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| startdate  = August [[3151]]
| enddate    = 2 October 3151
| planet     = [[Arc-Royal]]
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| result     = Kell Hounds victory
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| faction1   = [[Kell Hounds]]
| commander1 = [[Callandre Kell]]
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| faction2   = [[Clan Jade Falcon]]
| commander2 = [[Riss (Clan Jade Falcon)|Riss]]
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The '''Battle of Arc-Royal (3151)''' was a early [[IlClan Era]] military operation undertaken by by the Kell Hounds against former Jade Falcons in Arc-Royal in August to October [[3151]].

==Operation Brief==
The battle took place in Arc-Royal.

==Operation History== 
===Units Involved in the Conflict===
====Jade Falcons====
*[[433rd Solahma Trinary]]

=====[[Lyran Commonwealth]]=====
*[[Kell Hounds]]

===Origin of Conflict===
The [[Battle of Arc-Royal (3146)]] left Clan Jade Falcon in control of Arc-Royal, home of both [[Clan Wolf (in Exile)]] and Kell Hounds. The commander of the Hounds, Callandre Kell, launched a campaign of guerrilla attacks into the Falcon's occupation Zone, but recovering her world always remained her top priority. From the group's secret base, in the [[Beta Regulus II]] system, she gathered all former Hounds she could, and at the dawn of the IlClan Era, she decided to attack.<ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 33</ref> 
Her Hounds, about a reinforced battalion, strike the world of [[Santana]], to obtain intel about Arc-Royal, but they didn't find any opposition. Almost all the Falcon's garrison had departed, months ago, and the Falcon's government had collapsed. That made Callandre change of plans and decide to attack Arc-Royal, leaving her plans to scout the planet first. Her people attempted to contact the Exiled Wolves, but in vain, so he decided to attack alone with all what she had.<ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 35</ref>

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===Space Battle===
In August, after leaving a stable government on Santana, the Hounds launched their attack. Arc-Royal housed important weapons manufacturing facilities, as five ''sibko'' training centers, so the ''solahma'' garrison was about two [[Cluster]]s strong. Both jump points had recharge stations with aerospace Stars of fighters, so the Hounds jumped into a pirate point. Knowing she was outnumbered, Callandre decided to use her battalion of combined arms as a mobile force, moving and striking. Their first target was the [[Lupus Majoris Orbital Yards]], in space around the planet. The Hounds aerospace fighters moved towards the yards, and his only defense, a lone [[Broadsword]]-class [[DropShip]] barely finished launched from his berth, along with a understrength [[Star]] of [[Avar]] and [[Jagatai]] fighters. Though the defenders crippled a Hounds boarding craft, the ''Broadsword'''s reactor failed, and the surviving sibcadet pilots surrendered.<ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 35-36</ref>

===Ground Campaign===
From the space, the Hounds surveyed the planet, locating all the Falcon's forces. These were dispersed in several places, in two continents, so Callandre decided to attack and destroy one force at a time. The Hounds landed on the continent of Gerechtland, moving towards the primary enclave. The defenders, the 433rd Solahma Trinary, emerged and engaged them with armor and infantry in a snow-covered valley. The Hounds' armor, led by Callandre's [[SM1#Variants|SM5 Field Commander]], got through the Falcon's lines, engaging them from the back and destroying their vehicle engines with precision attacks. The Hounds' 'Mechs easily crushed the survivors which pursued the retreating armor.
During the month, the Hounds targeted all other Falcon's concentrations on planet, destroying them all. The last ones to fall were their positions in Mount Zugspitze, at the end of the month. Meanwhile, the Hounds had contacted local resistance cells, which provided them with better intel, and began spreading the news of the Kell Hounds' return.<ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 36</ref>
In mid-September, the Hounds shifted their operations to the other continent, Gutheim. Their first target was New Hannover, where the Arc-Royal MechWorks and Kell Refit Facilities were located. The local garrison, warned by the Hounds' previous attacks, had quickly maximized production and called reinforcements, so they were well equipped and entrenched, so the Hounds strike-and-run attacks failed to dislodge them. But when a ''sibko'' approached, Callandre shifted the attack to them, crushing them easily. The ''solahma'' garrison, coming to their aid, was trapped in the open and easily destroyed by the Hounds careful trap.
After equipping her forces with equipment from the factories, the Hounds now could field about two combined arms battalion, but still were outnumbered by the garrison, so Callandre ordered the neutralization of the facilities, taking key components, and left them undefended. 
The Hounds' next target was a training facility in the jungle. The attacking Hounds found the practice fields active with holographic decoys, but the only opposition they found was a few antiquated tanks, crewed by the facility ''solahma'' instructors. The attackers easily crushed them, and when interrogated the senior Falconer about the cadets' location, he taunted Callandre telling her than all the Falcon's garrison was awaiting her in the capital, Old Connaught. 
Before she could order an attack, on October 1st, the garrison commander, Star Colonel [[Riss (Clan Jade Falcon)]] sent a broadcast where he showed the execution of 1,000 civilians, telling he would do the same every day if Callandre didn't surrender or abandon the Falcon's occupation zone permanently.
If Riss had expected to scare or force the surrendering of the Hounds, he was wrong: he only managed to enrage Callandre: to her, there wasn't any option which wasn't to free the planet once for all, so she ordered all the Hounds forces gathering and ordered a total assault against Old Connaught.<ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 36-37</ref>

===Final Battle===
The Hounds quickly deployed their forces in the outskirts of Old Connaught, but without attacking, despite the Falcon's challenges. Instead Callandre sent a signal to the captured ''Broadsword'' and it began descending toward the center of the Falcon's positions. The garrison, thinking the DropShip was going to deploy troops, opened fire on it. However, the uncrewed ship crashed into their formation, annihilating half a Cluster and scattering the survivors. Then the Hounds attacked. 
However, the Falcons quickly recovered and, eschewing their defensive positions, they surged, attacking the Hounds in the Morein Basin, the place of the previous day's massacre. The mercenaries used their high mobility to hit and run. Riss in his [[Hunchback IIC]] personally engaged Kell's ''Malahide'' tank. Callandre, talking in the open, revealed to the garrison the annihilation of Clan Jade Falcon's on [[Terra]], a fact which apparently the Star Colonel hadn't shared with his men. The fight soon began winding down except for the two leaders. 
Despite having a 'Mech with superior weaponry, Callandre's fast SM5 outmaneuvered Riss and downed his 'Mech. Riss refused to surrender, so Kell annihilated him with an artillery attack.<ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 38-39</ref>

===Aftermath===
Riss' death put an end to both the battle and the Falcons' occupation of the planet. The survivors fully agreed to Kell's conditions and left in her hands all those involved in the massacre along with any 'Mechs manufactured on Arc-Royal. The Falcons could retreat with whatever material they'd originally landed, nothing more. All accepted the conditions and left the planet to Callandre's forces. She proclaimed the birth of a new protostate the same day: the [[Arc-Royal Liberty Coalition]].<ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 38</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Tamar Rising]]''

[[Category: IlClan Era Military Operations|Arc-Royal (3151)]]