Talk:Sauran Theatre

Sauran/Repzork/Remusian[?] Brainstorming
Just a place to toss together and organize notes & ideas for when the actual page is eventually formed - Amak/Vol

Notes/Ideas/Things to consider

 * Potential (and probably accidental) interaction between Sauran and Repzork sentient A.I constructs.


 * Both sides make heavy use of combat robotics; would probably copy each other's ideas and wind up in an arms race.


 * Repzork may still try to negotiate with the Sauran for terraforming tech to use against Margan (see 'An Unexpected Meeting' RP in the primary Discord server for details) depending on time frame. How that would affect the front as a whole is deserving of further discussion.


 * Conflict would probably not be as important to the High Chamber as the Diab front. So unless the situation severely deteriorates, the Repzork-Sauran front would be unlikely to see the same level of brutality, though they may still resort to WMD/Marganite usage late in the war.


 * Potential for Asanian involvement in some way? Would need to discuss with Hang.

-What specifics about the sauran military would be relevant for this? For the repzork/sauran conflict specifically I want to create several scenarios that stem from the different types of fights that take place between them. Starting with spaceship on spaceship combat, which would be a battle between different fleets so we can explore fleet battles and tactics as well as the different ships that will be used for that. From there it can go into invasion and land combat. For the conflict I imagined that the sauran would establish a base of operations nearby their targets, from there they create new forces and act as a resupply point. For that purpose I suggest that the sauran first attack/invade a relatively undeveloped Repzork system, using it as a staging point to launch attacks deeper into repzork space.This way we can explore the different intensities of combat, starting relatively small scale perhaps and increasing with every battle as reinforcements of the repzork arrive. To give the sauran a goal we have them try to liberate Repzork held planets of the betel or another race. (If this isnt the right place for these kinds of comments, let me know and I will place them somewhere else!)
 * Still need to know more about how the Sauran military works in order to work out combat scenarios.

The Remusian Question
1. Alterations required to Rift Incident and Operation Dawnhammer as Betel are, at the moment, not involved in branding. Sauran can theoretically take the place of the Betel in trying to push the Remusians towards the Peacekeepers. Repzork are extremely religious, militaristic, and coldly pragmatic, and use both advanced A.I and cybernetics, but also promise to leave Remusians alone and help them destroy the Collective. Also able to play the propaganda game to paint the Warlords as the victims, not the aggressors, of the war, having to do what is necessary to win. Sauran attributes and Remusian response is up to respective owners.

Alaghax Sector
Potential sector for the Repzork and Sauran (to at least start) fighting in. Once a modestly developed sector with a mixture of urbanized and relatively agrarian colonies, the outbreak of the Great War has seen the military seize control over the region as part of wartime policy. It currently provides a great deal of supplies to the Diab foothold.

Alaghax

 * Regional capitol and namesake of sector.


 * Urbanized and home to a number of production facilities and training centers. Current headquarters of the 843rd armada. Majority of civilian population lives in vast underground cities, with much of the surface reserved for the military. Orbital elevators connect the surface to various orbital stations. Planet and the surrounding system are extensively fortified, beginning with a sensor net at the outer edges of the system, with several defensive 'rings', with Alaghax squarely in the center.


 * Home to a sizeable starport.


 * In the process of receiving a planetary shield, which is still under construction for the foreseeable future.


 * Even getting near here would illicit a fierce response from the mainland. Actually reaching it would exacerbate this response.

Lyrthra

 * Brother planet of Alaghax


 * Lightly-inhabited planet with a predominantly cold climate which is in the process of being terraformed.


 * Considered to be of low priority, Lyrthra, though falling under Alaghax's defense grid, is not a high priority in the event of a major incursion.

Osgara

 * Immense purple-blue colored gas giant home to numerous moons.


 * Home to numerous gas harvesting stations used for both domestic and military production.


 * Also home to starports for maintaining vessels. Marines make up a sizeable chunk of the planet's garrison as a result.


 * Two moons, Zarlr and Ilhiv, are cold, snowy moons home to secret Marganite research stations.

KZE Occupation Zone

 * Small group of colonies home to the Kizanthe, a young minor power annexed into the empire a few years before the Great War.


 * Repzork-Kizanthe war had eliminated much of the Kizanthe's domestic industry, leaving them reliant on the Repzork for many of their needs. This is intentional.


 * Population is not assimilated into Repzork society; while a core of Repzork loyalists does exist, they are small in number. Most are ambivalent or actively resist Repzork rule.


 * Successfully attacking this area would prompt Repzork forces to relocate the Kizanthe to various locations across Repzork space. Sauran objective, if they wish to liberate the Kizanthe, would have to be intercepting these relocation convoys.


 * Successfully liberating the Kizanthe would certainly be a moral and propaganda victory, but would ultimately mean little in terms of grand strategy as the Kizanthe would require outside support and would provide relatively little military manpower.


 * Repzork forces will try to hold the sector, but if a more pressing concern displays itself, Kizanthe front will be diminished. Theoretically, a large enough attack elsewhere at a more vital target would eventually force the Repzork to begrudgingly cede the area.

Timeline

 * Year 5 [?]

- Repzork and Sauran negotiate in secret amidst Operation Downfall. Repzork promise not to attack Sauran and pledge to provide refuge for the Sauran if/when the Peacekeepers are defeated in exchange for terraforming technology. Repzork plan to destroy both Margan and Asanian Syndicate. Both sides come to an agreement. Exchange presumably takes place between years 5 and 6.


 * Year 7

- Repzork authorize use of Marganite-based weapons on offensive operations. First deployment takes place at Diab front at 2nd Battle of Veos.

- Sauran, particularly the Sustainers of Nature, see this as a total betrayal of their previous deal due to Repzork hypocrisy. Sauran pull out of the treaty and launch an offensive against the Repzork. Primary goals are to support the Diabs by pulling Repzork forces away from the foothold & destroying logistics bases in the mainland as well as finding and destroying facilities studying & researching crystals. May also try to liberate annexed client states (Kizanthe, etc).

- Sauran first encounter the 843rd Vindication of Blood, a defensive armada. 150th Fire Hammers (known for robotic proxies) and 77th Saertu's Gaze (attrition/armored warfare) may also be deployed offensively depending on situation develops.


 * Year 17

- Remusian shenanigans.