MechWarrior 3/Damocles Commando Mission 5

Mission 5

BRIEFING

Connor: As noted in earlier journal entries, and in the information we obtained from our reconnaissance, the critical target for wounding the New Belt Pirates is their base. Take it apart, and they cannot support their forward camps, or the many patrols we keep running into.

Connor: Engineers assigned to Corona have managed to bridge the canyon at two places, though they’ve rated the structures for 50-tons maximum. Anything heavier will require jump jets.

Connor: The Damocles Commando advances from the northern bridge, bearing the brunt of the operation, while the Rim Collective forces guard our southern flank. We have to assume these turrets are back in service, and the pirates will have ‘Mechs patrolling the canyons.

Connor: We hit the base from east-southeast, destroying all defending forces and the facility that houses the main power plant and command center. The lack of power will render the base uninhabitable and, without their command center, the pirates should fall back in disarray.

Connor: An additional, but by no means secondary, objective, of course, is to find any information that might lead us to Dominic. With any luck, he’s being held at the base, and one of our Mobile Field Base vehicles will recover him. We could use some luck.

DURING MISSION

Mattila: Is there room for me on this trip, Lieutenant?

Connor: Glad you could make it, Alan.

Epona: Nice paint job on your ride, Alan. Blast marks and primer. It’s so…you.

Mattila: Love you too, Epona. (mwah) Wide hips and all.

Epona: What? What did you say?

Connor: All right, that’s enough. Move out.

Female Pirate: Cyclops to enemy leader. Please acknowledge.

Connor: This is Sinclair. What’s on your mind, Commander?

Susie Ryan: You know who I am. Good. That will simplify things. I’ll make it easy, Sinclair. Pull your people back before you learn, the hard way, what coming against me will cost.

Connor: Funny, I was about to make a similar request to you.

Susie Ryan: So much for diplomacy.

Connor: You can give up any time, you know.

Male Pirate: You wanna know what you can do? Shove it up your <static>

Connor: Damocles One to all units. Good work! Enemy base is secure.

Corona Base: This is Corona Base. You missed a few. We’re picking up intermittent signals of enemy ‘Mechs heading up Desolation Ridge.

Commander Sersi: Damocles One, Commander Sersi. Bet you I know where they’re heading.

Connor: Let’s regroup and organize a pursuit mission. You point, we’ll chase. Sinclair out!

AFTERMATH

Connor: We’ve crippled them, just as I’d hoped. But the delay of securing the road down to Madre may have cost us. I’ll append Sorenson’s intelligence report to my journal.

Sorenson: Susie Ryan’s body was not recovered from the Mad Cat. Thought you might wanna know that up front, in case you were hoping you’d cut the head from the serpent. And the news doesn’t get much better.

Sorenson: According to first analysis of the data we’ve recovered, Ryan has already deployed the bulk of her forces into outlying camps. I think we’ve cornered her, and now have them on the run.

Sorenson: Nothing on Dominic, yet. No indication that he was captured or killed, or even that the pirates fought against his Shadow Cat on the lower slopes, only mention of earlier skirmishes. However, the records show no camps so far down as to challenge Portal at all, but we’ve already fought them there, and while you raided their base, a small pirate force struck against a Rim Collective camp, which means that this information is obviously incomplete.