Post by Storyteller on Dec 23, 2017 3:29:24 GMT
The Republic had intended two major fleet actions for the turn of the year, counting on the morale boost granted by the five-year anniversary of the destruction of the Death Star. The smaller of those, the Solo Offensive into Zsinj's outlying territory, is now underway and finding initial success. The second has been recalled and adjusted.
Admiral Gial Ackbar, under orders coming straight from Chief of State Mon Mothma herself, has set the Republic First and Second fleets towards containment and recovery of worlds infected by the Plague. The action is layered and complex, as befits the master strategist.
Secondary flotillas have jumped into infected systems and instituted quarantines. Assurances of an incoming cure, providing supplies to maintain a reasonable lifestyle despite the quarantine, as well as support in holding back the spread of the infection on planetary surfaces (provided by starfighters flying in atmosphere) have ensured that the public's response to these actions is generally positive.
Smaller units, generally consisting either of heavy fighters (significantly: B-Wings) or of gunship-scale vessels equipped with ion canons have begun patrols throughout Republic space close to the outbreaks of the disease. Starships are stopped, deep-scanned, and then kept in short-duration quarantine in space. Those who refuse are disable with ion weapons, and then the same procedure carried out regardless. A day is more than long enough for the disease to manifest if present within a ship, and therefore the quarantine is easy to maintain.
The Republic has so far captured two transport-scale vessels, both of them bearing identifiers pointing to ships stolen by pirates, which seem to have been deliberately carrying the disease to new systems. In both cases, all but one of the crewmembers were unaware that this was the nature of their task.
Some capital ships have moved into Hutt Space, on outlying systems where the Republic previously had no jurisdiction, and started to institute the same measures. It is clear that over the next month, if not prevented, the Republic will quarantine, pacify and then integrate a significant part of what was formerly Hutt Space.
Admiral Gial Ackbar, under orders coming straight from Chief of State Mon Mothma herself, has set the Republic First and Second fleets towards containment and recovery of worlds infected by the Plague. The action is layered and complex, as befits the master strategist.
Secondary flotillas have jumped into infected systems and instituted quarantines. Assurances of an incoming cure, providing supplies to maintain a reasonable lifestyle despite the quarantine, as well as support in holding back the spread of the infection on planetary surfaces (provided by starfighters flying in atmosphere) have ensured that the public's response to these actions is generally positive.
Smaller units, generally consisting either of heavy fighters (significantly: B-Wings) or of gunship-scale vessels equipped with ion canons have begun patrols throughout Republic space close to the outbreaks of the disease. Starships are stopped, deep-scanned, and then kept in short-duration quarantine in space. Those who refuse are disable with ion weapons, and then the same procedure carried out regardless. A day is more than long enough for the disease to manifest if present within a ship, and therefore the quarantine is easy to maintain.
The Republic has so far captured two transport-scale vessels, both of them bearing identifiers pointing to ships stolen by pirates, which seem to have been deliberately carrying the disease to new systems. In both cases, all but one of the crewmembers were unaware that this was the nature of their task.
Some capital ships have moved into Hutt Space, on outlying systems where the Republic previously had no jurisdiction, and started to institute the same measures. It is clear that over the next month, if not prevented, the Republic will quarantine, pacify and then integrate a significant part of what was formerly Hutt Space.