With the Unity Speech, Emperor Prosek has kicked off the largest military campaign since the Coming of the Rifts.  Even the might of the Archon Empire in South America pales in signifigance and strength compared to the CS War Machine that has been unleashed in North America.
  Tolkeen, Lazlo and New Lazlo prepared in various ways to cope with the massive onslaught being brought against them as the CS mobilized fully, but in hindsight, there preperations in no way made any difference in what they were to face.
  Tolkeen hired Larsen's Brigade with the sole duty of protecting the city while it was evacuated via dimensional Rift to the ruins of Seattle.  The CS moved the 7th, 5th and 9th Armies into position around Tolkeen, strangling the city in an ever circling noose.
  Lazlo watched nervously as the 1st, 4th and 8th Armies moved in on them, crushing outlying communities and closing in and destroying any who tried to get to Lazlo.
  New Lazlo was confident they could not only hold off the CS, but defeat them, unconcerned that the 2nd, 3rd, and 10th Armies rolled into position, crushing all opposition and digging in.  They fortified their city and prepared to strike at what they were sure were just green troops with untested or old equipment.  They watched the CS dig in, confident that the CS was digging their own graves.
  Unknown to Colonel Larsen, the CS had pulled a fast one on him.  His spies and scouts reported the 14th & 19th Armor Divisions moving in to engage him, and he knew that those were moderately equipped units, comprised of a mixture of vets and green troops, and commanded by Generals Yatz and Copper, two by-the-book commanders, nearly incapable or innovative or fluid thinking.  Unknown to him, the two divisions were heavily reenforced, loaded with nothing but battle hardened vets, packed with the latest CS hardware, and commanded by the (in)famous Major General Corpsman instead of two commanders.  Instead of a confusing chain of command, General Corpsman had his own staff, that he had worked with for years.  Larsen engaged the two divisions at dawn, and for nineteen hours the battle raged in the sky and on the ground.  When it was over, Larsen's Brigade was destroyed, but the battlefield strength of the 14th and 19th divisions had been reduced to only 58%, a phyrric victory at best, but better than Emperor Prosek had hoped for.  General Corpsman withdrew to Chi-Town to refit while the rest of the Tolkeen siege force moved in.
  When the CS invaded Tolkeen, they discovered nothing but an empty city, full of booby traps and Naurani Robot Killers, all programmed to hunt and kill CS war machines.  After a costly eighteen hours, the CS withdrew and shelled the deserted city into oblivion before withdrawing.
  Forces in Lazlo watched nervously as the Tolkeen force approached them, and then in confusion when the forces bypassed them and joined the forces surrounding New Lazlo.  The city breathed a brief sigh of relief, but knew that their reprive was only temporary, and as soon as the CS crushed New Lazlo, they would be back to smash Lazlo into oblivion.
  A little past dawn, CS forces attacked New Lazlo, opening the dance with a fourteen day artillery bombardment that New Lazlo forces were unprepared for.  Over five hundered artillery pieces, eight thousand rocket launchers, and close to a million mortars pounded out a shell every minute, three times before moving, alternating the fire pattern so the defenders never got a break.  Any aircraft not only had to avoid incoming shells, but it seemed to the New Lazlo command that every ground pig out there was armed with a SAM.  CS counterbattery artillery was far more accurate that intelligence had led the New Lazlo command to believe, and within eighteen seconds of firing, the area around the artillery piece became a hellstorm of incoming fire, soon reducing the city's artillery to lethal junk
  Despite what many commanders believed, the CS charged into the face of their own artillery, and once into the bombardment field, they were bracketed by incoming fire, until they began to engage the shell shocked and heavily damaged defenders, surrounded by artillery fire.  The defenders were unprepared for such a risky tactic, unnerved by the steady bombardment, and demoralised by a fresh, battle ready force charging into them.  Ley Line nexus around the city had become death traps, heavily guarded, with RSG forces ready to shut down rifts, eavesdrop on mystic communications, and detect anyone coming in on the ley-line.
  Six hours later, no being not affilliated to the CS lived inside what was once New Lazlo.  The city had fallen, with minimal CS casualties.  The city was razed by combat engineers, and New Lazlo ceased to exist.  Survivors of the destroyed city, scant few who managed to fight their way free, regrouped at Lazlo or began fighting a guerrilla war against the victorious CS forces.
  Lazlo watched, gripped between panic and outrage at the atrocities the CS command had ordered on New Lazlo.  Strangely enough, the CS did not attack, preferring to wait.  CS airpower and Surface to Air Missile forces decimated any aircraft that dared to attempt to break the blockade.  Once again, the RSG and the CS military hammered any who dared to use the Rifts, the CS showing a surprising amount of knowledge of the Rifts and Ley Lines that many thought they would never know or use.  Weeks went by, until the city was nearly in a frenzy.  Thier military unproffesional, mostly full of mercenaries and veterans who had seen limited sized and duration engagements, desertions became common and morale bottomed out.
  Sorties from the city were quickly obliterated by interlocking fields of fire, FASCAM charges littering the ground, and pit traps dug from underground that were accessed by underground tunnels dug by the CS combat engineers.  Every heavy war machine that fell into a pit was attacked by man sized war machines, and sometimes the pits were lined with antiarmor mines or skelebots that swarmed out of the tunnels.  Tunnels that were heavily mined or led to blocked dead ends soon convinced the defenders that attacking the CS lines from underground was the same as putting the barrel of a plasma pistol in thier mouth and pulling the trigger..
  Finally, several hours before dawn, the artillery bombardment began.  Over a thousand artillery pieces, thousands of Robot Power Armors, and thousands of missile launch capable vehicles opened up on the city.  The Lazlo artillery tried to reply, but the CS troops were too well entrenched to suffer much damage, and the highly effective CS counterbattery artillery silenced the Lazlo guns quickly.
  Thirty days of sustained artillery bombardment ruined the nerves and sanity of many in the city, and many went mad and committed suicide under the constant rain of steel and fire.  Even reenforced structures and entrenched positions collapsed eventually under the constant pounding inflicted by the CS guns.
  Finally, the artillery hammering ceased, and an eerie silence fell over the devastated city.  Nothing moved above or around the city, and to the survivors of the artillery barrage, the silence and stillness was more horrible than pounding of the CS guns.
  People began to move around, and they let out a cheer, thinking they had withstood the CS siege.  Then children began falling, choking and gasping, convulsing and frothing at the mouth.  Someone let out a cry of Gas!  But for many of the defenders, it was too late, invisible, scentless Tabun IX gas had felled thousands.
  Still nothing happened, and the survivors of the gas, for the most part DB's and supernatural creatures, hunkered down and waited for CS's next move.  A thunderous series of detonations heralded the CS's opening strike, as several hundred fuel-air bombs blew apart the walls and evaporated buildings and personell both.  The guns opened up again, and the defenders sought cover, unaware that the CS was once again advancing into the face of their own artillery.
  The barrage ceased, and the CS swarmed into the city, the fierce discipline of the CS overwhelming the shocked and battered defenders in eight hours of steady fighting.  No quarter was asked, offered, or given.
  The final shot came at 3PM, EST.  Private Joseph McCain, 5/19th Infantry, fired one bolt from his rifle into the head of a crawling Ley-line walker, killing the man instantly.  Lazlo was destroyed.
  The Federation watched it all with a large smile, anticipating striken a sorely injured and demoralized enemy.  A large force left the hidden city, with the intent of engaging and destroying the 9th CS Evac Hospital.
  Hidden troops, slowly massing in place around the hidden city, rose from their hiding spots and ahnillated the aggressing force.  Despite the Federation of Magic's preperations, SF infiltrators learned of the hidden cities location through spies after Emperor Prosek's wife was rescued.  Mercenaries hired long before had infiltrated the city, and when the signal was given, the CS returned a favor long overdue, sabotaging many facilities, with explosions killing hundreds and damaging many critical systems.  It was an irony that did not amuse Alistair Duncon.
  The Federation of Magic tried to go on the defensive, but was unprepared to fight a large, disciplined foe.  After several days of intense fighting, desertions became rampant as allies and mages of the Federation decided to cut their losses and run.  The Pecos Empire watched nervously as the CS forces spread out, then breathed a sigh of relief when the CS began to merely consolidate thier hold on thier territory, not conquer further.
  When the dust finally settled, the score was:  CS-4  Enemies of the State: 0  Lazlo, New Lazlo, Tolkeen and the Federation Magic had effectively or actually ceased to exist, and the Amerikan Midwest was firmly in control of the CS.  Of course there was still a large amount of guerrilla fighters, insurgents and hidden foes that struck out at isolated CS troops, or destroyed non-combat units.  The Pecos Empire was still out there, but for the meantime, Emporer Prosek was content on merely consilidating his position.
  The ferocity and cunningness of the CS Campaign of Unity, and the use of artillery that had a much farther range than magic that the Enemies of the State could bring to bear had carried the day as much as the discipline of the CS troops.