Asteroid Blues

- “Linda!”
- “Yes, General Bhargava?”
- “Bring me a cup of Irish coffee.”
- “In a moment, but General, Colonel Milos is here with a report.”
- "Oh ... well, tell him to come in"
...
- “General Bhargava, may I come in?”
- “Ricardo, if you decided to waste my time - either dance or go away!”
- “No, General! I have a report on the operation in the Liberty Cargo: Storage Area”
- “What OPERATION for the god sake??? This is our territory!”
- “That's right sir!” We successfully repelled the surprise attack of the Jurisdictional Command of Tunguska!”
- “Nomads ... I hate these bastards!” Tell me everything.”

At 0520 central time, a power outage occurred in the south of the storage area. The backup generator did not work, and the fighters of the first platoon of the Shock Army of Acontecimento “Ussuri Tigers” suspected something was wrong, so the military personnel were raised on alert. “Tigers” sensation did not let them down and this power failure was nothing more than a diversion of Tunguska’s forces.

As soon as the guys took up positions, the Nomads went on the offensive. One of their breakthrough units - Zondnautica rushed to the attack in the hope of covering his offensive with a smoke screen. But “Tigers” are hardened veterans, so under the exact hits from Feuerbach, the bike smashed to pieces, driver's body was not found. Go to the battle on a motorcycle ... I don’t know what the Tunguskas are thinking about there. However, it doesn’t matter while they make such oversights - we will be a few steps ahead. Not having the desired smoke screening, the enemy went on the offensive with the main forces - the Hollow Men fireteam. These bastards were able to disable the Fugazi, but the Orc with the Feuerbach became a reinforced concrete wall on their way – Hollow Man with Spitfire was disabled several times, and only the presence of Clockmaker nearby allowed him to repeat attempts to shoot the positions of our defenders.

Due to the great risk of direct confrontation with Hollow Man with Missile launcher, the “Tiger” commander decided to take the enemy by the cunning that they are so famous for. Akal landed on the flank to the deployment of Hollow Men. Unfortunately, with all his preparations, he could not cope with Hollow Man with Spitfire, albeit it was damaged. Recognizing the critical need to inflict as much losses as possible to the opponent, Aleph Emissaries took the initiative. By activating the Cybermask, Scylla led her bots on the offensive. Unfortunately, the Nomad’s forces were quite ... heat-resistant and escaped with light losses. Moreover, Scylla has placed herself in a vulnerable position in front of enemy hackers – Hollow man and the Interventor. Dart came to help her. In the blink of an eye, she found herself on the roof of a nearby building and could liquidate the Interventor. Keeping the momentum of the attack, she decided to break through further and incapacitate another Hollow man but fell under the return fire from a Stempler Zond and Clockmaker.

The Interventor turned out to be an enemy lieutenant, and his death brought confusion into the remaining enemy forces. But even this did not prevent them from successfully dealing with Scylla.
Enemy forces were in the overwhelming minority. While they were trying to survive under the onslaught of Aleph’s emissaries, the Peacemaker took them on the other flank and successfully destroyed their remains. The territory was taken completely under our control, power outage was eliminated, the work of the storage area continued in operating mode.

- “Well, glorious victory, Colonel Milos. But what exactly did the forces of nomads do there ...?"
- “Now that is not known, General. However, the “Tigers” followed in hot pursuit, hoping to find the Nomad base from which the attack was committed.”
- “And how is this ..." search operation " is going?”
- “General ... the thing is ... that we lost contact with “Tigers” ... something or someone is jamming the signal ...”
- “So you want to say that somewhere there are our guys who can’t even ask for support?! So, in an hour I’m waiting for the report. Otherwise, I’ll send you personally in search for them, do you understand me?!”
“Absolutely, General. Can I go now? ”
- “Dismissed!”