Asteroid Blues

Infinity

Worthy Sacrifice

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ALEPH
Kortz
VS Nomads
undork

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I DON’T KNOW IF ITS A CACHE OR RAM ERROR BUT THE IMAGES SHOWN ARE FROM A PREVIOUS REPORT, BUT IF YOU CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO MAKE THEM POP OUT THE CORRECT ONES APPEAR… SO I DONT THINK IS A MISTAKE FROM MY PART…IF SOMEONE KNOW HOW TO SOLVE THIS PLEASE COMMENT DOWN

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Yesterday,
After walking through a mix of man-made tunnels and sewers with full squad of Steel Phalanx soldiers, Argus Gatling, the old warcore, was just looking for a place to sit down and catch a breath as the so called “walk” from the Gorge to the Aleph HQ was about 6 hours long without any break. The travel was not a pleasant experience, between foul smell of the tunnels, the dark that slowly but steadily keep the light at bay and the well-timed sounds of how knows what, it was not something to look forward. Eventually the tunnel open up and on Argus sight was the famous Stone Buddha flanked by those sterile and practical buildings that Aleph bring everywhere.
Argus was directed into a small room with a table and nothing more, no glasses no chairs or wall interface. He waited about 5 minutes before his old friend Tamiris open up the door with a couple of nutritious paste on vacuum sealed containers plus some vitamin water.
- So I have a some Red – 09 and Silver – 05...What's your favourite? - Asked the Aleph Reporter
Argus took the closer one without looking at it and sat down on the floor.
- You know that when you have actual people with you you should remember that there is a need to take a break, I'm not some recruit in training… hell with my age even a short run is something to be proud of!
- Are you sure that you wanted to catch your breath on those tunnels? You have no idea what lurks in the darkness, there's a lot of shit you don't what to know about, even less experience it –
- If the surface of this asteroid is as corrupted as it is on plain sight I can imagine what's down here, a lot of dirty secrets and for me this is a gold mine-
- I knew I picked the right guy for this job… So let me be straightforward we need someone to report publicly what's going down here, the cleaning process, but not as part of Aleph or the O12, just a third party talking about it-
- You know that if the pay is good enough I can do the job, but let me ask the why… I'm sure you have many ways to filter info like that through the Mayanet-
Tamiris stood still for a second with his eyes lost and Argus knew the IA had directly talked with him,
- I'm afraid that myself does not know why but its something needed, so... Are you in?
Argus finished the Red-09 and stood up.
- I'm in but I will need part of the payment in advance, I am going back to my shitty hotel, its more subtle than going back and forward with a full escort of white armoured synths in the Chimneys. Plus im just going to keep doing my job... sure looking for shit happening down here but don't expect me to be 24/7 in those tunnels… Do we have a deal?
- Just dont sell the notes to any blacklisted site and we are good-
- Yeah, yeah I know the drill, not my first time receiving credits from the “good guys”...-
- Well it's a deal then, I told you it was going to be quick and honestly I am surprised you accepted so easily-
- Well better to have some steady deal in this floating dumpsite, I gotta eat sometime-
After the deal was sealed Argus was sent back to his hotel using the main road and not that sneaky labyrinth of mine tunnels where he was brought through. He was thinking that this could be a good opportunity to get some info of Aoide as the last record he has of her was in some operation with Aleph against the JSA. He was almost out of the Chimneys, still thinking when, unable to end the toughs he had floating around, the cutting sound of a Multi-sniper rifle shoot made him seek cover mediately. He glanced over and there was a nomad contingent retaliating back the previous aggression. Immediately doors started closing tunnels and buildings but not before a small contingent of soldiers get out and started to set up in defensive positions and to his surprise there was Hector, the Homerid Champion himself leading the defense.

The Field

The old Warcor angry for his bad luck, started swearing to himself while he looked for his camera. He found it after a few moments and sent it flying and in his mind he was starting to have second thoughts about the job he had just accepted. But he didn't have time to think a lot, a note was happening in front of him and so he just set himself into automatic node and started to take notes and photos. It was another scuffle between Aleph and the Nomad nation, but this time the roles had inverted as the nomads were the aggressors. The nomads had divided themselves in three zones but hardly any unit could be seen as many of them where in camouflage. Meanwhile the Steel Phalanx forces had divided themselves on the two flanks leaving some open space on the centre.

Aleph side / aerial view
Nomad side / Aerial view

ACT 1

The nomads had the surprise on their favour but they focused on setting up themselves for defence. At first they send a zero to make some recognizance and to take control of the east side of the map by setting up mines. The nomad soldier was too reckless after that, he was discovered and when the tried to keep running & dodging some bullets of a myrmidon leave him unconscious. After that another Zero moved to mark a couple objectives to extract info or to destroy them, widening the gap of victory with the Aleph forces. With their last moves, before the SP(Steel Phalanx) units advanced, a HI moved closer to the centre of the contested area and start pouring bullets front and right suppressing any enemy it could see.

Unconscious Zero unit after planting some mines
Nomad HI on Suppressive fire

Aleph forces knew there was too little information and so they knew some sacrifices and gambles where needed in order to fight back. First Atalanta moved and peek over a corner, looking for some revenge. Instantly two intruder appeared on opposite corners decided to kill her as fast they could and so she shoot back. The echo of four simultaneous shots fill the air with tension but at the end, the young body of the Aleph sniper was lying on a pool of blood. The first gamble was not a complete lost for the Aleph forces as know they knew what they were against.

Atalanta peeping out hoping to reveal some enemy markers

Never the less the nomad defensive forces where a great threat and so Hector and his myrmidon fire team advanced slowly and carefully. At first they just moved with their back on a wall but eventually they had to rely on the eclipse grenades of Machaon to bypass a deadly corridor with two intruders, a sin eater and a HI on Suppressive fire. The process was slow but eventually they managed to advance into the nomad flank unharmed. Eventually Hector managed to shoot down an Intruder but that was all he could do until the nomads started to move again.

Hector leading a frontal assault
Myrmidon fireteam holding defensive positions

ACT 2

The nomad nation they lack the strength to fight directly against the Steel Phalanx on close quarters but they were decided to take some valuable information and destroy as many assets they could. With the objectives in mind, the zero moved along and keep marking objectives on the area. After that, the remaining intruder started shooting managing to make one of the marked servers to blow up and light all the place for an instant. Finally some hacker started to place pitchers all over the west side to the map, cornering the Myrmidon fire team with a hacking network that would activate the firs instant Hector moved a muscle.

Zero FO marking objectives

Hector knew that the pressure was overflowing, they where surrounded, objective wise they where far behind and the other fireteam that managed to get out and defend was too far to be of aid, but not all was lost. The Homerid Champion shoot against the other intruder and killed him after some shots were exchanged, After that he ordered Machaon to keep throwing eclipse grenades to the closest console, no nomad was going to get their hands on it. They again moved with the eclipse smoke covering them and set themselves to work. They got to the console, and Hector’s bot was with its eyes full of red code trying to stop the enemy hacking attempts with some success. Machaon quickly marked the console and then Hector look at his fellow myrmidons and smashed the thing to pieces in one blow. His body then stood still as a hacker managed to hack him, he knew it was his end but know he had left some chance for the Phalanx to turn the table.

Hector destroying an objective

ACT 3

The nomads jump after Hector and his enclosed fireteam, focusing on the motionless Champion. They knew that if Hector managed to reset himself they would be in a lot of trouble and so the Nomad HI moved and shoot a full magazine. Hector body slammed the floor in an instant. Then they proceeded to bring down the remaining myrmidons on by one. Eventually only Machaon survived, wounded and with his equipment burned.

Machaon holding as the last Myrmidon alive

At the end the nomads regain their original focus and moved to keep marking servers, looking for objective points but once again, a reckless Zero found himself being fired upon by the remaining aleph troops and fell unconscious.
The SP where headless but Scylla took the leadership and used all his will to command the remaining fire team to make their lieutenant sacrifice not something in vain. There was however one big problem, sitting on the far east a Sin Eater with an HMG ready to shred anyone. The Thorakitai Fireteam lead by Alke stand up to the expectations move up and fight the Sin Eater without vacillation. The female Thorakitai holding a Feuerbach set her sight and fired. A critical hit, the Sin Eater was blown into pieces along with a part of they building where he was hiding.

Thorakitai Fireteam ending the Nomad attack

Then the remaining forces of aleph just took the control back of the key consoles they needed to have the numbers in their favour and tried to eliminate the designated target with the spare time they had but this last commitment was not fulfilled. At the end the Aleph assault subsection had managed to make the Nomad Nation retreat with their tails between their legs.
Argus quickly garbed his drone and moved out of that hellish place, he needed something far stronger than the booze he had brought earlier he was too close to the action as many bullets had just make holes all over the wall where he was hiding.

Today,
Argus had already sent the notes of the last skirmishes he had witnessed and now his account was flowing of money, hard earned money. He was deciding between getting a new cam, although he knew the old one would still be used, going to a nice bar in the Main strip and have a really good time to relieve his stress or just save the most for his eventual retirement as his body screamed that he was reaching his limit. But first he would go back to that silent bar, drink some, smoke more and maybe start using the new access he had to some of the Aleph servers in his search for Aoide, a plus of being in a business relation with the big IA. Of course he knew that every movement he made on the net was registered but Tamiris had given him a good cover by and so he was going to exploit it to the very end. After a couple of hours he had made a chronology of Aoide movements in the Kurage crisis. That chronology included a record that said that her Aoide was still appointed there as one of the special Journalists selected by a transparency program of the O 12 of Aleph operations on the planet. That record did not say anything exactly about the where, why or what she was still doing there, even if all the units that she was appointed to where know dispatched on the Chimney in the Human edge. Argus knew how far he could fake his investigation on the net, so he decided to go old school, look for the soldiers that had served with her in the Kurtage Crisis.

NOTES

General Undork was proxying some units (I had no problem with that) while others had been borrowed by a fellow commander to him in order ease confusions but i do not have the list or the exact units that where being proxied.
The game Ended (SP)5 – 2 (Vanilla Nomads)
Sorry for any error on the writing, English is not my first language.

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