Scene 1: (Garden top Sky scraper, blue sky, birds, breeze, 11 men stand feeding koi in pond, )
Gentlemen I'll be brief. i trust your aides have filled you all in on the details regarding the rather unusual circumstance in which we now find ourselves. As you know it came to our attention yesterday afternoon that certain, how shall i put this, factions, have flagrantly disregarded laws set down by the founders of this organization and have initiated contact with the enemy. Now granted this has happened before, twenty years ago in the Plantar system and again 10 years ago in the Stewards Zone. I need not remind you all of the immense expense in both manpower and money it took on our part to resolve the "issues". On Plantar Minor alone we lost four Tillman Disruptor class platforms and half again as many squads of reentry specialists, complete with all tactical munition and support fleets. We have only recently replaced the specialists by diverting considerable resources from our primary expansion fields and the Tillman platforms are stalled in the secondary production phase due to a shortage of ectomorphic precursor. The enemy has proved to be alarmingly resistant to our standard viral addiction serums and storm data surges....(he trails off) The incident in the Stewards zone was less costly but only through the extraordinary efforts of a group of Westland commandos code named __________. Created 12 years ago the ________ have proven themselves well worth the considerable cost of training and equipping them. It is time once again to call upon their skills to resovle this unfortunate breach before it exceeds our containment capabilities. This time however gentlemen it is the intention of Westland not to end operations when containment is achieved, no we intend to pursue and destroy completely this terrible threat. I think you may be surprised to see the considerable advancements our researches have made over the last five years in both the armament and phycho-kinetic enhancements implants of our troopers. We do not intend to lose, we do not intend to show mercy and we certainly do not intend to waste time. Now if you could all open the stasis pouches in front of you we can initiate ________ reactivation stage alpha and begin operation Distant Fathers.
They must be cloaked, he thought as he scanned through all known enemy visualization bands. Not surprising, it had been almost seven years since the last reported contact had been made and if our own tech advancements were any measure, the enemy must have made countless adjustments to their combat systems by now. It didn't matter much, it never had he thought. technology didn't win wars, meat did, and meat had instincts. Patterns he reminded himself, there is always a pattern, find that and you'd find them. A two-toned chirp alerted Hooper that the rest of the squad was awaiting his instructions.
"Grimely, Stakes, Quin, deploy weavers", the commands uttered and received through encrypted LOS (line-of-sight) vibrochannels.
"Goddard, Keever, establish and secure secondary munition caches at points two-six and zedd-five, and stay alert. The rest of you fan out and take up retrograde defensive poster until we get word back from Jasper."
He always hated these recon missions, too much sneaking around, they where an assault squad after all, shock troops would be a better description. Typically, shadowmen handled standard recon and search and destroy duties but all planet-side shadow tech resources where engaged in the arctic regions after unusual radiation bands where detected from temporary low orbit satellites. Such radiation was typically associated with the class-two power generation favored by small mobile enemy sabotage squads. Westland had a considerable stake in ensuring the security of this planet. For one it was one of the rare Gaia Grade planets in the entire sector, meaning it was capable of sustaining human life and an Earth-like ecosystem with only minor geo modification. It also happened to be a valuable source of ectomorphic precursor, a unique type of fungus capable of altering the physical and chemical properties of many metals and alloys. When combined with radiative material it absorbed the radiation and allowed the energy to be safely extracted in small biokiln reactors with little radioactive waste. It was these biokiln reactors that made interstellar travel possible and also the devastating firepower hooper had at his disposal. It also induced ordinary metals with extraordinary strength, flexibility, and all while reducing the density necessary for such attributes.
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