ChasmOfOrganicMatter
High Priest of Depravity
March 2, 4217
Planet: Funerosa, country-sector of Kadamos
FSA stealth transport on route to mission drop site.
4:00 PM Local Time
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EVZREDIGOR TRANSMISSION INBOUND
PSYCHOANALYTIC NEURAL FRAMEWORKS ACTIVATED
DATA PODS TRANSFERRING ALL MISSION DATA
Planet: Funerosa, country-sector of Kadamos
FSA stealth transport on route to mission drop site.
4:00 PM Local Time
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EVZREDIGOR TRANSMISSION INBOUND
PSYCHOANALYTIC NEURAL FRAMEWORKS ACTIVATED
DATA PODS TRANSFERRING ALL MISSION DATA
Damnation's Hunger team has been prepped for stealth insertion along the no-man's land between territory controlled by the Arkradian backed Kadamalan Hlanglodt (Kadamos Blood Sect) rogue army and the interim government security force set up by the League during the coup eight years ago. Objective is the obtainment of information related to abnormal ether-atmospheric readings, stored on a series of listening posts set-up during the final years of the Interstellar War. We have attached coordinates of their general locations; there are roughly three of them. Destroy the facilities when you are finished; they likely have self-destruct systems built into them. Avoid being bogged down in any larger battles in the area. You have been supplied with taggings and markings making you out to be among the many smaller splinter groups of Kadamalan Hlanglodt and your official cover is as mercenaries. Do not let anyone observe you closely enough to see through this.
Terrain is a mixture of sloping mountainside and heavy forest with areas completely scourged by repeated bombardments during a war of attrition. Due to the usage of etheric munitions, there are various areas scourged of most physical life and where the Abzu overlaps onto reality. Native lifeforms have become agitated due to the presence of extradimensional organisms entering their usual territories. These may interfere with certain electronics and can vary in qillations-per-square-foot to dangerous levels. Any voidcreatures from within may be territorial but satellite footage shows many of them are actively roaming.
Hlanglodt forces are comprised primarily of light to medium infantry with limited mecha and vehicular support. We have multiple gun platform type mecha with them and it is believed celaderaka assault troopers are scouring the area. Most of them are locally trained but many of the celaderaka are believed to be Dolsilvec loyalists planted by Arkradian intelligence and are presumed to be their most capable operatives on the field. Government security is not particularly heavy in the area as part of a recent series of territorial cedings but it is known they have observation drones and various scouts that keep a watch over a river area where one of the bases is located. Intercepted chatter reveals that League special forces have been deployed for security purposes and to sassassinate certain celaderaka commanders.
Another team has been deployed at the very edges of the area of operations with a series of mortars and infantry howitzers. They will be able to offer limited artillery support in the form of a sole barrage. The time it takes for that is the very maximum of how long we can trick local coms into thinking it is an independent militia making a poor move. Do note that it may likely accelerate the activity of hostiles in the region. Be very wary for gunships and transport vessels. We recommend not sticking to the roads.
Terrain is a mixture of sloping mountainside and heavy forest with areas completely scourged by repeated bombardments during a war of attrition. Due to the usage of etheric munitions, there are various areas scourged of most physical life and where the Abzu overlaps onto reality. Native lifeforms have become agitated due to the presence of extradimensional organisms entering their usual territories. These may interfere with certain electronics and can vary in qillations-per-square-foot to dangerous levels. Any voidcreatures from within may be territorial but satellite footage shows many of them are actively roaming.
Hlanglodt forces are comprised primarily of light to medium infantry with limited mecha and vehicular support. We have multiple gun platform type mecha with them and it is believed celaderaka assault troopers are scouring the area. Most of them are locally trained but many of the celaderaka are believed to be Dolsilvec loyalists planted by Arkradian intelligence and are presumed to be their most capable operatives on the field. Government security is not particularly heavy in the area as part of a recent series of territorial cedings but it is known they have observation drones and various scouts that keep a watch over a river area where one of the bases is located. Intercepted chatter reveals that League special forces have been deployed for security purposes and to sassassinate certain celaderaka commanders.
Another team has been deployed at the very edges of the area of operations with a series of mortars and infantry howitzers. They will be able to offer limited artillery support in the form of a sole barrage. The time it takes for that is the very maximum of how long we can trick local coms into thinking it is an independent militia making a poor move. Do note that it may likely accelerate the activity of hostiles in the region. Be very wary for gunships and transport vessels. We recommend not sticking to the roads.
EVZREDIGOR TRANSMISSION END
TRANSPORT HAS ARRIVED
DROP CHUTES OPEN - ROPES DEPLOYED
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The forest burned, not with fire but a foul and unearthly miasma. The red was not that of blood but something more nebulous and uneasy; almost painted onto the foliage with the texture and tone of scratched sores on a diseased body. As the Damnation's Hunger team moved across these wilting grasses and through contorted, lightly squirming branches it was clear the horrific textent of the ether-artillery on the area. Over sloping hills and flatter expanses of trees and bush, much of the plant life had thinned, making the mountainside woods feel at once dense and foreboding but exposed and withered.
The area of reddish foliage they were moving through hadn't been close to the sites of heavy bombardment but it wasn't hard to both see and feel why it had begun to morph into a crimson, wound-coloured mockery of its former self. Looking across the soil and paths could be seen; deep rends in the earth as if torn by great claws and long trails over the soil as if clumps of serpentine bodies had slid across. A reek in places; foul, fetid, rotting - the waste byproducts of the ethereal creatures who had slithered and crept into realspace from wounds rendrered by material hands. Prey had been abundant, grown fat on the corpses of those shredded by long range gunfire and partially decomposed by accelerated supernatural decomposition. The voidbeasts had grown excited and confident; a few of the bodies seen as the group moved up a slight incline had strips of almost bark-like bioform armour torn to tatters on what remained of torsos, legs, and arms.
On this area of middle elevation between the taller craggy peaks and the lower valley areas where the rivers ran, they were positioned roughly between all three of the listening posts. Closest to them overall was one near a hillier region up ahead, a bit further the risky descent down the hillside to a graveyard of a few shattered APC's whose EM and ether-reactive inteference cloaked another listening post. The furthest was highest on a blast-scourged hill, practically swamped in the fleshy-pink and cold blue cloudiness of etheric compounds having reacted with natural gasses.
Further up ahead however, a problem presented itself. A trio of silhouettes moving in the fading afternoon sun, dark where there was light. Identification was unknown; it was difficult to tell who they served but their weapons were compact and a faint hint of direct energy readings could be detected from afar. One stood away from the other two, a lengthier rifle in its arms as they swept targeting lasers over the soil. If they listened closely from behind the veil of foliage between them and the unidentified soldiers, there was a lot of chatter going on - half-gargled, some audibly spoken, and at least one speaking English. It appeared they had moved out from behind an area of denser tree cover, likely another path that seemed as if it might connect to the hillier region leading to the nearest objective.
They did not seem to be on particularly high alert; the sniper visible wasn't providing overwatch and their two companions appeared to be scanning along certain patches of lower, shrubbier foliage growing across the area for reasons not immediatley obvious. There was little sound here; a few clicks and croaks, the distant undulating shrieks of some voidcreature, but otherwise, the rhythm of their steps was a steady constant in this dry, diseased wilderness. Distant weapons cracked and flames of unknown origin burned off in the distance; the vision of misery surrounding the team was alive and would come for them if any mistakes were made. The trio before them was a small slice of worse things to come.
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