Aftermath: The Battle of Widow's Landing
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:01 pm
The Battle of Widow's landing, occurring 3 October 2950, was a total rout of local defense forces, and the Blazing Aces, working for the financial entity Donner & Bormann successfully seized 3mil C-Bills in silver bullion from the Administrator's facility. In addition, from the bullion convoy from the provinces, you also seize another 2.5mil C-Bills worth of silver, for a total of 5.5mil C-bills value.
After kicking over the convoy, you seem to have alerted the entire planet. What passes for a local defence force musters, and radio chatter increases exponentially. You have no idea if the enemy has more mechs, but based on local chatter you safely conclude that they probably have several platoons worth of light tanks in the area, as well as around a battalion of infantry. Thus, you beat a hasty retreat back to the Union-class dropship Bun-bun and burn for the nadir jumpoint, and a pre-arranged jumpship.
On board ship, while pulling 1.5Gs out of the planet's atmosphere, Jack turns to you all after you get cleaned up. He seems to be a bit more sober, but the sour stink of alcohol and old beer wafts over you as he addresses the group. "You all did...adequately," he says. "Tough luck on losing the Urbanmech" he says "but then, they're made for urban warfare. U-r-b-a-n-m-e-ch." He says this last slowly, as if talking to a bunch of retarded children. You get the feeling this guy is not a people person. Maybe that's why he's out here in the crap end of the Periphery. "That's gonna cost us..."
After kicking over the convoy, you seem to have alerted the entire planet. What passes for a local defence force musters, and radio chatter increases exponentially. You have no idea if the enemy has more mechs, but based on local chatter you safely conclude that they probably have several platoons worth of light tanks in the area, as well as around a battalion of infantry. Thus, you beat a hasty retreat back to the Union-class dropship Bun-bun and burn for the nadir jumpoint, and a pre-arranged jumpship.
On board ship, while pulling 1.5Gs out of the planet's atmosphere, Jack turns to you all after you get cleaned up. He seems to be a bit more sober, but the sour stink of alcohol and old beer wafts over you as he addresses the group. "You all did...adequately," he says. "Tough luck on losing the Urbanmech" he says "but then, they're made for urban warfare. U-r-b-a-n-m-e-ch." He says this last slowly, as if talking to a bunch of retarded children. You get the feeling this guy is not a people person. Maybe that's why he's out here in the crap end of the Periphery. "That's gonna cost us..."