Respite is found in memories
Asunciòn leaned on the Transductor unit, as the remote helped her walk away from the ravaged ruins of the landing pad. Ellie followed them closely, and the Custodier could feel her worried gaze on the back of the head. The operation had been a disaster, and the Cubevac team would have no easy task ahead of them. She sent the report with the locational data of the casualties with a sigh.
Just two days before, things seemed so easy: they had brought out the Stigmaton for its first field test, a quick resupplying mission in Sèlentra, where everything had gone perfectly, despite meeting their White Banner Army counterparts there.
At this point, their presence was to be expected: they clearly had a source, filling them in on the movements of Platoon 404, but she had found no trace of tampering in their network, nor signs of a security leak between her soldiers. Another problem to worry about at base camp.
Their intel had seemed to get them nowhere, anyway. Maybe they hadn't been informed of the presence of the TAG; point is, the Stigmaton had cut through them like an hot knife trough butter, wiping away first an Hundun ambusher, hidden on a roof beside a war correspondent - well, collateral damage - and then two Shang-Ji with support weapons, an HMG and a rocket launcher. All without even scratching its paint.
While they extracted the supplies they needed, the remote pilot had opted to push the limits of the machine, engaging a team of monks led by Jing-Qo, managing to hit her once, and to fight off one of the martial artists in close quarters with Robin's help.
Sure, Freya and her pupniks had managed to get hurt anyway taking down another monk, a Guilang infiltrator and a Walruspode hunter, but Chimeras healed exceptionally fast, so that hadn't been a problem.
Her morlock friend, Emily, had been badly roughed up by Liang-Kai, and had joined her in the infirmary; luckily for her, she didn't recover quite as rapidly, and this way she avoided the horrifying encounter with Aleph's emissaries at the landing pad.
Strangely enough, the State Empire forces started to retreat only when one of their soldiers, a thin Tian-Gou disguised as a Jujak, was hit by sister Lavinia's shotgun...
NdA: this game had reaaaally lopsided dice rolls, I'll include some examples, so you can appreciate the insult to the laws of probability. I got the Lt roll, despite my opponent having the Influence Leader faction bonus, and my Stigmata proceeded to win an out of cover FtF against a revealing Hundun and a Warcor, then, in ARO, killed a linked Shang-Ji HRL and a Shang-Ji HMG in one shot each (one of them a crit). Meanwhile, a lone pupnik won CC against a monk, critting on 16, and dodged in close combat with a Guilang hacker, that had failed to flip the console on 14s 4 times. Robin also critted a monk in CC with her Para weapon to help the engaged Stigmata.
Clearly a plot of PanOceanian dice factories against the State Empire.
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