UED is unaware of the failed Expedition.
With the blackout of communication happened in Koprulu Sector, they believed that it was just a problem with the communications range. Like a nebula cloud jamming their signals or a faulty device was the issue.
It was already six months since their last communication, where Dugalle spoke of their control of the Overmind and they spoke with certainty with the conquest...
After that, it was bleak, the radio silence after it turned from weeks from the daily communication and turned into months. They began to be nervous.
The Expedition they sponsored was practically taken two third of their fleets, as the remainder was to quell the pirates and assured the public that they are strong.
And half of their land forces joined the expedition and leaving the conscript and reserves that didn't saw combat..
If their enemies knew that they were a paper tiger at this weakest moment of their administration... They are relying on their reputation to stave the vultures from picking their bleeding wound.
They would be destroyed.
They comforted that there's no one would even dare attack UED because of their infamy.
But... There was one from the Koprulu Sector that already noticed their weakness.
And his eyes now glance at the armada homeworld.
(A UED outpost on a asteroid base in Alpha Centuri)
A UED marine was busy listening to his favorite rock music, bopping his head as he watched the radar and alert Earth of potential invasion. After a few seconds of watching the radar after seeing there was nothing, he began to air guitar his lonesome as his commander is away.
Staying on this godforsaken rock have made him bored out of his mind.
"I am flyyyying high! I'm a Terran Machine!" The marine chuckle as he was imagining his solo as he turned his back to the machine...
Unaware that there was a soft beep on the radar. And several beeps that followed after it
There was a crash that landed that shook him from his feet. As he laid on his back, his Officer stared at him as if wanting to rip his out.
"Get your ass up! We are under attack! Call for Aid!"
The Marine was confused, he glanced at the radar and his eyes turned dark. There was so many beep that was heading their way. He glanced the porthole that show the situation outside.
Beyond his station was massive base that could fit into the asteroid belt. Airstrips to handle the their fighters and a small fleet dock that was assigned to them.
The small fleet defending outside the asteroid base was in a state burning wrecks.
And the supposed Airstrips were cratered and the planes were destroyed.
He saw several trails of thruster heading towards them. Giant flying blocks of metal that in their definition of a sense could not be possible.
But its telling that the engine that house those monstrosities of a plane is making them fly in spite.
He turned towards the companion that accompanied him.
"This is Outpost 32-124-A to Earth, this is Outpost 32-124-A to Earth, we are under attack, massive fleet is heading towards earth!"
*Static*
"Fuck! We are unable to contact them!"
Another tremor and the lights around them gone out briefly until the emergency light lit up the room around them.
"Shit they destroyed the generator! Get to your station! We need to warn earth!"
As he about to leave. He saw a glaring red glow of a mech eye staring at him with a giant barrel of a gun aiming at his station.
He wanted to instinctively scream, but the barrel glowed red and the mech left to crippled another important infrastructure.
Klaxon horns echoed throughout the facility.
In one of the many inbuilt hangars in this asteroid base the Garrisons gathered and defend the entrances. Before them was a starships grade gate that would protect them from a stray asteroid.
Their gauss guns and power armor flashlight were akin of a source of light as the power went out. Now the red glare of the emergency backup light was like they were heading to the depth of hell.
"That thing... Would protect us right?" One of the recruit spoke as he tremble, people around him looked at him with disgust, he was assigned to this base, due to nepotism due to his father being a politician and it was far from combat.
The hangar gate began to glow, as if a high intensive laser melted the gate that was the defenders source of comfort.
They hope they could hold out before reinforcements come.
Their hopes dashed as a giant flying brick of a plane rammed into the now heated gate.
"Open fire! Don't let them disembark!"
Flashes of tracer fire lit up the dimly lit hangar. And their bullets was either deflected with some sort of energy shields.
The ramparts of the plane slowly unveiled itself.
And behind that rampart were power armored men that is similar to them... But they looked like faces with glowing red eyes and mouthpieces that wanted to scream at them.
They opened fire back and the defender exploded sending gore and buts of armor sprawling across the floor.
The defenders gasped as their colleagues that spent time with exploded into bits.
These Intruders were more methodical.
They even double tap the dead corpses to insured they were truly dead.
The roars of their chainswords brought the primitive fear in the defenders.
And the defenders could barely looked at the sight of them as they were so fast that their inbuilt computers in their power armor unable to compute their movements.
One even saw their own was rammed to death by one of these Intruders. The power armor crumpled and crushed the occupants by the sheer force of these monster weight and speed.
The commander that oversee the base watched as these freaks... No... Monsters are occupied the hangars and slowly choking the means of escape.
The report of being unable to call for reinforcements is already relayed to the commander. He could close his eyes and hope this is a nightmare... He opened his eyes and designate the remaining defenses via analog systems.
"Shit! I running out of ammo! Hand me a mag!" A UED Marine fight back behind a sandbag barricade and his gun tracers were like a sole sense of light.
Those red glares of the enemy helmets in the dark were like the grim reapers that invoke the fear in the defenders. They dodge with such flexibility, that they were like demons from hell.
Around the defenders were corpses of soldiers, men and women alike as their power suit and dented body tags was all that remains of their existence as their head is exploded into gory fine paste
"This is the last one!" One of them handed out the magazine. The one that was defiantly defending the checkpoint fell down as the hand is still twitching on the trigger and his where was once his head is spurting blood.
The man that about to handed him the ammunition stared blankly as the giant towered before him with his weapon in aimed at his face.
The giant left after leaving a paste of blood splatter on the wall.
The last remaining defenders tried to held valiantly in corridors that lead to the last power plant .
They barely managed to get enough stockpiles of ammunition from the armoury before these monsters killed the staff in the armory.
But when they face a bunch of what seemed to them indestructible monsters rushing towards them. With their targeting systems unable to track them.
The base was filled with blood.
They converged to the last remaining human on board the base.
The commander was bleeding as his left arm was blown off and several shrapnel pierce his rib cage. His guards ended a quick death.
"Who... Are you..."
"We are from the Celestial Imperium, and we are the Harbingers of your doom. And blame your false kings to invade the Imperium is to invite the certain doom." What seemed to be the leader spoke.
The commander tried to use his brain to remember where he heard that name.
Then he realized it.
Charles Dugalle spoke about the Celestial Imperium and their massive armies. But he scoffed it off.
He was aware about it. But he never realized that they attacked so quick.
"I will make it as painless as possible. As a sign of respect for you, to not cower before us and defended as long as you have... You have Iron in your veins...sadly... It's not enough." The figure before him spoke. He grabbed the neck of the commander and snapped it as fast.
The siege was brief. And the attackers planted a flag to signify the control of the installation..
It symbolize the Roman numeral IV bearing the aquila that hovered above it and planes and ships arrived to refurbish the base to fix the base for one the many logistics base for their staging ground to invade this false Terra
Two marines oversee the ruined base reconstruction. They watched silently as the Servitors tossed the dead into a pyre as one of their own burn the corpses. One of them spoke.
"It's strange... Brother."
"What is it? Brother?"
"Isn't it ironic? That we are invading Terra for the Imperium than against it? It felt so long ago since I laid siege in the Lion's gate."
"Life is strange... But remember... This false Terra... Is not ours to destroy. But to conquer for the Imperium and this... False defenders of humanity to heel."
"It would be funny in our tactica simulacrum for the neophytes to learn how to Invade this false imperium."
"Indeed, may this crusade prove fruitful."
Both of them jest as they they watched the base become operational as the first ship began to unload supplies and replicators to supply the frontlines.
Beyond their eyesight
Ships numerous and terrifying to count. Flew past the ships that conquered the asteroid base.
Around them were fighters and mechs that provided a active defense like a storm of angry wasp and in the depths of the belly of these monstrous hulks of ships, regiments of soldiers and vehicles stood ready.
They were silent as they knew the situation at hand.
Even if Their high Lord Alexander Solair leave the UED alone. They will send another fleet like the Expedition to conquer them. And more would come regardless if he wants to or not.
Perhaps in his kindness, they will conquered the false Terra and liberate the people there.
To save the people from the dystopian government from a sending their sons and daughters to die against the Imperium...
The commanders leading this crusade battlegroup understood it.
It was also to make the former controlled UED territory to produce weapons and armor to the war against the being called Amon, that pretend to be false god of humanity, uplift the denizens of the UED to embrace the God Emperor of Mankind and lastly prevent the population of the UED under the thralls of Amon hordes by planting Necron pylons to prevent their mind from being corrupted.
Many that were born in this universe is skeptical... But those that came from a universe filled with war?
It was inevitable. Humanity fought demons and the horors of the warp. War is in their blood, it was their necessity of their survival.
In a sense... The UED gave the Imperium the generous excuse of invading their space.
The comms sounded across the fleet, uncaring of the people hear their wages of war.
"22th Expedition fleet would now travel to the false Terra! Have the choirs ready and may the God Emperor watched our glory and destroy his enemies! Ready the bells! Ready sailors of the void, our path is clear, our crusade is just! We shall do the will of the Imperium!"
The cracks of purple haze began to ooze through reality... And the ships disappeared into a realm what the spies ships that hidden themselves from the onslaught thought impossible...
One such spy ships saw the enormous fleets entered their own version of warp drive.
"Contact Command! The enemy fleets is heading to earth!"
They faced the same issue like what the defenders of the asteroid garrison suffer.
A blackout of communication that blanketed across the system.
"Sah, we are screwed and the comms jakin like a fish outta water."
"Do it again, we need to war-" the captain scream. Before engulfed by a stream of light. Their attempts of alerting the arrival of their fleet was already picked up by the now occupied defenders. And their message never reached earth of the impending threat.
The arrival of the fleets is like a storm.
Many outpost went silent and fleets gone missing.
Even Colonies that the UED painstakingly built went silent. And the deafening silence made the UED unable to realize the situation that their colonies and outpost is being ripped from their hands, their garrisons were eradicated and razed to the ground.
And it was the telescope observatory that was built around Jupiter found the arrival of the invading fleets, inching their way towards earth.
A call was made, but like all the rest of their holdings, it was inevitable.
Any surviving fleets was already crippled beyond repair or under siege.
And the the colonies is already under the control of the imperium.
It was ironic that the heavy taxes and the heavy conscription have made the citizens of the UED despise their government, after they were informed of the fact that majority of their sons and daughters were killed in the Koprulu Sector. Many wept in their bedrooms as they clung to their last memorabilia of their loved ones.
Other raged out against the Imperium.
While few held a sigh of relief that their children is safe and kept as a prisoner.
The people in the Imperium controlled the UED colonies grew resentment towards their government than the actual invaders.
The Imperium painted themselves as the Liberators of humanity.
Countless hour of propaganda pieces was sent to rebel groups across the remaining holdings.
Citizens plastered their posters of the Imperium insignia. And soon it reached Earth by smugglers that is paid by the imperium to spread propaganda and smuggle priest and preachers into Earth space.
It was already 9 months since the lack of communication from the Expedition that the UED realized that it was destroyed.
Now they were truly alone.
One soldier shot a kid that planted a poster in a police station in Venezuela to keep the peace. One of many incident sparking the riots against the UED.
The a man in power armor shot and his bullet piece the boy hand as he gasp as he clung to the posters made by the Imperium.
The soldier kicked the boy aside.
Uncaring of whether he lived or died.
He gaze at the posters.
It was a image of a man that held a roman olive crown and wore a golden armor.
And around that golden figure was citizens and soldiers alike that held out for his hand that seemingly wanted to reach out.
With words below this figure was a simple meaning.
"The God Emperor come for the faithful. The UED have fallen from his grace. And In his light, Heaven Awaits"
The soldier watched without emotions as he gaze the dying child that just paid by someone to plaster the posters, that is heaving in his own blood, he receive his orders..
Another round ended the kid life.
He gaze at the horde around after hearing the gunshot.
"Step back or you be shot!" He growled.
"He got only 30 bullets and he can't kill us all!" A inciter yelled from the crowd.
The man yelled as he fired at the mob,any screamed as they fell into their pool of blood.
But what it did, made it more resentful.
The inciter spoke again.
"They killed our families in the Expedition that is far from home, and now they want to kill us all!? Is this what we wanted?!"
The UED Marine growled as many converge around him. This time hatred replaced their fear.
Now the mob piled upon the Lone Marine and killed the man inside.
Cities burn in the name of the God Emperor, incited by the priest and preachers of the Imperium. Martial law was enacted.
The Faithful flocked in the darkness to hear his words, and prayed in safehouses in cities placed under martial law. They said their vows in unleavened bread and wine to unite the lost and without purpose.
As religions in UED was banned as they believed in their superiority of technology than some unseen god that never loved them. Which made it easy for the Preachers of the ecclesiachy to preach the masses.
That there is a god, a real god that send his herald to liberate them from this nightmare, where his angels of mercy guide them to the afterlife. That there is a literal heaven.
One child stare at the bleak hellscape of concrete jungle and endless spotlights.
Many held hope this nightmare to end.
By the time the Imperium fleets arrive. They were meticulous in their combing of pirates and hidden bases. Making logistical chains that is difficult to be breached.
And now the defense of UED Earth consisted of mere 500 Battlecruisers, and some support vessels, several squadrons of Wraith fighters and a space station orbit above the planet.
Even below, the UED made another heavy conscription.
Trenches and minefield was being made.
Orbital guns was hastily built.
Factories worked overtime until their own workers died on the very same Lathes they manned. Filling the absurd quotas with limited resources that is dwindling by the day.
With their propaganda plaster on the walls.
"Sons of Criminals will rape the jewel of Humanity!"
"They will burn your home, the UED will be the defender of humanity!"
The poster and propaganda did little to no effect.
The truth was already spread across the civilians.
The Imperium came for the government and that alone.
And they would hold the government and the elites that funded the expedition accountable, the ones that joined the expedition out of desperation is excluded.
A fraction of the massive armada that was tossed into the Koprulu Sector. And had the remaing of the fleet that scattered across the UED that didn't joined the Expedition and heeded their call, it would had swollen to 200 thousand Battlecruisers.
Each fleet that arrived was akin to a full indominatus crusade numbers.
UED commanders estimated that with the stockpiles of ammunition, food, medicine, Gas and spare parts, provided that the imperium didn't blow the warehouses apart. And they refused to give the masses of their rations.
Their fighting strength was limited to just... 6 months of intensive combat. After that they are done.
The UED is practically dead in the water.
++Imperial Adjutant Online....Assessing Combat situation.... Estimating forces of current situation.++
Battle report:
Siege Of UED Terra.
Operation UED crucifixion
Imperium
Three fleets of the Imperium have gathered towards UED Earth
One fleet consisted of:
225 Battleships
540 Cruiser
1,620 Frigates
1,170 Macro Landers
190 Strike Cruisers
5000 Escort Cruisers (Acclamators)
45 Mechanicus War Barges (they want Mars)
2.3 million Fighter
56050 Mechs
GROUND
1,035 Regiments of Imperial Guardsmen
405 Knights
1 Legion Titan of warhounds and warbringer
82,000 Sisters of battle
45 Skitarri Regiments
19,000 Space Marines of the Iron Warriors
10 legion of Men of Iron
120 companies of Battletech mech
900 companies of Baseline Power Armor
50 squads of Armor core Ravens
10 alpha legions squad
1 very angry MC (Main battlegroup)
900 war reporters
381 prefabricated bases
Vs
UED controlled fleets
Space
15000 Battlecruisers
1,798,689 wraith fighters
3100 minelayer vessels
17300 converted merchant fleet
5200 supply vessels
Extensive minefield
28000 Liberators
One giant space station.
98k : automated defenses.
Ground
60 giant orbital guns
796k of Anti aircraft batteries
24k nuclear missile silos (ammunition: 76k)
1250 regiment of conscripts
290 regiment of power armored CMC trooper.
230 companies of Cruicio Siege tanks
142 companies of Goliath walkers
1 regiment of the Parliament Guard.
1,3 million planes
230k helicopters
971 Military bases
"++Added variable factors++"
° Disgruntled population
° And Militia groups willing to join the Imperium.
° Alpha legion have infiltrated and placed demo charges in critical infrastructure and ready to detonate.
° UED ran out of resources to manufactured war material.
Objectives on both factions
Imperium:
• Control every major city and destroy the military bases.
• Capture Scientific Centers and gather all their research data, if not UED scientist is a major objectives
• If possible allowed them to surrender if not, complete obliteration.
• Dismantling of the regime is top priority
UED:
• Survive the Onslaught
•Use whatever means to hold back the invaders to get the best negotiation terms for the UED government
• UED commanders need to work with limited resources.
++Estimation of Victory: Imperium, ETA: Conservative estimation is 1 year and 3 months to fully place it under Imperium rule++
(A/n): Short, I know.
It's better to be short and more frequently or long but throne know when?
Just tired, watching the world burn. And going insane in their wake.
Good luck, brits... Ya going ta need all the leprechaun lucky charms to win the country legally...
I never knew much about the UED, Kerrigan during the Heart of the swarm, hinted of their arrival to Stukov.
And the books about it is sparse, it's a knockoffs of the Starships Troopers but more corrupted and bloated with bureaucracy, and making false flags to justify their actions. But I estimated it was a fraction of their forces that was sent to the Koprulu Sector originally.
But in this scenario, they saw two bulging empires that feasted upon the corpse of the Confederacy and very rich in wealth, the politicians forced the government to invade the Koprulu Sector with practically 2/3 of their fleet.
But thanks to blizzard, StarCraft 3 was supposed to be UED focused game. And their returned intrusion or the Koprulu Sector, and meeting a aged Valerian.