Post by Jujube on May 2, 2024 2:19:48 GMT -5
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1014-10-29DAILY REPORTMISSION: DEFENSE OF LYCHEE SECTOR J5REPORTThe weather has been fair of late. The clear skies have allowed us ample opportunity to see the Saiyans' approach long before it happens. A clear sky means we can see their artificial moon the moment it appears. We can't do anything about those moons for now: we've tried firing everything from our blasters to proper energy-based artillery, but even the shots that seem on-target pass through the energy harmlessly.Regardless.As long as we can see the moons when they appear, we can cover the field in suppressive fire. That staggers the enemy enough that our more accomplished fighters can take the field. I've advised my own regiment on the proper settings to sever the tails from Oozaru. Without their tails, the Saiyans are mortal. Each attempt costs us one or two men on average. Horrible, but necessary.I again request that research be directed towards means to dissipated the Saiyans' artificial moon. They can be brought back to our level: I know it.AUTHORLieutenant Jujube Litchi1015-03-15DAILY REPORTMISSION: DEFENSE OF LYCHEE SECTOR J5REPORTThree nights.Three consecutive attacks.We lost around forty men in the previous three nights. A small number compared to some fronts, but after the Saiyans took our forward point, we've had the benefit of fighting with advantageous ground. Those advantages always seem to fade away when a clever-enough Saiyan joins the fray, and emits one of those artificial moons. I cannot reiterate enough that we need a way to counter that tactic. The energy they use, blutz waves they're called, could be blocked or scrambled by a variety of means: uncover the method behind their technique, and create an inverse of its effect.I have faith that the best minds Hatchi has to offer can provide a solution: one that we can deploy quickly. Even a private should be able to deploy the countermeasure, to ensure the Saiyans can't claim any advantage over us.I have to protest again the use of Destron gas in our sector. I understand that our situation is desperate, but our soldiers are more than capable of holding off the Saiyan onslaught without the use of such a weapon. I would request that instead of Destron cannisters, we might be issued new barrels for our destroyed artillery emplacements. They've proven invaluable for holding off Oozaru assaults, but a group of infiltrators managed to destroy some seventeen guns over the past three days.We slew one: 'Shredder Corps', they were called.AUTHORLieutenant Jujube Litchi1015-06-07DAILY REPORTMISSION: DEFENSE OF LYCHEE SECTOR K7REPORTWe managed to push up another three kilometers in the night.The use of Destron has, in some ways, spoiled the taste of victory: while we were able to seize new ground, it was clear that the land we retook was owed only to the use of a superweapon. We did not earn the soil we took by strength of arms. That victory was stolen from us by our own command. I have full faith that the men of this regiment, and every other regiment in this sector, could have won through the strength of will alone: instead, we have been left without glory and without honour, while a few misguided scientists in Hatchi City celebrate with champagne.Our victory feels like defeat.AUTHORCaptain Jujube Litchi1015-08-23DAILY REPORTMISSION: DEFENSE OF LYCHEE SECTOR K7REPORT
The actions of the vaunted Shredder Corps have continued to delay our advance, day in and day out. They have proven unusually effective at every turn: their squadrons are not only well-equipped to deal with whichever ill-advised weapon Hatchi sends us, but they demonstrate unusual initiative. They don't suffer the delays that other units seem to: when they take a point, they move to the next, and the next. When we flank them, they respond in kind.
I don't know who is in command of the Shredder Corps, but they're one step ahead of us at every turn.
In positive news: we managed to slow down their counter-attack by overusing our new artillery emplacements. Our ammunitions is running low as a result, but we managed to hold the sector. Consider this a priority request for additional munitions.
PLEASE SEND CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS.
This sector has seen too much Destron already.
AUTHOR
Captain Jujube Litchi1015-11-23DAILY REPORTMISSION: DEFENSE OF LYCHEE SECTOR J5REPORTMajor Suika fell last night.Our forces were routed after several hours of fighting. We attempted to hold for reinforcements, but the onslaught eventually overwhelmed us: we held on just long enough to get most of our equipment back to our fallback line. It's been several months since we've seen these trenches, and the rain has washed them up. I've deployed our most experienced fighters as skirmishers to hold off the Saiyan advance in time to reinforce our position.We need everything: more blasters, more armour, more energy cells, and more food. We need lumber to reinforce our trenches, night vision scopes to keep our perimeter clear at night. We need medicine for the sick, bandages for the wounded, and an entirely new complement of hover-vehicles for out scouts.Command may have placed its bets upon superweapons, but please heed me when I say this: the Saiyans cannot be stopped by Destron, by hunter-killer droids, or any other lofty scheme. They must be overcome by force of arms. Send us more soldiers and more supplies, and we'll take back what we lost.We're one decisive victory from turning the tides of the war.AUTHOR(Acting) Major Jujube Litchi1016-03-19DAILY REPORTMISSION: RECLAMATION OF LYCHEE SECTOR K7REPORT
Our plan worked perfectly.
We managed to bait the Saiyans into concentrating their forces several kilometres to the east. In the meantime, we stormed forward and retook the positions we were forced off of months ago. We were also able to capture a wealth of Saiyan equipment. While most of them fight without the use of weapons or other implements, enough have learned to rely on blasters that we've been able to recoup our losses with the haul. We've also acquired enough foul-tasting Saiyan rations to keep our unit supplied for at least a month, even without new shipments from Hatchi.
Most importantly, we're now perfectly positioned to strike into the heart of the Saiyan protrusion into the Lychee Sector.
Now, more than ever, I want you to heed this request: transfer as many spare artillery pieces and mechanized fighters as you can to our location. If we manage to strike before the Saiyans can regroup, we could cut off their spearhead and leave them ripe for the picking.
Please send CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS only. Even if command is comfortable with the moral implications of the weapon, our advance would be forced to slow to deal with mitigating the effects of the gas as we waded through it. We need to move quickly, and we need to record kills -- not illnesses.
AUTHOR
Major Jujube Litchi1016-07-19
DAILY REPORT
MISSION: ADVANCE INTO SECTTOR L3
REPORT
Our advance has ground to a halt.
While our offensive found some success earlier in the spring, the Saiyan forces in the area have since been reinforced by a number of new warriors. Our own vanguard was checked, again and again, by outriders from squadrons whose commander we now know by name: Vocado Bonewood. A dangerous man, undoubtedly. I remain convinced that if we are properly supplied, we can push through our current hold-up, and claim Sector L3.
It is critical that this advance be supported: if we can clear an open path to retake the area around the old Mercenary Outpost, we can rely on its quasi-legal connections to the outside world to supplement our ranks. Their own brokers will do a better job of convincing foreigners to join our cause than our own emissaries ever could, but they won't side with us uniformly unless we convince them that momentum is on our side.
Right now, it isn't. But, it could be.
AUTHOR
Major Jujube Litchi1016-09-03
DAILY REPORT
MISSION: BREAKING THE STALEMATE IN L3
REPORT
I have received orders to employ the use of the new strain of Destron in breaking the siege six kilometers south of the Mercenary Outpost. I have refused two times already, and now I'm being threatened with punishment if I do not -- as command put it, 'show that I have the stomach to win the war.' Maybe I don't. Our feud with the vaunted Shredder Corps has ended in near-defeat, and that was before they brought in their reinforcements.
Oozaru are to be feared at the best of times, but there's been one in particular that's haunted our nights: a great beast with black fur and a mane of wild hair. Whether he appears as a man or as an Oozaru, he fights with a ferocity we can't hope to match. The Saiyans have gained resolve in the face of our use of Destron and droids. They have the steel of conquerors in their hearts, and yet they march with some twisted righteousness.
Have they proven their cause just?
It isn't a question I'm quite able to answer.
AUTHOR
Major Jujube Litchi1016-011-27
DAILY REPORT
MISSION: FULL RETREAT FROM L3
REPORT
everyything went wrong all at 1 time
l.col litchi said something about us deserving it. we tried to load our guns with destron cannisters, but she went insane. i cant explain it. she started firing on us, and in the confusion she lit up a munitions stockpile. the fire raged for an hour, and you could see the smoke plume from kilometers away. we couldn't stop her, and next she incinerated our destron cannisters. i get it, but i don't get it.
the next thing we knew, the oozaru were on us. i don't know how many: dozens. the great, black-furred beast was in front. it killed a dozen of our boys with one swipe. with our defenses out of sorts, there was nothing we could do. think i saw the shredder corps prick somewhere in the fray too.
last thing i knew, that tree of a saiyan was carving a path through our lines.
we retreated, and retreated.
i dontk now where we're at now. this is probably my first and last r eport
AUTHOR
Lieutenant Citrya Ricot1017-01-07
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It's abundantly clear to me now.
The Saiyans deserve to take the Lychee Sector. They deserve to take Hatchi City. The only truth that we can count on in the galaxy is the truth of strength. They defeated us years ago by force of arms, but we refused to accept it. Our little tricks and superweapons to try to change fate only served to punctuate that point: we were the weaker of two peoples. We should have surrendered rather than commit crimes against our planet, against nature itself, in some hopeless bid to defeat a foe far beyond us.
We could have learned from them: learned the strength to grow stronger than before. With time, we would have claimed our independence on the battlefield. They would have been forced to look upon us as equals. Now, we are forever marked by the crimes of our commanders: doomed to not only be a conquered people, but a conquered people that history will look upon as the rarest of specimen: a people who deserved to be invaded.
I turned on my fellow Tuffles to halt the use of a weapon I find abhorrent. I don't regret it: I only regret that I can't be around to see the fall of Hatchi City, and the justice that awaits all who doomed this galaxy with the weapons we've unleashed.
AUTHOR
Lieutenant-Colonel Jujube Litchi
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