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==The National Service Of The Empire==
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Date: Frost 42, 1240
Category: Field Report
Sub-Category: THE KIOTE CRISIS
Project CASEMATE
Transmitted via the request of State-Director Ander Tresckow to The Office of Emperor Stefan-Kirk
Hail My Lord Emperor!
The situation in The Kiote Peninsula is - as you know by now - rapidly deteriorating. Despite the best efforts of our forward officers, intelligence agents, and defensive warfare experts, our only ally on the Kiote Peninsula is rapidly losing ground. Furthermore, the notoriously instable River Republic is showing signs of complete political collapse as rebel groups (No doubt sponsored by the human pests in the Belford Alliance) begin to take up arms in order to infiltrate the Republic from the inside with their cancerous ideological visions. Meanwhile, our investments into the security of the Republic have proven to be for naught, as it is confirmed that several officers within the River Republic are already mobilizing and securing elements of the Republican Guard and Republican Militia to their own personal loyalties in the event of Marshal Navarro's death. Should Navarro perish or be successfully overthrown, the River Republic will collapse into complete madness. As the Republic sits on our immediate southern border it is clear that we cannot, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, allow this mayhem to happen.
Our intelligence officers have been scrambling the past month to understand how exactly, despite our best preparation and even the positioning of elite armed formations (Namely, our two Mechanized-Dragon Battlegroups; PHOENIX and VEIL), the Ostralander demons and their Kiote lapdogs managed to break through our lines and launch an invasion of the Republican capital. We have known for a fact that the Kiote Union lacks the strength necessary to even properly defend their own territory, much less conduct an invasion of this magnitude successfully. Even with the aid of Commonwealth Forces (Which the rats in Belford have denied so far, though this is all but confirmed), the last Kiote War was fought into a stalemate. The offensive blitz we are witnessing now should - by all means - be impossible... normally, this would prompt a revision of our military tactics in order to counter the advances of Belford Alliance forces, however, this current situation has proven different. In fact, it intrigues us.
Recently, we've been getting increased reports from ground forces within the Republican Guard and the Imperial Battlegroups PHOENIX/VEIL of UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS being spotted conducting aerial strikes against our forces. Though many troops (Even senior officers) have identified the aircraft as being of Commonwealth origin, the photographs taken, munitions fragments, and the difficulty our ekron-assisted computer systems have had in tracking these aircraft let us know that we are dealing with something far more advanced than what we know the Ostralanders are capable of. Our suspicions of trickery have only amplified following the invasion of Helena, as our missile systems have managed to lock on and destroy several "Ostralander" aircraft that defies all of our expectations. We have ordered Republican officials to surrender all captured fragments of destroyed aircraft to relevant Imperial authorities for examination, and though the investigation is underway we are almost certain that these are not Ostralander or Oceanian aircraft.
Furthermore, we've obtained prisoners. Only three human survivors have been captured from crash sites across Helena. After they were handed over to NSE authorities for advanced interrogation, we can officially say that our suspicions have been confirmed:
The original instigators of the conflict, despite all signs saying otherwise, has not been of Commonwealth origin at all. Rather, we are dealing with a new, hyper-advanced, and otherworldly faction comprised almost entirely of humans nearly identical to the humans that we share Narva with.
Lord Emperor, I assure you that despite how ridiculous this may sound - the NSE has not arrived at this conclusion easily. I was adamant in waiting until proper evidence presented itself in order to even consider presenting this report to you, and what was once a shaky doubt is now a surefire conclusion. We are dealing with an alien force, one that has fallen under the sway of the Belford Alliance and is now fighting as a hostile entity. The nature of how this could possibly happen is under investigation, and I have already ordered for an increase in NSE resources to be allocated for our agents to scour the Kiote Peninsula in order to document what happened. Due to our lack of aerial superiority, we are unable to gather aerial photographs of the area around Canau - which is where we believe these aliens have originated from. However, we will be sending a team to infiltrate The Warrior Elf tribes and to gather photographs of the location. With your authorization, I will expand these operations under the codename 'Project CASEMATE' in order to grant the NSE the freedom to pursue this alien threat and to find a way to destroy it.
Let me remind you of what is at stake. Avonia cannot bear another humiliation like in The Sacred War, Lord Emperor. The Phoenix must deal with all threats as they arise, and we cannot allow doubt to stand in her way. We have the ability to strike while there is still mass pandemonium among the ranks of everyone involved. There is no opportunity greater to preserve the dignity of the Phoenix than right now. I heavily recommend greenlighting CASEMATE as soon as possible. The fate of elven civilization, our great empire, even our world itself, may be at risk if we allow the Belford Alliance to gain another inch. Should the Republic fall, Belford forces will be right on our border, and we will need to prepare for immediate escalation of the current conflict in order to expel their forces - perhaps even to glitterbomb warfare, if necessary.
I trust in your judgement. You are my master. Trust in my execution.
[THE PHOENIX MUST RISE. WHO MUST FALL?]
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