Fiction:Drakodominatus Tyranny/Invasion Protocol

Drakodominatus Invasion Protocol

Drakodominatus Invasion Protocol always starts with the Drakdominatus fleet claiming orbital superiority over the contested planet. The most favorable way of doing this for the Drakodomiantus is to annihilate the enemy fleet in a set piece battle which shatters enemy morale. From this point, the invasion strategy diverges.

Assuming the Drakodominatus just want to destroy all enemies on the planet, they will mercilessly bombard it with everything from incendiaries that burn the atmosphere to lasers, to biotech weapons which turn all life into sludge. Once the surface is cleansed, a Nanoswarm is sent in to harvest all the materials of the planet, which it does in an incredibly efficient manner.

Assuming the planet belongs to an enemy empire of similar strength and there are people that need to be captured on the planet, orbital bombardment still takes place but the incendiaries do not burn the atmosphere and the biotech weapons only destroy certain types of organic matter. This takes the form of something like a creeping barrage in which right before the projectiles impact, Drakodominatus Marines in Auger Class drop pods are already right behind them with the speed of meteorites, then impact with commensurate force, doubling as orbital bombardment. As soon as the marines deploy, they go on a killing spree killing all enemy personell that does not need to be interrogated while knocking unconscious select enemies with special non lethal weapons.

No enemies are off limits, civilians are also counted as combatants and nonlethal force is only used when a Haemocolus tells the Drakodominatus that a sample is needed. This means that unless a Haemocolus specifically requests for a subject to be taken prisoner, that the enemies are generally all going to dies during the battle unless a Drakodominatus decides it would be fun to torture the species or test it out on weapons back home or as a punching bag.

As soon as the planet is cleared, the Drakodominatus will confer on what to do with it and will ship all the prisoners to their respective places. The world will then be colonized by the Drakodominatus or by a slave race if the world is judged unworthy.

Assuming this is for the colonization of an inhabited but low technology world, there will not be an orbital bombardment and Drakodominatus will just walk over the area and subjugate it, turning it into a slave race.