Talk:AIF/@comment-10905876-20160324031704

OOC: Just gonna post here, the battle has ended so, meh. Easier to just post from my phone this way.

IC: The AIF fighters pursue the retreating Germans for a time, but break off pursuit at the arctic circle. The defending forces finally relax, and rescue operations begin. Downed pilots are recovered, civil authorities respond to innumerable emergencies related to the attack, and large scale efforts are made to rescue crews of downed warships. Any Axis personnel are taken prisoner, and those who are injured given medical treatment. Thousands of small fires burn in the countryside, most the result of wreckage crashing down from the skies.

AIF losses are heavy. Thousands of aircraft are destroyed, along with dozens of aerospace battleships, with many more severely damaged. The ground forces also took a heavy beating, with hundreds of armored vehicles destroyed or abandoned. In the end of it all though, the defenses held. The major population centers further south were untouched, but many industrial complexes are destroyed or damaged.

The AIF has taken a heavy blow, but they are still ready for a fight. Damaged ships are taken to either local shipyards, or routed through convoluted warp trajectories to eventually arrive at Fondor for repairs. Many of the AIF's mothballed aerospace fleet, put in storage after the end of the Earth-Sith War, are re-activated, bolstering the AIF fleet. Production is resumed, and the Ascendant Justice class battleship Enterprise has her final fitting out finished. She leaves Fondor for Earth just as her sister returns for repairs, taking her place in the fleet.