Karin Pacification

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The Karin Pacification (970-977) was a campaign in the Five Sisters Subsector aimed at protecting Imperial (for which read Imperial Navy) interests on Karin.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

In 970 the commander of the Karin Imperial Navy base, fearful that the Imperium might lose the world, called in the Imperial Marines to pacify the population and quell the violence that was taking place outside the base walls. The Karin Pacification was a brutal operation, even by the relaxed standards of the Marines. Planetary militias were hunted down with extreme prejudice, and factional leaders were either exiled or executed. Most of the population was resettled in a series of camps near the base and starport, carefully watched by the Navy. Guerilla activity continued for several years, only to be rooted out and annihilated.

Commanders & Leaders[edit]

Imperial Commanders[edit]

Rebel Commanders[edit]

  • Diinkuri Galik
  • Ucella Morrigan

Force Composition[edit]

Third Imperium[edit]

Zhodani Consulate[edit]

  • Guerillas

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

With the declaration that the Imperium was in danger in 970, the Imperial Navy implemented an Enhanced Customs Regime (which meant searching every cargo container by hand) and deployed the 3951st Imperial Marine Regiment to keep the peace. Because of the lax arms laws on the world, and the ongoing civil disturbances, the Marines made the assumption that there was adequate firepower available to the populace to endanger their equipment and personnel and arrived as if that weaponry would be deployed. The effect of this was that the Demonstration that met their initial forays included some stone throwing, but that stone throwing was countered by plasma based point defence weaponry. The Demonstration scattered into the town and returned with heavy weapons and the Landing riots started - a full blown conflict that lasted three weeks before the Marines managed to break the encirclement and another three months while they cleared the town room by room.

The survivors of the riot now needed to be housed and, since it was not always clear if they were civilian detainees or illegal combatants, no distinction was made and all were housed in Camp Alpha.

The Imperial Marines then fanned out into the countryside, rounding up any and all they found and adding these into new camps. Guarding the camps then started to stretch the Marines' manpower, so they recruited local personnel as guards, which turned out to be an issue as these then allowed arms and rebels into the camps. The cycle restarted.

In 972 the Navy tried to undermine some of the issues that had started the civil unrest by seizing the disputed land and bring it under Imperial Navy administration. This measure just got all sides to treat the Imperial Interim Government as if it were just another player in the land grab game.

973 was the peak year for gun smuggling as blockade runners started bring resupplies onto the planet in record numbers. The IN eventually had to deploy four full squadrons of escorts to bring this trend under control.

The most violent of the camps was Camp Epsilon. In 974, members of a group led by Diinkuri Galik managed to capture the Naval Deputy Commander and the Coronel of the Marine Regiment in a daring coup and withdrew into the camp to open negotiations. The marines' negotiations started by announcing that they regretted the deaths of their commanders and was followed by systematically leveling each and every house in the camp. The Deputy Commander, Commodore Pakhirkiduurgum was recovered, badly burned and mildly irradiated, from a basement near the centre of the camp. Diinkuri Galik was killed in the fighting and the Coronel was never found.

Ucella Morrigan had taken the campaign out of the towns and into rough country of the Brank Hills. Here the collateral damage was less. Promised aid by Zhodani representatives and agents, she led a spirited and effective guerrilla throughout 975, but the resupply runs of 976 that would have enabled continued resistance failed in the face of the staggering deployment of Naval might. Surprisingly, this period saw the guerillas' most effective strike against the Imperial Navy when one of their blockade runners, taken aboard the INS Desert of Jallak by the boarding party, once the ship was secure and the crew detained, blew up. The INS Desert of Jellak took nearly three years to fully repair and was still being fixed at the start of the Third Frontier War.

977 saw the campaign officially end. Having run out of arms, the resistance started to crumble and the rebel troops allowed themselves to be Disarmed. Ucella Morrigan disappeared, and remained hidden despite a Cr 1,000,000 reward being posted for her capture. A note received by the Duke of Iderati in 1021 purported to be from her son and stated that his mother had died the previous year on Mirriam.

The post-pacification administration imposed by the Navy was equally high-handed and paternalistic, especially in its arbitrary reconstruction of the world's infrastructure and public institutions. Most weapons were banned, and the Naval authorities imposed draconian penalties on smuggling, incitement of violence and "suspicious" public assembly. So instead of gratitude, the Navy reaped hostility and resentment as the result of its policies. The local base became a fortified occupation encampment, and the usual fraternization of base personnel with the locals was supplanted by heavily armed patrols. Surliness towards the troops, silent protests, and occasional vandalism and bombings by the locals garnered the world a permanent Amber Zone posting.

Timeline[edit]

970[edit]

971[edit]

  • Internment and Resettlement policy started

972[edit]

  • Land Reform Riots

973[edit]

  • Blockade Running

974[edit]

  • Camp Epsilon Massacre

975[edit]

  • Brank Hills Campaign

976[edit]

977[edit]

  • Disarmament


Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)[edit]

This historical event primarily took place in the following areas:
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World Listing[edit]

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