MISSION: GET TO ZE CHOPPA

[initiatesnpc]

Date & Time: August 23rd, 2753 (OOCly forward-dated to the 1st)
Location: Uruguay National Defense HQ
Characters: All transports!
Summary: All transports are sent back to Uruguay to download a self-aware AI before it gets bombed out of existence by an early incarnation of the UE. Time distortion effects will be set right either on the way there or on the way back, according to player choice.
Warnings: violence, action movie tension, 3 terabytes of foot fetish porn.

The Transporter drops the entire transport population into what will quickly be established as Home Base, a mile from the vast, sprawling facility that is Uruguay's National Defense HQ. The low roar of helidrones moving above is pervasive, but the black ships can only be glimpsed here and there through the thick cover of trees overhead. If you keep calm and quiet, it's likely you won't be spotted. It's the UND HQ their attention is on, after all.

The population is quickly sorted by attending Initiate employees according to who volunteers to fight and who volunteers to protect, along with those with enough skill to access the computers, and those with enough skill to get them there. The fighters move out first, off to intercept the early UE's ships and ground troops, and to draw the automated defense systems of the facility alike. They'll be in a crossfire, and neither side will be happy to see them there.

The techies and their escorts are sent out far more quietly, in groups of three. Their task is to sneak past the front lines and into the facility itself. There might be alarms and automated defense drones, so those escorts may well be called on to earn their keep. The Initiative can't give any information about which building will house the AI's mainframe, that information was long since lost to history. All they can do is send out enough people to hope that one of them manages to find it.

And remember — as soon as the UE troops withdraw, there will only be minutes until the bomb drops. Everyone would do well to work fast.



[[ Mission information is here, and the techie/escort teams, along with their hacking results, are here. Each techie/escort group will have their own established thread, but Team Distraction and Team We'll Stay Here, Thanks are welcome to thread where ever and however they like! The newbie log that goes up on the 1st will also encompass the arrival back in Exsilium, if you'd like to play that out as well. ]]

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TEAM 9

[initiatesnpc]

[shelkethetransparent]

Shelke was lucky, or unlucky depending on how you looked at it, that her timeline problems had repaired when they'd been sent through the portal to this time. So she was back to her quiet, distant, mostly emotionless 'older' self who still looked nine.

On the upside, that meant she could actually perform the mission that she'd been assigned, so that was handy. She was back in her deepground uniform, the blue lines of the suit glowing faintly to match her eyes, and she shoved her EM sabers into the holsters that hung down from her waist almost to her ankles as she turned to her two 'escorts.' Which she didn't think she needed at all, but arguing the point seemed fruitless.

"If you are coming, we should leave."

[nikubaka]

Her demeanor was alright with Kuroh: the more businesslike they made this, the faster they could retrieve the AI and leave.

He rested his right hand on Kotowari; not that he'd be using it against the UE or whatever this AI could throw at them, but having it there was reassuring nonetheless. Nodding just once at his young-looking charge, he spoke for himself: "I'm ready."

[caw]

"Huh?"

A joke, kind of. Davesprite was paying attention, well enough. He hadn't meant to end up in a group that was devoid of his sister-aged mom, but it's not so bad. At least he's making some use of himself-- he's meant to be of more worth in the missions before this but hadn't found something that really called to him. Escorting, though? Slashing up things in protection of another? Haha.

Made for him, really. Convenient as fuck.

"Ready." He's got a katana in one hand, and is scratching at the back of his neck with the other.

[shelkethetransparent]

Shelke considered the pair of them for a moment. Well, it wasn't exactly the soldier types she was used to as escorts, but given the circumstances it wasn't as though she could afford to be choosy. So she finally nodded at their agreement, and turned to head off in the direction they had been assigned.

Despite not being the escort, appearing to be nine, and being easily exhausted, she's intending to lead the way, it seemed.