Operation Dawnlight

Operation Dawnlight
TF 141 personnel during Operation Dawnlight
Date 25-27 October 2040 Location Bactria Province, Lorica Result Heimdallr Victory Task Force Nicator dissolved, with its commanders arrested Deseleni Loyalists prevented from interfering with the Karakul Lake Event
Belligerents
United Kingdom Erebonian Empire Rubrum Gallia-Bruhl Zanarkand New Akiba Nihhon-koku Democratic East Europan Union Alteria Jutland-Gimli Nibelheim-Saxe-Hanover Taoyuan	Neo-Seleucid Movement and Loyalists from: Quenmin Joyonghea Bethausia Republic of Concordia Holy Trabian Empire Alderney Group
Commanders and leaders
Yamato Kitagawa Naoto Kitagawa Yukio Kushineda V Vladimir Peniakoff	Chang Gwan-mook Ma Seung-eun Darius Tillman . Phùng Hạo Nhiên Charles Clérisseau Lavrentis Kristatos Haralambos Mattallis
Units involved
Task Force 141 along with the elements of: Task Force 219 Task Force 853 Vodka Regiment 4th-5th Regiments, Princess Raphtalia's Jutlandish Light Infantry Defected TF Nicator Personnel	Task Force Nicator loyal to the Neocons and Neo-Selucid Forces
Strength
1,200 troops 30 helicopters 20 vehicles	1,500 troops 40 helicopters 15 APCs 10 tanks
Casualties and losses
69 dead (primarily from Vodka Regiment) 120 wounded 10 helicopters damaged 6 vehicles	259 dead 211 wounded 1000 captured 10 APCs 21 helicopters 7 tanks

Operation Dawnlight (25-27 October 2040) was the final operation undertaken by the Heimdallr Task Forces against the Deseleni loyalists of Task Force Nicator. It took place simultaneously with the Showdown at Karakul Lake. It was planned by Brigadier Yamato Kitagawa in order to prevent TF Nicator from interfering with the battle taking place in the latter. This also pitted some of the best troops of Heimdallr Task Forces against TF Nicator, the Neocon Forces' primary Task Force in the war.

The skirmishes and firefights between the two sides took place at 4 towns just near at Karakul Lake. Led by Brigadier Kitagawa in the field, the Heimdallr Task Forces faced a numerically superior but slightly downsized Task Force who remained loyal to the Neocon cause. In the end, the Heimdallr Task Forces, with strong preparations and intel provided by the defectors from TF Nicator, were able to subjugate the remaining TF Nicator members, placing all of its members under arrest, including General Chang Gwan-mook, who tried to flee at the last scene of the firefight.

Following the operation, the Heimdallr Task Forces continued to operate in the area until 1 November 2040, when the Neocon War finally ended. The Heimdallr Task Forces would not see action again until the 2045-53 Alderney Counter-Operations.