Calin’s World was a newly established gateway hub world with several gateways to planets near or connected to many Shogunate worlds. It was also the only Hegemony world with direct gateways to P19-X12. On July 18th of 3305, Hegemony forces on Calin’s World were under direct attack by Shogunate forces. Outnumbered and outgunned, Calin’s World’s defenders were routed back to the Hegemony core worlds to regroup. The Shogunate pressed their advantage, and destroyed all the gateways on Calin’s World with the exception of the gateways to P19-X12.
The Shogunate Quick Reaction Force that invaded Calin’s World was led by Prince Ikoyo in the royal family. Though 327th in line to replace the Meiji Shogunate Emperor, the prince had already made a name for himself in several minor border disputes and pirate exterminations. The Calin’s World Invasion would be his first offensive of galactic renown. The Prince’s plan was not the occupation of Calin’s World, but to cut off the Hegemony’s supply lines to P19-X12, and invade P19-X12 from both the Hegemony and Shogunate gateways to settle all disputes as to the rights to the mineral rich planet. Neither of the two arms of the pincer attack would gate to P19-X12 until 1200 hours standard time on July 20th, 3305.
Unbeknownst to the Shogunate Prince, a large mechanized Hegemony Reclamation Force had departed Calin’s World just a day before the Shogunate invasion, and awaited the Shogunate Forces on P19-X12. This force had swept thru the meager Shogunate mech regiment that was already in tatters from the Evil Santa Incursion of 3304 and yet to be reinforced. Hegemony force had seized control of the Shogunate gateways, as well as the neutral gateways on P19-X12, before engaging the Shogunate forces, preventing any escape as well as any communications back to Shogunate space. Despite being outnumbered over 200 mecha to 1, the Shogunate forces on P19-X12 refused to surrender, and were wiped out to a man. The Hegemony Reclamation Force was about to destroy the Shogunate gateways, when mecha pilots retreating from Calin’s World gated in. With advance knowledge of the Shogunate forces on Calin’s World, the Hegemony General [Name withheld from Hegemony and Shogunate records] surmised that either the Shogunate Force was going to proceed to the core planets, which would make it the concern of the regional commanders, or it was coming to P19-X12, which would make it his concern. Guessing the later, the General divided his force into 3 components: one at each gateway grouping and one reserve group in between to reinforce either gateway defensive group. He was going to hold P19-X12 from whichever gate the enemy chose. His plan was to destroy the Shogunate Forces as they entered piecemeal through the gates.
At 1200 standard time on July 20th, 3305, gateways on Calin’s World and the Shogunate World known as Ouchijuku, along the Aizu-Nishi Kaido trade route and housing the only Shogunate gateways to P19-X12, flared into brilliant life signaling the beginning of Prince Ikoyo’s hope to conquer of P19-X12. Hegemony forces adjusted their light filters as the gateways blossomed into small supernovas in the night sky of P19-X12.
The resulting battle waged for seventeen hours, and ending in a cease-fire negotiated only when both forces experienced a 95% casualty rate. It was the bloodiest major faction battle in several decades, and was not as one sided as the Hegemony General had hoped.
Initially, Shogunate forces arrived piecemeal and were quickly dispatched by the Hegemony forces surrounding the gateways. After an hour, Shogunate forces were able to create a small beachhead at the Calin’s World/P19-X12 gateways. Using this beachhead, Prince Ikoyo, knowing he could only go forward, summoned his elite company of 100 assault mecha, piloted by the best under his command, and led them on a break-out mission from the gateway. The elite assault company managed to break through the ringed defenses of the Hegemony but at the cost of half of his company. Using the confusion sowed by the breakout, the Shogunate forces were able to extend their beachhead and take the offensive to the remaining Hegemony defense forces with unmolested reinforcements from Calin’s World.
Sensing the collapse of his defenses at the Calin’s World gates, the Hegemony General sent most of his reserve to reinforce his forces there.
Prince Ikoyo was able to avoid the reserves reinforcing the Calin’s World gates and spearheaded an assault to the rear of the forces ringing the Ochijuku gateways. His assault on the Hegemony’s Ochijuku gates forces lasted long enough for the Shogunate forces to form a beachhead and expand from the gateways.
By 1900 standard time, both command elements had gone dark and P19-X12’s surface was a riot of roving Shogunate and Hegemony squadrons battling in hundreds of skirmishes. By the start of July 21st, 3305, a collection of captains from both sides began negotiating a cease-fire. Almost five hours later, a cease-fire was entered, with the remnants of each force clustered around their original gateways and outposts.
By the end of July 22nd, 3305, Prince Iyoko’s broken cockpit was recovered and shipped back to Shogunate territory. In the following week, the Hegemony and Shogunate signed the P19-X12 Armistice Treaty of 3305 restricting the military presence at P19-X12 to one mecha company each, which was close to the number of mecha that survived the battle unscathed.
In honour of this peace, the Craftmen declared that were would not be a Clan War in 3305, since most of the independent clans were now servicing contracts to the Hegemony and Shogunate patrolling territories left in the vacuum caused by the loss of some 40,000 mecha and pilots.
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