Durgama Takeover

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This is Lady Numiria, High Commissioner of the O-12 under the banner of the Concilium Coordinated Command, working along the Concilium Planetary Defense Force [CPDF] and the newly founded International Concilium Assistance Force [ICAF].

After being rescued from my previous attempt at securing Zebu Research Centre, I received a secure transmission regarding the fate of some of our employees there, specially one of importance, like you can see in this classified copy of the original:

This immediatly boiled my blood: SHE MIGHT BE STILL ALIVE!

I then immediatly regrouped and recruited the best men and women of the Sphere, even putting our financials in danger, to lead this superforce of Heroes at the rescue of our valuable personnel and maybe finaly call off this operation #NO-SIGN-OF-OUR-ENSIGN.

Our informant within the Haqqislam Humanitarian effort sent us a rendez-vous point halfway from Alfutna and Zebu, in one of their secured temporary locations, off from the hot zones of open conflicts, a difficult task in these days and times.

With my exceptionaly renowned team (so much that even the ForCo would be jealous of us), we begin to travel right there when suddendly we noticed smokes ahead...

Arriving at the hospital barracks, we noticed that there was an important breach from enemy forces: it was the Combined Army!

Not only it was the Combined Army, but it was The Avatar, reported several times attacking our troops these past days. Our best analysts tried to decypher its goals, but our best guess was that, since the beginning, he was searching for something... or rather someone, considering an earlier report from our Ensign on the Raveneye when CA initially attacked the Station confirmed her presence there before she headed to Zebu, escaping its grasp...

This is maybe why the enemy overlord was reluctant to attack up-front, letting its surbordinates do the job.

There was also report of a strange individual from the strange specie/corps of the Umbra Samaritan, discovering a newly passion for... French gardening?

Surprised by this, we quickly decided to group and be ready for the fight. I let Hippolyta lead the way, despite my past grudges against her poor work in Novvy bangkok, assuming she would put a good fight against the enemy Lieutenant.

Few men raised questions, regarding certain individuals in our army, but they promptly stopped their wonderings, considering all of them are skilled skirmishers and fighters, trustworthy allies and members of the Human Sphere (and good informants shall we spy on some of them against their will later...).

Starting searching the barracks for our Ensign Cho, we found some puzzled civilians.

Andromeda tried to told me something about one of them, but her doubts were dismissed when the poor guy prooved us that he was just an humble durians merchant, lost and injured in a previous battle, caught between two fires.

Casanova was also on the mission with us, even the first one to contact me to join my small expedition (strange, considering I didn't even had put any recruitment ad yet at that time) in order to save Katherine.

For the occasion, he adopted quite the new look, inspired by one of his own favorite hero (after the legendary Casanova himself of course)... Problem: the former was also on our side for this expedition.

While I was talking with my Second In Command, my Alpha Lieutenant, we saw Wild Bill, a little bit ill-looking, coming out from one of the barrack. I didn't recruited him for this expedition, so stumbling on him was our lucky day, since surely his help could prove useful. We then gladly accepted him on our team!

Since we were out of our usual domain, I sent Casanova and Andromeda to recover some intel from the nearby consoles. While Andromeda struggled for a while to get good datas, Casanova - probably highly motivated by all the ladies around - perfected his search on the first try!

It's at this moment that an enemy Noctifier choose to reveal himself and tried to shoot at him, but Knauf quickly moved and, in a swift motion, shoot down the sharpshooter before he had any chances to do so.

Identifying the enemy leader location thanks to the data collected, Hippolyta decided to launch a counter-attack on the CA positions.

Oktavia decided to cover her with precise efficiency, eliminating not only the Daturazi but also the frightening Ikadron in a single shot.

Speaking of miracles, aligning an impossible shot, Knauf continued his serie of sniper duels by removing a Shrouded Sniper, hidden on the rooftops, at the opposite side of the base.

Clearly, this guy is worth his amount of credits!

Injured but still kicking in, Hippolyta, probably still wanting to make amend for her past deeds, finally reached the enemy lines - particulary under heavy fire, since Oktavia seemed to have vanished when I was looking elsewhere - and decided to face the all-mighty Avatar by herself!

Fearing for her past Aristeia! colleague, Shona quickly joined her in her assault, and both managed to put it down, forcing the enemy leader to call for medical backup, which would prove more useful elsewhere, denying a second chance to a salty Shrouded...

On the other side, Casanova - left also alone since Aïda went AWOL with our two Varangians - ran to prevent the enemy second-in-command to capture important datas. He managed to put down the alien gardener thanks to his incredible ballistic skills, but not before his opponent grabbed the intel he was looking for.

Quickly back on foot thanks to their advanced technology, Shona and Hippolyta were soon fighting again the Avatar, but that's when the tragedy happened... Using its alien technology, The enemy leader brainwashed Shona, forcing her hand to kill Hippolyta at point-blank with her nanopulser.

It then sent her to our lines and while my second-in-command took the shot for me, Andromeda used this diversion to restrain Shona, hoping than we can save her from the EI's influence given how recent the infection was.

Now alone and still heavily injured, the enemy leader told us that it "will be back", and then proceed to flee from the battlefield, leaving us with our survivors.

It was at this moment that Wild Bill revealed itself to be... KATHERINE CHO???? Waiting for the right moment, she told us about everything since we got our contact cut at Zebu, and about the first strike of the CA on the Raveneye. She also told us about how Haqqislam, the first forces to reach her position after her distress call, helped her recover from injuries, and protected her as the valuable asset she is.

After offering her an extended period off to rest and recover a bit more, I noted to myself to apologize to the Local Director of the Waqf-Al-Badawi, since without his help we wouldn't have retrieved and secured our beloved Psy unit Ensign so quickly, or even alive!

Heading back to a now secured Zebu, even cleared from the parasites by the help of our Tohaa allies, and with operation #NO-SIGN-OF-OUR-ENSIGN successful, we were now ready to support our trusted ICAF allies and to drive the Combined Army away from Concilium Prima, highly motivated by this victory against the Avatar!

Lady Numiria out.
O-12 High Commissioner for the Concilium Coordinated Command.
on the behalf of ICAF High Command.

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