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===The Fanz and Wari Battles===

The disintegration of the Huks nation sent military and citz refugees spilling across their borders into the lands of the Fanz and Wari, bearing news of the vicious Imperial assault.  Broadcasts and airdrops of Imperial propaganda backed up or even exaggerated the stories of the Huks refugees.  However, the Fanz and Wari nations had long military traditions and were unwilling to surrender without a fight.  Reconciling their differences for the time being, the Fanz and Wari sent expeditionary forces into occupied Huks and deployed recently-mobilised troops to their Orvar borders.

These actions were not entirely the result of stubbornness.  While Fifth Legion's casualties had been surprisingly light, Gaspard Lumey's auxilia had exhausted their supply depots.  Fuel was being used up as fast as it was shuttled in, even with munitions resupply cut to the minimum.  Only food, purchased from Orvar or requisitioned within occupied Huks, was abundant.  Moreover, the only civil authority in the Huks territory were Fifth Legionnaires, diverting manpower from military operations to the tasks of police and civil relief.  The only ground forces free to counter the Fanz and Wari attacks were two corps of Space Marines.

As he had done in the [[Al-Sherar_Sector_War#Invasion_of_Ciban_IV|Jolof Campaign]], Lumey directed his Marines to fight an irregular campaign.  However, the material situation was more favourable than on Ciban IV.  The Fifth Legion's warships dominated the Curis System; Siege Frigates orbited Curis-4 to provide heavy firepower, while Legion attack craft made more precise strikes.  Moreover, even if Legion auxilia could not fight mobile campaigns, they held key static positions and Kouralian airmobile regiments from the 3rd and 7th Markian Grand Corps still had the fuel to carry out a rapid redeployment. This last stock was spent on twin airdrops against large Wari supply depots. The veteran paratroopers of the Kouralian 7th Regiment quickly secured their objective and their brother regiments of the 3rd Grand Corps were soon refueling their tanks and personnel carriers. The 84th Kouralian, part of the newly-raised 7the Grand Corps, were less successful. Although their brushed aside the depot garrison, Wari saboteurs set fire to the fuel tanks. The reinforcing regiments of 7th Grand Corps fought a bitter, static battle against Wari counter-attackers for three days and nights before Fabrice Diallo and two companies of Space Marines arrived to relieve them. These mixed successes were enough to recapture the initiative. The Space Marines had exhausted and demoralized the Franz and Wari attackers. When Etienne Latourelle's 3rd Grand Corps resumed high-intensity operations the opposing formations shattered.