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This is a thread dedicated to a FS2 mission, OPERATION DYNAMIC, that is being FREDed up as a gamed battle between LEPANTO (NTF) and RODO (GTVA).COMMAND BRIEFING
2366 AD. The NTF rebellion has erupted,  swallowing system after system in an coordinated rampage of racial genocide and political violence.

The GTVA, caught off-guard by the sheer speed and ruthlessness of the NTF assault, scrambles to contain the rebel fleets.
Its mighty battlegroups wheel and charge through the darkness towards vulnerable jumpnodes - but the NTF has many silent friends in the GTVA military and more than one "loyal" fleet is suspiciously slow to react.

Orbiting the supergiant star Epsilon Pegasi, a highly industrialised GTVA system. Fat, vulnerable and 690 light years from Sol; but with subspace, mere days away. And closer still, the NTF 1^st Fleet at Polaris, rebuilt after the savage battles of conquest, hangs poised in the black abyss of space, impatient for the bloodied hand of Admiral Bosch to place them in motion. This game will require the GTI Bretonia, http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTI_Bretonia.
FILE UPDATED - DRAFT!

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MISSION PARAMETERSPOLARIS JUMPNODE
Contrary to popular knowledge there are actually more than four JumpNodes into Epsilon Pegasi - a fifth, dangerously unstable 'Node leads in from Polaris. This node is still traversible but its endpoint collapses and reconnects at seemingly random intervals.

The GTSC Oppenheimer has been studying it for the last two years; the current theory is that the presence of a thin asteroid belt nearby interferes with the JumpNode's tether to our dimensions. Any ship exiting/entering the 'Node runs the risk that the tether will snap. Each "snap event" emits a variable but powerful shockwave and EMP pulse which can, at the higher intensities, badly damage even an Orion. GTI HAVANA BAY
Before the NTF crisis erupted the GTI Havana Bay was a second-rate research station in the process of being upgraded to expand study of the nearby JumpNode and hopefully discover a way to stabilise it.

With the imminent threat of an NTF invasion the upgrade has been stopped and a hasty weaponising program initiated. A few Reserve wings of Herc IIs give it bare minimum fighter coverage. EPSILON PEGASI B
Known to civilians as New Bavaria this heavily industrialised planet is extremely rich in metals and unusual alloys. A relatively benign atmosphere allowed its population to rapidly climb to its current peak of 2 Billion in a record 75 years. Only lightly defended by the 502nd Cruiser Division it is wide open to a concentrated NTF assault. GTVA Command is fully aware of New Bavaria's weakness and is rapidly reinforcing and re-equipping the 502nd. The GTD Callipso (Hecate class) and its fleet are enroute despite constant NTF attacks.

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GTVA
GTVA Wild Card received! GTVA FORCES
6th FLEET - DELAYED
GTD Calypso (Hecate)

GTCv Domitian
GTCv Hirohito
GTCv Haile Selaisse

GTC Mount Everest (Aeolus)
GTC Kilimanjaro(Aeolus)
GTC Husacaran (Aeolus)
GTC Matterhorn (Aeolus)

502nd CRUISER DIVISION
GTC W. T. O'Neil (Fenris)
GTC Incredible (Fenris)
GTC Hosanna (Fenris)
GTC Sri Lanka (Leviathan)

9th SOC Assault Group DELAYED
GVA Setekh (AWACS)
GTC Olympus Mons (Aeolus)
5 x Argo Transports
250 SOC Operatives (Direct Vacuum Assault qualified) GTVA OBJECTIVES
1. Retain control of the Polaris Jump nodeGTVA OPERATIONAL LIMITS
Withdraw if lose:
GTD Calypso & any 2 Corvettes,
and/or
4 of 5 Aeolus Cruisers
and/or
All fighter cover

Destruction of GTI Havana Bay permitted if retention/recapture impossible.

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NEO-TERRAN FRONT
NTF WILD CARD received!NTF FORCES
NTD Macedon (Orion, Flagship, 40 bombers, 60 fighters)
NTCv Zhukov
NTCv Vandal
NTC Grumman (Aeolus, upgunned, all lasers now heavy or  long range flak)
NTC Corsair (Aeolus)
NTC Singapore (Aeolus)
NTC Poltava (Fenris)

10 x Argo transports, upgunned with Standard Flak turrets, carrying:
33rd Marine Company
270 Assault Marines (ExoArmor, Breach & Enter Weapons & Tactics BEWT)

No further reserves or reinforcements.NTF OBJECTIVES
1. Secure Polaris Jumpnode
2. Capture & Hold GTI Havana Bay
3. Defeat responding Loyalist forces. NTF OPERATIONAL LIMITS
Withdraw if lose:
NTD Macedon & NTCv Zhukov,
and/or
4 of 6 escorting warships
and/or
All fighter cover

Withdraw 33rd Marines if lose 200 of 270 Marines (75%).

Destruction of GTI Havana Bay to be avoided at all costs.

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Current file uploaded  to OP - feel free to examine and run to understand how it kicks off.

NOTE - IT IS NOT READY YET FOR THE NTF/GTVA TO TAKE THEIR ROUNDS, THIS IS FOR COURTESY AND INFO ONLY.
GTI Bretonia required (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTI_Bretonia).

BIG thanks to Karajorma & Goober for their help with the node effect.

BH