Redsteel Contingency

Redsteel Contingency was an emergency response plan created by the Brotherhood to ensure the survival of their nation, and to, if possible, cripple the demon’s invasion of their nation. The contingency began after Operation: Crimson Saber, which began with an attempt to preemptively destroy the Song of Absolution and concluded with a failed first response after the Demonic Superportal was opened. The operations after that were designated Operation: Barbossa (the Brotherhood evacuating their forces in the west towards Perth while their fleet moved towards the east) the Battle of Point Zion (an evacuation of civilians the UFRF’s Indian Fleet) Operation: Skyburn (a large air and ground offensive against the Demons in order to possibly destroy the Super Gore Nest and cut off their reinforcements) and the Battle of New Sydney (a final organized stand against the Demons.

Operation: Barbossa

After the chaotic failure of Crimson Saber, the Brotherhood regrouped at their coastal fortresses. Similar to their response in the Great Aubergine War, they erected trenches and fortifications in an attempt to slow the demons, as well as sending missile strikes at the Superportal. Crimson Saber only lasted seven hours in duration, and results in the deaths of one-million Brotherhood of Steel units. Barbossa saw the Brotherhood’s Australian Royal Fleet evacuate over the northernmost tip of the continent towards the east, docking at Newcastle. I’m addition, the UFRF had given them a small fleet of fifteen vessels to accommodate their fleet of 49, comprised of the original Australian fleet of 43 and 5 new vessels constructed during the time of the Brotherhood’s occupation of Australia. This fleet waited at Newcastle for some time, making ready to evacuate the Brotherhood’s eastern forces if necessary, while a UFRF fleet of 40 vessels made their way to Perth, Australia, at a landing point designated Point Zion. The UFRF fleet, consisting of an Avenger-class mine countermeasure ship, four Ticonderoga cruisers, six Ohio-class nuclear submarines, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the USS Pueblo, and an old Soviet-era Typhoon sub. Meanwhile, Brotherhood soldiers scrambled to combat the hostile Demon forces, which now numbered roughly 20 million. Most of central Australia is under demon control, and the Brotherhood has lost 3 million troops so far. 9 million active soldiers and 1.3 million navy and air personnel remain. Several million civilians are evacuated west as a UFRF fleet of now 90 military and 300 civilian vessels arrive at various points across the Australian west coast.

The Battle of Zion Point

A critical battle in the war, and what is considered to be the Brotherhood’s last victory. Point Zion, the codename given to the city of Perth, was the last major Brotherhood holdout in the west as millions of demons flooded the continent. Most of the some 500,000 civilian militia units of the Brotherhood were killed trying to contain the demonic outbreak during Crimson Saber, and the Brotherhood’s two million soldiers in the west were hard-pressed to escape. The troops held the line against a force three times their size with help from landing UFRF troops, and roughly 1.1 million Brotherhood troops survived. Half joined the evacuation fleet of 9 million civilians, and the other half attempted to escape south, but were found and killed by Demons despite a long battle.

Operation: Skyburn was a final desperate counter-offensive by the Brotherhood. Utilizing fifteen squadrons utilizing F-35a stealth jets and OSC Cutlass-75s, the Brotherhood launched a long counter-offensive utilizing 300,000 personnel on Vertibirds, landing them right at the center of the demonic invasion, the Super Gore Nest. While the soldiers razed the Nest using flamethrowers. The soldiers, though brave, fell to a massive onslaught of roughly two million demons. With their ground forces lost, the squadrons dropped napalm, cruise missiles, and even three nuclear warheads at various parts of the nest. The nest itself was almost completely destroyed, but ultimately the objective failed: one nuclear bomb,