Enceladus is known as the Second World, the second system liberated from PSSA control in 2223. As the nascent ICM would wrap Titan in their grasp, their attention would soon turn to the icy moon, eager to exploit the strategic position that the subsurface ocean provided. The PSSA, sensing that the Saturn system had begun to slip from their grasp, would dispatch well over 30 ships to help secure it, landing thousands of troops to ensure a strong presence at spaceports and industrial facilities. The ICM, acting as a unified Navy for the first time, would see this not as a deterrent, but a call to arms. For the very first time, they would make themselves known, launching long range volleys at the assets in orbit, using 21 extensively modified Behemoth class cruisers. The PSSA, initially, was skeptical of their ability to engage, but soon found that ICM tactics were unlike anything they had ever seen. Shot after shot was fired from the ICM position, staged just inside the terminator. The line held, for now, but all would change when a bold crew, the crew of the ICM Destroyer Gargantua, would make a break for it, charging headfirst at the central grouping of vessels, taking shell after shell. Their crew were most likely dead before they made it to the line, but they were, in the eyes of the ICM, a necessary sacrifice. Their fusion reactor, primed to explode in proximity to the PSSA forces, would rupture in a cloud of plasma, disabling at least 7 PSSA ships, enabling ICM forces to charge towards a now confused and weakened enemy. It was the shot that the ICM needed, and the remaining 20 ICM ships would scatter the PSSA Navy, destroying 19 of the 30 ships in orbit - sparing no one. Transports, clearly trying to make a run from the fighting, were captured by slower boarding craft rising from Titan’s surface, and all of those in uniform would be taken back to the ICM capital for incarceration. The moon would fall quickly, and landing teams would soon secure the capital city, capturing and executing those who occupied her. With PSSA forces in retreat to Mimas, the ICM flag flew over Diyar Planitia for the first time.
Growth on Enceladus would be rapid, and almost chaotic. New shipyards, water refineries, and soil production facilities would spring to life, and geothermal vents would be tapped for power. Construction crews would face a harsh radiation and cryogeological environment, with losses mounting in the first years after the invasion. The Great Dying was most felt here, in the harsh outer fringes of ICM territory, but the message from the State was clear - the work must go on, the factories must churn out machine after machine. It was a matter of survival. The great grooves of Enceladus would be carved into channels for cargo, and a robotic spiderweb of industry would begin to occupy the surface. Anyone with a powerful enough telescope could see the surface of the world changing before their very eyes. Tycho Drive Yards became the centerpiece of ICM construction on Enceladus, a monument to industry and military might. It would be here that the first indigenous ICM ships would be built, great behemoths that would hope to one day rival the might of the PSSA’s ever growing military complex. Soldiers would report to this icy world to train, and its ferocity and might would become something of legend throughout ICM culture. It was a harsh and cruel world, but it was a necessary world. An ever vigilant reminder of their power.
