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T+0: Gate transit signature detected at HO-01/5404.4 gate. Gate security patrol reports a large number of contacts.
T+1: Gate security patrol eliminated. Contacts confirmed hostile and burning for Home orbit intercept course.
T+3: All available forces in Home mobilized to intercept. Maneuver groups formed around carriers Hornet, Novosibirsk, and Admiral Vogel.
T+7: Intercept group exits Home orbit. All available HOPE patrols mobilized to orbit of Home or Away.
T+145: Contact group splits. Main body remains on route for Home orbit intercept. Significant secondary force alters trajectory towards Eos gate. No additional forces available to intercept.
T+153: Admiral Vogel and escorts alter trajectory away from main intercept group towards Eos gate.
T+187: Previous command decision overruled. Admiral Vogel ordered to cease burn towards Eos gate and rejoin intercept group. Main intercept group decelerates to allow linkup with Admiral Vogel.
T+422: Intercept group enters weapons range of main hostile force.
T+425: Novosibirsk lost with all hands.
T+437: Intercept group withdraws. Significant losses to both sides confirmed. Hostile force continues burn towards Home orbit.
T+448 Intercept group reorganized. Separate task forces formed around Hornet and Admiral Vogel. Emergency acceleration authorized to return to Home.
T+664: TF Hornet and Vogel arrive in Home and Away orbit. Crew effectiveness reduced due to effects of emergency acceleration and deceleration. Limited crew rotations performed when possible.
T+672: Secondary hostile force arrives at Eos gate. Gate security patrol eliminated.
T+674: Gate transit signature detected at Eos gate. Secondary hostile force contacts disappear.
T+683: SIGINT reports organization of hostile force into multiple task elements for operations in Home orbit.
T+701: New orders assigned to task forces. TF Hornet assigned to prevent capture of Delaware and Rubicon elevators. TF Vogel to intercept any attempts to perform orbital drop.
T+720: Hostile force enters Home orbit.
T+722: Primary hostile force engages TF Hornet. Secondary hostile force takes geostationary positions over Jersey and San Germain. TF Vogel prepares to intercept landing attempts.
T+723: Secondary hostile force commences orbital bombardment of targets in Jersey and San Germain. Ships detach to geostationary positions over Lucknow and Stanford. TF Vogel is caught out of position and reorganizes to attack.
T+724: Hornet lost. Command transferred to cruiser Manticore.
T+725: Total loss of structural integrity in Delaware elevator. Cable detaches on unstable orbital arc. TF Manticore and hostile force both withdraw with serious damage.
T+726: Orbital bombardment of targets in Lucknow and Stanford commences. Hostile ships attacked by TF Vogel over Jersey and San Germain retreat and establish geostationary orbit over Salem.
T+727: Catastrophic damage to Hermes and civilian satellite communications infrastructure in orbital path of Delaware cable. All surviving HOPE vessels withdrawn from combat and retasked with orbital debris containment.
T+728: Hostile ground forces land on Away.
T+729: Ships over Lucknow and Stanford retreat to Salem geostationary orbit with TF Vogel in pursuit. Bombardment of targets in Salem begins but is halted by strikes from TF Vogel that destroy most of the hostile space-to-surface strike capability. Hostile Bombardment group withdraws, TF Vogel continues to pursue.
T+730: Primary hostile force regroups and occupies Rubicon elevator. Bombardment group vectors to link up.
T+731: TF Manticore regroups.
T+732: Bombardment group arrives at Rubicon elevator to rejoin main force. TF Vogel engages and suffers serious damage. TF Manticore arrives to provide cover and assist retreat.
T+733: TF Vogel and TF Manticore withdraw from Rubicon elevator. Hostile forces establish full control.
T+734: Hostile ground forces land on Home.
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