RL-54 Incident

"I say it's about time we showed them we aren't going to take it lying down, or otherwise, they'll just keep slaughtering our colonies by the dozens. It's time we strike at one of their homeworlds."

- CPTN Shannon Hambleton

The HL-54 Incident was a highly-classified military operation which took place during the. Undertaken by the with assistance from the, the goal of the conflict was an ambitious if highly risky one: to capture a heavy  capital ship and use it to launch an attack on a major world deep within their territory. It was hoped that such a surprise attack would not only buy the time to develop new countermeasures against the alien hegemony, but also scare their civilisation population into pressuring their leaders for a truce with humanity. It was made up of two subordinate operations, codenamed SATIN TOUCH, which was responsible for the capture of the enemy carrier, and VELVET BLADE, which concerned itself with the actual attack.