Battle of Black Earth (3050)

Battle of Black Earth
Part of Clan Invasion
Start Date 3050 Planet Black Earth
Factions
(Attacker) Clan Jade Falcon	(Defender) Federated Commonwealth
Forces involved
Gyrfalcon Galaxy	Survivors of both the First Grave Walkers and Seventeenth Skye Rangers

Overview

In April of 3050, Clan Jade Falcon invaded Black Earth as part of the Second Wave of Operation REVIVAL. The entire Gyrfalcon Galaxy was dispatched to conquer the world, which was defended by those survivors of both the First Grave Walkers and Seventeenth Skye Rangers who had managed to escape from earlier Falcon attacks. At the Black Earth Space Port the Jade Falcon aerospace contingent surprised its Seventeenth Skye counterparts while they were still on the ground, although in a show of fairness the Falcon aerospace commander allowed the enemy pilots to get in their fighters and take off before being destroyed. When the ground attack against the spaceport began the Seventeenth Skye managed to resist for little over an hour against the Jade Falcons before being overrun. At New Houston the Grave Walkers set fire to the oil at one of the refineries in hopes of using the resulting black smoke to screen their forces, only to learn that such a trick was useless against the superior technology of the Clans. From opening shot to the defenders' final surrender the battle for Black Earth took less than thirty hours.

Units involved

Clan Jade Falcon

• Gyrfalcon Galaxy

Federated Commonwealth

• Survivors of both the First Grave Walkers and Seventeenth Skye Rangers

Bibliography

• Jade Falcon Sourcebook (sourcebook)