Asteroid Blues

While Clear Wind Taskforce fought against 'Rogue' Spiral Corps crew, reformed Imperial Service detachment Red Mountain received odd intel from Yanjing.

"A Pizza Delivery? In such hellhole?"

Crane rank gave a suspicious look after arriving at Ji Yuan Chemical deposit area. The grounds were crawling with drifting debris of ship wreckage, and so far he know It was not suitable for any purposes.

"Commander, HQ not responding. Jian suppose its the debris - Its reflecting our signals heading outside."
"Onto your battle positions."

Crane immediately issued his orders.

"Jian, send me our mens' names. ON PAPER. NOW."

Hu then popped up his comlog - and no surprise, there were two unexpected names upon the list.

"Reporting Haqqislam forces inbound, Sir. all armed with Panzerfaust, snipers sighted - Looks like they are up to some serious fighting."

Imperial Service's Warcor reported. Crane nodded without comment - he knew their true identity, Hassassin Bahram.

"Sir, Kuang Shis deployed and ready."

Agent Hu peeped his comlog, watched Kuang Shi signal codes emitting constant beats indicating they are active. Right beside the unknown Celestial Guards.

He took a deep breath, than ordered Kuang Shi controller.

"Activate Explosion Protocol."
"Sir, but there are friendlies beside them!"
"Thats the order. Do you copy?"
"Copy."

Celestial Guard Chang blipped his red button.

- Detonated Kuang Shis to eliminate Fidays
- Greatly impaired Haqqislam forces' ability to infiltrate and sabotage

"We advance. Jian! You got my orders. Activate Rui Shi."

As the Celestial Guards lunged Smokescreens, Agent Hu issues Rui Shi's advance. Rui Shi guns TR bot, which survives - and outgunned Lasiq aiming for zone domination.

"Right flank, advance! 64, you may advance into corresponding coordinates. Issue a suppression fire upon arrival."

Chang issued smoke screens - in the gap, Wu Ming adavnce and perform Suppression over the Area.

"Sir, that bugger tries to immobilize Rui Shi!"

Hacker Jian's screen blipped in red. ++UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY DETECTED.++ While Rui Shi's internal firewalls held off the attempts in bay, the attack was real fierce.

- Hassassin tries to immobilize Rui Shi, but its dense firewall repel the attack by 6 orders. Angry Barid crits on 7th order, but at the moment Rui Shi was hit by ROCK. becoming unconscious thus freed from immobilization.

Rui shi going down, Haqqislam advances Warcor to contest quadrant.

Score goes 1:1 by both sides tying.

Rui Shi was held between two Barid AHD hackers - Imperial Service decide to free up Rui Shi for further usage.

Garuda Tacbot rolls 2 on combat jump, thus landing on extreme precision. It then knocks off Barid, which was sadly not their Lieutenant - but it was enough.

Sophotect patched up Rui Shi, and the murder machine starts to roll again. Remaining Barid tries to Oblivion Rui Shi, but it went off - Problem was, Rui shi got STONED one more while shooting Warcor and Pitcher.

Rui Shi goes down, and this time Sophotect's Yudbot was oblivion'd - no support could reach Yu Jing Battle remote from now on.

"Reporting Remote loss, sir!"

Taking out Daylami, Yu Jing advances, Placing themselves upon two quadrants including Datatracker.

"Reporting Enemy Barid approaching into vicinity. Sir."

Crane said nothing, he just checked Xi Zhuang's madtrap quantities.

Watching Hassassin's last men piling on, Agent Hu order Xi Zhuang to advance his precious glue-bomb. The team, surprisingly, declare shoot to MadTrap - which it intentionally run through every member's sight, triggering massive ARO.

"Detecting a bunch of debris, coming up!"

The consequence was critical. 3 out of 5 Ghulams gets hit by space debris - knocking them down bleeding.

"We march."

Crane Agent spoke with great satisfaction.

"On your feet, Sir. Battle's not over yet."
"Blessings on you, Ms. Marangyana." (He rolled 19, 19, 20 - TRIPLE STONES!)

Lucky for him, a Sophotect was able to patch him up while spending all orders reaching him herself. Crane then advances in three-man link, giving his command to Xi Zhuang.

"Communications on-line, Sir. Jamming's gone."

As his subordinate reported, Crane Rank Hu Yuansi took up his helm. Lady Liao, who was suspiciously hanging on Ji Yuan Chemical disposal sites, passed him smoothly - with a whisper to his ear.

"Never late on dinner, remember - 2000, at Xichuan House. No booze today. OK?"

He gave a bitter laugh.