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Location: Azure
Dice: HERE
Participants: @Critas @Darasuum
Prompt: Azure is one of the few Independent planets in the Mid Rim, near the Contruum system. The Mandalorians have spent quite a few resources in securing that area. To solidify their hold on the area, they need to add those worlds still waving the Independent flag, to their cause. Azure is a non-strategic planet in a location that has no real strategic significance either. The only reason the Mandalorians are using valuable resources and time is that it might be used as a staging point for an attack into Contruum itself. Field Marshall Diocletian Valerius Solus has taken command of a task force to bring the planet into the fold and ensure this afterthought of a planet doesn’t come back to bite them in the rear.
Diocletian had just landed on Azure a few hours beforehand and he already didn’t like the place. It was way too blue for his tastes, it was literally everywhere you looked. When you are raised on a primarily desert planet like Mandalor, planets which are primarily water tend to make you nervous. Dio was no exception. He did not like the fact that those oceans could conceal really anything at this point. But it did certainly give him ideas for the future. Just as those oceans could conceal any number of unknown enemies, they could also just as easily conceal a hidden base or cache of supplies for the Mandalorian Armed Forces. This made Azure suddenly intriguing to Dio.
Dio was the advance scout for this operation. It had taken a quick data search to discover that the most important building or cluster of buildings on the planet was the spaceport. Dio knew the place would he heavily guarded and he was not disappointed. According to the two customs officials at the spaceport that he had bribed, the spaceport was the only way on and off the planet with any reliability. If the Mandalorians could take the spaceport, it would put the people of the planet and their very livelihood at their mercy. Of course, there were the odd pirating operations on planet, but according to his information, even they worked from the spaceport. Further digging and talking to locals revealed that the spaceport was primarily run by those very pirates and that they were essentially holding the planet hostage. Thinking back, the guards all around the space port had seemed rather rag tag.
A quick tactical assessment had given Dio an idea of how they might bring this world under the wing of the Mandalorian war bird. Take out the pirates and give the people their world back before negotiating a settlement with the government to keep the planet pirate free. They would of course need to leave behind a garrison or three to ensure they remained free. Yes, this would work just fine.
Dio was the advance scout for this operation. It had taken a quick data search to discover that the most important building or cluster of buildings on the planet was the spaceport. Dio knew the place would he heavily guarded and he was not disappointed. According to the two customs officials at the spaceport that he had bribed, the spaceport was the only way on and off the planet with any reliability. If the Mandalorians could take the spaceport, it would put the people of the planet and their very livelihood at their mercy. Of course, there were the odd pirating operations on planet, but according to his information, even they worked from the spaceport. Further digging and talking to locals revealed that the spaceport was primarily run by those very pirates and that they were essentially holding the planet hostage. Thinking back, the guards all around the space port had seemed rather rag tag.
A quick tactical assessment had given Dio an idea of how they might bring this world under the wing of the Mandalorian war bird. Take out the pirates and give the people their world back before negotiating a settlement with the government to keep the planet pirate free. They would of course need to leave behind a garrison or three to ensure they remained free. Yes, this would work just fine.