Editing Claorell (section)

==== Operation Twin Defender ====
Since its final defense in late October, Claorell wouldn't see any further action into 2185. Its Deep Mantle Forge Complex churned forward with progress, watching the completion of the DSS while also supplying the Helldivers with fresh supplies in the form of temporary fleetwide stratagem usage now and again. In the meantime, the bots of the Tanis Sector remained deviously quiet, not attempting any further assaults on the heavily defended planet. As a whole, any efforts out West would remain fairly stagnant as the return of the {{Illuminate}} and the movement of the Meridian Singularity toward Super Earth necessitated an all-hands-on-deck effort to drive back the xenophobic squid menace.

At the beginning of March 2185, the Automaton front would explode into heavy conflict. In the span of 12 hours, the bots would launch three powerful assaults on [[Meissa]], [[Blistica]], and [[Chort Bay]] across the Ymir, Gellert, and Lacaille Sectors. The bulk of their forces would fall on Meissa and Chort Bay, with a smaller but still significant invasion fleet causing damage to the hellish Blistica north of Claorell. While the plurality of the Helldiver Corps would mobilize toward Meissa, the powerful level 16 invasion level grew too difficult to overcome with the bots building a significant lead in the time it took the Helldivers to deploy to the planet. Overall, it appeared the Corps was too split to win any of the campaigns.

The bots wouldn't just stop at those 3 planets. On March 3rd, less than 2 hours before the fall of Meissa, the Automatons of [[Vog-Sojoth]] dispatched a vicious, mammoth 38 battalions toward the Deep Mantle Forge Complex on Claorell- their 4th assault in just 22 hours, with this easily being the strongest of the ongoing bot incursions. The massive assault on the Complex spelled trouble for the Helldivers, the veterans of the Corps knowing how important the planet was to the war effort as it enabled the majority of the construction of the DSS.

However, simultaneously, the imminent threat of the freight-train like Meridian Singularity had its hungry eyes set on its next victim to destroy: [[Moradesh]], a planet home to top-secret scientific efforts which are critical to countering bug and squid threats alike in the East. Seeing this attack from both fronts, High Command issued an Order granting the Helldivers a tough decision to make: whether to hold Claorell at any cost, or to repel the ongoing Illuminate invasions to delay Moradesh's destructive fate. All Helldivers would deploy to both fronts, which left the defenses at Meissa, Blistica, and Chort Bay to be even more undermanned than they already were.

The latest fight for Claorell would be its toughest and by far its bloodiest. The Helldivers deployed to the planet fought tooth and nail to take control of the planet knowing that losing the Complex to the Automatons would grant them too valuable a resource for their despotic schemes. However, with how powerful and cowardly the surprise assault is, the Helldivers so far have yet to overtake the Automaton invaders who continue to inch closer to controlling the planet.

At around 5 AM-SEST, the DSS's Orbital Blockade activated on the planet to aid the defense efforts. Despite boosting the Helldivers on the ground, the situation began to look more and more untenable with the bots simply unable to be overtaken. They continued to take more and more ground while the Helldivers' defense gradually lost steam. With less than 9 hours before the defenses would break, the planet became increasingly imperiled. By the afternoon of March 4th, Claorell would have fallen.

With the situation at the Illuminate front having progressed little, the Helldivers opted to concentrate their forces on Claorell to immediately launch a counter-offensive and retake the planet. For 48 hours, the Helldivers fought back against the Automatons at Claorell and, on March 6th, retook the planet from the Automatons. However, this victory over the Automatons would be short lived as, because of the neglection of the Illuminate front, the Meridian Singularity would be powered enough to reach and destroy Moradesh.

Additionally, tacticians in Helldiver Tactical Command have speculated that during their 2 days of control, the Automatons utilized the industrial complex to rapidly build {{Incineration Corps}} in secret, which they then later deployed during their renewed offensive later in the month.

Despite all this, Claorell's Deep Mantle Forge Complex would be secured and its citizens would be able to return to their homes and liberty-inducing labour once again.