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Operation Type: SpecForces Operation

Situation Report: With the help of sympathizers among Daalang's prominent business magnates and industrialists, Sector Force Daalang's Logistics Division has acquired a small mining corporation that operates in the remote Sturos System. This acquisition has given Sector Force Daalang access to a handful of stations in the system, which will serve as bases of operation where the sector force's fledgling navy can safely refuel and resupply between operations.

The Sturos System is lightly patrolled, seeing only a few anti-piracy patrol ships pass through the system every month, and is even more lightly populated. Its only permanent inhabitants are a scant few hundred beings eking out an existence on the frozen moon of Enceles, the only orbital body in the system that could be considered habitable.

SFD's new mining company, Sturos Mining Systems, used to operate a planetary mining base on Enceles (the "Mining Facility"). The mountain base was abandoned several years ago, but the installation remains, as far as the company's records show, intact. This base has an underground hangar large enough to house two GR-75 freighters, with room to spare for a squadron or two of starfighters. As Sector Force Daalang currently possesses no planetary bases in the southern half of the Daalang Sector, the seizure of this facility is among the sector force's top priorities.

To this end, Sector Force Daalang's command now looks to deploy a force recon squad to scout out and, if possible, secure the defunct Mining Facility. Intelligence indicates that a local crime syndicate, the Black Bough, may be using the facility to stage some small-scale piracy operations in the region. Light resistance is anticipated.

Primary Mission Objective: Develop actionable intelligence on the Mining Facility; determine whether anyone currently occupies the Mining Facility.

Secondary Mission Objective: Secure the Mining Facility.

Execution: YT-1300 Freighter Princess of Mon Cala will detach from the 2nd Naval Squadron and insert the Force Recon Squad ten kilometers south of the Mining Facility. The Force Recon Squad will proceed overland to the Mining Facility.

Support: Given the extreme low temperatures on Enceles, the Force Recon Squad will be provided with Cold-Weather Adverse Environment Gear and a weatherproofed skiff.

Difficulty: 3 - light resistance possible; hostile environment anticipated.

Scuttlebutt: SDF Command is focusing on the Sturos System because of its proximity to the Maerdocian Sector. Future operations there will be staged from Enceles, if the facility can be captured.

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Operation Type: Starfighter Operation

Situation Report: A Daalangi criminal syndicate, the Black Bough, has been conducting piracy operations in the Sturos System, some of which have targeted SFD freighters. Recently, a GR-75 freighter transporting fuel to one of the sector force's new asteroid bases in the system was waylaid and destroyed by a pirate gunship. This ship, the Longbow, is the target of this operation.

SFD Naval Command has developed a trap for this gunship. The GR-75 starship Rogue Trader, in orbit over the frozen moon of Enceles, will broadcast a distress signal to draw the Longbow out. Once the Longbow has been drawn out, a task force led by the CR90 Carrier-Corvette Falconer will ambush and capture the pirate.

Primary Mission Objective: Incapacitate the Longbow.

Secondary Mission Objective: Secure space superiority over Enceles while the Longbow is boarded.

Execution: The starfighter squadron, based out of Sector Force Daalang's planetary base on Bolevra, will transfer to the Falconer's hangar in orbit over the planet. The Falconer, accompanied by the Sphyrna-class frigate Shield of Dorsis, will travel through hyperspace to the Sturos System and take up a position at the outer edge of the solar system. Once the Rogue Trader gives the signal, the Y-Wing squadron will execute a cross-system microjump to the GR-75's location and engage the pirate gunship.

Support: Each pilot on this mission will be provided with a Y-Wing.

Difficulty: 3 - Moderate resistance anticipated.

Scuttlebutt: The Claymore, one of the three Star Destroyers in the Empire's Daalang Systems Fleet, has been deployed to the Oktos Sector.

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Operation Type: SpecForces Operation

Situation Report: A Daalangi criminal syndicate, the Black Bough, has been conducting piracy operations in the Sturos System, some of which have targeted SFD freighters. Recently, a GR-75 freighter transporting fuel to one of the sector force's new asteroid bases in the system was waylaid and destroyed by a pirate gunship. This ship, the Longbow, is the target of this operation.

SFD Naval Command has developed a trap for this gunship. The GR-75 starship Rogue Trader, in orbit over the frozen moon of Enceles, will broadcast a distress signal to draw the Longbow out. Once the Longbow has been drawn out, a task force led by the CR90 Carrier-Corvette Falconer will ambush and capture the pirate.

Primary Mission Objective: Capture the Longbow.

Execution: After the Y-Wing Squadron has disabled the gunship, the Sphyrna-class frigate Shield of Dorsis will dock with the incapacitated vessel. A boarding team will storm the pirate gunship, aiming to capture the engine room (to prevent the enemy from scuttling the ship) and the cockpit.

Support: None.

Difficulty: 4 - Moderate Resistance anticipated; boarding actions are highly risky.

Scuttlebutt: Admiral Fedouin D'Ndro, commander of Sector Force Daalang, is negotiating with the Mon Calamari to acquire a Mon Cal cruiser for SFD NAVCOMM.