Asteroid Blues

There were a lot of questions for the young Ghulam Lt: "What have the mercenary-companies in common with the Combined Army? What were they searching for? Why advised Yara to take a less known route?' But what she knew: The Main Strip was the last place to be at the moment on this cursed rock in space!

Through her contacts in Novyy Bankok Yara knew where to go after the collected information from the last Yu Ying attack was analyzed. It contained some hints on a hidden infiltration of several levels through some of the present mercenery-corporations. Not only lower StarCo levels, but also some JSA levels could be infiltrated by Combined Army agents during the Uprising. It seems like the clumsy PanO Fusilier was the worst thing possible for the EI in Novyy Bankok, when he fell into the drunk pirate. Now everybody was digging in every secret the planetoid had - like group 14NB now did in a cover-up ruin recently secured by JSA-troops. The mission: Extract new information from the hidden data-hubs. (Supplies)

Knowing how fast Japanese troops can attack and expecting camouflaged troops all over the field, group 14NB deployed wide spread to cover every angle of their side of the factory, but also to start a devastating first strike.
While taking positions, everywhere shimmers in the air could be seen, but not be identified. The only real thing in sight was a Keisotsu-team in the center, backed by a Kioshi-Rider.

With only a few enemies in sight, these targets should be eleminated as quickly as possible. So one Yuan Yuan fell down in the center of the factory field and layed a first layer of smoke. A second pirate should attack from the left flank. The Djanbazan HMG started his way into the center, miscalculating the range of the smoke and got shot by a first Ninja MSR. The first Yuan Yuan corrected this mistake with a second smokegrenade, so the hakim could revive the Djanbazan and his colleague with SMR started his way towards the center, killing the Keisotsu ML. The Hawwa took the same route, extracting the first data-carrier and handing it to the Djanbazan SMR.
Near the Ghulam team Saito Togan appeared, covering their sight with a ambitous thrown smoke grenade. Now safe, the Ninja MSR cleared all evidence by shooting the warcor. This initiated the roar of the Kioshi Rider, dropping the Hawwa and the Djanbazan with her flamethrower. Sacrificing herself to Yaras viral-pistol, the next burst of her flamethrower led the Ghulam Lt fall dead.

Nearly paralyzed in confusion about the loss of the Ghulam lt, only a view soldiers stayed calm. Trained in madness, the Yuan Yuan in the center hid in smoke and landed a lucky shot with his chain rifle on Saito Togan. On the left side, the other Yuan Yuan headed towards the Kempei in the center, not noticing a Oniwaban and a Shinobu, which killed him without a noise. With the famous Ninja down on the right side, Yara took the rest of the ressources to grab up the data-carrier and take a better to defend position.
Now out of camouflage, the Shinobu advanced on the left side, eleminating everything he got into view.

Guarding the Ghulam team with smoke, the Yuan Yuan sacrificed herself to the Ninja MSR, while a Bashi Bazouk appeared on the left flank,surviving a hail of bullets. But his try to assassinate the Keisotsu HMG failed and killed him. The remaining troops took the best possible positions to defend what they got against the shadow warriors.
Now safe from enemy fire, the JSA troops climbed on the building on the left side to secure at least an other dataset from enemy-access.

One time more few additional information was expensivly paid by group 14NB. Yara was sorry for the young Ghulam lt, the scars in her soul from this kind of death would influence her whole path after the ressurection. And what did they achieved? The data-carrier contained information about JSA-activities on the Main Strip, but also some suspicious code and an additional coded list of covered meetings in Novyy Bankok. The key for this code and a list of names could be secured by the JSA-force.
It seemed like Combined Army set up a big mess inside some mercenary-groups from where they initiated false-flag missions between the big nations of the Human Sphere. But to dig all this up to light, mointains needed to be moved, Yara guessed. At least her own organisation was fine.