1698–1699 UGB base construction programme
The 1698 AN–1699 AN programme of works undertaken by Benacia Command in the territory of the Unified Governorates focused on the construction of an expanded network of bases to support the operations of the Southern Banner Group in the face of changing political circumstances in Drak-Modan, Sanama, and Shireroth.
The work would see massive investments of capital, manpower, and resources into the Governorates of Florencia and the Trans-Elwynn.
Background
Concurrent with the duration of the Second Elwynnese Civil War it became increasingly apparent that the Vulture States of southern Benacia were loosening the bonds of fidelity hitherto shown to the Raspur Pact. Drak-Modan had sunk into a crisis born of its Draconian Supremacy Movement, Sanama had taken the opportunity of the Scouring to shrug off its obligations and withdraw from the joint-command structure of the Pact, and Shireroth had not only failed to support Elluenuueq during the civil war but had gone out of its way to provide recognition and shelter to the surviving rebels of Cimmeria and Raikoth.
The trends towards disloyalty on the part of the regimes in the Southern Banner Group's area of operations was a concern discussed by the Benacian Union at the Congress of Chryse, and the reports presented to the Congress by Davit Teimuraz and Jasmina Hosseini were not reassuring. An attempt at correcting the leftwards drift of the Sanaman coalition government had conspicuously failed, endangering the position of the Democratic Humanist Party there, while the augurs were pointing towards a Shirerithian intervention in Drak-Modan.
With the First Kildarian Liberation War becoming an ESB/N&H fronted intervention to ward off the rise of the Great Apollonian Empire from amidst the ruins of Jingdao, the position of the Pact in Benacia had to be assured if the forces to contain a resurgent USSO in Apollonia were to be found and sustained.
Florencia
Trans-Elwynn
Across the easternmost governorate of the Unified Governorates, Benacia Command deployed the Commissariat troops of the General Inspectorate to lay down new runways that expand the overall capacity for the Aerospace Forces to operate in the strategic Trans-Elwynn border region. The construction of hardened aircraft shelters and underground facilities associated with various airbases was intended to also increase the survivability of military assets deployed in the region, while the enlargement of support facilities helps boost readiness levels and the potential sustainability of air operations along the boundary of the Central, Northern, and Southern Banner Groups.
Though much of this infrastructure development was focused on enabling and supporting fixed-wing airpower, there were many other significant aspects of the infrastructure expansion effort. This included expanding or building entirely new bases for gravimetric vehicles, helicopters, as well as ground forces, to include area defence assets, and logistics facilities.
The Bailiwick of Peroz-Liv, formerly Azeroth, was selected as the primary hub of this new network, being situated on the course of the Blue Elwynn and bounded by Alalehzamin to the east and Brookshire to the south. During the course of the preceding decade all above-ground structures had been systematically raised as part of the Golden Path Rehabilitation Programme to erase all trace of past historical and cultural associations. The heart of Peroz-Liv is the centrally located command ziggurat (MilZig) set between two runways with parallel taxiways. In addition to the command centre and runways a new support and maintenance area was built up, containing several hangars devoted to UAV operations. A chain of mudbrick lined earthen-mounds and antenna-arrays located five km south and east of the main site, appear to point towards Alalehzamin, Brookshire, Highpass, and Shirekeep, hinting at the existence of some kind of undeclared electronic warfare system.
The bases established in the Trans-Elwynn region proved instrumental to the channelling of supplies and volunteer fighters to the Vanguard Divisions deployed into Highpass, initially under the guise of the 1698 N&H Field Camp, that allowed Humanist forces in the region to hold their own during the Sanaman Civil War, expanding the family of Humanist nations and providing a border buffer state during a time when Sanama turned in on itself and broke away from the Raspur Pact.
