Asteroid Blues

With an O-12 warrant, the Ariadnans move on further into Traffic Control, only to be faced once again with Tohaa resistance.

An intel package must be carried out their territory. but the rough terrain is dotted with Tohaa sniper nests. Apparently Boardron was expecting a certain style of force from the AEC and got a lot of MSV to support him in protecting the Intel Package. And with a maximum number of Symbiomates as support, this is not going to be easy.

But Ariadna has some harassing of their own in the form of the Grunt. Who is not willing to die, dodging everything incoming and being a real nuisance.

One of the Chaksa is sent in to finally burn the Grunt to a crisp!

After dealing with the grunt, they can move forward, with the Kaeltar stomping on his neck. This would become a very important objective that has been met.

Neemas team moves up and the Makaul stumbles upon a mine, killing him instantly. The team moves on to go find Uxia in her hidden position to take her out. Making sure she does not reach the intel package. The Ariadnans open up on the right flank with a hardcase, who suprises the sniper and his support. He is able to take a good chunk out of them with his light shotgun!

The Antipodes have chosen Neemar Saatar as their pray, but find she can stand her own. Also the other Tohaa nearby open up with everything they got against the Antipodes. Ultimately after a few blows, Neema is only lightly wounded and one wolf is still standing.

With all the snipers overseeing the battle, something had to be done. The Veteran Kazak LT moves forward to mow down le muet, only to be hit straight in the face and go down in one shot!

the chasseur moves up to be close to the Intel package. So the Tohaa want to deal with her, but have to get past the hardcase. the regular sniper tries it, but gets an arrow to the knee! Meanwhile the draal puts an Mine around the corner for the Chasseur if she tries something funny

The draal team goes on the move and smokes the Hardcase position.

Close Combat ensues and the cowboy gets overpowered by the Tohaa team with an overkill of Viral. They try to take out the Chasseur, but she dodges everything coming her way, including the mine!

Neema ends the last Antipode so she can freely move towards the Ariadnan territory. But not for the Ariadnans strike. The Spetsnaz wounds the Draal who activates his thingymagic, only to lose it because of a HMG hit.

Ariadnans coordinate to desperately get closer to the intel package.

It was a bit of a gamble to hope that all the hidden troops would stay hidden and could dash for the Intel Package. but one by one they were discovered by the Tohaa and dealt with. Neema got closer, but found she could not reach the one protected by the Ariadnans, so she went in suppression fire. A chance for the Ariadnans to take her down and get some intel from her unconcious body if Oleg kills her....gently....