Asteroid Blues

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//Requesting file „Operation Lilly ESE01 – Distress Centrer Data Record“
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„…evac, I need immediate evac! There are aliens all around!”

“This is PanOceanian Armada Operation Channel. You’re disrupting ongoing operations in Novyy Bangkok. Please leave this channel for…”

“Listen up, you fools! Here is Solange Delgado de Assunção from PanOceanian consulate on the god-damned rock! I possess an Indigo-level Authorization, you could check it yourself in your databases, if you care. But now, send a response team here, and do it immediately!”

“Wait a second, we’ll… oh, damn. Cynthia, get me somebody from the bridge. We’ve got a serious problem here…”

“Commander Walker online. What’s the matter?”

“We checked Ms. de Assunção background. She is a high-profile employee on local consulate and an influential member of Falco lobby.”

“She should be part of the convoy evacuating the embassy, then. Most suspicious…”

“Wait a while, sir. I have reports that the convoy has been ambushed… and several people are missing. Including Ms. de Assunção.”

“Fine. Send a response team there.”

//Requesting file „Operation Lilly ESE02 – Mission Briefing“
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From: Commander George Walker, POS Phoenix
To: First Lieutenant Valerie de Luca, XXth Reserve Brigade. 2nd detachment.

“Lieutenant, we have an urgent mission for you and your squad. Evacuation convoy from local consulate have been ambushed and several members of its staff are missing. We caught a distress call from particular member, Ms. de Assunção, who is a High Value Target of this mission. She and her bodyguard escaped the ambush, but they’re hiding somewhere in the city. Your mission is to retrieve HVT back unharmed. Due to chaos in the city it wouldn’t be probably possible to get back into the Liberty Cargo. You’ll need to use the Pakngein NBIS as a place to return, we’ll send an evacuation vessel there.
Be aware that there could be another powers interested into capturing HVT, or gaining information about her. Pakgnein is now in the state of chaos as well. There are various criminal organizations operating in Novyy Bangkok, and the Muhafiz from Funduq would be probably very interested in Ms. de Assunção as well.”

//Requesting file „Operation Lilly ESE03 – Mission Debriefing“
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From: First Lieutenant Valerie de Luca, XXth Reserve Brigade. 2nd detachment.
To: Colonel Thandar Singh, XXth Reserve Brigade Staff

We did successfully retrieved the HVT from the warzone of Novy Bangkok, although her bodyguards were already gone. Ms. de Assunção told us that one of them hasn’t survived the onslaught and the second was of local origin and deserted her several minutes before we were able to locate her. His name was Panas Montri; I’m sure somebody in Liberty Cargo could be interested into this asshole in the future.

Our team then moved to the spaceport, which was in pretty derelict shape compared to how it looked like few weeks ago. Here we also found some wandering Fusilier; his ID was pvt. Thomas Angus from Seventh Fusilier Corps. I do not have a clue what he was doing there. He was not able to give me a plausible answer, so I suspect him of being a deserter. I ordered him to stay with my unit and report for duty at Liberty Cargo.
Initially I wanted to contact the authorities, but there were nowhere to be seen, so we forces our way into one of the docking bay and waited for exfiltration. After three minutes, an officer from the Pakngein Fligh Control center emerged from behind and contacted us. We were wary of him, but his ID completely matched our scans and so passed through our controls. The ID used was Hussain Ali Djal, for records.

Then the problems begin. This “Mr. Djal” suddenly attacked our forces and managed to incapacitate several our personnel – sgt. Tanika Sinha, the sniper from Bagh Mari Commandos; cpl. Dastri, Acontecimento Regulars; sgt. Vallari Dastridar, TraumaDoc corps; sgt. Carl Cox, Machinist Corps. He also damaged our EVO Repeater drone. I killed the bastard later with my own CombiRifle, but the damage has been done.

It was part of a coordinated attack from Haqqislamite forces. While we were distracted by Mr. Djal action, they emerged on the other side of landing bay. It was a motley unit of various scum and Sword of Allah professionals, I’ve identified Muhafiz Djanbazan operatives aside of Al-Fassed, Yuan Yuan and Ghazi assholes. The Djanbazan succeeded into shooting one of our perimeter drones.
It was a dire situation so I called for help, before we would be forced to evacuate the position and eventually compromise the HVT. Fortunately I had a backup play for such situation, consisting of Naga Operative Aurangzeb near the landing area, sgt. Rico Loggia from Guarda de Assalto unit and sgt. Ranjit Chaina from Akali Commandos. These three attacked the enemies, before they could do much harm, and exterminated several of them with and extreme prejudice. Naga Operative Aurangzeb shot down Haqqislamite Total Reaction drone, which guarded the landing bay. Sgt. Loggia took care of Al-Fassid, shooting him on long range, Nahab Hacker, one Ghazi Fanatic and the Djanbazan; sgt. Chaina came to his help and shot down Yuan-Yuan savage, Ghulam Doctor and another Ghazi who run into his line of sight. Although sgt. Chaina shortly after fell to sudden strike of insidious Hakim Doctor, the main Haqqislamite onslaught was already repelled.

We tried to identify these devious attackers. Sgt. Calvi from Bagh Mari unit followed up their HVT, while we established a scanner network and tried to telemetry another opposing units. Positive identifications are uploaded as an attachment to this file.

Mission Outcomes:

Ms. Solange Delgado de Assunção was successfully evacuated and now is safe on board of POS Phoenix.
We’ve positive identifications of hostile forces.

KIA: sgt. Vallari Dastridar (TraumaDoc) - True Death; sgt. Carl Cox (Machinist Corps), cpl. Dastri (Acontecimento Regulars) – transferred for a new Lhost.

WIA: sgt. Tanika Sinha (Bagh Mari Unit) – recuperating in Liberty Cargo, sgt. Ranjit Chaina (Akali Commando) – suffered light wounds and returned to service