Asteroid Blues

Once more we have incoming pirates, this time mascarading as honourable haqq troopers. Having blasted a hole in the habitation zone atmospheric bubble the sekban boarding party leads the way. Yuan yuans and bashi bazouk inbound.
Our plucky celestial guard Lt arms the workers with the weapons at hand mostly chain rifles. Our principle assets are our ninja and su Jian. The garrison has excellent medical care in the form of a sophotect....
Prepare to defend, ISS takes deployment and us given second turn.

Quapu Khalqi turn one gets off to a poor start losing one YY, scattering another off board (lands next to 'djanbazan sniper') the last rolls up an LGL. After dropping smoke this yuan yuan pushes in and damages the panguling EVO at the cost of being glued under the stairway.
The djanbazan data tracker has the misfortune to lose to the husong through smoke and further fail his regen roll, this a great turn of events for ISS
The sekban team opens up taking multiple AROs but is able to burninate dakini sniper, husong tr HMG and sophotects helper bot (no repairs for our dakini and the hmg is nothing but ash.
Bashi bazouk arrives from my right side, killing another kuang Shi and getting into a firefight with my su Juan using his AP rifle. After firing both panzerfausts the bashi is a red smear but the su Juan has sustained damage.
All in all a good recovery by brunmar, much damage done but he leaves his left quadrant unmanned....

My turn 1 I need to escape my DZ! We've taken much damage already... We need to clear the 'djanbazan sniper' smoke up Sophie and get our machines repaired. So the dakini hmg moves in to get the job done with B4, Djanbazan is if course a hafza... Damnit brunmar you got me again.
I see that I can claim my 2 zones leaving brunmar with only one, my hidden deployed unit, moves around as a camo marker near the Heli pad securing my left zone at no order cost.
Some orders are wasted shooting smoke to hide sophotect from the murderous sekban team on her mission of healing... but we finally get going...
Towards the end of the turn things go real bad for me... I'll let the photos show the damages. I think our medical repair crews need a R&R shift they aren't responding well to orders.

Brace for defeat, death of both data trackers means Im only now up 2-0. As I score 2 zones to none(brunmar lost his right side with the death of his DT... Errors abound in the chaos as air pressure fluctuated wildly
Yu Jing lines are virtually uncontested, despair and failure fills radio chatter...
Al Hawwa sniper rushes up my left flank doing a chunk of damage and placing a mine. Kuang Shi are removed at will. Brunmar is pruning orders at low risk, toying with the remaining defenders. A ghulam sniper takes out another chain rifle from his DZ as the core team moves down from high ground to take up an advanced position.

The enemy having moved up as they see fit, blasting off all but 1of my kuang Shi I do have some good targets of opportunity.
With few orders I send in kuang shi#2, then my LT, then the bounty hunter finally revealing the Al hawwa on the third attempt and getting enough into my left quarter to hold it against brunmars camo token. Al hawwa sniper is ultimately wounded by the celestial LT as she directs the remaining troops forward.
Poor abused Evo panguling finally allowed to die (thanks Sophie, Im just glad you didn't suicide on hull breach). Somehow still claim back my 2 zones thanks to the expensive sophotec on the right and ninja on the left. Brunmars 2 zones are now unassailable. Secure HVT is starting to look like the decider (and they are both well in haqq territory now.

Emotional rollercoaster continues,it's yu jings turn for outrageous good fortune, as the dice turn against my piratical foe.
0G doctor sekban confidently moves to help his injured Al hawwa brother. But kuang shi#2 (RIP) has the aim of a god and murders the elite merc. The other sekban stays back to stop any strange plays from me. Meanwhile the ghulam link piles forward to steal my right side zone. REMS and that lost yuan yuan move up to hold brunmars 2 quarters.
Thus is where it gets weird. Ghulam link hits the L shaped hab block. The despised ghulam NCO climbs the ladder to shoot down on the sophotect. She duely returns fire taking hits and guts to 'safety'. Ghulam Lt pops around the corner to shoot her but gets sucjed out into the void. A third ghulam finally gets the job done, but also succumbs to the hull breach! Brunmar hold his zones and my right zone with nothing but ghulam doctor, NCO and sniper! He has the hvt secure with doctor and sniper. I can still do this!
First kuang Shi 2 climbs impetuously to the roof. NCO ghulam calmly watches the kuang Shi smiling knowingly.
But I'm not ready to cast kuangshi2 away yet. Our ninja reveals and executed the legendary ghulam silently from behind with an arrow from the rooftop.
Free to push forward KS#2 crawls up avoiding HRL fire and is able to chain rifle both sniper and doctor, it is his final action as HRL overwatch incinarates him. Doctor lives but the sniper is less fortunate!
Our celestial LT runs in to hold the zone 26pts to 21!
Could that be any closer?
2 quadrants each the games ends 4-3

With only 4 survivors from the hull breach incident we have much to learn about combat in dangerous arenas. Loss of the su jian is an expensive one. Still success against the odds and by the narrowest of margins will still serve our cause.