Another week or so goes by, during which Virvel, Kommandant, and Eremit are barely present. The next time anyone sees them is at today's
briefing. Kommandant is standing front and center by the projector screen, and Raiden and the rest of Djuriskas are already seated. Once everyone takes their seats, he begins his briefing with a slide of a desert region that some of you are able to identify.
: These are the Rostig Mountains, on the south Aesthian border. Should look familiar to some of you, we just destroyed one of their major resupply stations in the region. Somewhat counter-intuitively, in light of the recent attack the whole range has become a hotspot for Imperial aerial activity. This sector in particular, creatively named Airship Alley, is crawling with patrols, typically two destroyers with escort of six to ten planes. Today, we're going to steal one.
The next slide is a more focused shot of the mission area, with representations of allied and enemy forces on display.
: Pansar, Frisk, we're only here for
one of the airships, so I want you two to take down the second. Raiden, we need you to de-claw the one we're going to take, shoot out its anti-air. Mjolnir, I want you to deal with the fighter screen, and any reinforcements they might send after us. I know you work best with a little flexibility, so don't hesitate to help the other groups if you can, but your primary objective is anti-air.
The next slide is the unwelcome sight of a particular
transport aircraft.
: After the escort and the anti-air are taken care of, a platoon of Marines will arrive in a SI-130 and deploy directly onto the remaining vessel using the assault pods; with Virvel, Eremit, and myself accompaying them. The three of us are going to stay low and out of the way until the actual fighters clear a path to the bridge, where we will then pilot the vessel back to Aesthian territory. Once Izzy figures out we've stolen his ship, he's going to try to make sure we don't leave with it, so at that point anyone still carrying strike ordnance is to rearm for anti-air. Protect us until we meet up with the Kresvaarder and the Svekzhivot, they'll escort us the rest of the way home. If we fail this, I doubt there will ever be another opportunity to try again. Let's make it happen.
After he concludes his briefing, the meteorological officer shares projected environmental data for the mission.
Time of Day: Mid-day
Weather: Clear Skies
Mission will start tomorrow, when I get home from work. As of right now, Crash's suggested list has first priority to go on the mission (I'm including Ellie in there too).
The line up is, Tippy, Walt, Whiskey, Gus, Faw, and Lorens.
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