[ALERT-TEMPORAL DISTRESS CALL INCOMING. STAND BY....]
[DISTRESS CALL RECIEVED. CONNECTING, STAND BY....]
[CONFIGURING... STAND BY.....]
[BROADCASTING.]
- A human of possibly 5'8" or so appears on the screen. He is wearing equipment that is most definatly not period appropriate, among them a blood smeared suit of strange armor and a helmet with a gracked looking port. He appears shaken, and sounds of autmoatic weapons can be heard.
Sir! this is Recovery 2! Those bastards from Parasol were waiting for us at the DZ! I repeat, we have been ambushed! We 've already lost nine men and three others are in critical condition! Jumpgate operator was killed and his portable gate got trashed, we need help! We have aborted the mission to retrieve an HS-2 specimen, as we cannot continue agiainst this kind of resistance! I repeat, we cannot continue with the mission and are requesting immediate reinforcment and extrac-AUUGHR!
-Blood splashes across the screen as the human is struck in the head by something and the front of his helmet explodes outward, the remains mercifully slumping offscreen. then a thickly accented voice is heard shouting in dwarven:
"Come on, get these bodies up! We don't have long before that caravan passes through. And somebody trash that transmitter!" "What about the others? They left the wounded and bolted sir."
-Two dwarves, in similarly strange equippemnt are seen, and several shots heard, implying that the wounded have been shot. The two onscreen heave the dead human off the transmitter, one raising a foot and stomping on the screen, though a final phrase is caught by the transmitterbefore the machine is destroyed.
"Hunt them down, and kill them all."
[TRAMSISSION TERMINATED]
[PROBABLE CAUSE: TRANSMITTER DESTRUCTION.]
[RECOMMENDATION: DEPLOYMENT OF TEIR 5 RECOVERY TEAMS TO RECOVER OR DESTROY BALLPOINT TECHNOLOGIES EQUIPMENT IN ITERATION 458-023. LOADOUT TO INCLUDE ANTIPERSONEL ORDANENCE AND INCINDIARY DEFOLIANT PROJECTORS.]
[FACTOR OF CONSIDERATION: PRESENCE OF THE 'Nemian Private Security Coporation' (NPSC) FORCES UNDER PARASOL INDUSTRIES EMPLOY. FACTOR WARRENTS DEPLOYMENT OF IFV UNITS FOR SUPRESSION PURPOSES.]
[AVILABLE INTELLIGENCE ON ENEMY FORCES FOR CONSIDERATION: NPSC IS KNOWN TO EMPLOY MORE FIREPOWER THAN NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH ANY MISSION, BARRING ASSASSINATION. KNOWN WEAPONS INCLUDE:]
[PI87HSW]
[PI23MAR]
[PI27IDP]
[BT150MAR]
[BT150AADS-MP]
[BT21SS]
[MELEE WEAPONS OF CONTRACTORS' HOMELAND ORIGIN.]
[LCC Mk. 32 IFV(S)]
[TEIR 5 RECOVERY TEAMS 3 - 9 ALERTED AND PREPARING FOR TRANSIT.]
[AST 1-3 ALERTED AND PREPARING FOR TRANSIT.]
[RECOVERY FORCE STRENGTH: 135 CONTRACTORS, EXCLUDING ARMORED CREWS. 9 IFV UNITS WITH EXPLOSIVE MUNTIONS.]
[ESTIMATED ENEMY STRENGTH: MINIMUM: 30 CONTRACTORS. MAXIMUM: 80 CONTRACTORS. NO ARMOR SUPPORT. ]
[ANTIARMOR PERSONEL EXPECTED AMONG NPSC FORCES.]
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[Ok, for the record all of the above weapons were pulled from my ass and represent the following
MAR - Magnetic Accelerator Rifle. The Dwarven railgun of our future will be based off the one made by Mr Frog's former employers, Ballpoint Technologies, since he has probably needed to learn how to use one properly for dangerous research missions he needed to go on personally.
HSW - Heavy Suppression Weapon. An LMG on steroids basically, requiring a harness of sorts to wield properly.
IDP - Incindiary Defolliant Projector. A good ol' hand-held flamer.
AADS-MP - AntiArmor Defense System, Man-Portable. A rocketlauncher prone to malfunction, but easy to get as it's an outdated model.
SS - Sniper System. Don't need to go any further with that.
IFV(S) - An Infantry Fighting Vehicle meant to scare the living shit out of enemy troops and keep thier heads down rather than kill them.
AST - Armored Supression Teams. IFV/APC units.
BT - Ballpoint Technologies.
PI - Parasol Industries
LCC - Lernean Cybernetics Cpeoration.
SO pardon this abortion, I was bored. The view is as a technician in charge of monitoring recovery teams for Ballpoint Technologies.