In the 75th year of the Pendulum Wars, Kennen was serving in C Company of the 26th Royal Tyran infantry, under the command of Major Helena Stroud. They were sent to the Acastu Imulsion Fields in Dushin to defend them from Indie attacks, and Helena told Kennen and Sgt. Bernadette Mataki that she would be depending on them to help keep the large amounts of rookie Gears in the unit alive. Bernie hoped that the bigger troop presence would scare the Indies away, but Helena said that they were entering into a dispute with Dushin about ownership of the fields' wells, and were accusing the Coalition of Ordered Governments of side drilling. Kennen asked if that meant drilling under the border, and Helena told him that it was something like that. Two days later, a night patrol discovered Indie force