Mission 1: The Droplets of Fire that Rain from the heavens are You
The ten of you sit in the briefing room once again, staring attentively at the lack of a map on the screen. The same briefing officer as before steps into the room, and taps the screen to reveal the picture of an orbital defense battery.
"Well, team, you lot have been chosen to go on this mission, as well as a bunch of other teams. Long story short, our employer is trying to attack this planet, but it's not going very well- they have shields and point defense set up, so orbital bombardment isn't working. As such, your job is going to be to drop onto this site and disable the gun. Now, the facility is not lightly defended- there is an actual wall around the place, with a remote-controlled gate as the only entry and exit, at least as far as we can tell. There are at least 20 guards on duty at any given time, enough to cover each side of the fence extremely well. You'll have to rely on the forests to get you close, but be warned that these soldiers are thought to be equipped with infrared visors.
As for disabling the guns, you will have to make your way into the battery itself- most of the structure is underground, aside from part of the barrel and the point defense batteries- and make sure that the soldiers there can't fire, by any means neccesary. We wish you luck."
With that, he shuts off the screen and says, "Well, get to the dropships. You have ten minutes."
As the ship takes off from the hanger, you watch the planet unfold before your eyes, the green carpet covering the planet only broken by the signs of civilization, with cities forming huge blisters of shields and roads within their carpet of jungle. The ship kicks in engines, and your pods rumble as the security clamps release, readying you for launch.
And launch you do, the cloaked pods shooting out from the underbelly of the dark ship into the wide-open void of space, the atmosphere approaching quickly as a shell of blueish orange that you slam into, the coating around the pod rising in temperature, and you can feel it, windowless and insulated as the pod is. And then you're clear, silent retrorockets firing to slow your descent and the gossamer chutes unfolding overhead, the only indication of your pod helping you survive being shot at a planet from outside its orbit the clicks and forces pulling at you in your gel housing.
And then it's done, the pod rocking as it finds its way to the softest landing possible, thumping into the ground. The gel around drains into hidden reservoirs in the recesses of the pod, and then the front falls open in front of you, letting fresh air into the compartment. Grabbing your gear from the compartment, you assemble outside of your pods, the group having fallen to the west of the battery, holed up in the woods. It's a short walk from here, and you're out of sight, having landed behind a small hill- your company chose the site very carefully, it seems- but you're going to have to get in somehow. You can't see the gate, but you think that it might be on the far side of the giant cannon barrel sticking out of the ground in a giant hold, a small clearance around it enough to move the gun to aim. There are various service elevators and hatches dotting the surface of the battery, but right now, you need to get closer.
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Topic: Interstellar Mercenaries v1.10, Mission 1, Turn 4: Within the Walls. (Read 17890 times)