MEMORANDUM FOR: High Command, to be delivered as soon as rescue comes

FROM: Colonel Joachim Hessler, 4th Guards Infantry Battalion Commanding Officer, Royal Army.

Subject: After-Action Report. 

March 1st, 1887.

Units participating: 4th Battalion alone was entrusted to this area.

Mission: Ensure the orderly evacuation of VIPs and defend the landing zone until the primary objective was accomplished.

Execution: Barricades erected, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th companies manned them. 5th company acted as reserve, 6th kept peace on tarmac between civilians.

Battalion Officers: 

Commanding Officer: COL Joachim R Hessler
Executive Officer: MAJ William Blakeney
Personnel Officer: CPT Rudyard Stewart 
Security Officer: CPT Otto Roon 
Operations Officer: CPT Gerhard Stewart
Logistics Officer: CPT Johan Ansbach
Plans Officer: 1LT Anthony Oldman
Signal Officer: 1LT Andrew Utrecht

Weather:
Early morning fog burning off 8:30 - 9:30 am (08:30 to 09:30 hours). 
Transition from dry to light rain showers, variable 
winds to 10 knots, cloudiness during mid to late 
afternoon hours. Temperatures ranged from 78 degrees to 57 degrees.

4:15 AM:
Orders received.

4:29 AM: 
Former Zone of Responsibility given to other units. Arrived on scene and relieved understrength 1st Battalion while in contact with the enemy. 

5:52 AM

First VIP evacuated. 4th company reports riotous civilian behavior

7:12 AM: Second and third VIPs evacuated. 

8:02 AM: Casualties still light. Barricades proving incapable of holding incredibly determined rioters. Redeployed 5th Company towards main gate as reinforcement. 

9:35 AM: Final five VIPs arrive and update orders in light of increasingly untenable tactical situation. Completely secure as many sky ships as possible and forsake the rest. Screen all passengers for infection. Preference for screening and possible evacuation ordered for able bodied, young women to enhance species survival chance by balancing gender ratio. Leave when full. Makeshift barricades erected to that effect, manned by 1st-5th companies. 6th checks potential passengers for bites or other marks of infection.

10:56 AM: 
All six sky ships filled with screened passengers. Companies retreat to sky ships. Battalion Staff joins 5th company.

11:01 AM:
All screened sky ships departed.

March 3rd, 1887

10:11 AM:
Unscreened ship falls out of sky into ocean. Infected expected. 

2:03 PM:

Unexplained, catastrophic boiler failure at very low altitude resulting in 13 immediate military fatalities in sky ship crew. Crash landing only option. 

2:13 PM:

Due to expert piloting and exceptional discipline by all, zero military or civilian casualties. As 5th company ship was an attack ship, little nonmilitary goods salvaged. Armament and hull compromised beyond repair. 

CASUALTIES: 

51 fatalities from 5th Company, unknown from others. Three sky ship crew.

Numerous minor injuries. 

Current forces:

4 Rifle Platoons of 5th company, 47 men each.
4 5th company officers.
6 battalion staff officers.
Pilot and co-pilot
100 civilians, all able bodied.