Asteroid Blues

Orders were to perform a patrol through Nomad controlled territory and if something came up, secure the node to prevent combined army from taking it. Something seemed fishy about it all, but after reports of a recent Shasvastii attack at Harry’s bar, the team was on high alert. Though given the tenants here, they could be attacked by the locals just as well as someone else. A shot rang out and gold armor was spotted, following orders, the Aleph patrol moved to seize the node and clear any interlopers.

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Notes: Sorry for the unpainted models. We also proxied a few models. Proxies are listed below.

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Lists:
OSS
Profile – Name – Model
Deva (AHD) – Aashi – Wardriver
Dakini Tacbot (Sniper) – Unit-1207 – Dakini Sniper
Dakini Tacbot (HMG) – Unit-1240 – Dakini HMG
Dakini Tacbot (LGL) – Unit-1136 – Dakini Pistol
CSU (Rifle + Shotgun) – James Smith – Shukra Shotgun
Dakini Tacbot (Combi) – Unit-3222 – Dakin Combi
Danavas Hacker (HD+) – Saatvika – Asura Hacker
Proxy Mk.1 Hacker – Min Lee – Kappa Pistol
Proxy Mk.2 Hacker – Min Lee – Gangbuster
Proxy Mk.5 (Forward Observer) – Min Lee – Kappa Combi
Netrod – N/A – Netrod
Netrod – N/A – Netrod
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Shukra (Lieutenant) – Tanvi – Yadu
Dart (E/M Grenades) – Dart – Dart
Sophotect – Sophie – Sophotect
Lamedh Rebot – Unit-1262 – Ratnik
Lamedh Rebot – Unit-1138 – Gamma

Invincible Army
Profile – Name – Model
Dāoyīng (Lieutenant L2 Hacker) – Zhu Li – Dāoyīng Hacker/Camo Marker 1
Hǎidào (Sniper) – Taizong – Hǎidào Sniper
Zhanshi (Forward Observer) – Zheng He – Zhanshi
Zhanshi (Paramedic) – Mengde – Zhanshi
Zhanshi (Paramedic) – Xixian – Zhanshi
Son-Bae Yaókòng (SML) – B3-3B – Sil 3 Template
Lù Duān – BL0-0P – Sil 4 Template and Markers
Mówáng (NCO Spitfire) – Meng Qin – Sun Tze v1
Hac Tao (KHD) – Xuande – Wu Ming HRL
Liú Xīng (Boarding Shotgun) – Wu-lie – Tiger Soldier

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Lieutenant Tanvi likes to keep herself in the center of formation, so she can coordinate any efforts, and to keep an eye on that untrustworthy Corporate Security Unit, James. He at least didn’t seem to mind the company. None of the Dakini’s would take to him obviously. When the attack started, she took cover in the nearest building, an abandoned house. The rest of the team spread out.

Saatvika took off to the nearest Arachne transmitter to the left of their position, along with Unit-1262, the first of the teams Lamedh Rebots. The antenna was located in an abandoned, but open square, with a small fountain. It would be tough to hold, but hopefully the enemy would not focus on it. She hooked herself into the local network and began watching in earnest.

To the right, Min Lee, the Proxy assigned for this mission took off. She was a former Yu Jing citizen before her ascendance, and was still adapting to the body. Given her skill with hacking, she spread her forms over the two closest antennas for the node. Her second body was however, using its camouflage to make its way directly towards the incoming fire. The heavier third body went to secure a building on the right flank, and her first body stayed near the antenna, keeping company to the giggling Deva, Aashi.

Aashi couldn’t help but laugh when she and Min hooked into the Arachne uplink. Either Yu Jing forces had sent a force of hackable targets, or the Shasvastii had. Either case she couldn’t help but giggle to herself over the targets ahead. That said, Tanvi had gotten after her to keep an eye on the Dakini team and the CSU, which had ducked into the building next to her, along with Sophie, the teams medic and engineer.

Dart hated the idea of getting stuck in a patrol, but Aleph had been clear this mission would be important. Still, mingling with the aspects did not appeal to her, so she followed in the catwalks, skulking about.

The first contact was with Min Lee. As her body cleared through the building, she noticed a wanted criminal outside of the building, toward where the shot had come from. She rolled an EM-grenade around the corner, hoping to isolate him from his team. She then let loose a burst of fire into the criminal as the grenade exploded. Hearing a pair of screams, she waited for backup before pushing forward.

Dart received a call from the other posthuman and rushed up behind a billboard ahead, catching a glimpse of Yu Jing troops. “Crap they aren’t supposed to be here, yet we are to clear any unauthorized personnel and secure the node…” she thought to herself for a moment before unloading a barrage of submachine gun fire into the people below her. There were two of them, a Daoying operative, struggling to operate her quantronic equipment, and a Zhanshi trying to hook into the nearby Arachne Node. “Must be Shasvastii infiltrators.” She thought to herself. “The shot came from the roof across from you,” Tanvi said over comms, flagging the building behind dart as having a team. She blindly tossed a few grenades and signalled Min to do the same below her.

While her comrades push forward, Aashi looked for targets in the network around her. She picked up a heavily armored unit pushing up the left flank, directly for Saatvika. Not having enough time to do the full job, she started by disabling his communication gear, noticing him immediately becoming disrupted on the attempt.

Finally in position, Tanvi orders the Dakini HMG to open fire on the building that had let loose the first shot. A lull in the fighting seems to form, and the Yu Jing forces go immediately into retreat.

Upon finding the bodies of humans, they appear to be troops that were already considered KIA earlier in another incident at Harry’s Bar earlier this week, lending credence to the theory of Shasvastii infiltrators. All records of humans in the incident disappear from Maya and a news report shows up from numerous sources about an Aleph operation that protected the local Arachne Node from Shasvastii infiltration.