Mission One

Watch Station
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Insertion Options: (Orbit) Drop Pod, (Surface) Naval Transport
Special Release: Limited Orbital Strike, Limited Seaborne Artillery Support
Extraction Options: (Surface) Naval Transport

This world is contested by the Imperium and the Tau Empire, the Tau control the small continents and many of the islands, their Air Caste controlling the skies except where the Imperial AA Batteries are deployed. The Tau are attempting negotiations with the native sentients on the planet, no doubt in the same form as the Kroot and Vespid were recruited.

The Imperium controls the mainland, the largest continent on the world and the location of a Manufactorum which has been refitted and staffed, producing a number of minor components for the Crusade that they would otherwise need to do without. The facility is enormous and has yet to be fully explored and assessed, a task that the Adeptus Mechanicus has Teams enroute from the Calixis Sector to perform. The Imperial Guard Garrisons on the planet include a large number of Hydras, making up for their lack of airpower by denying the enemy the airspace around them.

Both forces have ships around the planet and in the vicinity, occasionally a brief exchange of fire will occur, but neither side has the ships needed to defend a single planet should the other side be pushed out. It has been discerned that the Tau forces are only an advance force, however there is no data to indicate when or if their main force will arrive.