Asteroid Blues

The Camera started flying over the battlefield that was just down the street and couple of hundred meters on the front. It was a cramped place, Not even a Motorcycle could easily travel around the place just pass through the main roads. A maze of smaller corridors and small rooms fill up the HQ surroundings. The nomad troops were few but resilient consisting mainly of Mobile Brigades and even a TAG that managed to emerge and stand up ready to face the OSS troops attacking boldly. The Aleph force was made from the usual stuff, Dakinis Devas and Proxies one of them managed to advance quite a distance before the nomads noticed and with him Andromeda had just jumped from a moving platform almost into Corregidor lines.

Andromeda, borrowed by the Steel Phalanx to the OSS, bring her Sectorial motto with her and instantly started assaulting the members of the Corregidor Fireteam. One by one the nomads lose the bullets exchange and hide with bullets inserted on their armour if they were lucky and if not, like a HI, on their flesh. Eventually the nomads retreated enough to make Andromeda stop as shew knew that getting closer would be too risky. On the east part of the battlefield a Mk5 Posthuman,… yeah after a decade I’m starting to remember those digital brains names… The Proxy advanced, took some extra armour from a supply box and set himself to a duel against the Nomad TAG. The story repeated itself and the TAG retreated a with some new holes but still functional.

The AI momentum started fading and the last movements where to set up defensive positions of the almost complete enemy forces. First, the Core moved up, put some supportware on their Spitifre, marked Andromeda and fired mercilessly against the woman and her big metallic cat. After that they regained the lost terrain and set up defensive positions on the west side of the field. After that, the same was applied against the Mk5 and with a hacker, a Mobile brigade and the wounded TAG.
There was nothing more to do as an Aleph Missile launcher that was linked guarding the main road stand tall and menacing.

Something started moving form the back of the Aleph lines directly into the central building. It was a long run but eventually A Mk2 with a Shotgun materialized from nothing and effectively shoot the TAG. I must say, my fellow readers that it was weird, that proxy was on an excellent sniper position, but with no sniper, maybe the AI made a mistake. Nevertheless the shotgun managed to wound the TAG but then like a piñata, the Proxy head blow up without being hit, this because a nomad hacker that eventually managed to hack the Proxy. Without any more hunters, the Marut started moving forward. The Massive HMG started shooting while moving when a couple of Panzerfaust travel through a door, managed to evade a mobile brigade, squeeze through two windows and hit the moving TAG almost everywhere but its defensive protections. The Mighty Marut was down by a lucky shot or shitty luck either way it was clear Tyche was not on Aleph side this time. Ultimately a Yudbot managed to bring the TAG up again before the Nomads started advancing.

The Nomads once again use their trick with their hacker, buffed their linked spitfire, shoot down and destroy for good the Marut that was standing in the open. After that they advance carefully through the centre to have a good range and fired against the guarding missile launcher that instantly blow up into the air but managed a hit that killed a member of the nomad fireteam. The nomads the decided to break their team and every one of them enter into suppressive fire to stop the last advance of the remaining Aleph force.

This is for you, my readers, get a good idea of the mood at the end of this battle!

Aleph had limited options and the chance alone is all they need to start making calculations and give it a try. First they reformed they fireteam with an HMG Dakini and fired against the Troops on suppressive fire. The nomad units where taking a beating but their high armour and cover ate up most of the bullets. Only the Rem with the spit fired was destroyed while two mobile brigades took a shot, brake their defensive position and took some cover.

The Aleph fireteam knew the had no time and advanced into the open just to gain some line of fire into the centre being a threat. After that the last proxy, an MK1, advanced and position herself on the main objective knowing that it will be all or nothing. She either survived the incoming Nomad assault and walked away with the victory or her body would fall down right there with any possibility of aleph being victorious.
The nomad assault began with a soldier flanking the proxy and wounding her, but as you well know of the aleph units they either are killed completely or they will keep fighting with their bodies blasted, full of bullets and pouring out internal fluids until their last breath. The TAG moved and fired against the proxy but the reflexes of the desperate female shoot first and took down the TAG. After that the pilot get out guns blazing but once against the deadeye of this soldier that just shoot one bullet right through the pilot skull. After that a wounded HI run firing against the Dakini HMG and tried to end the Proxy life but this one managed survive, and hurt the HI while the Remote took a bullet that render it inoperable.

There where at least two more Dakinis and a Deva menacing through a window and so the Nomads decided evade their line of fire by going prone. A HI moved slowly through the ground and fired against the proxy that at this point was making a memorable last stand. Once again the Proxy managed to hit the HI but their heavy armor saved him and one again it moved to shoot. This time he managed to catch the Proxy reloading its weapon. He fired until its magazine was empty and all the bullets had managed to hit, the female Mk1 Proxy was finally dead. At the end a wounded soldier walked up and grabbed the objective without any resistance. The nomads had held their ground.

It was a victory but I must confess to you that it felt like a hollow one. The nomads started moving but there were few victory chants and I knew why. This was a meaningful event because if Aleph was being bold enough to go straight through the main entrance with a Marut that alone mean that the control over the area was no longer completely of the Nomads, and we are talking of their main Headquarters. But nevertheless, reporting from the Human Edge, directly from the front to your screens this is Argus Gatling, reporting for your f!&%$*g pleasure!

Argus end reading, put the Datapad on its backpack, walk out of its room and moved quickly. His haste was not because of some battle happening, this was his day off after all it was because he finally had one clue of one of the Thorakitai that served along her dear Aoide during Kurage Crisis and he was determined to find this soldier and ask for the smallest detail. He silently walked through the crappy restaurant of the place and started making his way into the Chimneys where the Aleph soldiers were constantly cleaning the dark tunnels of this floating pile of dirt, Arugs thought as the buzz from the streets fused with his determined steps.

Sorry for the lack of the usual pictures, and the quality of the ones displayed. This match was from a local tournament where we decided on the spot to upload the match for the campaign as we both where on it. With the tournament time of 1 hour per player and the sun really not helping, few photos where taken by me and fewer photos were good enough to publish.

The game Ended (OSS)0 – 6 (Corregidor)
Sorry for any error on the writing, English is not my first language.