Meanwhile...
C.S.V. Dreams of Avarice - Gellen's Heights Spaceport - Sheratan
27 April 3069 - 0149 Hours
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The shriek of the message indicator shattered the silence of War Room A, jerking me from my intense concentration on a series of satellite photos, and sending me sprinting over to the HPG interface to acknowledge the alert. As I took a s
"We've located the Foundation."
General Maxwell looked up with a start. Whether it was out of shock at my statement, or at my unannounced presence, I couldn't tell.
"I beg your pardon?"
I stepp
Roger that. Have a safe trip!
Several weeks later...
C.S.V. Half Moon
Dnepier Equatorial Orbit - Pirate Jump Point
Outworlds Alliance
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With a blinding flash, Dnepier rushed into view as our JumpShip executed a highly-illegal entrance into the system, jumping directly into orbit of the small world in order to allow us the quickest approach to the planet's surface. While in tran
As the elements of Ares lance and Hermes lance plunged to the surface of the war-torn desert world, I opened a channel to Gen Miyamoto's Atlas.
"Hermes Lead to Ares Lead - how do you copy?"
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The booster packs blew away as my Shadow Cat's massive, three-toed feet plowed into the broken desert surface of Dneiper, an unremarkable world in an unremarkable sector of space. The planet looked like any of a thousand others like it - billowing sandstorms, a smattering of scattered scrub, and a broken, craggy surface sucked dry of even the tracest amounts of water. The sun's oppressively-bright rays filtered through the dus
The horribly-battered, patchwork-ridden Urbanmech was literally torn asunder as the gauss round lobbed forth from my Shadow Cat's arm smashed at near-supersonic speeds through the squat
BattleMech's rusting, poorly-maintained center torso, crashing through the diminutive machine's reactor casing and causing an instantaneous cascade failure of the fusion mass containment chamber within. The 'Mech went up in
The RFL-3N Rifleman ripped into my Shadow Cat, its AC/5s doing massive amounts of damage to my lighter 'Mech's right torso and arm mount as round after round of armor-piercing depleted-uranium slugs smashed into them. Before I could recover, the sixty-ton behemoth struck again, punching further into the wounds with a concentrated blast of quad laser fire. Smoke and fire poured from the ruptures, accompanied by a hail of
I had never seen a Deimos in live combat before - my knowledge of the design had, until this point, come entirely from intelligence reports and BattleROMs. Now, after witnessing the terrifying ease with which Colonel Reese's OmniMech waded into the midst of our conflict and simply flattened its opposition, I was thankful that my first encounter with the design had been friendly.
The Savior recovery vehicle trundled to a halt beside my ravaged Shadow Cat, wrapping the battered war machine in a mechanical embrace as its repair scaffold extended around it. I shielded my eyes against the billowing sandstorm, watching as technicians swarmed over the OmniMech, replacing missing sections of armor, clearing ammo feeds, and attempting to make the machine as battle-ready as possible in the precious few minutes a
My Shadow Cat was bombarded with a hail of gauss rounds, ripping through my armor with such force that my OmniMech was sent staggering drunkenly forward, its weapons firing blindly into the earth as the Regulators swarmed toward me.
"Ares, I think I've got their attention! I'm going to need you to get
"Recovery teams Alpha and Bravo, begin salvage operations. Technical Company Zulu, initiate rescue and repair procedures. All lances - move to Nav Omega and establish a defensive perimeter around the Foundation."
With a high whine, my BattleMech's ravaged fusion reactor wound down, signalling the end to an engagement w
To: Miyamoto, Gen - S.W.O.R.D.
To: Stryker, Richard - Intelligence Division
From: Hayes, Nathan - Intelligence Division
Re: Obelisk
Clearance: Top Secret - EYES ONLY
Director Miyamoto; Major Stryker -
We dropped a couple more camera drones in the region of the wreck, and managed to get a couple more shots of the target bef
