Asteroid Blues

Infinity

Operation Rat

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Haqqislam
Garak
VS Ariadna
Tarash_bulba

Authors Note:We're both using the free Wild Bill in this mission. I'm using some proxies again. The kamau and orc troopers are Mukhtars. Patsy Garnett is my Wild Bill. Tarash_Bulba has really fitting Wild Bill proxy.

The man with the blue beret took another drag from his cigar. He paused for a moment to savor it's powerful, spicy and earthy flavor. It had been a gift from a rather uncouth paratrooper colonel. Blowing the smoke toward the ceiling, he smiled in satisfaction. It had been a good day. He leaned back into his chair and put his feet on the desk in front of him, right next to the inbuilt screen.

The door to his left opened and Major Dayan walked in. A veteran of four major campaigns, she was a tall, striking woman with dusky skin, warm brown eyes and red facial tattoo. It was a simple design, two lines, one going from the tip of her nose toward her hairline while the other swept from her left cheek, over her nose and to her right. At the end of each line was an bisected oval shape and there was a dotted outline around the entire design. Some sort of tribal ritual, the man suspected but it certainly served to enhance her beauty.

"Sorry to keep you waiting Colonel" she said in lieu of a greeting, her voice a pleasant contralto. "The tech experts just finished their work."

He made a small gesture, a slight turning of the wrist, as if he was spilling a handful of sand and replied "Is of no matter."

"As you say" agreed the Major. She pulled a chair next to him and sat down. Inserting a small flash drive into the side of the screen, she turned toward the Colonel.

"Shall we see what the security cams caught?"

Taking another drag from his cigar, the Colonel grinned at her "Da."

Tartary Army
Ramah Combat Team

Camera 1:

The Tartary Strike team moves into the AO. A team of Kazaks and Frontovik move into a position to cover all approaches. They are to act as a support team. Meanwhile two Spetsnaz sneak forward and set up their heavy machine guns. They get ready to mow down anyone heading their way or, if Lady Luck smiles upon them, the target they here to eliminate.

Two Irmandinhos also rush forward. It's their job to access the local network and retrieve the data pointing to their real target. Some arms dealer that Haqqislam was trying to get into witness protection - allegedly. In reality he was a suspected Shasvasti infiltrator.

In no time at all, they discovered his identity and that of the two decoys - minor flunkies of his.

Before they had time to act on this, an indistinct shape rose from behind a barricade and, with no hesitation, took down one of the two Spetsnaz with a quick burst from a Red Fury.

Camera 2:

The Ramah response team moved up quickly. As soon as the Mukhtar managed to down one of the enemy heavy gunners, the shadowshooter they had hacked stepped forward. A quick burst from his rifle and one of the two Irmandinhos was down.

Camera 1:

The second Spetsnaz saw movement and opened fire but in his haste he missed his target by a wide margin. The khawarij did not waste any ammo and quickly downed his enemy. For several seconds afterward nothing could be seen. Then a mukhtar leaned around a corner and traded fire with the Frontovik sniper. Several shots went both ways before the Haqqislam soldier pulled back, shaking his head. A second mukhtar took his place and the same sequence of events played out but this time the soldier, already wounded, took a round to the head and went down.

Camera 2:

The mukhtar, blinded by a flash pulse and bleeding from being shot by the sniper, pulled back. After a quick discussion, the two survivors of the Harris Team decided to fall back.

Despite taking out the forward elements of the Ariadnan strike team, they could not get past the sniper to advance further. And there was the growl of Antipode from somewhere nearby.

"Wild Bill" opening the way.
Drunken Spetznaz
Trying and failing to kill that damn Frontovik.

Camera 2:

As the Mukhtar prepare for an attack, one of the decoys shouts in alarm. The surviving Irmandinho, a small blonde woman, had a perfect angle on them from a nearby rooftop. She unleashed a shot from her chainrifle even as the Mukhtar and the shadowshooter fired back, trusting in their armor. She collapsed, her wild convulsions a result of getting hit by viral rounds.

Her targets fared somewhat better. The shadowshooter was a little worse for the wear and the decoy was smeared across the pavement but the two mukhtar were alive.

Seeing this, the arms smuggler seemed ready to run for it and take his chances elsewhere. He didn't notice the other shadowshooter, the one the Tartary had employed, come up behind him. He did freeze when he felt the muzzle against the back of his head - for the split second before his head was scattered like rotten fruit onto the ground. The shadowshooter ducked back behind the corner.

Camera 1:

Lacking any targets, and with their forward elements down, the kazaks and the sniper moved up for a closer position. They moved rapidly, getting in place and setting up before the Haqqislam troops could react. Meanwhile one of the two Streloks moved up to confirm if the second decoy was still in the area - might as well kill him as well, to make a point. Which was probably why he took a shot at the enemy shadowshooter, taking him down.

Camera 2:

Even as the Stelok confirmed the info, the Ramah troopers decided to act. The Kazaks had advanced and exposed themselves in their new position. A fact of which one of the Mukhtar took advantage and put a few viral rounds into one of them.

Hoping that the enemy were on a back foot finally, the khawarij lieutenant took a risk and engaged the enemy sniper. Sadly for him, despite his superior firepower, he could not seem to eliminate his foe.

Some retaliation was needed so the Strelok who had taken out the shadowshooter found himself under fire. A wounded but angry Mukhtar was determined to take out his frustration on someone. To the Strelok's horror, he soon found out that the Mukhtar was equiped with a Multi-Spectral Visor and could see through his camo - as the Spetsnaz had found out the hard way. He didn't stand a chance, his short range shotgun vs a Red Fury.

Still cursing that damn sniper.
Surprise chain rifle shot.
Feeling lucky punk?
Advance for the Motherland!
Making the overconfident Kazak pay for it.
Risking life and limb to no avail.
I don't care about your mimetism.

Camera 1:

The Kazaks and the sniper shift position to make it harder for the enemy Mukhtar to pick them off one by one. The Antipodes lick their fur in boredom.

Camera 2:

A third Spetsnaz sneaks into the AO. He moves cautiously, manages to get an angle on a ghulam that wasn't paying attention and gives him a face full of shotgun. Then with quick movements he climbs onto the roof of a nearby building and takes another two shots. One blasts the khawarij lieutenant leading the Ramah team, the other takes out the last decoy. Their mission was accomplished. And they had thoroughly beaten the Haqqislam soldiers.

One trooper who was guarding the rear, wearing what looked like stripped down Jannissary gear, quickly took over. With hesitation, she moved toward the intruder and fire a burst of her SMG toward the Spetsnaz. The man ducked the shots and went prone, aiming at where he expected the soldier to appear if they decided to press the attack.

Instead the Hortlak Jannissary moved around behind the building and then climbed. She was noticed by the Frontovik sniper but the wound he inflicted was not enough. The Spetsnaz trooper died shot in the back, a full SMG clip emptied into his back.

My shotgun is bigger than yours!
Got your leader!
Hortalk Jannissary takes command and tries to kill the Spetznaz but he hides.
Using stealth to get behind the enemy.
Defeated but extremely petty to the last.

The recording ended. There was silence in the room, aside from the Colonel breathing out more smoke. Major Dayan let the silence hang, she was in no hurry. Finally the man took his feet from the desk and leaned forward.

"My compliments, Major."

"I take it you approve?"

He nodded a confirmation. "It is most excellent. No one will know this from an original."

"I'll pass that compliment to the techs and the troops."

The Colonel chuckled. "Please, also inform Sergeant Zara that corporal Davydov is still smarting about her actions. He was sure the 'action' was over when she ambushed him."

"I'll pass it along. Please also congratulate Sergeant Vasily Zaitsev on his excellent shooting. The mukhtar and the khawarij are still smarting from the paint balls they received."

"I'll pass that along. With this video being 'leaked' to the other factions, we can be sure that the Shasvasty have no idea we captured one of their operatives. We should be able to get some interesting information out of him."

"Happy to assist." She took the flash drive out and handed it over to the Colonel. "I also added a copy of some intel we found about Shasworth Financial. It might help your investigation, or at least confirm what other sources have found."

"Thank you, it was a pleasure working with you" said the Spetsnaz Colonel.

As he walked away, Major Dayan couldn't help a smile. It was clear that while the Colonel was pleased with the forged footage they had created, he was less than pleased with the performance of his fellow Spetsnaz - the Khawarij and the Mukhtar had really done a number on them.

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