of the Bukki Star Empire

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