Update 3X-COM Commander’s Log – Robert Steinbach - March 8 2084; 0950hSeveral things were completed during the night.
Apparently the Senate had hired someone to rate my performance. I promptly deleted the report.
The quantum physicists finished their report on the dimension gates, restating what were already knew. They asked to examine an alien craft for further research. I pointed them to the five very large UFOs waiting in the basement.
The biologists finished their plans for a bio-transport module.
I got the engineers to make 50 of them. After all, they can be sold!
Also, we hired another two soldiers today. A hybrid and an android. There was a bit of commotion in the barracks when ‘breadbocks’ moved in, it seemed like the soldiers don’t like hybrids.
Addendum – 1000hIt appears that most of the soldiers have ancestors who served in the First Alien War. No wonder they’re so hostile.
X-COM Commander’s Log – Robert Steinbach - March 8 2084; 1400h
I just had a call from the Cult of Sirius earlier. They sent me this. I asked them whether they were
siriusly trying to extort money from us. They hung up.
I didn’t actually get a chance to reply to their threat, so I’m sending our soldiers to reply. In the form of massive death and destruction, of course. I figured it would not be … prudent to send them a hybrid, so breadbocks was ordered to work on his psi skills.
X-COM Commander’s Log – Robert Steinbach - March 8 2084; 1410h
I took the liberty of writing the troops a mission briefing for posterity. In hindsight, I should have bolded the “destruction of bounty” bit, but it’s too late for that now.
These people have very poor aim. The grenade didn’t injure any of our troops at all.
The three soldiers in the autocannon squad – Akura, Rho-Mu37 and Deadmeat – took this as indication that they should blow everything up. While effective in eliminating Sirian resistance, this destroyed any loot on the bodies, also causing a chain-reaction of grenade explosions.
Then things went bad. A soldier, Max III was surrounded by two Sirians and being fired upon by three others, and a grenade had nearly no effect.
He managed to gun down four of them within seconds, while Sniper Squad provided long-range backup.
The last remaining Sirian panicked and tried to flee, but was cut down by a hail of machinegun fire.
Overall, this was a very good mission. We managed to recover most of their weapons, and our troops got in some “live-fire” training. Only two were injured – Max and Akura.
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