The Causeway Assault 1st Lt Eddard, REF Naval Fleet, Tristar Liberation I was presented with the difficult task of collating data on the blunted Assault push to secure Causeway 319, leading to the Capital Tracialle. Tactically the Causeway would allow us to create supply lines for resistance units within the city. What follow are the notes from my interview with Rodar the Karbarran. Right so I don’t know
what you want me to say, I haven’t done one of these “ Debrief” report things before. What, so you’re just going to sit there and take notes while I talk? Then we are going for these beer drinks that
the Humans keep talking about right? Ok
then I’ll talk.
So we’ve just managed
to get the cubs free and to a safe area for pick up. The Resistance
managed to organise fast after a couple of radio calls, some cargo transports
were redirected and used to extract the cubs to safety. Risky move maybe, but as they weren’t easily identifiable
it was a better option than waiting for a military solution. Anyway I’ve had word that they have been
taken to several separate safe locations, don’t know where and I probably
wouldn’t tell you anyway. The Invid have
eyes everywhere, we Karbarrens just can’t risk the future of our race like
that.
So this Section
Commander Grant, arrives and there’s pats on the back for Xander and his
team. Military seems happy about how the
assault is progressing, there is some talk about The big picture and where the front line isBlah Blah Blah. Lots of talk , not enough splatting Invid Slug
men.
Then kinda like Dad
heard my thoughts for more war, the assault against the capital city starts to
go wrong. A second tier combat unit of
rookies is set the task of securing one of the main causeways that link the
planet and would have allowed access to the capital city and hive. They run into more than they can handle and
we have to haul their butts out of the fire. Though for a minute there I thought that Xander was not going to let the
Resistance fighters and myself join the crew, he sent some of his own people
back to rest up and repair. Well that,
and they weren’t kitted out for battle, not like a Karbarren at all.
So we enter an on ramp
down to the Causeway, apparently these resemble your human freeways, just
larger and built to a higher standard by true craftsbears. Oh and they are underground, there is that
too. There has been a lot of damage
done, hateful Invid have been wrecking the place, lots of structural damage,
kinda like they want to bring the tunnel down. Strangely some of the collapsed
earth has partially reviled a cave tunnel entrance, Triggers something in my
memory but I can’t put a paw on it, we press on.
All the lighting has
gone out, we have to use thermal and infrared to see.We come up on the Human mecha and they are
really messed up. Huge machines, massive
these Destroid things and something has turned them into maggot bread. There are holes everywhere in them and the
legs have been shot out from under them, pilots are stuck inside.Venton who has commandeered an Archon, senses the invid are close and next
minute the place is swarming with Inorganic Cougars these things are fast and they rush forward to tear the pilots from their cockpits
of their downed mecha.
I’ve got to give it to
these REF Marines, they can shoot, and by the Great Craftsbear their machines
have firepower! I bail out of the Archon
with two of the other Resistance fighters and try to lay down Ion Rifle
fire. I’m proud of my pack mates, we
bagged a kill today. So with the weight
of fire, and stunning marksmanship the Cougar are quickly dispatched. We move forward to assist in trying to free
the Humans from their mecha. The Pack
and I manage to drag one limp human from his wrecked cockpit, his machine is
almost unsalvageable due to the damage it has sustained.Xander proves to us that he has been built
differently to use and the humans, he single headedly wrenches the cockpit open
on a Crusader. The humans see to their wounded while Ventom
removes the Flight Data Recorders (something to do with their Mecha’s brain,
records everything that it sees and does).
One of the wounded
Pilots starts having a talk to Xander about “ Classified Mecha, Prototype, Enemy
Hands ” and stuff.The Marines decide to
plant explosives in their machines to destroy them, I don’t understand that
logic, must be a cultural thing to give their machines a funeral?
So we are all messing
around when Ventom senses the invid
again, I’m glad that he can, but damn that creeps me out. So we scramble for cover, just in time too as
a formed block of Odeons marches down the causeway towards us!They target Ventom and Garret in the Archon,
their Lasers gouging great furrows into its hull.The Marine return fire is brighter than the
forge fires of Formicarium , you would thing that nothing could survive that
sort of damage! Yet The Odeons yet keep
striding through the Plasma fire and damage, I’ll admit I was concerned.
Xander spotted a command
unit hiding behind the enemy lines, and struck it with a stream of mini
missiles.Moments later the Invid lost
cohesion and appeared to become stupefied. The team despatched the remaining Odeons and Garret out rookie went
overkill and fired all of his missiles accidently collapsing the Causeway roof.Can’t be too hard on the kid I suppose, he
fought well today.
So We had to back out
of the tunnel and that’s about all that happened. No nothing else happened, why? I don’t care if my report doesn’t match up , why should I. I don’t work for you so NO I DO NOT HAVE TO
ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS! Year ok, let’s go
have some of these human Beers that
the crew keep talking about.