Named for the Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, Operation MARION would be the beginning of Ghost Fleet’s intervention on the North American continent and would serve as a roadmap for any future endeavors elsewhere on Earth. With contact established and some vetting done by both boots on the ground (Marine STRIKE teams deployed by stealth dropship and Omicron Special Detachment troops in plainclothes) and via AI ‘snooping’ that the Imperials could only dream of. The first contact was carried out by a Major of the UAMC direct with one of General Ripper’s own surviving Majors. Terms where set, agreements made, and the start of site selection for possible surface installations was initiated.

The primary item traded at this meeting on a mountain top was several cases of AN/PCS-201 encrypted handheld digital COM sets. For the first time the FAC had fully secure digital communications.

Operation Beaufort remains one of the most complicated deployments in UAMC history, in both their home timeline and the current one. The goal was simple, the deployment of operational support bases in the Colorado Rockies, Montana, Idaho, and Nevada. What remained was determining sites in which would be both appropriate to their needs and to the complication of needing steep sloping hills to employ holographic cloaking equipment to hide them from the ever watching presence of the Imperial Navy. Both Omicron Teams and trusted local operators from General Ripper’s network where employed in concert with orbital scans from the UASV Grayback. Sixteen sites where selected, ten where discarded due to ‘tourist’ activity of both human and alien types. Of the remaining six, two were in Colorado, three across Idaho and Montana and a singular site in western Nevada. Nearly a month is spent shuttling supplies from the fleet to orbit via stealth craft during periods of low naval activity and then down to the surface via stealth dropship. But in the end Ghost Fleet personnel are now on the surface of their homeworld providing arms, training, medical support not tied to Imperial medical facilities, and above all… material and manufacturing support.

• An initial funnel of Ghost Fleet weapon systems along with instructors are sent into the various Camps, engineers are also deployed to begin adapting homebrew options to enhance existing firepower to deal with Shil’vati protective systems.
• Under the watchful eye of the Operation Miranda Infiltration AI and with now Task Force Hurricane’s squadron of stealth dropships, goods and material are slowly funneled out to organizations based in yellow and green zones whom at the insistence of Ripper have kept their heads down for nearly ten years. The largest goal being to preserve them and their views as Imperial teachings have grown to be the standard in the new mandatory education environment of the now occupied United States. Know that should they vanish into a Interior internment camp or worse that their little piece of mankind’s future would grow up under the shaping and molding of the Shil’vati.
• Miranda data, overhead flights of stealth craft, and insurgency intelligence is gathered and fused into a complete picture of the past, current, and future of the Imperial Occupation of North America with special projects, Marine deployments, and individual militia and governess activities. It reveals a long slow grind down of the human spirit with a relentless carrot and stick approach.