Joe had spent the whole time in Glitteringstones base, either sleeping, bathing in real water or eating. He had sent a message to Alicia. There was no reply yet.
Now he was wearing a sweet smelling re-charged and reloaded suit and backpack near the airlock
There was a wait. No shuttles free or something.
“Sorry.” Said Joe “Did you say the Vengeance was OK?”
“Sure is. She did for a couple of Mirco freighters yesterday.” Said another Lieutenant
“So what was her shuttle doing on Mirconium?”
“Something hush-hush I guess.”
“But…” began Joe.
“Fifty Fifth. Airlock in ten with visors down.” That came over Joes skull phone. He found the airlock, said Hi to the other officers of HQ Company, snapped down his visor and shuffled through to a shuttle.
“All aboard?” asked the Captain. “Good. Settle down. Comms? Can you fix a link to all the 55th?”
“Yes Sir.”
“Good. The Colonel wants to explain his tactics to everyone.”
Joe could feel the shuttle leaving the ground. “Yes Sir….You there? Address from the Colonel. Can you connect all of them?…Yes and all yours. Everyone from Captain down. Yes every Company. That’s right. Sir?”
“Ready?” asked the Captain of HQ Company.
“All ready and connected Sir.”
“All ready Colonel.”
“All ready. Good. I’m taking this opportunity to tell all concerned in the 55th what’s happening. It may be my last chance to speak to you all together. We are now flying towards Snitter in seventeen shuttles and we will all soon all be in action.
Now on your visors you will see the latest image and the latest positions.
Earth forces have taken the small Mirco garrisons at Biddlestone, Clennell, Brown Rigg and Burradon. They were mostly conscript soldiers abandoned by their officers and left to fend for themselves with little air or food. They surrendered quietly and easily. Some apparently rejoiced at being out of the fight.
(Pause for comic effect.)
While we have been having a decent nights sleep the 49th have taken all the Chirnell peaks and are now chasing stragglers. Seems a lot of them ran the wrong way and got lost in the Spout Burn.
(Pause for comic effect)
I think the 49th are now on more of a rescue mission than an offensive. However the main group of professional soldiers fell back to Snitter.
Snitter is now our main authorised acquisition objective. As you see, Snitter is the usual collection of domes. The Mircos are in all of them except this small one on the North Side. That’s where they have herded the civvies. So don’t flatten it.
(Pause for comic effect)
Now here you can see the spaceport. It’s fairly basic. Just metal sheets so the ships don’t sink into the ice. There are as you see several wrecked ships around. They could offer cover to the infantry. Any working ships will have casing sentries. Here is the main heat and water works for Snitter. Its still working so try not to hit the reactor. The Mirco’s have dug in along the Black Burn here and here south of Snitter. They believe they are facing our advance from the Chirnells. The 49th are making a lot of noise along there, radio noise, gunfire and so on, to make them think we are massing in that direction. But of course the shuttles will take us west of Red Chirnells and leave us here at the Wreigh Burn west of Snitter They could still lay down effective direct fire over this whole region. But simulations show our clandestine entry to the forward engagement zone should fool them.
As you can see Wreigh Burn is another mountainous area of broken terrain. Mainly Ice peaks. It’s still dark and there’s enough ground clutter to mask our approach from their sensors. We will fan out using the Wreigh Burn as cover. Here are your pre positions. Lines of communication and re supply will be along the eastern edge of Wreigh Burn.
There are HUMINT
reports of trucks, box handlers, forklifts and slug carriers being
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