An old saying in the empire is "even a wounded animal can kill." This refers to how foolish hunters can inspect their kill to early and be pounced by their prey, ending a fool's life early. The Cinderist justification for war set off alarm bell throughout the military. To cover the possible invasion locations Imperial forces gathered in two main locations. Mostly in the south-east at incase the Cinderist try a surprise invasion from an odd direction, while the rest gathered in the north at key choke points. When the Cinderist came from west through the GASI border this confused the military as GASI is at peace with the empire. However, the confuse did little to the heavily garrisoned and defensively western border. Capital Supremacy Stations cover the border designed to halt GASI forces before a counterattack. Against Cinderist forces, the station heavy armor, powerful shields, and dangerous weapon batteries grinding away the Cinderist forces. Planets that do fall are at the edges of the star-systems where the stations are the farness from. The confusion prevented early missile strikes, until the entire situation was understood. Now with the situation now know, missiles strikes have begun launched into enemy lines, with surveillance systems indicating that anti-missile systems have been established swarms of cheaper missiles with identical looks, engines, and programing as the actual missiles are launched. But for the Cinderist homeland the missile program has responded immediately with 20 Gen-10 Warp Missiles fired at CE homeland (these will take 2 IRL days, details of the missiles and why I choice this time are explained at the bottom) and more are being prepared for the second wave. With the western border holding reserve units meant for counterattacking have redeployed to the North mostly at two locations of Serafina Tunnel (a star system that directly connects mining operation in the north with an industrial sector) and Radon Heart (a star system that connects many system together), while in the south more Imperial forces are being redeployed. In the meantime, due to the Cinderist redirecting forces to the north have opened their supply lines to neutral territory. To exploit this Spector Class-Stealth Cruisers are sent through the enemy lines and attack convoys sneaking past the line back home. The invasion has caught the empire at an important time, with the parties discussing if they should redirect heavy industry away from military use toward civilian. The invasion has ended the discusses with a super-majority vote in favor of complete activation of military industrial complex. Of course, the resources to run such heavy industry have to be pulled away from sectors of the economy and parts of the empire. Resources once used for expansion are completely redirected into factories. As the economy starts straying from the resource limitations for the war. More young adults are having challenges for finding jobs pushing them towards joining the military. At the same time cloning facilities are being fully employed and are being to run at full capacity, while these taking longer before the facilities will cover loses in the war. Once, they do the numbers of clones can snowball allowing the reduction of civilians and thus allowing the economy and military to run at full strength, this is a longer plan and requires that the facilities run non-stop for a long time. From new generations of clone soldiers, missile command bombing the enemy positions, to soldiers fighting on the front lines. The empire roars with furry as it pounces on the foolish hunter. Gen-10 or Generation 10 Warping Missiles. (This explains the missile: pls read it. if you don't want to read it and just want the basic points, here you go. • The Missiles uses an extreme form of warping that takes it into a sub-reality, this gives it un parallel range. • The Sub-reality warping is so extreme that no computerized or human guided system could aim it, as such with the use of hyper-specific calculations for the fuel and direction. The missile is aimed by pre-setting systems that if off by a single digit can through the missiles aim off by light-years. • Intercepting the missile is impossible. The first of the many challenges is that an interceptor needs Unrealitivity technology, which only the Radiant Empire has access to. Second, the interceptor needs to hit a target that is larger than a big refrigerator. Third, the interceptor has to be aimed by pre-set calculations to hit the missile. Fourth and finally, the interceptor needs the same hyper-specific calculations, but for a warping target that needs to first be tracked, which is highly difficult due to the missile leaving only hints to its direction and speed.) Reasoning for 2 IRL days is since the distance for these missiles is insane, 2 days is very generous. That means CE got 2 days to prepare for planets to be deleted.
