Indy stepped up to the podium. She'd done this
before--briefed the men and women of the Aurora Force on a mission--but never on
this grand of a scale. The Xenen Campaign promised to last quite a while
with systematic movement out from the city of Quis to other major cities,
subduing or undermining the Imperial presence on the world every step of the
way. With a certain casual grace she tucked a strand of hair behind her
ear and cleared her throat.
The murmur of conversation within the room died away within a
few minutes. Her gaze swept the room--so many familiar faces, some she had
known since she had joined the New Republic, some longer. How many would
not return from Xenen? How many would not return from the Kartuiin Sector?
She banished those thoughts from her mind and began to speak. "Good
morning, everyone. For those of you who do not already know, we have been
ordered into the Kartuiin Sector with the intent of bringing it into the New
Republic. Unfortunately, it seems that we will be employing force to meet
these ends, and thus we are in serious need of solid intelligence on the Sector,
which is in short supply. That is why our first target will be Xenen, home
to the largest repository of knowledge of the Kartuiin Sector in the galaxy.
Lights please."
As the lights dimmed to one quarter intensity, Indy brought
the holoprojector on the briefing platform to life. It
displayed the slowly turning globe that was Xenen until she touched a control,
causing the image to focus on the main continent and in further to a particular
valley within a major mountain range. "This is the Kinvou Valley,
which is at the heart of the Kin Mountain Range. It is located several
thousand miles north of Xenen's equatorial regions and thus is a temperately
cool area of the Calder continent." She tapped another control and
the image focused even closer, on a city that covered several hundred square
kilometers of land at the heart of the valley. "This city is Quis,
home to the aforementioned repository of knowledge. Of all of the data we
have at the moment, the data on Quis is the most recent as we took great lengths
to get some probes in orbit of Xenen so we could get this footage.
"Quis covers approximately five hundred and eighty-eight
square kilometers, not including Lake Tashanya. It includes a garrison of
about a thousand Imperial troops and trainees and local law enforcement numbers
are sketchy, but it looks like about fifteen hundred. These factors, most
likely, will pose the greatest problem to this operation. However,
spaceport security is not tight and Customs officials are next to non-existent
despite the number of people coming in and out of Quis--it's apparently been
speculated that the reasons for such loose security are the large volumes of
people coming in and out on a regular basis.
"The younger of us will be posing as students planning
to attend Serah University for the upcoming semester. The rest will be the
regular array of scholars, traders, and vacationers that Quis regularly sees.
I would like to stress the point that you CANNOT ATTACK ANY IMPERIAL FORCES UNLESS YOU ARE FIRED UPON. If you are recognized and taken in, admit nothing; hold out and we will find you."
Indy shut down the holoprojector as the lights came up again. "Your identities will be supplied to you shortly before insertion. Rally points will be assigned and directions will be found in your insertion packets. Over the next week we will be either catching commercial transports or you will be assigned to several private flights from the Dashan. Are there any questions?"
Expecting the usual mission questions, the question that was overheard over all the silence was of a man in the back, with his hand raised in the air, looking like something that a bantha had dragged in.
"What was that soldier?" Indy replied, realizing that the person had never worked inside the AF before, and had somehow gotten by security when it was mission perso
Briefings were written by Aurora Force CO LCM Indiana Bridger and former Aurora Force XO LCM Troy Nexus.
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