Durgama Takeover

Lads, Lady Numiria, ex-High Commissioner is now wanted for treason. I know what you think, but we have orders and for now our job is to stop her. If I’ll have anything to say about that you have my word that she will be listened to before being judged. To the point, she was seen abord Raveneye Station so that’s where we’re going. You’re going in blind without any precise intel, so be sharp and remember that we need Numiria alive.

Lieutenant Brisbane, commanding officer of the O-12 Strike Force

+++Operation Pilum+++
Audio recording

Deployment
06:38
Lieutenant – We’re in. Raptors, push the console on the left flank and secure it, on the right flank I want Raptor to cover the second one.

Raptor01 – On it, sir.

Lieutenant – The rest is covering approach of the Raptors from behind. One Kappa and Paramedic on the left flank behind containers and two Kappas with me on the right frank behind the walls. Cover your angles and don’t rush foreward. According to the Aleph calculations that’s the best strategy aggainst most likely enemy forces so stick with it for now. Left flank codename is Delta, right flank codename is Heineken. Raptors are 01, rest will be assigned automaticaly.

Turn 1 – O-12 first
06:45

Lieutenant – We’re set. Raptors get ready, left flank, go!

Delta01 – Got it.

*running noise and gunfire*

Delta01 – We have company but I’m near the console, Deva is giving me cover from the roof.

Lieutenant – Can you activate the console?

Delta01 – Already did, sir.

Lieutenant – Good job. Paramedic, move foreward and cover the entrance to the left flank console, Delta03, move along the building. Right flank, Raptor foreward, set the perimiter next to the console. One Kappa after him to the center.

*footsteps*

Delta02 – I see a movement, it’s Rokot, engaging.

*gunfire*

Delta02 – He’s down, minus.

Heineken01 – More coming your way, covering you.

*gunfire*

Heineken01 – It was Para-Commando, think he’s dead.

Turn 2
06:51

Lieutenant – We have a console, we need to protect the right flank and push forward to the Servers. Raptors will lead the assault, rest will stay behind to cover our backs as said before.

*gunfire*

Delta01 – I’m on my way but we are under fire, responding!

*gunfire*

Delta01 – Minus. Deva is still under fire but I have an angle to shoot the Server.

Lieutenant – Permission granted.

*single shot*

Delta01 – Target destroyed, two to go. I’ll try to give Deva a better angle.

Heineken01 – We’re moving in, we’ll give you cover on your way.

*footsteps*

Heineken01 – Three contacts!

*gunfire*

Heineken01 – Ough, I’m hit. Sending Deva in.

*gunfire*

Heineken01 – We’re good. Deva took two down, and one more on my account. Two Rokots and Kosmo. Delta01, you are clear to go from my angle.

Delta01 – Got it. Moving in.

*gunfire*

Delta01 – Frak! It’s Zenit! I’m hit but I managed to damage Server.

Heineken01 – Wait, I’ll try to send in Deva.

*running and gunfire*

Heineken01 – Deva’s down, but the Server too. One to go.

Delta01 – Who the frak is this sniper? Is this some motherfraking Simo Häyhä Recreation!? Frak, I’ll try to get the last Server.

*gunfire*

Delta01 – Close one, but I’ve got this.

*gunfire*

Delta01 – This sniper is stubborn, he’s still on me.

Heineken01 – Need a hand?

*gunfire*

Delta01 – No need. We’re done, minus.

Lieutenant – Quiet! We have a contact on our comms.

Unidentified – I surrender! I’m the last one alive from my squad and our officer is KIA.

Heineken01 – Is this a joke? Where are you, you terrorist?

Lieutenant – Quiet soldier! We accept your surrender, come out and you will answer our questions.

Epilogue
07:00

*many footsteps*

Heineken01 – Freeze! Hands up!

*click*

Heineken01 – Lieutenant, what after we interrogate her?

Lieutenant – The way I see it, we have three options. We release her, move on, she’ll tell the rest. We’ll be found in less than an hour. Option two, we tie her up and move on. She’ll be killed or found and can compromise us either way.

Heineken01 – What’s the third?

Lieutenant – We terminate the compromise.

Delta01 – Numiria’s somewhere there, we let her go, we let Numiria go too. Mission failes.

Heineken01 – No Viv, I don’t like it. I don’t fraking like it at all. What are we gonna do? We gonna kill her? Huh? Okay, we kill her, right? What, then what? Fraking bury her and erase all voice recordings? It gets found out, then what?

Delta01 – Then what?

Heineken01 – What do you mean “then what”?

Delta01 – And then what?

Heineken01 – You know then what. What do you think, this shit’s gonna be private? Huh? It’s gonna be there for the whole fraking Sphere! News, okay. “O-12 kills captives”. That’s the fraking story forever.

Delta03 – It’s nobody’s fraking business what we do up here. We do what we do. We do what we need to do. This is the Navy and you’re the boss so you make the fraking call, sir.

Delta01 – Terrorists killed 20 O-12 soldiers last week. 20. Numiria is now with them, with all the info. We let her go, 20 more will die next week. 40 more the week after that, our job is to stop her.

Heineken01 – Rules of Engagement says we cannot touch her.

Delta01 – I understand. And I don’t care. I care about you and the others. She will run to her friends.

Heineken01 – Our guys get a martial court for less than that. What do you think they’re gonna do for killing a captive?

Delta03 – They hate us!

Delta01 – Look at her, she’s a soldier. That’s death.

Heineken01 – She is unarmed prisoner.

Delta01 – And the second she runs we’ve got the whole station on our backs.

Heineken01 – Tie her up.

Delta03 – We can’t just leave her here!

Heineken01 – I thought you were waiting for your fraking orders.

Delta03 – I am waiting for my fraking orders.

Heineken01 – Vote then.

Lieutenant – Stop. This is not a vote. The mission is compromised. So we’re going to pack up, we’re gonna cut her loose and move forward trying to get a time advantage.

*footsteps*

Delta01 – Lady Numiria, where is she?

Unidentified – I don’t know, I really don’t. We’ve never seen her, we just received the orders to cover the evacuation of some VIP, that’s all I know.

Delta03 – That’s great. That’s fraking great.

Lieutenant – We’re at the starting point then. Release her, we’re moving on.

+++End of transmission+++

+++Operation Pilum Report+++
Mission was a success, however, it may help us establish our control on the station but we have no information about Lady Numiria whereabouts. Compromising the mission is unfortunate, but it was the right call of the commanding officer to follow the Rules of Engagement. We cannot give further intel support to the Boarding Team however due to the compromisation. As for now, Boarding Team is marked with Code Red and any form of communication is forbidden till the situation will change in our favor. In other words, I highly recommend leaving Boarding Team without any further support so we avoid risking a whole operation.