Aftermath Fiction from Grey Day

This will help contextualize the Grey Day scenario and its outcome.

Brief outline for those not in Lancaster (bet you feel left out since
you didn't stand with Leonidas and his 300 - or in this case Rick and
his five or six...):

early 2165 - KV know about humans, but not much about them. Don't know
how tough a nut they will be to crack or what threat they may possess. They
organize a "hunting trip" with two clans to go get some "samples" and to
engage some human warriors to see if they can figure how tough the humans are.
Op is a black op (deniable) as they wish to remain unknown to the humans. This
is a long range op.

Human EFE (Etats Federal Europa - FSE to you Anglifiers) and New Swabian
League forces are in a period of some cooperation. As an attempt to foster
understanding between forces, professional exchanges are undertaken. In this
case, a joint task force of Swabian and EFE ships is supervising an excercise
on LTT 3902 (a deserted little spot on the map) where an EFE Legion Etrange
Colonial formation (A Platoon of the 5ieme Regiment Aerospaciale Etrange
(5REA) lead by a confident and beautiful
St. Cyr graduate (Major Andrea D'Aubagne, Elite-1) forms an integrated
part of an NSL Luftelandesturm Kompanie. The task force was fatefully named
Zummassenarbeit (cooperation).

AAR in a Nutshell: As the fiction for a Grey Day To Die indicates, the KV pop
insystem and surprise the humans. Handcuffed by first contact ROE, the humans
are overwhelmed by the KV and destroyed to a vessel. The KV then land ground
troops and assault the human forces who attempt to hold until relieved. This
spawned the SG2 monster scenario (winner of the Carter Island Award) at GZG
ECC III. The KV engage the humans,
capture 12-20 prisoners (the Purple KV was busy) (including building an
impromptu prison area in their rear... eh Tom?) and some samples of human
equipment. They get a taste of a gritty, tough human adversary that fights
like a cornered K'ta'tak! The humans put up a fierce and effective resistance,
falling back mostly in good order (though a determined KV assault pretty much
obliterates their leftmost flank). Effective use of reserves holds the day.
The game ends with some human forces surviving and the KV having their
prisoners and samples and a
bloody nose to mull over - these humans will not be an easy target. Of
course, the humans don't know that their Sector HQ hasn't heard from the
fleet - no survivors - so no reinforcements will arrive in time. The
human enclave on LTT 3902 gets nuked flat (sanitization) after the KV have
lifted out their wrecked vehicles. A pretty thorough pounding with nukes makes
sure that little evidence will be left.

So the fiction that follow is putting the aftermath into a historical context.
The FSE and NSL blame each other, and it isn't till far later that the truth
comes out.

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THE MURDERING HUNS ARE AT IT AGAIN!

10 MAR 2165 - PARIS, FRANCE (SOL III) – Yet again Neu Swabian League
Envoys declared categorically that the destruction of Task Force
Zummasenarbeit (Co-operation as it was fatefully named) and the
ecosphere of LTT 3902 on 26/27 FEB 2165 was not their doing. The Neu
Swabian officials denied any involvement in this act of betrayal and murder
and instead insisted that the Etats Federal Europa Military Command had been
behind the destruction of the Task Force and a company of the 1st
Luftelandesturm Division. EFE Defense Ministry officials call

such charges “a blatant attempt to distract the community of mankind from the
horrendous massacre the Huns are responsible for – yet another attempt to
destroy the Etats Federal Europa, their traditional rivals in

Europe.” A spokesman for the EFE President Jean Renault has released a
statement to the press indicating that EFE cannot be placated or bullied

into ignoring this attrocity and will not “allow the murder of its brave

sailors and members of La Legion Etrange Colonial to go unpunished.” Sources
at the EFE Defense Ministry have indicated that the all EFE Military Sector
Commands have had their readiness level upgraded "just in case".

FRENCH HONOUR: AN OXYMORON

9 MAR 2165 - BONN, GERMANY (SOL III) – The Leader of the right-wing
militarist Ein Reich party, speaking to a crowd of other politicians,
statesmen, and senior military men was extremely critical of the League
government’s investigation of “the FSE perfidity at LTT 3902”. Gunter
Galland, who was elected leader of Ein Reich on the back of strong
anti-French sentiments and a policy of refurbishing the New Swabian
Army, was also heard to remark “Mark my words, it will not be long now until
we will once again have to put the boot to the treacherous Frogs and their
unspeakable allies again. We cannot continue to deal as civilized beings with
barbaric savages for whom honour and truth mean nothing. French Honour is an
oxymoron, but fortunately for us, French Courage is equally imaginary.”
Galland indicated that if his party was elected in the upcoming elections, he
would "Teach the French and their lackeys that barbarism will be met with
barbarism." Pollsters indicate
a groundswell of support for an anti-French platform in the wake of
the growing tensions between the two European power blocks and the catastrophe
at LTT 3902.

INS EXCLUSIVE: WHO FIRED THE FIRST SHOT?

15 MAR 2165 - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (SOL III) - Interstellar News Services
(INS)
investigative reporters have received copies of leaked Etats Federal Europa
Military Command documents that indicate only FSE and NSL wreckage was found
orbitting LTT 3902, although strangely little of it (and no ship's
transponders) was found. What is therefore not clear, even to the EFE
investigators, is who fired the first shot, although they seem to presume it
was the Neu Swabian force. Apparently teams were dispatched to the surface,
but it was so contaminated (in the area where the
suspected battle occured) that only in-vehicle reconaissance was
possible and that revealed nothing more than a radioactive wasteland. No
useful intelligence could be gained, but in this area, unidentified EFE
sources high in the Military Command speculate that the NSL force must have
battled the brave Legion Etrange Colonial detachment until, unable to overcome
the steadfaste Legionaires, the NSL then called upon orbital nuclear
bombardment to finish the matter without honour, the Legionaires holding out
to the last and probably crying "Camarein!" even as they died.

SURVIVORS OF "BETRAYAL AT LTT 3902" FOUND - HISTORY REWRITTEN!

15 MAR 2190 - BONN, GERMANY (SOL III) - Today, through Access to
Information,
the Net-zine Volkisherbeobachter uncovered a decades-old conspiracy of
silence on behalf of the New Swabian League Military Intelligence Agency.
Apparently there were a few human survivors of the "Betrayal at LTT 3902" as
it became known. These few shocked and sick soldiers were spirited away from
the sight by a black ops team of the Military Intelligence Agency.

Apparently the military leaders and politicians of the day were kept in
ignorance and were never apprised that survivors existed and most importantly
that those survivors told a very different story of the battle at LTT 3902
than the officially sanctioned version of the time, which no doubt contributed
to the opening of the Third Solar War with all its attendant attrocitiesand
savageries.

The official transcripts of the survivors debriefings indicates a high degree
of skepticism
for the resultant story - that of "strange aliens" destroying the Task
Force and the ad hoc Kampfgruppe Wittman despite a valiant and cooperative
battle between the
EFE/NSL force
and the strange aliens. The survivors even recount the gallant courage of the
tough Legionaires and the Legionaires respect for the fighting spirit and
professionalism of the Luftelandesturm. It is unclear from these transcripts
as to what was done with these few French, Spanish, German and Austrian
survivors, although all of the Neu Swabian families of these survivors had
been informed their loved ones had been slain in "a hideous, murderous
betrayal by the associated FSE Legion force."

The FSE government has no information indicating the existence of these
prisoners and is
certain they were never notified or repatriated - at least no records
exist. It seems quite likely that these inconvenient witnesses were "disposed
of" once they told their stories, as their unpleasant truths could well have
upset the collision course between the two European giants that contributed to
so much violence in the Third Solar War.

It appears the NSL MIA had very little confidence in the veracity of the
"alien enemy" premise at the time anyway. Sadly, their shortsightedness became
apparent with the start of the Xeno War, but like any dark thing once hidden,
it resisted exposure to the light of day. Only through dedicated perserverance
and the profligate use of lawyers, advocates, and inside sources was the truth
able to be brought to light.

In a related note, the familes of the Neu Swabian survivors identified
in these now-revealed documents
are attempting to link up with the FSE survivor's families and are planning to
instigate a massive civil action against the NSL government. They also plan to
demand a Public Inquiry overseen by the government's own Justice Ministry with
the idea that criminal proceedings, courts martial, and public censure be
levied against those engaged in this coverup and the disappearance of these
survivors.