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As the Initiates filed in, Raleigh began the briefing.
"As some of you know, the Independent world of Khorovarolor recently came under occupation by the YSE and a race known as 'Abwehrans'."
A screen behind the commodore booted up, showing a muted video clip of several Abwehrans speaking and moving some light cargo off a starship in what looked like a warehouse. Although the Initiates weren't to know, they were members of the very crew that started the plague on Khorovarolor. The clip ended and changed to a computer-generated view of the planet's system. Around the world were small markers indicating starships.
"This 'occupation' was prompted by several smugglers from Abwehr accidentally passing on a common virus to the primary Nepleslian populace of the planet, which sparked a plague that has since destroyed most of the planet's populace. The Abwehran military moved in shortly after to quarantine the world and were quite successful. However, once quarantine was established, a Red Traitor vessel attempted to leave and was destroyed, starting an engagement between the Abwehrans and the Khorovarolor military, a fight that ended with the Aliens victorious.
"Following this battle, Yamataian military vessels converged around the planet, and following negotiations with the Abwehrans, landed several medical ships in the capital city."
The CG render of Khorovarolor zoomed in on the planet's surface, onto a relatively rough representation of a big city on the planet's largest continent. Of course, most of the Initiates would simply consider it to be little more than a small village compared to something the size of Funky City.
"Our reason for being interested in this site happens to be the Red involvement in the area. We've known about it for some time, but were unable to gather any substantial intelligence until recently. We placed several Field agents there about three weeks before the plague hit. Unfortunately, in the time since, they've all been killed either by the Reds, the plague, or in the massive riots that began shortly after the plague began to escalate.
"Your jobs, Initiates, are to retrieve the data our agents were able to collect before dying, and to retrieve the remains of this man."
Two pictures opened on the screen, super-imposed over the cityscape. One was of a man, about 45, with a very receded hairline and rather greasy-looking brown hair that hung close to his shoulders. He had a thick handlebar mustache, and it looked like the top half of his left ear had been taken off by a knife. He had a bulbous nose, and a ruddy complexion. All-in-all, he would have looked like a particularly greasy common street tough were it not for his eyes. They were cold, very sharp light blue.
The picture was captioned with the words "Commander Robert Ackerson, RALF, Confirmed WIA, Probable KIA". A thick red line connected the picture to a large building near the middle of the city, a hospital by the looks of it.
Raleigh looked at the other group of Initiates in the room. "Team A, it is your job to grab the Commander's body, or at the very least his skull. He has files locked up in a hard disk in his cranium that we need. He was badly wounded by one of our agents on-world, and taken to a hospital. If he wasn't killed by his injuries, the plague or simple neglect will have gotten him by now. Your instructor will give you further briefing. As for Team B," Raleigh looked at Flins's group, "Your job is to retrieve the data files our FIO in the region was keeping."
The red line connecting Ackerson's picture to the hospital faded to a thinner black one, and the other picture, one of a large apartment complex, gained the big red line, linking it to a portion of the map. "The files will be in the FIO's room, number 302 in this building. A straight forward job."
"Any questions, Initiates?"
"As some of you know, the Independent world of Khorovarolor recently came under occupation by the YSE and a race known as 'Abwehrans'."
A screen behind the commodore booted up, showing a muted video clip of several Abwehrans speaking and moving some light cargo off a starship in what looked like a warehouse. Although the Initiates weren't to know, they were members of the very crew that started the plague on Khorovarolor. The clip ended and changed to a computer-generated view of the planet's system. Around the world were small markers indicating starships.
"This 'occupation' was prompted by several smugglers from Abwehr accidentally passing on a common virus to the primary Nepleslian populace of the planet, which sparked a plague that has since destroyed most of the planet's populace. The Abwehran military moved in shortly after to quarantine the world and were quite successful. However, once quarantine was established, a Red Traitor vessel attempted to leave and was destroyed, starting an engagement between the Abwehrans and the Khorovarolor military, a fight that ended with the Aliens victorious.
"Following this battle, Yamataian military vessels converged around the planet, and following negotiations with the Abwehrans, landed several medical ships in the capital city."
The CG render of Khorovarolor zoomed in on the planet's surface, onto a relatively rough representation of a big city on the planet's largest continent. Of course, most of the Initiates would simply consider it to be little more than a small village compared to something the size of Funky City.
"Our reason for being interested in this site happens to be the Red involvement in the area. We've known about it for some time, but were unable to gather any substantial intelligence until recently. We placed several Field agents there about three weeks before the plague hit. Unfortunately, in the time since, they've all been killed either by the Reds, the plague, or in the massive riots that began shortly after the plague began to escalate.
"Your jobs, Initiates, are to retrieve the data our agents were able to collect before dying, and to retrieve the remains of this man."
Two pictures opened on the screen, super-imposed over the cityscape. One was of a man, about 45, with a very receded hairline and rather greasy-looking brown hair that hung close to his shoulders. He had a thick handlebar mustache, and it looked like the top half of his left ear had been taken off by a knife. He had a bulbous nose, and a ruddy complexion. All-in-all, he would have looked like a particularly greasy common street tough were it not for his eyes. They were cold, very sharp light blue.
The picture was captioned with the words "Commander Robert Ackerson, RALF, Confirmed WIA, Probable KIA". A thick red line connected the picture to a large building near the middle of the city, a hospital by the looks of it.
Raleigh looked at the other group of Initiates in the room. "Team A, it is your job to grab the Commander's body, or at the very least his skull. He has files locked up in a hard disk in his cranium that we need. He was badly wounded by one of our agents on-world, and taken to a hospital. If he wasn't killed by his injuries, the plague or simple neglect will have gotten him by now. Your instructor will give you further briefing. As for Team B," Raleigh looked at Flins's group, "Your job is to retrieve the data files our FIO in the region was keeping."
The red line connecting Ackerson's picture to the hospital faded to a thinner black one, and the other picture, one of a large apartment complex, gained the big red line, linking it to a portion of the map. "The files will be in the FIO's room, number 302 in this building. A straight forward job."
"Any questions, Initiates?"
