System: Homam

[3039] During the War of 3039, General William Petersen left the Fellanin II system with the Eridani Light Horse’s Twenty-First Striker and 151st Light Horse in early August after receiving personal permission from Field Marshal Sandoval to continue with Wave Two operations. Yet just a day before they entered Homam orbit, they received orders from New Avalon to hold all Wave Two operations.

So when they arrived in orbit on 24 August, Petersen placed most of his DropShips in a variety of parking orbits that would allow them to intercept any ships attempting to either leave or reach the planet. He did land approximately two battalions of mixed forces on the planet—a move that the High Command would later categorize a “reconnaissance in force” and thus not a technical violation of orders.

The world was all but undefended, and Petersen’s “reconnaissance” forces — he rotated mixed battalions through the operation every few days, giving his troops both combat experience and the chance to get their “land legs” under them again — ranged across the face of the world for three weeks before the General finally received direct orders to withdraw to David. The ELH left the Homam system on 7 September, having all but destroyed the world’s defending forces, but showing nothing else for the effort.

There are no functional factories located on this planet.