Operation Serpenthead

Operation Serpenthead was a military attack on the Space Station Vecton in 119. The plan focused on retrieving the Apsis Mechsuit model quickly, as the Terran Armed Forces were afraid the technology would leak to their enemies, the Sovereign Sphere Federation.

Operation
Operation

Units and Commanders
The operation consisted of two parts. The landfall or distraction, and the retrieval of the Apsis or surgery. The distraction was to be executed by a large ad-hoc Power Hoplite formation commanded by Rear-Admiral Daniel Pickett. The surgery was to be performed by regulars led by Ensign Teo Odysseus.

Battle
The landfall struck a lunar mare near the city of Dilare. The rebel defences were brutal and hacked away at the non-power armoured 'power hoplites', who suffered immense casualties. Meanwhile the Triple-Ss were led astray and accidentally landed in a heavily fortified lunar mare ending in the deaths of almost every Triple. With the Triples dead, Teo Odysseus changed his plans and took personal command of some of the Hoplites. Teo commanded a small soldier squad commanded by Sergeant Maximillian Pierre de Olassio, to search and extricate the Apsis.

Olassio's men infiltrated the research facility, and managed to secure the Apsis'. During their task, they were ambushed by rebel piloted Apsis lancersuits. Sergeant Olassio, who had no heavy weapons in his squad, ordered his men to mount the Apsis models near them and thus the first recorded lancersuit fight began. The fight was quite uneventful as Crewman 1st Class Elias Kastinen merely shot the enemy lancer with a blind accidental shot. Following this, the squad proceeded to march their Apsises to their extraction site, where atmospheric shuttles came to pull out Olassio's squad along the lancers.

Aftermath
Following the Apsis extraction, the troops taking part in the landfall battle was soon withdrawn themselves. The planet remained in rebel control until the end of the Terra-Federation War, after which actual Power Hoplites easily captured the planet massacring most of the rebels.