Asteroid Blues

While the Yu Ying exploration team could gather important information about the business of the Silk consortium and the involvement of group 14NB in this dirty work, it was of highest importance to get this information back and to blur the marks.
With a level of importance beyond normal missions, the special subforce 141NB was sent out, better armed and trained. Only one Druze gunner was included from the normal force, since she had seen the enemy in action. Due to good connections all around Novyy Bankok it was no problem to cross the distance between the hangar area and the plant of interest in the open-pit site: The Rewater Corp watertreatment plant, the biggest one in the Yu Ying area and the only one mentioned in the occupied documents.

The Quapu Khalqi force arrived just in the right moment on the site. While cautiously embarking from the trucks, heavy armed soldiers of the State Empire scattered on the opposite side of the area. Two Hsiens controlled the security office near the silo of sewage sludge, a Yan Huo secured the central pathway and secured by a camouflaged trooper a Zuyong and one Shang Ji took positions around the generator units.
First the Jannissairs left their truck and the remotes embarked, too, to take positions on the left flank and on safe spots in the middle. On the opposite flank the Druze team and the missions Hakim left their truck. A camouflaged Hawwa crawled along the catwalk.
Designated for datacollection in the Yu Ying force was the Hsien with Multirifle, while the Druze gunner took her experience and should recover the data.

One of the Hsiens next to the security office was to sceptical about the truck-drivers trying to pass by, so he gave order to check the whole area for enemy intruders. The Yan Huo quickly confirmed this estimation with a Fanous remote in sight. So the whole force advanced well coordinated and took easy to defend positions. Soon the sound of suppressing fire could be heared on both sides.
Just in place, the first Yuan Yuan rained from the sky. With a malfunction of her jetpack on the last meters, she scattered in the far right corner. The second pirate was better equipped and landed coordinated behind a generator. Here he started his way forward and covered himself with smoke when the Shan Ji started shooting on him. With the smoke-screen up, the Jannissair-team advanced. The boarding shotgun took the lead and sneaking around the farest corner of the building, the Zuyong was taken under fire. Taking first injuries, he crawled into cover and could dodge a second round of shrapnells. Throwing some more smoke by the Yuan Yuan, the team repositioned into better do defend positions. Giving up his charade, a Hafza FO shut down the gas-ventilation in his own deploymentzone.

With heavy armored targets against them, the Yan Huo started to take action. On his way towards the Jannissairs, the Fanous-Remote was shredded. Attempting to give the bulky soldier the space he needs, the Shan Ji retreated, only to recieve a missile straight in his back and ending up in pieces. Now with enough space, the Yan Huo did his job on the missile launcher and out of his covered position a Guilang assassinated the HMG-bearer. So the urgent threats were cleared and everyone set up suppressive fire again. On the other side, the sceptical Hsien approached to check one of the drivers and identified him as an agent of the Silk Consortium.
Things were going not as well as hoped for, but especially the Druze gunner had an other feeling in her gut then in the last missions. Unaware of the general situation, both Yuan Yuans approached and the one on the left set up new smoke to cover the nursery of the unconscious Jannissairs. With her Nasmat the Ghulam Doc tried to help the HMG-bearer, but without good results. But she had better luck with the missile launcher, wo could be reintegrated into the team. With no good targets in sight on the left flank, the team retreated into more central positions. On his path, the missile launcher could clear the sniper.

With a free path towards the console, the Zuyong could close the gasventilation in the Yu Ying deploymentzone, while the rest of the force retreated and took hard to reach but easy to defend positions.
With more space to operate, the Jannissair team headed towards the right flank. With that much well equipped soldiers, the planned attack with sewage gas out of the ventilation-system would fail. So heavy force was needed to prevent the Yu Ying force from getting sensible data out of the fight. With his own weakness in mind, the missile launcher took the risk and started shooting at the enemy datatracker. Miscalculating the distance, he arrived in his suppressing fire, but could make first damage. Retreating into a more distanced spot to fire, the exchange was without result. With the set up gas-attack, the rest of the force had to retreat into the safe zone. Only the Druze gunner now had the time and equipment for a last try. She knew, that this attampt was cruicial for the whole mission, but only god would know the success. Nevertheless, the result was written somewhere and could not be avoided, so she rushed forward and pulled the trigger of her rifle. Without any bullets back, she could see the Hsien falling over, heavily wounded by her shots. In that moment the gas-alarms went up and the Yu Ying force quickly left the plant, believing of a tragic failure in the plants safety-measures.

The way back, now with some more trucks full of sewage sludge, was quiet. Nobody stopped or controlled them, but even nobody of the team dared to talk over this final shot of Druze gunner Yara. Some beliefed it was one of gods miracles, some beliefed on the fate. Only Yara knew, that this was what she was born for, or maybe just the start of something bigger. Her fate had touched her.
Arriving in the hagnar area the sewage sludge, which was the official business of the Rewater Corp, run by the Druze, could be shipped directly to a new arrived ship and together with some unlabled bulk tanks leave Novyy Bankok. Not only the wastewatertreatment plant could be secured, the whole inofficial silk-trade of the Silk Consortium, the Druze Bayram and some Quapu Khalqi officers could be kept under the blanket.