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Faced with the prospect of bringing in [[WarShip]]s or drafting in additional ground forces to hunt down Talasko and his relatively small force of Special Forces personnel, the Rim Worlds forces instead decided to disable the planetary [[HPG]] and removed every [[JumpShip]] in the system. They then left a handful of sentry vessels in place to monitor the system, and left Talasko and his forces isolated, in control of Sabik, but with no way to leave the system and with Sabik cut off from the rest of the Hegemony. Talasko had brought his own assault [[DropShip]] with him, which had survived the attacks, and the SLDF still had a number of other intact DropShips available to them, but the SLDF troops had nowhere to go, and had no options other than to try and repair the HPG and to wait for reinforcements.<ref name="H:LoTV1p84"/>
 
Faced with the prospect of bringing in [[WarShip]]s or drafting in additional ground forces to hunt down Talasko and his relatively small force of Special Forces personnel, the Rim Worlds forces instead decided to disable the planetary [[HPG]] and removed every [[JumpShip]] in the system. They then left a handful of sentry vessels in place to monitor the system, and left Talasko and his forces isolated, in control of Sabik, but with no way to leave the system and with Sabik cut off from the rest of the Hegemony. Talasko had brought his own assault [[DropShip]] with him, which had survived the attacks, and the SLDF still had a number of other intact DropShips available to them, but the SLDF troops had nowhere to go, and had no options other than to try and repair the HPG and to wait for reinforcements.<ref name="H:LoTV1p84"/>
  
When [[Operation CHIEFTAIN]] began on the 14th of July [[2772]]<ref name="H:LoTV1p118">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 118, "Returning Home"</ref> Sabik was one of the first wave of targets for those forces operating on the Draconis Front. Following the damage inflicted by the nuclear attacks, orbital strikes and bombings inflicted by the Republican forces during the initial coup, the commando forces commanded by Talasko had sheltered tens of thousands of civilian survivors within the Castle Brian and the remnants of Sabik's other military facilities.<ref name="H:LoTV1p124">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 124, "Draconis Front"</ref>
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When [[Operation CHIEFTAN]] began on the 14th of July [[2772]]<ref name="H:LoTV1p118">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 118, "Returning Home"</ref> Sabik was one of the first wave of targets for those forces operating on the Draconis Front. Following the damage inflicted by the nuclear attacks, orbital strikes and bombings inflicted by the Republican forces during the initial coup, the commando forces commanded by Talasko had sheltered tens of thousands of civilian survivors within the Castle Brian and the remnants of Sabik's other military facilities.<ref name="H:LoTV1p124">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 124, "Draconis Front"</ref>
  
 
The Republican forces had launched three major incursions onto Sabik between the coup in 2766 and the arrival of SLDF liberation forces in 2772; each incursion had been intended to lay the groundwork for Amaris' forces to return to Sabik en masse to reopen the mining operations there, and each incursion had killed more of the population. Sabik was dependent on regular supplies of food and other essentials from offworld, and mere survival had soon become the greatest challenge for those on the planet.<ref name="H:LoTV1p124"/>
 
The Republican forces had launched three major incursions onto Sabik between the coup in 2766 and the arrival of SLDF liberation forces in 2772; each incursion had been intended to lay the groundwork for Amaris' forces to return to Sabik en masse to reopen the mining operations there, and each incursion had killed more of the population. Sabik was dependent on regular supplies of food and other essentials from offworld, and mere survival had soon become the greatest challenge for those on the planet.<ref name="H:LoTV1p124"/>

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