Invasion Progress Stalled:

The invasion started off about as well as we could’ve hoped, we gained large amounts of ground in the opening days. Standard orbital bombardment tactics sent those little furry bastards scurrying to their tunnels. The planet appeared to have no capital city so we chose what our intel told us was a vital location for arms production on the planet to launch our invasion. We gained an area of roughly 500 square miles before we ran into some resistance. Somehow the navy crapped the bed and we’ve just received word that enemy ships have broken through our blockade of the planet’s surface, meaning we’ll no longer have orbital support until the navy can regain control. Another attack went tits up since it was launched before word came through from navy command, what should’ve been a softened target was heavily fortified and forced us to retreat after taking heavy losses, General Rocklin was pissed about that one, pretty sure everyone on the base could hear him yelling at the navy officers responsible for communications, telling ‘em that they just got thousands of men killed.

While he’s not wrong, the general’s outburst just killed what little moral we had left. We’re stuck here in this hellhole with no orbital support and no supply lines. The Ogacihc have started sending out squads to launch probing attacks on our position, luckily those little rats won’t be getting to us any time soon since we managed to fortify our position to try and hold out for the navy to regain control of the skies, who knows how long that’s going to be. As far as I can tell they’re in a constant battle up there, at night you can see the explosions in the sky, occasionally bits of ships come crashing down to the planet's surface, most of ‘em burn up before they hit, creating a strangely beautiful lightshow in the sky. I still don’t fully understand what we’re doing on the backwater of a planet, we were told it held valuable resources but so far it’s just like any other rock to me, but I guess it must be important enough to make an attempt to run our blockade, I’m kinda impressed that those rodents actually managed to pull it off.

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Major Bardzo Tworczy cooked up a plan to try and get us back on the advance, we’re going to send in a team to destroy the enemy tunnels when they launch their next attack, we don’t know when they’re going to attack but we can see ‘em coming so we’ll be able to send a team in as long as everyone remains ready. I have no clue if Tworczy’s plan will work but I need to be ready to go in at any moment, I guess that means I should try to get some rest.