A New Threat

Now we need defences, if the Crimson Dawn do know that there is a colony here then we need all the help we can get. Which is why Varad, coming back from an emergency council meeting, told Arron that we needed to train some form of a militia.

Then Arron came to me asking if I could market free training so that he could focus on setting up training equipment supplied by the council. The problem was that nobody had the time to sign up for free training so we could only get two people. It wasn't looking great for our “militia”.

That evening Jern finished scanning the hard drive he had stolen from the pirates and he found out that the pirates were planning one last strike specifically targeting us to end this conflict once and for all. Luckily Jern also found pieces of a battle plan that The Boss had made and didn’t delete properly. We found out that they were going to get their amphibious vessel to move up the river going to our hydro generator and take out our power. Then they would paradrop snipers down into the orchard to cover their other troopers who would secure the workshop.

Now we need to make a plan of action to defeat this incursion. I set up a trap in the river to tangle their submarine so that I could get inside it with my rangers and make sure that they wouldn’t be able to disable our power. Then Jern would make it look like the power had been disabled while in actuality we could still use our security cameras.

Jern said that he would make sure that the pirates attacking the workshop wouldn’t be a problem, I don’t know what exactly he was planning, but he talked about scaring them and draining their morale a lot. So now we only had to deal with the snipers and any other unknown threats.

We had two people trained from the militia program so it was decided that Arron would camp out in the orchard and pick off the snipers with stealth. We began the preparation.

Making the trap went well and it was almost impossible to see with the seaweed all over it. Jern was busy in his workshop all day, Arron was doing some last minute training with his two hunters, and Varad bought a bunch of night-vision goggles warning the council and ECC about the pirates as they had also mentioned taking back the ECC base and assaulting the council hall.

Now we just had to wait for nightfall. The pirates planned their attack on the night of an unnatural lunar eclipse so that everything would be pitch black, we used the goggles so that we could see better. I hid along the side of the bank with my rangers nearby waiting for the pirates.

It was the third hour of the eclipse and the pirates were scheduled to arrive any moment now. Then, there was the sound of a motor and the pirate submarine whooshed past my hiding place and clanged into the cables hidden behind the seaweed, instantly tangling it up.

Then we struck. I swam to their cockpit and cut a hole in the windshield flooding the ship. A few of them managed to escape out of the cockpit and sealed the door to the rest of the ship. Then we started cutting holes into the sides of the ship letting the water in.

I heard a noise and I decided to go to the top of the ship to see if the pirates had gotten out. Turns out I was right and as they were scrambling out I sent a barrage down the hatch killing them all. Then my group got to work fixing up the ship and preparing it to go help the others.

Once the ship was working again I commed the others to see who I should help and where they were. Jern was having some difficulties in his workshop so we flew to help him. I jumped out of the transport with my troops not far behind.

I fired the first shot and my squad finished off two of the four pirates near the door. Then the rest of them were covered by an oil bath sealing the entrance. Now Arron and his militia were having some difficulty with The Boss so I hopped back on the ship and sped towards them.

Then, I saw a figure flying in on a jetpack. It was Maim’wrath. We were getting close so I fired at The Boss but missed. The boss was hacking at Arron with an axe and it wasn’t looking good for him. Varad also had come out from the security room to help Arron and now Maim’wrath was firing at him. Then, Maim swivelled his repeating blaster at me as well, which I didn’t expect, clipping me a couple of times.

Turning back to Arron I flinched as the boss chopped off Arron’s leg putting him in even more pain. Then Varad turned, seeing Arron fall unconscious from the strain of hanging on. He turned his aim from Maim’wrath and pointed both of his new guns, he fired. The Boss looked confused as he fell over.

Jern now joined the fight and started shooting mid run towards Maim’wrath. With the combined might of vengeful Varad and my return fire Maim’wrath was forced to surrender and we made sure he didn’t escape.

Ja’taa fully finished decrypting the pirate hard drive and thankfully the pirates didn’t tell the Crimson Dawn about our colony so they were not hunting us. After defeating the Gorensla’s last ditch attempt it’s safe to say that we will be safe from them as well.

So, now we can live in peace, although we still don’t know if Adi is safe. She escaped from the Gorensla kajidic before so hopefully she can escape now.