Chapter Eight
Kessel
Battlefield
20 miles outside of Gannosu City
February 11, 3030
10:35 GST
Hauptmann-Kommandant Nicholas Robel aka Xenon was in a foul mood. Still no word from Headquarters about satellite feed or even a world net feed. Right now the dropship Gedania was acting headquarters until the new command center at the Space Port could be refitted.
Gedania, this is Xenon, status update he said over the static filled command net.
Xenon, Kaptain Zuniga here, the techs have not been able to break into the towns network nor have they hacked their way completely into this worlds net or gain complete control of their satellites. The best they have are some images they got about 3 hours ago from a flyby satellite. I have sent them to your battle computer, not much in Intel good luck. Gedania out.
As Xenon was looking over the crappy satellite pics he swapped over to a personal net to check in with his commander.
Kreedo, Xenon guess you heard the last exchange with base.
Yeah I did Xenon up to you, go in and attack an unknown or wait tell we are done over here at this Firebase.
I think we should be ok I am going to deploy the 8th company to the west, 1st Company to the east and have the armor company come down the middle due to the lay of the land. Xenon announced.
Roger that good luck and good hunting see you on the other side Kreedo out.
As the unit got closer to the city radar picked up the 7 armor tank, that must be what is left of the Armor units from the last battle. Other than that nothing else was showing up. He flipped on the local battle net comm and said, Ok execute the battle plan but be cautious Intel states that there should be some retrofitted industrial mechs in this city looking for a fight, but nothing is showing up yet.
Be on the lookout for industrial mechs? Really? Come on commander they are a piece of cake announced First Leutnant Philippe Cabaos in his Awesome AES-8Q
Even cake can get all over your mouth, Leutnant Xenon replied.
As the 4th Skye Guards entered the outskirts of town the radar lit up light a Christmas tree with 50 industrial mechs coming to life. That is when realized his mistake, most of the enemy was concentrated in the center of town right where the 1st Armor Company was going.
WolfPack, Pathfinder converge to the middle Ironsides need our help! Xenon said. He looked at the battle board as it showed the 1st Company (Pathfinders) and the 8th Company (Wolfpack) slowly converge on the 1st Armor Company (Ironsides) but it was slow going due to the two tall hills located on in the suburbs of town. As the 4th started to tear into the industrial mechs they also learned a hard lesson which was one mosquito was a laughable but 50 mosquitos hurt.
Because right then a Lumberjack fired his LRM 10 at an Awesome all 10 missiles hit and blew off the Awesomes left leg.
This is Leutnant Cabaos I cannot believe I am saying this but I am down
Firebase Alpha
Kreedo watched first on his radar and then visually as the wall that was built around the firebase came into view. It was the first impressive thing he has seen since being on the planet. The wall was high enough to prevent any Mech from jumping over it and surprising the enemy. The 4th Skye Guards had three options to breach the base and really one of the options was just not practical all three options were three gates one south wall another on south east wall and one on the southwest wall. Along the top of the wall of the southwest gate were laser, gauss, and missile turrets so, the southwest gate was out of the question.
