I was an Arctic Warfare Marine before I became a capsuleer. I even dropped on Caldari Prime when we liberated it. I know Caldari doctrine.
However, in this case, the slaves are being used as pawns by the Blooders in a general attempt to sow death and destruction. The rebelling slaves are in many ways victims of the Blooders. Our ROE is simple: if someone engages my troops, they die. However, we are not going to be indiscriminate with our firepower. The incompetence of Kahah will not be repeated on Alkabsi.
Frankly, we canât. If we start slaughtering wholesale slave populations affected by Deathglow, that is just a win for the Blooders and invites even more attacks. The Deathglow will dissipate. Once that happens, we need to return to normalcy with as few deaths as possible, both of slaves and Imperial troops.
I donât think the current state of affairs is due to Deathglow as much as the insorum within it.
The Empire is just having a taste of what is going to happen once insorum can be mass produced, which it likely will. The Republic likely has enough Deathglow samples to begin investigating separation of the active insorum component.
There is nothing savage about my forces. They are trained professionals, not mindless berserkers. If these slaves prefer to die on their feet, then my forces will oblige them. As an ethnic Caldari, raised in the State, I respect that. The Caldari tradition is filled with instances of âthe deathrideâ exemplified by Admiral Tovil-Toba. My troops are Sarumites; they will respect that. We will still kill them, mind you, because that is what we are obligated to do, but we will respect our enemies.
There will be no indiscriminate artillery or orbital strikes for two reasons. The first is that such strikes are ineffective at the rapid, effective elimination of enemy personnel. Secondly, as I have said elsewhere, these slaves are pawns, being manipulated by the Blooders for some nefarious orgy of blood and death; we will only target those that we have to, not whole slave populations. We of Holy Amarr have an obligation to reclaim the heavens, and we intend to do just that. Itâs hard to reclaim that which is ash.
THOSE SLAVES NOT RESISTING ARE JUST AS MUCH OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AS IMPERIAL SUBJECTS.
We look not just to quell this uprising, but to lay the groundwork to prevent more from occurring in the future. To loyal subjects and faithful slaves we will be no better friend. To those that seek to harm Holy Amarr, who have turned from the Light of God, we will be no worse enemy.
I can further announce that forces under Lady Newelle will be deploying in division strength. All further information on units is classified for OPSEC reasons. As far as the regimental structure of our units, Ms. Delâthul, I donât go messing with the TOE for every operation.
If you preferred some sort of peace or potential for âReclaimingâ, you lot should be standing aside and letting them go. âQuelling the uprisingâ is going to turn it into aforementioned ash, and itâs most certainly going to lead to more uprisings, more violence, more destruction. Trying to pretend you have even the slightest interest in anyoneâs well-being is a bit of a joke when you are deploying military forces to a police action scenario. When your orders are âFire and blood and deathâ, it kind of undermines the entire thing.
Pretending itâs anything but violent subjugation and brutal application of terror should be beneath Sarum forces.
I think, for some reason, you are making a distinction between forces that are military and forces that are some sort of civilian police and that an impenetrable wall separates them. Is that how they do it in the Republic?
I know when deployed to home station, the 331st has all the police powers that the Paraânashu constabulary have.
I am not pretending anything. Youâre projecting. Iâve stated clearly our objectives and how weâre going to achieve them.
The separation is in the means. You know as well as I do that the two are very different animals, in both intent, method and tools. You arenât deploying for police action when you deploy that sort of classic regimental structure, unless you are horrifyingly inept at police action and again: Your orders are âFire and blood and deathâ.
Projection? Youâre trumpeting your primitive and savage bloodlust to the cluster as loud as it can be.
Donât get me wrong, itâs not like I donât dabble in the mindset myself or disapprove of it in general. Itâs the target you are applying it to that shames you. Instead of taking on free warriors you are aiming towards the slaughter of those just reaching for their freedom. Those who would prove a whole lot more harmless if you just stood aside. Those who are comparatively easy to slaughter, cowards that the Imperials always have been.
Pitiful, really. I always liked house Sarumâs willingness to fight. Now it seems to have gone the way of the rest of them, chest-beating over slaughtering civilian slaves, all for the horrible crime of seeking freedom.
Again, my âclassicâ regimental structure was determined with the regiment was raised. Itâs not changing. Iâm also going to reject your assertion that this is a police action, as you are not here and have no knowledge of the situation on the ground. There is active fighting. You do not get to define a conflict you are not a part of.
And itâs â â â â â â â hot.
As far as seeking targets comparatively easy to kill, tell that to the Drifters, who actually changed their doctrine (ineffectively, hilariously) after I made killing them so easy Aria got bored on our ops. Besides, they found their freedom the moment they picked up a weapon and decided to use it. Iâm am taking on free warriors. â â â â you for demeaning them.
In other news, weâve aerial dropped leaflets on the rebels, allowing them to surrender and to present the leaflet for amnesty and a canteen of ice water. Did I mention itâs â â â â â â â hot? There have been a few skirmishes around 1st Troopâs drop zone and other DZs as forces continue to arrive. A Squadron has conducted a reconnaissance in force mission to near textbook standard.
Theyâre fighting for it. Itâs very far from attained yet. Until youâve been in their shoes, like I was, you speak in staggering ignorance. Are you truly going to pretend that these slaves rising up against you constitute anything even remotely as threatening as actually decently supplied military targets with military training?
Ah, right. More targets that are about as threatening as your current ones, rather than actually dangerous ones. This is what you take pride in? Have you ever fought something that wasnât at a staggering disadvantage?
I fought in the Trials of Fire and Blood. Which, by the way, everyone expected Elise Randolph to win for House Sarum.
I have fought as logistic anchor in some of the worst battles in Fountain, losing ones even. I threw destroyers in the dozens at Drifters until I figured out how to kill them. I fought on Caldari Prime.
I take pride in my duty. I am defined by myself, not my enemies.
So, rather than blowing bridges and setting mines, I would be digging wells if I was a rebel engineer. Assuming the water table allowed for such things. Rivers and oasis and existing wells would be one of the first things an enemy would secure.
If you were a rebel engineer, you would be on your home turf, if you could live there prior to the conflict why would you need to find basic necessities such as water? You should already have this Intel before, or how did you survive prior to the conflict? First for dealing with an attacking force: deny them local resources.
I doubt the slaves that work in the mines know where all the local water sources are. Youâre thinking that they lived there self-sufficient. They did not. Water came from infrastructure the holder owned.
The reason why there is still fighting in the outback is because it is so miserably hot and used for mining. The type of slaves that get sent there are the troublemakers and the like; the kind that would take the opportunity to rebel if it arose. Thatâs not exactly the kind of slave that gets good maps and tours of the area.
Let the Minmatar comfort themselves by thinking of ways the rebels might have a fighting chance, Marshal Protector. Their delusions will hopefully keep them from meddling this time.