For House & Dominion: Civil War

>Why did it take them, what, 7-8 years
Primarily because it's CCP but to be fair, they've had to change so much of the base programming to get citadels to work right. Grid sizes increased to 8000km, a new camera system because the old one didn't handle well when dealing with large objects, etc etc.

House Sari'eb.
Minor.

Their House agreed to siding with Bonrah relatively early. Local population on this planet was prepared to wait out a siege as they had suffered from attacks by "real" pirates before and survived. Their House disagreed and didn't want to spend excessive amounts of resources holding off the pirates by themselves.
Locals are kind of pissed with Bonrah and their House. This doesn't mean they want to jump ship to another House yet but I'm sure some small percentage wouldn't be opposed to it.

We have arrived and it is now that we perform our charge.

"Surrender now and be treated fairly. There is no reason to keep fighting when your defeat is unavoidable. You can choose to end any further bloodshed with just two words."

Anyone else?

People of House Sari'eb, I ask that you surrender now to spare your house any further bloodshed. You will in turn receive favourable treatment directly and in the future for doing so. I seek to unify the Run into a solid, coherent alliance of Houses operating not under a single ruler or house but to make each other a stronger entity.

"Inhabitants of planet_name,

due to its alliance with house bonrah, the territory of house sari'eb in this relay is currently under attack by the combined forces of the ruling house, house ber'helum, and their allies.

The majority of spacecraft protecting house sari'eb's holdings have either surrendered, fled, or been destroyed by now.

Most of this planet's shield grid has already been disabled and troops are already landing as I speak. With complete space superiority, and the amount of ground forces available to our fleet, defeat of the local garrison is only a matter of time.

We understand your house decided to ally with bonrah to save resources that would have been required to fortify your world against pirate attacks, despite your impressive history resisting numerous attempts by pirate forces to take your livelihood.

Our actions here are solely directed against bonrah's powerbase in this relay. House sari'eb's territory has become a target for that reason and nothing else.

We are here to make sure this world won't continue to support bonrah's or their allies' war effort.

If any defenders think bonrah's war isn't worth giving their life or health for, we can assure you p.o.w.s will be treated fairly and humanely by or forces."

All I'm reading is "finally a decent location for a free port in this relay".

Tried to stitch these together as best I could.

Starfighters begin to launch from the surface and clash with your own plus the LSTs and gunships approaching the base. Assault transports are beginning a rapid atmospheric entry, holding formation a safe distance away from each other.

You order coms to open a channel on all civilian frequencies and military ones the other House is likely to use.
"People of House Sari'eb, I ask that you surrender now to spare your house any further bloodshed.

Your House decided to ally with Bonrah to save resources that would have been required to fortify your world against pirate attacks, despite your impressive history resisting pirate attempts to take your livelihood.

Our actions here are solely directed against Bonrah's power base in this relay. House Sari'eb's territory has become a target for that reason and nothing else.

Surrender now and be treated fairly. If any defenders think Bonrah's war isn't worth giving their life or health for, we can assure you p.o.w.s will be treated fairly and humanely by our forces.

The majority of spacecraft protecting house sari'eb's holdings have either surrendered, fled, or been destroyed by now. Troops are already landing.
There is no reason to keep fighting when your defeat is unavoidable."

By now the Assault Transports have bled off enough speed and are on their final approach to the docks. Their point defense opens up to help keep enemy fighters at bay.

Two land in cargo bays with access doors large enough for their vehicles to enter the city, while the other two land on top of the plateau. Troops from the infiltrated ship have spread out through the surrounding docking bays and shortly after the landings teams have linked up with one of the transports.

> Shit, niggas, you lost. Now you gotta decide how much damage it's going to take to convince yourselves. We would rather not waste time dicing about blowing shit up, but hey if that helps you come to terms with things.

> Just point out any specific civic works you don't like. Otherwise we'll stick to transport hubs and dams and mines and shit.

Over the next half hour your troops begin to enter the city while others continue their assault through the base.

General Rna sends you a status update an hour later.
"I'm not sure how much of it was due to your speech, but we're looking at marked desertions in some sections of the base and city garrisons. In others large numbers of troops have surrendered before we engaged them."

"What numbers are we looking at?"

"For one of the garrisons we're looking at as much as 66% of their troops deserting. In most other cases it's well below 50%.

"What about the civilians?"

"Only a few minor skirmishes with them. We've convinced most to return to their homes, but there are crowds of demonstrators around the administration offices that are making it difficult for our people to advance."

You'd suggest flying over them but that's less of an option in an enclosed city.

[ ] Slow your advance if necessary, and hour won't kill us
[ ] Force your way through, we need this place captured now