Camora City, Twycross, May 12,3031
This war-torn planet seems to be well on the way to recovery now as the third in a series of relief cargo ships unloads for its mission of mercy. Tywcross had never stopped fighting from June 2, 3050, when the Jade Falcons' Falcon Guard ships appeared insystem, until the end of September, when the last remnants of the Clan forces left the planet. Twycross is one of two planets which have ever been recaptured once taken by a Clan force. In June it was captured in a lighting-fierce short war. Although scattered guerilla forces maintained anti-Clan activity, the efforts of most citizens centered around staying alive.
Until September, when Federated Commonwealth JumpShips appeared in system and it became apparent that the 10th Lyran Guards, the Kell Hounds, and the Ninth Federated Commonwealth RCT were attacking in force sufficient to retake the planet, the people of Twycross dug up their buried weapons and joined in with a vengeance. Cool-headed resistance groups jammed enemy communications near the cities, while back-country guides made contact somehow, anyhow, to aid their liberators.
It had been the general staff's theory that only second-line troops, garrison troops would remain on the planet. The Clans have seemed consistently to pull out their frontline shock troops after a planet is conquered so as to use them in the conquest of the next planet. Unfortunately for this theory, the scattered guerilla activities had warranted the attentions of the elite Falcon Guard.
Due to gallant action on many fronts (Kai Allard-Liao's action in blowing the reactor of his borrowed Hatchetman to bring down a pass on entire enemy company is only the best publicized) the Federated Commonwealth retook this world from the Clans' best warriors.
The damage to the cities was extensive but happened in quick battles, so it is easier to repair. The chief problem remaining to Twycross was that a year's food harvest had gone uncultivated and unharvested. The population of this planet required massive gifts of food to last the winter. Public and private agencies supplied food and medical aid; the resurgent spirit of the people of Twycross has accomplished the rest of the needed healing.
There was a motion before the legislature of Twycross to rename the planet "We Did It". The motion was defeated, but the feeling remains. Twycross is proud of itself.
BattleTechnology News From the Front
Back to BattleTechnology 17 Table of Contents
Back to BattleTechnology List of Issues
Back to MagWeb Magazine List
© Copyright 1992 by Pacific Rim Publishing.
This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web.
Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com