Fall of Side 1's Freedom:
A small fleet approaches a space colony. It has a small force of mobile suits arrayed before it acting as a screen against any forces that may move against it. In side the command ship of the fleet Zen calmly watches as civilian ships begin to move out the area. He watches for any other signs that colony has spotted his fleet but sees none then his communications officer shifts in her seat getting his attention.
"Yes ensign?" asks Zen.
The officer just flicks a switch on her controls and the speakers for the ship’s radio turns on. "Attention Zeon fleet. You are not permitted to dock with this colony. You have been designated as enemies to colony cluster."
Zen nods at the comm officer to open a channel to respond. "This is the Zeon ship Hammer. We are here to free the colony from the tyrannical control of the Earth Federation."
"We are not owned by the Federation but our government is owned by the CMC."
"With a Federation shipyard in the cluster I very much doubt that. They would not allow your people any free choice because of the far of losing their installation."
"We are unaware of any such installation in Side 1 sir." answers the voice with a nervous edge to it. Zen nods to himself as continues to sit in a relaxed position in his chair.
"I will free your colony and provide for its protection. Which I note that the CMC hasn’t done a good job of doing."
"We do not need freeing and we will defend ourselves." snaps the voice as it closes the channel.
Zen’s narrow as he watches numerous pin points of light around the colony move to the end he is currently heading towards. He then turns to look at the operations officer. "Begin the operation please."
"Aye sir!" The operations officer replies and then she begins to speak into her head set.
The mobile suits ahead of his ship part away from the ships as the ships begin to launch missiles at the distant defenses. The missiles head for the edges of the defensive formation and come under fire. Very little of them survive the shower of energy blasts. What little do survive hit their targets and explode with a bright flash of light. In response the defense satellites move closer together. Zen nods again as he watches his mobile suits blast forwards. They are escorting a pair of mobile suits pushing 288-tube micro missile pods.
As the mobile suits near the defense satellites they come under fire. The defending mobile suits concentrate on firing on the missiles coming their way. As various defense satellites move forward to bring their beam guns into range they are picked off by energy blasts fired by mobile suits back at the fleet. Then the mobile suits scatter as the engines on the micro missile pods ignite. They rocket towards defense satellite formation and avoid being shot down by simply being fast.
They easily reach their targets and erupt with hundreds of missiles. With in seconds the colony is blocked from view by hundreds of explosions. When the explosions finally die down there are only a couple of defense satellites left and these are easily picked off by the Zaku I Snipers stationed with the fleet.
"Report on damage to our mobile suits." orders Zen as watches the mobile suits return.
"We lost a couple of Zakus and a Dom." reports the operations officer. "A couple of other suits are lightly damaged And it seems we may have lost the GM that was pushing one of the missile pods."
"Very good. Communications open a channel to the whole colony."
"Aye Sir." replies the comm officer as she types in commands on her controls. "Open."
"Attention colony S1-1003. You are now defenseless. And I would like you to surrender now." orders Zen. "I don’t want to fire on the colony but I will if you force me to. I came to this colony to free its people from the corruption of the Federation but it seems that the people at the head of the colony seem to want to protect their pay checks rather than the people there."
As Zen watches his five Zaku I mobile suits move towards the colony he continues. "I will give you one hour to join me. Then my mobile suits will find the command center of the colony and then destroy it. Then we will see if you will surrender."
About 20 minutes later a voice comes over the radio. "Attention Zeon forces the previous CMC magistrate has been disposed of. This goes for the rest of his staff. I am what is now the newly elected magistrate. We would now like to discuss our terms in joining the movement for the Freedom of colonies."
As Zen goes about discussing the surrender of the colony a near by Federation spy ship monitors the signals going back and forth between the colony and the Zeon fleet. It is then transmitted back to the Earth Federation Command. Once there a group of four Admirals sit down at a table to discuss the situation.
"We must send in a fleet and pound those two colonies to dust." snaps the admiral named Thomas Feldman. "If allow the defection of those two colonies more will follow."
"I am more concerned with what will happen to my shipyard if we loose the colony cluster." retorts Oscar Warrington the third. "You won’t have my fleet that is protecting the shipyard. It will stay right where it is Thomas. That Zeek is probably trying to draw out our forces so he can strike."
"I don’t think the situation is that bad yet gentlemen." states another admiral by the name of Maxwell Hardy. He acts as the peacekeeper among the group and tries to control the two rival admirals. "I have another solution to the problem at hand that should satisfy some of it at least. I have a captain with a fleet nearby Side 1 that can go there to prevent further aggression on the Zeon commander’s part. Also I am going to loan some mobile suits and pilots to the other unoccupied colonies in the area."
"That sounds like a good idea." replies the last admiral who looks like the elder of the group who goes by the name Cal Proxy. His actual age is hard to determine as he drums his fingers on the table.
"I don’t want to use too heavy of a hand against Side 1 or we may end up having another Riah Republic come about. We will handle this situation carefully. We will encourage independent commanders in the EF forces to try and deal with the Zeon forces there as well giving a bonus to any merc. in the area who can bring the commander’s head to us. But we WILL not lay a hand on those colonies. Until the time is right at least. Do you understand me?"
The other admirals nod their agreement and Maxwell Hardy looks to the last admiral.
"I will follow your plans at the moment. They are as good as anything I have the power in the area to do." answers Proxy as he calmly looks the other admiral in the eye.
With that decided they go about making their plans happen.
Outcome: S1-1003 captured
Zen Dias: no damage, 180 exp, 5,000,000 credits received for capture, lost 1 x Zaku II f, 1 x Zaku II F2, 1 x GM, and a rank increase
