Omicron

"A perenially chilly climate has allowed short, colorful shrubs to flourish across this planet's surface."

- Official Description.

Omicron is one of the seven planets that reside within the L'estrade Sector. As of April 19th, the planet is the deepest that Super Earth forces have managed to penetrate into Terminid controlled space, although control over the planet has been fleeting at best so far.

1st Expedition
The planet was once the site of a military disaster. A small expedition of at least three thousand super destroyers commanded by the Helldivers attempted to liberate the world during the initial Mirin Sector Offensive during the slow march to Zagon Prime, and after the initial liberation of Oshaune. Omicron had also become the world with the highest known Terminid resistance recorded at the time.

Helldivers were swarmed very quickly after landing, quickly making the battle for the planet known infamously as the "L'estrade Expedition Disaster" due to the high number of casualties that had quickly accumulated (even by helldiver standards) which started discouraging Helldivers from assaulting the planet. The expedition hastily retreated after Oshaune and Hellmire fell, which coincided with the commencement of Operation Swift Disassembly: Phase I in the Trigon Sector, leaving only a few stranded Helldivers on Omicron who were listed as Missing-In-Action, as well as a number of unaccounted-for Super Destroyers that were still running surveys in the L'estrade Sector. High Command was interested in returning to Omicron and bringing the rest of the L'estrade Sector back under SEAF control in future campaigns.

2nd expedition
A number of weeks after the 1st Disaster, Oshaune was again liberated and the Helldivers mounted another expedition into the L'esterade Sector but with four times the manpower, starting with Omicron once again, interestingly the level resistance encountered on the planet was lower compared to the time period of the first expedition and the skeletal remains of giant Terminid creatures were being sighted more often. High Command additionally tasked Helldivers with recovering whatever high-value assests that were stored on Omicron. Later however, in an act of sinister syncronicity, both the Terminids and Automatons launched large-scale assaults across Federation Space. The second L'estrade Expedition was put on hold, with the Helldivers being pulled back in a more organized manner compared to the last time and in an effort to defend Super Earth's citizens on two fronts at once.

Eventually Oshaune was once again liberated a week later, and the second Expedition resumed again but with numbers reduced to just over three thousand Helldivers active on Omicron upon resumption of the expedition, the number would swell to over forty thousand a day later. Omicron will be liberated eventually as the Helldivers have secured most of the planet on April 29th, largely avenging the shameful defeat incurred more than a month earlier. Omicron serves as the base of operations for the SEAF in the L'estrade Sector.

Or well it did, until the failure of the TCS system put a stop to any plans of fully liberating Omicron and using it as a base. With the TCS causing the bugs to mutate at a rapid pace, all SEAF were ordered to the Umlaut Sector, with the remaining Terminids on Omicron launching a fierce counter attack now that the majority of Super Earth's forces were off world. Progress made on Omicron was quickly lost leading to the even being called the 2nd Disaster - although, there were some operational successes like successful evacuation of civilians, scientists and high-value assets, leaving the Terminids with dirt and mud for the time being. The Helldivers will return again in force.

Topography
Omicron is temperate montane world, characterized by it's high mountains and vast forests which grow on their slopes. A perennially chilly climate has allowed short, colorful shrubs to flourish across this planet's surface, with many comparing it to the Alps in sector 4 or the Appalachian mountains in sector 7, making it an idyllic planet for colonists. Unfortunately the bugs in their mindless need to consume and reproduce have reaped their toll on the planets ecosystem, with sections of the world the size of continents being devoured - which might explain the initially high level of resistance. Yet another reason why the Terminids must be exterminated...

FTL Lines

 * Zagon Prime - Mirin Sector
 * Oshaune - Mirin Sector

Trivia
Omicron is Greek for the Letter "little O" and is the value of 70 in the system of Greek numerals