HOME | DD

Description
Alystra's Backstory, Part 1

Excerpted from the 50th Armor Regiment regimental history:
In AY195, after almost 90 years of intransigence from the republican leadership of the former Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick (the République du Québec et Nouveau-Brunswick, colloquially known as Quebec) over tariffs on the St Lawrence, the Foreign Office of the Republic of Nova Anglia issued a final ultimatum, threatening war if Quebec (the capital) didn’t reduce the tariffs, then Nova Anglia would be forced to use force.
In the years since the founding, Nova Anglia’s War Department scavenged military installations, museums, municipal, county, and state parks; and veterans organizations for combat arms equipment. While most functional combat service support equipment was pooled from existing former National Guard, Reserve, and Active Duty component stocks, ever since AY1 - the year the Russians detonated a nuclear device over one of their cities at a portal - the more advanced combat equipment, such as the vaunted M-1 Abrams MBT were rendered non-operational. The 50th Armored Regiment could be considered a logistics nightmare, with battalions equipped with recovered and reactivated M4A3s (E2s, E4s, E8s), others fielding a mix of M26, M48-series and M60A1/A3 variants. All reactivated armor, if formerly powered by av/mogas, received new turbodiesel engines and automatic transmissions.
As H-Hour for Operation Thunderbolt, the invasion of Quebec, ticked closer, Team Panther went into their staging area in the Black Turn Brook (VT) State Park. Team Panther comprised 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 50th Armored Regiment (M4A3E8*), 42ID, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Alystra T’Siir; and 3rd Platoon, D Company, 2d Battalion (Mech (M1296A3 (Degraded))), 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain, commanded by 2d Lieutenant Yosef Montoya.
At H minus 30, Team Panther conducted the last pre-step inspections and fueling, before stepping off in the predawn gloom at H minus 10, and motoring up VT-114 to the border, crossing through the Nova Anglican Border Patrol checkpoint at H minus 1, and through the DCPAF (République du Québec et Nouveau-Brunswick Direction centrale de la police aux frontières) checkpoint, before dropping the hammer and commencing a thunder run towards its first objective of Coaticook, Quebec, capturing the town within minutes with zero rounds expended; the only Québecois casualty was a member of the Gendarmerie nationale breaking an arm bailing out of his police cruiser before A5, under the command of Platoon Sergeant Sawyer Perkins ran over it.
Infantry with M1296A3 and M4A3E8* support quickly swept through Coaticook, and noted no resistance. Refueled by tankers from 250th BSB and relieved by follow on units of Task Force Predator, Team Panther split into two elements, with one with two Shermans and 3 Strykers, commanded by 1LT T’Siir, the other with three Shermans and two Strykers, commanded by 2LT Montoya and P/Sgt Perkins. T’Siir’s element continued up Highway 147; 2LT Montoya and P/Sgt Perkins’ provided overwatch and flank support along Chemin de Cochrane. Rendezvousing at the local Québec PTT (Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones) office in Compton, Lieutenants T’Siir and Montoya conferred, and decided to push for the Mont Bellevue suburb of Sherbrooke.
Aerial reconnaissance reports were lacking, and Lieutenant T’Siir was uncertain of the disposition of forces coming out of QFB Valcartier, particularly the 12th Armoured Regiment and 1st Division, Forces Québec. Making the executive decision, Lt T’Siir ordered fuel topped from the local gas station, draining the diesel tanks of the Compton Sonic dry. Rolling out of the gas station, with a pair of their attached Strykers acting as a scout element, Team Panther headed for its objective two hours after crossing the border, eventually joining with the morning rush on the 410 expressway…to the astonished looks of the civilians. 1LT T’Siir, cognizant of the difficulties of interfacing armored combat vehicles in civilian traffic, had ordered hatches open and heads out while the convoy rolled along the shoulder of the expressway towards Exit 10 and Rue Belvédère Sud, even taking the opportunity to wave at a school bus full of kids heading to school.
Arriving at, and taking over the local municipal building for her headquarters, 1LT T’Siir began placing her small forces. Two two tank sections, with an infantry squad each, one at Parc du Mont Bellevue, setting up a wide ambush for Rue Dunant and any force coming over the mountain, through the park. The second section, with an additional squad, was set up in the woods behind the shopping center at the intersection of Rue Dunant, Rue Belvédère, and Rue de l’Union, with the second infantry squad backstopping the ambush point at the intersection of Rue Belvédère and Rue Picard. Her tank, Chronic Pain, and 3rd Platoon’s platoon sergeant’s Stryker and embarked squad formed the flying reserve until reinforced by elements of Task Force Predator.

Description
Alystra's Backstory, Part 1

Excerpted from the 50th Armor Regiment regimental history:
In AY195, after almost 90 years of intransigence from the republican leadership of the former Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick (the République du Québec et Nouveau-Brunswick, colloquially known as Quebec) over tariffs on the St Lawrence, the Foreign Office of the Republic of Nova Anglia issued a final ultimatum, threatening war if Quebec (the capital) didn’t reduce the tariffs, then Nova Anglia would be forced to use force.
In the years since the founding, Nova Anglia’s War Department scavenged military installations, museums, municipal, county, and state parks; and veterans organizations for combat arms equipment. While most functional combat service support equipment was pooled from existing former National Guard, Reserve, and Active Duty component stocks, ever since AY1 - the year the Russians detonated a nuclear device over one of their cities at a portal - the more advanced combat equipment, such as the vaunted M-1 Abrams MBT were rendered non-operational. The 50th Armored Regiment could be considered a logistics nightmare, with battalions equipped with recovered and reactivated M4A3s (E2s, E4s, E8s), others fielding a mix of M26, M48-series and M60A1/A3 variants. All reactivated armor, if formerly powered by av/mogas, received new turbodiesel engines and automatic transmissions.
As H-Hour for Operation Thunderbolt, the invasion of Quebec, ticked closer, Team Panther went into their staging area in the Black Turn Brook (VT) State Park. Team Panther comprised 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 50th Armored Regiment (M4A3E8*), 42ID, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Alystra T’Siir; and 3rd Platoon, D Company, 2d Battalion (Mech (M1296A3 (Degraded))), 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain, commanded by 2d Lieutenant Yosef Montoya.
At H minus 30, Team Panther conducted the last pre-step inspections and fueling, before stepping off in the predawn gloom at H minus 10, and motoring up VT-114 to the border, crossing through the Nova Anglican Border Patrol checkpoint at H minus 1, and through the DCPAF (République du Québec et Nouveau-Brunswick Direction centrale de la police aux frontières) checkpoint, before dropping the hammer and commencing a thunder run towards its first objective of Coaticook, Quebec, capturing the town within minutes with zero rounds expended; the only Québecois casualty was a member of the Gendarmerie nationale breaking an arm bailing out of his police cruiser before A5, under the command of Platoon Sergeant Sawyer Perkins ran over it.
Infantry with M1296A3 and M4A3E8* support quickly swept through Coaticook, and noted no resistance. Refueled by tankers from 250th BSB and relieved by follow on units of Task Force Predator, Team Panther split into two elements, with one with two Shermans and 3 Strykers, commanded by 1LT T’Siir, the other with three Shermans and two Strykers, commanded by 2LT Montoya and P/Sgt Perkins. T’Siir’s element continued up Highway 147; 2LT Montoya and P/Sgt Perkins’ provided overwatch and flank support along Chemin de Cochrane. Rendezvousing at the local Québec PTT (Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones) office in Compton, Lieutenants T’Siir and Montoya conferred, and decided to push for the Mont Bellevue suburb of Sherbrooke.
Aerial reconnaissance reports were lacking, and Lieutenant T’Siir was uncertain of the disposition of forces coming out of QFB Valcartier, particularly the 12th Armoured Regiment and 1st Division, Forces Québec. Making the executive decision, Lt T’Siir ordered fuel topped from the local gas station, draining the diesel tanks of the Compton Sonic dry. Rolling out of the gas station, with a pair of their attached Strykers acting as a scout element, Team Panther headed for its objective two hours after crossing the border, eventually joining with the morning rush on the 410 expressway…to the astonished looks of the civilians. 1LT T’Siir, cognizant of the difficulties of interfacing armored combat vehicles in civilian traffic, had ordered hatches open and heads out while the convoy rolled along the shoulder of the expressway towards Exit 10 and Rue Belvédère Sud, even taking the opportunity to wave at a school bus full of kids heading to school.
Arriving at, and taking over the local municipal building for her headquarters, 1LT T’Siir began placing her small forces. Two two tank sections, with an infantry squad each, one at Parc du Mont Bellevue, setting up a wide ambush for Rue Dunant and any force coming over the mountain, through the park. The second section, with an additional squad, was set up in the woods behind the shopping center at the intersection of Rue Dunant, Rue Belvédère, and Rue de l’Union, with the second infantry squad backstopping the ambush point at the intersection of Rue Belvédère and Rue Picard. Her tank, Chronic Pain, and 3rd Platoon’s platoon sergeant’s Stryker and embarked squad formed the flying reserve until reinforced by elements of Task Force Predator.