Exercise Northern Shores

Exercise Northern Shores
Date IX.1757 AN – Location Zylenisí, Augustinium and territory of the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands
Belligerents
Raspur Pact  Constancia  Nouvelle Alexandrie	Free State of Constancia Alleged material support:  The Green
Commanders and leaders
Aleksandr Joachim Grobba  Marcus Einhorn  Nouvelle Alexandrie	Free State of Constancia
Units involved
Trans-Euran Command Zylenisi Brigade Home Guard 510th (Shahzamin) Army Constancian Expeditionary Force at Arâk Imperial Constancian Foreign Legion  Grand Commissariat of Eura and Corum  General Inspectorate of Eura and Corum	Revolutionary Army  Revolutionary Volunteers  Democratic Militia  Partisans
Strength
Constancia Constancian Foreign Legion – 16,723 Home Guard – 189,908 Support vehicles – 31,432 AFV – 1,664 SPAAD – 278 MBT – 12 Mortar – 1,256 Towed artillery – 200 Coastal patrol boat – 157 Auxiliary vessels – 56 Logistic support vessel – 36 Corvette – 27 Offshore-patrol vessel – 26 Missile attack boat – 16 Amphibious assault ship – 2 Destroyer – 2 Landing ship tank – 2 U-Boat – 2 Light-attack aircraft – 296 Ground-attack aircraft – 170 Rotorcraft – 88 UAV – 80 Strike fighter – 10  Nouvelle Alexandrie Popular Levy – 216,416 Support vehicles – 25,016 Towed artillery – 202 AFV – 9 MBT – 4 Light tank – 1 Corvette – 9 Frigate – 4 UAV – 200 Light attack-aircraft – 187 Transport aircraft – 25	Free State of Constancia Militia – 1,027,929 Infantry – 96,394 APC – 3,143 MBT – 665 SPAAD – 456 IFV – 193 MLRS – 186 Rotorcraft – 88 UAV – 49 Strike fighter – 29 Maritime light attack craft – 22 Guided-missile cruiser – 1
Casualties and losses

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Exercise Northern Shores was a sudden field exercise of the Imperial Constancian Armed Forces to test the readiness of Zylenisí, Augustinium and territory of the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands for battle, premised on the assumption of a sudden attack from external forces with zero time for preparation.

This was a timely exercise, as no exercise affecting these territories had ever happened.

Background

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Prelude

Governor-General Alexei Grobba and members of his staff were given unofficial, unspecific recommendations only a few days before through informal channels, but nothing of substance was communicated to him, his staff, or any government or military entity within the islands.

X-Day

On H-Hour on X-Day, a FLASH-PRIORITY message was sent to the Governor-General through all available means: office email and telephone call, personal cellphone text message to him and all his staff, and ultimately, a cellphone call coming from an unlisted number. The screen on his phone merely said, AUTOKRATOR.

On answering the call, he heard an almost-disembodied voice ask: "Is this Governor-General Alexei Grobba?"

When he replied in the affirmative, he heard an electronic squelch followed by some tonal noise. This was followed by the same disembodied voice saying, "Authentication successful. Greetings, Governor-General. This is the Imperial Chancellery of the Office of the Autokrator of Constancia. Listen carefully:

"You are to place Zylenisí on full military alert and maximum readiness until further notice. Additional instructions will follow. Acknowledge the order."

He acknowledged the order, and the call ended.

The puzzlement on his face was reflected on the faces of his immediate staff.

Similar results were experienced in Augustinium and the territory of the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands.

Result

The exercise revealed that a bare minimum of 12 hours lead time was necessary to mobilize and transport troops from Shahzamin to Zylenisi aboard a Rhodondra-class amphibious assault ship, with each ship able to carry a regiment and a half. Air Transport was also possible, cutting the time by half, but still requiring disruption from the usual operations of the Imperial Constancian Airways Corporation.