Operation Aglaia

Operation Aglaia, commenced on 10.I.1748 AN, was a deployment of allied forces to Corum under the auspices of the Trans-Euran Command, in response to the recent outbreak of hostilities between Floria and groups aligned with the Confederacy of the Dispossessed.

In the initial preparatory stages, the Trans-Euran Command requested of contributing powers within the continental theatre of operations the mobilisation of elements of the Constancian Foreign Legion, ESB Corps, and Oportian Foreign Legion.

The Regional Inspectorate of Corum was reactivated with the directive to ensure that base facilities on the Île des Ombres, Naya Island, and in cantonments outside Corum Electric City, were in a suitable condition to receive forward deployed personnel and equipment. Oportian defence infrastructure on the Île des Ombres in particular still bore the scars inflicted during the Fourth Euran War and would require significant work to repair, upgrade, and expand.

As planning progressed, a slight hiccup occurred with regards to the forward deployment of allied forces to Corum Electric City, as it was remembered that East Zimia and the Wallis Islands, whilst a subject realm of the Mondosphere, remained technically outside the Raspur Pact. Whilst the possibility of proceeding regardless was briefly countenanced, it was, at length, considered more prudent to dispatch emissaries to consult with Mondo ahead of any action, with the hope of securing permission for the deployment of forces as a minimum, and ideally to obtain a full measure of cooperation. Fortunately for all concerned, the response to the various entreaties was a jolly one.

On the maritime side, Nouvelle Alexandrie was invited to contribute the Caputia-class cruisers, HMS Caputia, HMS San Genaro, and HMS San Francisco, under the guise of a farewell cruise ahead of their decommissioning towards the end of the year. The Constancian naval contribution would take the form of the Black Banner Fleet, fully twenty percent of its available surface fleet. Zeed promised vaguely to support the operation at sea with four patrol ships, although it was not immediately apparent where it intended to obtain these from - there had been some discussion of a transfer of older Oportian naval vessels into Zeedic service as a form of reparations for damages incurred during the Fourth Euran War, but this had yet to materialise. The Oportian Security Forces themselves, in recognition of the difficulties that might be encountered in getting combat vessels ready for an extended deployment under their own presently straightened postwar circumstances, was requested to contribute six Sustainer-class fleet replenisher ships to the allied armada.

The Île des Ombres Naval Base Treaty, signed on 15.V.1748 AN, initiated a further wave of Alexandrian deployments to the region, as the ruins of the former Boulanger Naval Station and Air Base would be further repaired, redeveloped, and expanded, with extensive maintenance complexes, advanced communications infrastructure, and accommodation facilities. The 195th (Airborne) Engineer Regiment was dispatched from Susa in the following month, embarked aboard the Marcellus Paixhans, an Ignatius-class amphibious transport dock vessel, and the Harmony, a leisure cruise ship, both chartered from the Honourable Company. The Dominator-class missile cruiser, HMS Viracocha was also retasked to the Île des Ombres.

In VII.1748 AN, the Trans-Euran Command made the eyebrow raising announcement of a comprehensive operational sustainment contract, signed with the aforementioned Honourable Company, including the provision of combat air support and force mobility assets by the Honourable Air Corporation. Eyebrows were arched yet further when the ESB Group began subcontracting various aspects of the new mission, including to the Surenid Forces of the Home Guard and the Regiment of the Blackfriars'.

Deployed Forces

As of VII.1748 AN

• Constancian Expeditionary Force
  •  Imperial Constancian Foreign Legion
    • 5th "Barak" Brigade
    • 6th "Nord" Brigade
    • 7th "Imperio Anahuacano
• Oportian Security Contingent
• Task Force Bucranium
• Task Force Vigilant Protector

See also

• Corum War
• Baratar Scandal of 52 PSSC
• Île des Ombres Naval Base Treaty