INVASION: Alien Conquest!

[Heyitsjiwon]

Given the recent failure to pacify the natives, the Blessed One decided to take a relatively more cautious approach. Leaving the two bots to continue to process all the data, the First Order decided to continue on by focusing on more isolated communities and individuals. Initial reports seemed to suggest small research facilities dotted the polar regions of the planet, each was relatively isolated and manned by small teams who rarely had contact with others due to the harsh environment and difficulty of traversing the area... that is for the primitives. Such minor weather conditions would not be a major concern for the Aliens. In fact, the Templars would head there to capture the facility and subdue the humans by any means necessary.

In addition, the First Order noticed the presence of a large dense rain forest (Amazons) that seemed to be intentionally left alone by the humans... except for several entrepreneurial spirits. The First Order could get much accomplished in harvesting the natural wealth in that rain forest... and make it look like it was just a large scale logging operation or something along the lines of that.

Orders:

1. The Linguistic Drone and Electronic Warfare Drone continue their work.

2. Research Cloaking (10 Energy)

3. Construct a 5 resource "propaganda" Drone that looks like a human, and acts like a human, but is very convincing and charismatic... of the cult kind using the data from the communications satellites to program an effective missionary who is fluent in all sorts of native languages. Construct 2 Labor Drones as well.

4. Using cloaked 1 Fighter, 2 Templars are to capture one of the small research outposts in the arctic/Antarctica. They are armed with conventional weapons (perhaps AK-74s?) and have free reign to use their psionic abilities as well. Particularly, if able, they are to use their psi bolts to stun the researchers and capture them alive.

5. Another cloaked Fighter is to bring the Propaganda Drone to the outskirts of a city, where it will then walk to the city and begin preaching the teachings of the Enlightened One... perhaps using the abilities of the ship to provide "holy" effects.

6. The cloaked scout ship is to bring 4 Greys, and 4 Labor Drones to a remote location of the Amazon and they are to harvest the wildlife in the area for research and/or conversion into Bio. The Greys are armed with plasma weaponry and are allowed to use their Psionic Abilities if they are attacked..

7. Research Power Armor Suits (10 Resources)

 

[mausedpotatos]

The Predecessor watched the stasis tube intently, peering at the slumbering form of the being inside. It was extremely different from what a Lii'dra was. It had an orifice on its face meant for nutrient intake. Its eyes contained multiple lens' though which light was focused and refracted. It was, overall, a strange being. The Lii'dra were not a race that was overly emotional, however emotion did exist on a very clinical and calculating scale. It was the slightest bit disquieting that such an innocently ignorant race was charted for destruction. The Predecessor had been informed that these beings were not entirely dissimilar from the Lii'dra in mental capacity. They were capable of utilizing tools and had proved themselves capable of engineering. The Predecessor was unsure of what to make of these beings. To some degree, they might be able to be manipulated. Time would tell.

The two scout craft and fighters were to remain as a group. The ships lifted off from the deck of the hanger in formation, and jetted into the void of space.

Spoiler: Orders

1. Locate an oil rig that is sufficiently offshore.
2. Destroy the communications capabilities of the rig by precisely blowing off the communications equipment.
3. Do not utilize weapons onboard the oil rig due to the danger of causing an explosion. Overpower and capture humans. Lure them out using promises of safety and friendship psionically where possible. Take the control room and force the operators at gunpoint to announce to the crew that a freak storm was suddenly approaching and that they all needed to get topside as fast as possible to get aboard incoming evacuation helicopters. It will also be announced the rig needs to be immediately shut down to prevent damage from the storm, but this is to further ensure that the Lii'dra aren't suddenly engulfed in a fireball.
5. Collect materials that are able to be converted into energy.
6. Strip the oil rig for resource materials.
7. When the cargo holds are full, use the weapons of the fighters to cause the rig to explode as to mask what had occurred to the humans.
8. Allow none to flee. Permit no witness' by all means.

Meanwhile, onboard the sleeper station . . .

The Predecessor was flanked by two Lii'dra. All were wearing their carapace armor. A storage room had been cleared and was entirely bare. Three humans of varying age were bound and sitting against the wall that opposite the door. They were the three survivors of the ice vessel and they were being woken up from stasis. The Predecessor had many questions for them, questions that could not be satisfactorily answered by trawling the primitive communications networks of the primitive organisms who referred to themselves as human. The Predecessor would have its answers one way or another.

Spoiler: Questions

1. What nations on the planet are routinely ostracized from other nations sufficiently, while maintaining an industrial capacity?
2. What nations are militarily the most powerful?
3. What nations present the greatest mineral wealth and the least defensive capability?
4. Who are the most influential humans in industry?
5. Who are the most influential humans in military?
6. Who are the most influential humans in governance?

. . .South America / Atlantic Ocean / Sunset . . .
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[Beckoncall]

Everyone :

Enough research and communications have been intercepted for aliens and agents to successfully pass socially and infiltrate human society.

All factions gain SOCIAL CAMOUFLAGE.

ALERT:
International space station detected. Crew militarily trained. Station has space to surface missiles, two nuclear missiles, and a science laser that can be adopted for military use. It presents a threat to the invasion. The Mother Brain wants it captured or destroyed.

 

[Beckoncall]

Spacekitty :

Continuing to collect data and intelligence on the humans was vital to the development of social camoflage. The mother brain was pleased.

Use of parasites nets the faction 20 biomass before the scout ship could carry no more cargo and lifted off to the sleeper ship.

Parasites spread into a nearby city and began to take over persons in position of influence and power... a shipping company owner in particular and a chief of police to name two of the fifteen.

Unfortunately, four of the parasites were detected on their hosts by co-workers or loved ones. In three of these cases -- the detector was murdered and the parasite detached, effectively killing witnesses and leaving former hosts baffled to why they had slain their cohorts.

Unfortunately, One parasite was neutralized with it's host and was delivered to a police morgue, with plans made to contact forensic pathologists to study it. A mission to recover the slain parasite was likely advised before the CDC becomes involved.

DECISION POINT: Alien parasite has been recovered by humans though they are ignorant of it's true nature. Action to recover or destroy the parasite may be advisable.

Control of operations in the big city leads to resources being quietly directed to remote locations outside of city surveillance. 20 additional biomass in dead cattle is delivered to remote pickup zone. 10 resources is delivered for remote pickup. 5 energy is delivered for remote pickup. Mission suggested to recover these materials.

Arctic research base is overrun by Xenophage dog analogs. handful of humans slain, but quality resources and energy harvested. three alien dogs are slain by one particularly badass station defender with arctic survival skills before he was overwhelmed MINUS THREE BIOMASS. GAIN of TEN RESOURCES AND 10 ENERGY. Station does not get distress signal sent out before all hands lost, but base was partially self destructed by accident during defense, limiting take in R and E units.

Official story: Accident with generator horribly crippled station. All hands lost to weather, and unrecovered. Deceased alien dogs never found.

 

[Beckoncall]

Thorn_Reaper :

The Zerg were terrifying. Especially to deep rural African natives... who saw them as demons.

The plan was executed perfectly -- with the overlord disgorging it's attack force ahead and a special unit of zerglings designated to run down those who took flight and broke ranks.

A large village was massacred along with it's livestock, and all who ran into the night were methodically and rapidly hunted down by the zergling mop-up force.

Some small arms and primitive weapons were brought to bear against the zerg -- and one of the Hydralisks was wounded slightly as well as superficial injuries to some zerglings -- but zerg regenerated handily and soon all the tribe in question lay dead -- with the zerg glutting themselves on biomass to maximize gains for transport. The overlord could only move so much biomass itself, but the zerg, including the mutalisks, devoured as much as they could to maximize the take.

SIXTY BIOMASS (all dead) was gained from the slaughter in the village, and 5 RESOURCES when the mutalisks downed a helicopter that came from nearby to investigate. A glaive wurm to the rotor was enough to cause a horrible crash that would leave investigators baffled.

Official Story: Slaughter blamed on rivalry between tribes and civil strife. Helicopter salvaging attributed to scavengers.

NUANCE: several Hydralisk spines were found at the site of the slaughter and were taken to a nature conservatory to be studied (What animal could have produced these spines? horns? were they used as spearheads? Awareness of something amiss might spread if the scientists of the wildlife refuge nearby were not silenced.

Much meat was wasted because of the lack of aircraft to collect it. SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS. (scout ships)

 

[Beckoncall]

SpiralErrant

With the expenditure of Resources and Energy, the sleeper ship sent clouds of signal-disrupting chaff and computer jamming to prevent the moonbase from delivering it's own undoctored images.

The Rangers blasted through an airlock and the two occupant scientists immediately surrendered... worth great amounts of information and a small amount of Four Biomass.

It takes several passes for the scout ships and fighters to strip the moonbase clean of commodities, but a total 50 resources and 30 Energy were taken from the station, leaving nothing but a footprint of a structure in it's wake.

Official Story: Images sent from the moonbase were doctored to frame Taiwan for the attack, who in turn pointed fingers at North Korea, which was proud to take credit for their supposedly covert operation to instill confidence that they had a capable space assault program. This was not believed by most and the loss of the moonbase became a black morass of blamethrowing and conjecture -- but nobody thought it was aliens. Not yet. The moonbase was confirmed to be gone, but nobody could get close enough to it to confirm that it had been dismantled and stolen.

 

[Beckoncall]

Fia ordered a missile barrage on the airliner the moment the primitive aircraft became a blip on her starfighter's scanners, hanging back herself to intercept any other unwanted visitors to their patch of airspace. "Rules of engagement for this mission haven't changed sisters. Give these interloping Earthling sightseers everything you have and then concentrate your plasma beam fire to melt the wreckage before it sinks beneath the waves. We'll rejoin Qoq in the black with our prize afterwards."

Pat :

The airliner was blasted into coin sized pieces by the super-advanced strike craft without so much as an afterthought or an evasive maneuver. 267 souls were atomized in as many nanoseconds with any vaguely appreciable debris casually strafed into oblivion as the squadron passed. No trace of the airliner or any bodies would ever be found.

 

[Beckoncall]

Triaxa smiles warmly at them. Oh, they’ll serve her well. She just has to think. Humans, while the dominant sapient species of this planet, are poor starting hosts. They are physically weak, with a long reproductive cycle. They don’t even reach maturity quickly enough to make early farming viable.

She decides that she will take some of these interesting mammals known as cats. She can use it to show her power as well. She makes a long speech about how she can use the essence of divinity to improve a mortal creature into something beautiful and powerful, as well as more intelligent. Then she takes some of these interesting felines into a room she orders for her use.

She will take the time to give each of them one of her eggs, and let her children grow inside them. She leaves them there to mature, and starts making orders. Construction of a new building with lodging and food production for her and her brood, first and foremost. And then she will begin in earnest.

Eliasdagood :

Gestation of her brood was fast. her 30 formless troops -- merely eggs, were rapidly grown into Feline super-soldiers. Outside the compound, a new structure, a small pyramid above ground with a sprawling underworks was rapidly being constructed by her 60 willing slaves. They had knowledge, and construction devices, but more than anything they had the one-directed providence of a shattered will belonging to a god.

Triaxa now had a hidden base out in the desert and the cult, already very insular, went to even greater lengths to drive away prying eyes and potential interlopers. Triaxa would have her special place for her brood, and in a matter of days her formless spawn became deadly feline warriors subject only to her insulliable might.

 

[Eliasdagood]

Triaxa is enjoying this. These warriors are beautiful, and deadly. Always a nice mix. Now to introduce them to their servants. The feline warriors are introduced as creations of the goddess, extensions of her divine will. They will watch over this budding culture, and ensure every member follows her law. Neither person, nor distress signal will escape this place.

Now that they’ve got the place on lockdown, Triaxa adds a new order to her followers. For this new rising civilization, the harbingers of the goddess to become more powerful over time, many children must be born, and taught their ways. She also instructs them to start breeding animals, and growing more crops, to increase their strength through her power.

 

[Beckoncall]

Karcen :

A polar bear closed in on the vibrations the construction was producing. It was slaughtered outright for Five Biomass.

An additional 20 resources and 10 Energy were harvested from the ground -- the vacuum created only allowed them to dig to greater depths for more resources...

Clean lines, deep pits... the area as it was cleared became a base of sorts. Blinding wind and storms soon covered and hid the operation... which continued unabated. It was speculated soon that greater gains in resources and energy were likely as long as the Necrons did not relent in their excavations... making their way towards mountains buried beneath the ice...

 

[Spacekitty]

Spoiler: orders

1 additional scout ship purchased (10 E + 10 R)

Order Infected Police Chief to enter the police morgue and to retrieve the parasite using it's host's authority and destroy the parasite and dispose of the remains via burning. It must not be caught and arrested in the act. Failure is not an option. The Police Morgue should enter during a late-night shift change and under the guise of getting info from a forensic officer, though he should make all attempts to not be seen in the act.

In order to aid in this the Infected Police-Chief will be given 3 Parasites (3 B) with which to infect other people in power to allow this to happen unnoticed and be covered up. Ideally, the manager of the Police Morgue, an IT specialist who can corrupt/erase video recordings, and the forensic specialist assigned to look at the parasite should be infected to help cover it up.

The current infected not working in important positions will actively begin to seek higher positions within their work place and local government, centered around the current city. They will pile together their collective resources and powers to help each other accomplish this. The details, name, leadership and country affiliations of the city must be discerned.

The Stealthed Scoutship will be used to deliver these parasites (via delivery to an infected host outside the city in the rural areas who will deliver the parasites to the proper infected) and pick up the stockpiled resources on it's return trip, making as many back and forth trips as needed. 5 Greys armed with Bio Rifles to pilot. (5 B) This mission will only be done during darkness and haste is encouraged.


The Two Stealth Fighters, piloted by 1 Grey each (2 B) and Carrying 3 Necromorphs of 3 Biomass each (18 B) will attempt to neutralize the ISS, on orders of the Mother Brain. This will be conducted using their stealth abilities to approach the station. The station will first be scanned for possible blind spots and approached from these angles under cloak. When the Cloaked Ships are just outside of visualize range the ships will wait for Heyitsjiwon The Enlightened to attempt to hack the stations and disable its electronic systems. Of the hacking attempt fails, the two fighters will use their weapons systems to disable the stations cons, laser and middles in that order; leaving the Nukes in tact for later use. After these systems are either disabled via hacking or destroyed, the fighters will use their weapons to breach the stations hull and the 6 Necromorphs armed with bio rifles will assault the station and attempt to take it over. They will be aided by 12 Dogs transported by the new Scout ship. The stations will be assaulted and captured in conjunction with Heyitsjiwon and then dismantled and the resources split evenly.
They are determined to complete this mission and prove themselves to the Mother Brain. If another overlord starts an assault on the station, Kithingoff will join in.

 

[Thorn_Reaper]

Zerg​

The mission was a great success. With this victory, the swarm could grow more. Lots of biomass was gathered, and a new strain of changeling produced, made to last longer behind the enemy lines. Azhaek was planning to infiltrate them inside the unexpecting goverment, as they would become an great asset once the apes realize that they are in a war.

Of all the superpotencies, USA was the most worrysome. Their leader was reverenced as 'the leader of the free world', something the Zerg didn't liked. Then there was the other superpotencies. Russia, China, North Korea.

China will be a tasty snack for the Zerg, but for now, intel must be gathered.

Actions:
- Created one extra overlord (10 B)
- Created three hydralisks(12 B)
- Created a dozen zerglings(12 B)
- Created a dozen long lasting changelings(24 B)
- Created two Mutalisks(10 B)

- Sent one overlord with six changelings to Kazakhstan, near the border with Russia. There, they would travel to Moscow, 'borrowing' cars when necessary. There, they would slowly ascend the military echelons using their shape-shifting abilites, until they are in a high ranking postion in the goverment. Once there they would give constant reports to the Zerg about their activities. If discovered, kill any witnesess and act like normal.

- Sent one overlord filled with a dozen zerglings to quickly strike at the human scientists that recovered hydralisk spines. They would strike fast, leave no witnesses and destroy all zerg tissue left in the laboratory.​

 

[Beckoncall]

ALERT: Predation on Polar enterprises and moonbase arouses suspicion in the planet populace. Interceptors are now on patrol for unusual phenomena and radar scanning intensifies. Violations of airspace are being logged and responded to. Probability of in-air engagement drastically increased.

 

[Beckoncall]

Heyitsjiwon :

Hacking drone discovers high level chatter that something is amiss in airspaces over planet. Disrupted signals from cloaked ships are attracting attention coupled with the movement of non-cloaked aircraft. Additional tech and the "UN" building and concerting scanning equipment will increase danger of detection from aircraft.

Military bases are mobilizing troops, and a secret global military initiative is waking up. It's headquarters is unknown, but of interest to mother brain.

Templars capture remote weather station in arctic circle. It can be stripped for 10 R and 10 E, or left operational but under alien control. 4 biomass recovered in operators.

Propaganda drone begins to preach the way of the enlightened one... gaining influence with middle-class followers, the drone gains access to terrestrial currencies and influence begins to spread, though it is attracting minor attention of local authorities.

Cloaked ship landed in amazon detects sapient lifeforms, but is widely avoided. Greys harvest 5 biomass and 10 resources and are just getting started.

 

[General Deth Glitch]

Maeder heard the call, his god needed information and resources. "I obey" he replied before turning away from the edge of the void. It was time to wake his people as the other factions foolishly rushed into the war without forethought. He knew what he needed to do, where he could make the biggest impact for his God. Their Communication system. How they communicate information, plans, ideas, objects. Looking at the giant globe in the Conquest Chamber he saw where he should strike. Their Vast oceans would likely have very few people living in them and should be needed for all sorts of trade.

He marched to where his Kin lay sleeping and awoke his ten most devoted "Welcome to a new world cloaked in Darkness Brothers and Sisters. Dracos wishes us to shine a light upon it and to do so we must find out all we can, collect all we can." He said after they had acclimatised "We will wrest control of their water from them"

Together they all marched and took command of the two 'Fighter Ship' Longboats. Armed with their usual ballistic weapons, Electronic Counter Measures and some powerful Melee Energy Weapons. They headed for the centre of the Atlantic Ocean, as far from any Islands as they could manage and begin looking for Earthling vessels to attack. Then, once that was done they would collect all they could and research what it meant before re-purposing it.

To help avoid detection and unwanted attention, they would avoid flying anywhere near landmasses and land to sail the oceans naturally as quickly as possible.

Spoiler: Orders

20 B To 'wake' 10 doods
5E to research Energy Melee weapon thing

Action, Sail the Atlantic, far from landmasses, and raid ships for information and resources

 

[Heyitsjiwon]

With the return of the Fighters, the First Order had a comfortable stash of resources available to them. Now, the Mother Brain wanted them to carry out her bidding. The research station was stripped bare of everything useful before the Templars left, leaving barely a trace of the station's existence. Whatever would remain would likely be quickly buried under the indiscriminate snow. The Blessed One, back on the Mother Ship had been planning the assault of the ISS to carry out the will of the Mother Brain. While the Necromorphs were... materialistic hedonists in their expansion of their biological network, they were loyal servants of the Mother Brain. The Blessed One saw their use in the Enlightened One's plans. It took some discussion and telepathic connection, the two strange beings arrived at an agreement. Much of the First Order would continue their operations, but the elite Templars would shift their focus on dealing with the ISS. Such important missions was the very reason these Chosen were awakened in the first place. Some jobs could not be left to others other than the worthy and the proven.

Orders:

1. Continued hacking/gathering information from the communications satellite. Hopefully, they will learn more about this... secret global military initiative.

2. Construct another Hacking Drone (2R) and a Combat Drone (3R)

3. Using the two Cloaked + Improved Engine Fighters, they are to take the two Templars, the new Hacking Drone, and the combat drone to the ISS. One Fighter is to carefully fly in with its cloak and drop off the Hacking Drone. The Hacking Drone is to disable/disrupt the following in decreasing priority: 1. Communications, 2. Weapons Platforms, 3. Life Support Systems, 4. All others. Once the hacking is accomplished and the weapons systems are disabled, the Templars and the combat drone are to board the ship and clear it with the Necromorphs. The Templars are given Power Armor and plasma rifles, and are given the green light to use their psionic bolts. Assuming that the weapons platforms of the ISS are not disabled, then the fighters are to engage them and destroy them before boarding.

4. Continued logging operation by 14 Greys, 4 Labor Drones, and the scout ship.

5. Continued missionary work by the Propaganda Droid.

 

[Pat]

Qoq awakens two of her sisters with eight of the ten biomass collected from the initial, and for now, final, excursion into Earth's atmosphere. She personally begins to research Earthling installations, satellites, and probes, beyond the orbit of their home world as her seven woman strong starfighter squadron departs to the dark side of the moon to collect helium-3 and materials for the war effort.

 

[Beckoncall]

mausedpotatos :

The offshore oil rig was located, but the blasting of it's communications array dissuaded the occupants that the Lii'dra were anything but hostile. Upwards of 150 people worked the rig, so Lii'dra soldiers had to clear them deck to deck, corridor to corridor. Brutal hand to hand exchanges at close range cost Lii'dra soldiers, and progress.

It was detected on radar that interceptors had been scrambled to investigate. There would not be time to strip for materials, but 50 ENERGY was greedily drained and housed in the scouts before the scouts would need to take to the air again. Right before airborne contacts would enter range -- word was given that five Lii'dra had fallen in battle in the deepest part of the oil rig -- one of these was taken prisoner.

Difficult decisions would need to be made...

Decision point: Lii'dra must decide to blow up the rig and flee with some of their troops still on board, or take to the air to fight interceptors to buy time to finish the mission.

 

[Beckoncall]

Eliasdagood :

The proclaimations were given by Triaxa to be fruitful and multiply, and to grow more crops for an increasing populace. Humans took so long to breed though -- it was almost a year before one could be produced, and over a decade to make one combat ready. perhaps cloning technology could grow a human at a faster rate -- or human could be spliced with cats in more artful ways to bring them to fruition faster... for now, the compound was her castle, and the new structure her temple.

Away from prying eyes. Away from those that might vie to stop her...

 

[Beckoncall]

Spacekitty :

The police chief arrived at the morgue prepared for the worst -- the CDC had already been alerted and the forensic agent was in full swing with the scientist examining the specimen when the parasite-infected police host arrived. Releasing his three parasites, the hazmat suit being worn by the CDC worker was more than enough to repel the tiny invaders... so the police chief shot him through his faceplate.

Things were out of control now.

The parasites released attacked the forensic, who killed one of them with a bone-saw before being inhabited. The remaining parasite was helped into the vents where it quickly made its way to the survaillence room and took over the sleeping guard on duty there.

However, gunfire was already drawing the entire station down to the morgue.

The reinforcement officers arrived to see the infested chief and forensic bathing the entire morgue with preservative chemicals before setting the place ablaze. The basement of the policestation exploded, then burned -- torching all evidence. While the fire was fought, the infested survaillence cop made up a dummy tape of static for people to infer the main camera in question was broken...

Official story: Nobody could say for sure what took place down there -- but the official story was a severe biohazard was encountered and the police chief sacraficed his life and those in presence to contain a pandemic. The CDC went into high alert, and the police station was quarantined.

The infested survaillence guard was captured, and taken by helicopter to CDC headquarters in Atlanta. The rest of the police station was slowly swept and cleared but no further evidence was found.

DECISION POINT: The humans HAVE an alien specimen! something might best be done about this...


As for the assault on the ISS, apparently protocols were in place when the alien forces did not respond to hails. Their comms, and missile racks were hacked, but their laser system remained operable. Heyitsjiwon A Templar scout ship was struck by a laser blast, damaging the craft but inflicting no casualties.

With alien monsters swarming the ISS, Blackout Protocols were initiated. The Station was not to be taken intact. The nukes were armed, and the Necromorphs (Minus 30 biomass of the crawling monsters) were lost in the explosion, and the blast sent all alien craft diverting from the blast radius.

Still the mother brain was pleased. Tech cards assigned: Heavy Armor OR Bomb Bays AND Xenopsychology OR Torpedoes.. Other tech requests could be fielded in lieu of these offered technologies.

 

[Beckoncall]

ALERT: Loss of International Space Station causes planetwide panic. in tandem with loss of moonbase, speculation of alien invasion rampant. Global military is scrambled as skies are watched for any ominous signs.

Overlords should expect resistance.

 

[Beckoncall]

Karcen :

The Necrons were really beginning to move ice and earth now...40 R was mined from the ground as the tunnels and vaults continued to be carved.

The Scythe detected a squadron of interceptors heading back to south africa... apparently the antarctic was being patrolled radius by radius, and it was possible, if the terrestrials were lucky, that they would find the necron operation.

Overlord advised to proceed with caution, and to develop a strategy for facing potential ground and air aggressors.

 

[Beckoncall]

Thorn_Reaper :

Infiltration of russian military a COMPLETE success. Highest rank in control is a Colonel. Intelligence reveals that some of the best agents and high amounts of funding are being poured into a UN project to deal with the likely contingency of an alien threat. The best soldiers and experimental war materials will be going into this effort...

Attack on wildlife refuge is poised to be complete success, but without mutalisks to repel interceptors -- the Overlord is at great risk if it does not abandon the mission or at least try to drop the zerglings and flee back into space.

DECISION POINT: If overlord continues plan without escort, it will be shot down. Choices are abort mission to wipe out wildlife science station, or drop zerg to accomplish mission covertly but without means of immediate recovery. Overlords need mutalisk escort!!!

 

[Thorn_Reaper]

Zerg
​

Thanks to the changelings, the zerg discovered the existence of the interceptors. They didn't expected a response that quickly. Ashaek cursed in a low voice, but the plan was clear. They had to abort. It was too risky without mutalisk escort, and it may just make everything worse. And, so the overlord retreated, saying I hate you perry the (okno).

The changelings were instructed to act as normal, as not to give away their true identity. Should one of them be discovered, all witnesses have to be assasinated, and if necessary, the other changelings must take care of the discovered one. Do not let humas to capture you, or learn anything relevant, under any circumstance.

Actions:
- DECISION: Abort Mission.​

 

[mausedpotatos]

Decision: Take to the air to fight interceptors to buy time to finish the mission.

. . .

The two Lii'dra fighters zoom upwards, gaining altitude. Some of the Lii'dra ground forces take up positions on the outer parts of the oil rig behind cover, pointing their suit weaponry skyward. They do not appear to want to leave without a fight. Carapace armor weaponry begins to spin up apparently intending to assist their fighters by shooting down the jets with a barrage of heavy machine gun fire all at once. The Lii'dra who are in charge of loading supplies and prisoners are told to hasten their work.

One of the scout ships relays a transmission to the Motherbrain and any available crafts to request assistance in destroying the incoming interceptors. Five biomass is promised to whoever provides help.

Spoiler: Orders

1. The Lii'dra focus their efforts on assisting their fighters in blowing the interceptors out of the sky by overwhelming them with machine gun fire, both meant to harm and hinder the enemy aircraft.
2. The prisoners are left under minimal guard in a giant pile to free up more Lii'dra to fight. As they are inside of vacuum capture bags, they are not a threat.
3. Once the interceptors are dealt with, the dead and imprisoned Lii'dra are to be collected.
4. The scout craft move to hide on the opposite side of the rig from where ever the interceptors are.
5. The rig is rigged to explode after a command is sent from one of the four craft in case it is needed.