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-==Ground Campaigns==
-===[[Bilad Campaign]]===
+[[Category:The Magnate War]]
-'''Result''': Draw. Bilad stopped from sending reinforcements to major ground battles for significant period, but no significant infrastructural or institutional damage was caused.<br>
-The ground war on Bilad Al-Rafigayn, commonly referred to as the  '''Eid al-Adha War''' was one of the major ground campaigns of the League front of the Magnate War. The campaign was started as an attempt to deprive the Minkowskan led LCM of Sarrevan and Biladian ground forces, and began on November 27th, 2169 on the first day of Eid al-Adha; and it would not end until November 19th of the following year.
-Exarch Antonia Savina, a talented but conservative Eternal Dawn commanders, who had been promoted out of several of the bloodiest ground battles in the Magnate wars, was tasked with stemming the flow of reinforcements to Finnegan's Folly and Sarreva by Bilad Al-Rafigayn ground soldiers, and hopefully disrupting their training and logistics tail.
-As most of the production of Series VII Replicants had been tasked to those planets, Exarch Savina was given a handful of elite soldiers for headhunting and sabotage missions, and the rest of her transports were loaded with units "surplus to requirements"-old build Series V Replicants, which although physically inferior, slower-reacting, and less skilled than the Series VII, were more flexible due to their design-the Eternal Dawn had not successfully been able to excise consciousness in the Vs and had left it in, considering them a "temporary measure". This would later prove helpful in this battle as they were somewhat less vulnerable to guerillas and ambush tactics than the newer VIIs although inferior in all other respects.
-Her objectives were twofold-the primary one was to seize and/or destroy Biladi infrastructure, and the second one was to destroy Biladi training grounds and senior personnel to gut their military institutions.
-====Forces====
-'''League Combined Militia & Bilad Al-Rafigayni Self Defense Force'''<br>
-Commanding Officer:
-'''Magnate Continuum Invasion Force'''<br>
-Commanding Officer: Exarch Antonia Savina, Eternal Dawn Templar
-: 500 '''Light of God''' (Lux Dei) Special Forces
-: 5,000 Eternal Dawn Templars
-: 140,000 Series V Combat Replicants (surplus to requirements)
-: Series II Combat Replicants, cloned onsite, unknown number
-: Orbital, artillery, aerospace, and armor support
-====Losses====
-'''League Combined Militia & Bilad Al-Rafigayni Self Defense Force'''<br>
-'''Losses:'''
-:
-'''Magnate Continuum Invasion Force'''<br>
-'''Losses:'''
-: ~190 Lux Dei Members
-: ~1,200 Templars
-: 140,000 Series V Combat Replicants
-: Unknown amount of Series II Replicants
-: Lots of materiel
-====Aftermath====
-Exarch Savina's retreat after significant losses, to preserve the majority of her 'nonspecializeds', prevented her from delaying Bilad any further, and her objective to headhunt Biladi senior officers and training cadre caused significant losses in the numbers of the Lux Dei she was assigned, her objective was as much psychological as military-it proved that even non-frontline worlds could be hit in force, and caused several League powers to retask greater amounts of units to domestic defense.
-Savina herself found herself heavily criticized for putting the lives of her subordinates over the mission objective, as it was quite possible that she could have accomplished all objectives at the cost of 100% of her men and materiel. However, despite High Command's displeasure her loyalty to her troops made her a popular figure, and she was merely shuffled from ECHELON back into the ranks of the Eternal Dawn's Templars where she served well but undistinguished for the rest of the war.
-===Finnegan's Folly===
-===Sarreva===
-==Fleet Actions==
-===The Heaven's Stair Campaign===
-'''November 2172 - July 2175'''<br>
-'''Result:''' Minkowskan infrastructure and logistics damaged and disrupted.
-===The Battle of Finnegan's Folly===
-'''June-July 2176'''<br>
-'''Result:'''  Magnate pyrrhic victory. Magnates forced out of system but League fails to prevent theft of the Citadel.
-====Forces====
-'''Magnate Continuum Joint Operations Fleet'''<br>
-Commanding Officer: Fleet Arbitrator Sauer
-:lots
-'''League Combined Fleet'''<br>
-Commanding Officer: Admiral Rakesh Zhang, Minkowski National Guard
-:more
-====Losses====
-'''Magnate Continuum Joint Operations Fleet'''<br>
-Commanding Officer: Fleet Arbitrator E-11
-:Significant elements of Expeditionary Force lost
-'''League Combined Fleet'''<br>
-Commanding Officer: Admiral Rakesh Zhang, Minkowski National Guard
-:more
-====Aftermath====
-The Battle of Finnegan's Folly was the defining event of the Magnate war: very long, very slow, and ambiguous in result. League ships began trickling into the system through the month of June and it rapidly became apparent to the quagmired Magnates that their position was untenable. They accelerated plans to activate and evacuate the Citadel and departed with it in the early days of July, mere hours before the League fleet breached their defenses and reached Near Orbit in force. The Magnates, having limited FTL capability deployed the bulk of the Fleet assets of the Expeditionary Force in the system in a desperate holding action to contain advancing League forces, while remaining fleet assets escorted the Citadel out of the system.
-The battle left the Magnates with a significantly diminished Expeditionary Force, but they had achieved their strategic objectives. In the wake of the battle and the other concluding actions of the war, neither side could marshal enough force and transport to initiate a new operation before the Breakdown ended and the threat of Core support forced the Magnates to abandon their plans for conquest.
-===The Battle of Canaan's Breach===
-'''August, 2176'''<br>
-'''Result:''' Magnate forces destroyed, Altus suffers significant damage to orbital infrastructure.<br>
-====Forces====
-'''Magnate Expeditionary Task Force'''<br>
-Commanding Officer: Admiral Daedalus Canaan
-:lots
-'''Altan System Defence Militia'''<br>
-Commanding Officer: Fleet Marshal Terris O'shale (Retired)
-:more

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