Debate raged over the merits of Planet 68 as ground teams scoured the LZ for any evidence of what had occurred in the night. No bodies had been discovered, but there was an abundance of blood, ash and bullet holes. It was a patrol searching on the farthest limits of the facility at the edge of the ruins that discovered a broken wayteam drone, carrying a rather curious data-parcel.
Though it was garbled and difficult to understand a message spelled out an unexplained exodus from LZ Humanitie.
And a fierce firefight against contact referred to simply as "inconnu" or unknown. A positioning blip link to a Wayteam helmet transponder ended the message.
Acting quickly on this new information Westarc Ground Command took control of the situation, immediately sending two mechanized units to the ground. Named "Gothic" and "Typhoon" these units would converge on the Wayteam with a war footing. Utilizing a small convoy of FSV34's team "Gothic" was to navigate the winding city streets and break through to the survivors, while "Typhoon" with a medium range Gravitic mortar, would establish a temporary field outpost and triage station to the north of the transponder signal.
The units deployed quickly at the LZ, which would be held by the initial SAR units in the event the teams would need to fall back.
At 10:30 am, only twenty minutes after the discovery of the drone, Gothic and Typhoon set out on Operation: Inconnu
Though it was not known then, the next few hours would decide the fate of the entire Arc, and lead to a conflict that might save the residue of mankind or lead us into damnation.
To be Continued...
