To:
Ketsurui Hanako-Taisa
CO, YSS Eucharis
CC:
Jalen Sune-Chui
XO, YSS Eucharis
After Action Mission Report
I will begin this report by mentioning that upon being chosen for the mission I realized that we had very little in terms of available modules for power armor. I had run under the assumption that this might've been dealt with by ordering the fabrication bay to build replacements, but my assumptions were wrong and by the time I realized that it had already been too late.
The mission we were tasked with, in my own professional opinion, could've been made a lot easier if we had more modules and the proper ones for the mission. Instead, we were left with only teleportation modules and those that came with the power armors.
Upon leaving the Eucharis via the power armor bay, I followed the team toward the intended target. However, a short while later, Papadopoulos-Hei opened fire without any orders from Klein-Shosa, when I later checked the sensor logs I found that a turret on the station had started swiveling in our direction. Whether this turret was going to target us, or not, was never made clear as after the -hei opened fire the station itself returned fire on us. This might've been in self-defense, and thus the -hei opening fire probably made our mission a lot more dangerous.
Klein-Shosa made short work of an enemy turret and provided us a way in a short while later. Upon getting inside, I deployed two drones to serve as recon for the team and was ordered to stay back to avoid being killed by possible enemy weapons fire. I would later deploy two more drones to perform sweeps for possible hostiles, both armed and unarmed, drone data shows that we only ran into armed resistance.
It wasn't long before we had company, however, in the form of a group of Black Coats. However, one of the Shosa's orders let me hesitant, the order to shot to kill anything without hesitation. I was hesitant because of a rather remote, yet real possibility, of non-combatants on board that could provide us with information related to the station or its personnel. Regardless, my concerns were moot in the end as drone sensor data showed no signs of non-combatants. The Black Coats that had been spotted earlier were dispatched a short time later by Papadopoulos-Hei.
A short while later we ran across some closed cabins which the Shosa opened fire into, it's possible that firing into the cabins alerted any enemies in the area to our location, but there's no way to know for certain as it's possible our enemy already knew where we were and were just waiting for an ample time to attack us. This is where things got heated, with Papadopoulos-Hei sending a message to everyone in the squad except for the Shosa, since the Shosa never responded to him. This message gave me cause for concern, both about the squad cohesion, but also about the possibility of him attacking a superior officer, I attempted to talk the Elysian down and cited Yamatai law, or more specifically, section six and subsection eleven, so that he wouldn't do something that could end his military career. I can't be certain if it was due to me reminding him of our laws or if it was because of the ambush we ran into, but Papadopoulos-Hei didn't respond after that.
The ensuing firefight was brutal and though we had the numbers and the firepower, things weren't going to well and only got worse when Papadopoulos-Hei charged head long into the battle, discarding his rifle in favor of melee range. With the -hei in the way, it was difficult for me to fire on three of the power armors for a brief while, and due to how cramped the area was, made things even harder. Utilizing weaponry that was harder hitting was impossible due to the risk of injuring a fellow soldier or even potentially ourselves.
WIth the help of Kiko-hei, she and I were able to take down one power armor with concentrated fire, but another enemy power armor moved in to replace the one we had destroyed.
During this firefight I found a possible way for us to withdraw to and possible even cornering our enemy, but when I relayed this possibility to the Shosa I was informed that we would be staying to fight. So I sent a drone down the tunnel and created myself a barricade temporarily and hunked down and returned fire, at the time I was baffled as to why the Shosa didn't take the opportunity to pull the squad back. I realized, quickly after I asked the Chosa, that the reason was because we had no intelligence about what was beyond the door. Running into an area with no intelligence might've resulted in our deaths, which is why when I realized that I didn't raise it with the Shosa because I realized I was incorrect.
However, things didn't get any better. Papadopoulos-Hei ignored orders to pull back, and once it was clear that tunnel had been discovered was clear. The Shosa ordered us into the tunnel, but Papadopoulos-hei continued to ignore orders to fall back and kept on bashing on a power armor he had managed to get onto the ground. I stayed for as long as I could, but by this time my armor had suffered a lot of damage.
Once Kiko-hei and Mikeal-hei had pulled back, I stayed behind for a few moments longer before my forearm shield shorted out on me and I was left with no more defenses against enemy weapons fire. Because I had seen that Papadopoulos-Hei had ignored orders before hand, I realized it was pointless to continue telling him to pull back. So I headed on through the tunnel while receiving more enemy fire.
After we teleported out of the station, I realized that Papadopoulos-Hei had come with us.
My decision to lose my legs was so that the -hei's wouldn't lose any limbs, I feel that even though I am a Heisho, I feel it is still my responsibility to make certain my fellow squad mates make it back without suffering any injuries.
In closing, I had made the choice to keep a firm eye on Papadopoulos-Hei due to his outright disrespect to Taisa Hanako Ketsurui earlier in the day.
Nayacesen Takeyu - Jôtô Heisho
Technician, YSS Eucharis.