A freighter being used as an Interior blacksite orbiting around Neptune is hit and several hundred military survivors deemed too dangerous to leave on earth are extracted, however this action draws in a survey ship with Vaida warren Erbians aboard.

Uptime Vaida initiate contact with their downtime ancestors and a covert meeting on CONUS is arranged.

Facilitated by the Vaida, initial contact is made with major US resistance groups and Russian/NATO military remnants to the east of the Urals.

The uptime Vaida freighter group along with a large number of commercial vessels that had been part of the fleet leave with an escort, their destination being the Sundala Starzone as observations indicate it is still there. Aboard are the fleet's civilian dependents and any noncombatants that are not needed for theater side construction operations.

Covert construction begins on Dysnomia Base, originally only established as a temporary mining colony for the extraction of Callenite Ore (the only known source beyond the Starzone), it is later hollowed out and setup as a hidden forward operating base for stealth craft slipping in and out of the solar system.

The Imperium becomes aware they are fighting humans from an alternate future timeline.

Ghost Fleet's merchant hunting campaign goes fully unmanned and expands beyond the approaches to earth.

WITCHING HOUR elements commence a mass targeted assassination campaign against primary Imperial and collaborationist leadership on Earth and within the solar system.

The 2034 Christmas Day Offensive / Great Human Ethrovi Rebellion begins.

Imperial Fleet inside the Solar System is destroyed.

All Imperial assets in and near Sol off earth are captured, or if they resist, destroyed with nuclear strikes.

Red zones and some yellow zones are swept clean of Imperial presence by USTERCOM or Fleet forces.

Conventional forces smuggled onto the surface over the past several years move to staging areas.

Remaining fueling/trade routes toward the earth approaches are severed by nuclear strikes and the Jovian planets they once orbited are mined.

A large scale operation is commenced by BLACK WATCH elements targeting major command and control figures within the Imperium, collateral damage is not considered an issue. 35% of the 'in uniform' Royal House are killed over 96 hours, half of the remaining are gravely wounded, the Empress is nearly killed in an airstrike that kills a Sev admiral briefing her on the current situation of the Earth approaches.