AMC8 Administrator Palinka Blue and Colonel Ron Bacardi (local civilian and
military chiefs respectively) call an emergency meeting with IFU Directors. It
seems that the arrival of the main shipment has triggered the long-feared
attack by the New Farringdon Colony. Although IFU has been contracted primarily
for a training mission, AMC8 recognises its lack of military experience, and
wishes to change the terms of IFU's contract to cover supervising military
operations against New Farringdon and active military participation in the
defence of AMC8. AMC8 will give the local equivalent of Colonel rank to all IFU
Directors, Major rank to all permanent IFU staff, and Captain rank to all other
IFU personnel.

Tony manages to negotiate a tripling of IFU's contract pay for the duration
of the contract (4 more octants, bringing total money received to a potential
2.7m credits). He also insists on a bonus for local troops of 300,000 credits,
to be shared out among them. The new contract is agreed.

It is quickly determined that Arushage is the key defensive position, as a
major transport hub, and the likely initial target of the New Farringdon
attack. Gillian Sameria drafts a defensive plan for Arushage. The Central
Response Force is also sent from AMC8 to Arushage to stiffen defences there.
Arushage is currently under local command - Major Ronson, who is the commander
of the Central Reponse Force.
Bennie Parker is tasked with examining options for recon and possibly slowing
down the armoured advance before it reaches Arushage.

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DKK naval forces arrive back in Insider III orbit. They open fire on SS
Stobart's Bane, causing some damage, and the captain makes a heroic forced
landing as close as he can to the AMC8 colony. Unfortunately the vagaries of
gravity and trajectories are such that planetfall is at 6.38pm local time,
around 1,000 km SW of AMC8, in a forest area close to the city of Hakuna Matata
in the No Worries Here colony. Fortunately the NWH are Martians who broadly
support AMC8 (though not to the extent of offering military support).
Unfortunately the site is also only about 1,000km away from the main
concentration of enemy forces, and it seems likely they will also make some
attempt to capture it.

A scratch force is immediately put together using what resources are available,
under the command of Tony Silverado, with Leon MacDuff as 2 I/C, to secure the
landing site and equipment. IFU forces total 30 directors and personnel, all in
HMA. A further 190 local forces in LTA are also ferried in using armed shuttles
and some flyers. No Worries Here agrees to provide refuelling facilities for
the fliers, which cannot make the trip on a single tank of fuel. The force
carries 3 days of rations and some heavy weapons.

Within hours the expeditionary force has reached the landing site and set up a
perimeter. The ship has come to rest on its side, and its metal cargo frame has
partially collapsed under the stress of landing, crushing a number of pods. Its
fusion drive has cleared foliage for several hundred metres (and indeed several
kilometers in the direction of landing). Captain Hubbard and his crew are
unhurt, and a little put out at the Three Worlds Alliance naval and marine
personnel aboard which forced him to land.

The Three Worlds personnel are returned to AMC8 with some of the shuttles. Tony
keeps 2 shuttles at the landing site to act as a communications centre and HQ
and to move troops around if need be. MacDuff supervises allocating patrols to
the surrounding area - the ship is in a large drainage basin with a ridgeline
in a circle around the site about 5km distant. The enemy approach is likely to
be from flatter, more open ground to the north where the river exits the
terrain feature.

During the night AMC8 negotiates with Now Worries Here for the loan of
transport fliers and heavy lifting gear to be able to unload the ship in situ.
A survey of the cargo is made and priorities identified. Meanwhile Gillian
Sameria gathers together the ships engineering crew and arranges for a section
of the ship's drive containing the hyperlinium core to be cut free from the
ship so that it can be removed and recovered once lifting gear arrives.

The two satellites are recovered by opposition naval forces during the night
and satellite surveillance cover is lost.
There is also an air raid on the air base at AMC8 by New Farringdon forces, but
you manage to scramble a couple of the AIR fighters, and two New Farringdon
aircraft are shot down and the other 4 abort the attack.

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At local dawn the transport fliers arrive from No Worries Here, and begin
unloading cranes to start removing cargo from the ship.

Bennie Parker is making ready with an 8-person squad in HMA to be dropped ahead
of the main New Farringdon axis of advance and report on their progress,
preparedness etc.

50 ATGMs + 500 missiles and 20 SAM launchers + 100 missiles are dispatched to
Arushage by the transport column.

The Advanced Infantry companies in AMC8 are given some emergency training at
the rifle range with their new SLA2s.

CURRENT FORCES

Arushage;

Central Response Force:
A Squadron (13 AFVs)
B and C Coys (each 15 APCs, 150 mechanised infantry)
D and E Squadrons (total 7 fliers including 2 gunships, 6 armed shuttles, 160
airmobile infantry).

Arushage Infantry Battalion (700 infantry)
1st Engineering Coy (150 men)
Hussagen: 1 infantry Bn (700 men), 2nd Engineering Coy (150 men).

Profit Margin: 1 infantry Bn (700 men)

Bartertown: 2 infantry cos (total 266 men).

Northpoint, Lode, Star City, Forlorn Hope, Big Pig, Ungawa, Baytown - each 1
infantry Co (133 men)

AMC8
AMC8 Infantry Battalion (700 men)
4, 5, 6 Advanced Infantry Cos (each 100 men, LTA, SLA2s).
Air and Naval forces
Transport and Logistics Battalion
ca 1,000 other basic trained infantry not yet allocated to any formation.

500 spare suits LTA. 20 Hovertanks, 10 SP guns, 12 Fliers, 500 grenade
launchers, 8,500 SLA2s, 945 ATGM launchers + 9450 missiles, 70 SAM launchers +
860 missiles, 6 armed shuttles (NB not all tanks, fliers, or shuttles have
pilots/crews available at present).

'LZ Silverado'
30 IFU personnel (HMA)
190 Uprated infantry (LTA, SLA2s) - 2 and 3 Coys.
2 armed shuttles
10 SAM launchers + 50 SAMs
4 ATGM launchers + 40 missiles

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