Mech Warrior Log - Brody.J - A Pirate's life for me

Return to the Briefing Room

With the Vandals now a part of the Blackshields it was time for us to earn our pay and our good friend Arturo had offered Col. Ferguson a tasty little target, The Ellinikon Distribution Centre on Thraxa. Ferguson called us all into the briefing room and called the room to order once the usual hubbub had died down, again she and Hausa both wait far too long in my opinion but it is their unit to command and not mine... in fact I find the entireity of the command structure a little lax, especially as Hauser and Ferguson were regular troops at one stage. The Colonel started the briefing and began to outline what lay ahead of us. She soon handed over to Capt. Hausa so that he could fill us in on the specifics of the mission.

Thraxa, a semi-arctic world on the border between the Magistracy of Canopius and the Marian Hegemony. It has come to recent renown for trading furs and wool and for the meat from the native Tazqan (a herbivore that resembles a Terran Caribou). Our objective was to land at the Ellinikon Distribution Centre and load up as much of these high value items as possible without wasting too many of the locals (OK, I'm paraphrasing here)... it all seemed easy enough.


Kaja however was not impressed at the idea of attacking one of her home planets and made as much known at the briefing, refusing to take part in the raid and leaving before the briefing was done. I too said how I thought it was a bad move to be attacking a Canopian world, even one as rich and apparently weakly defended as Thraxa, when we had ripe targets available on Astrokaszy. Still Capt Hausa assured us that Shirinov's intel was legit. I checked out Shirinov's face as Hausa was talking him up and there was a moment or two when that prick's mask slipped... There is definitely something going on with him... more than he is letting on,  and rather than use their own wits Ferguson and Hausa are blindly being led into doing what Shirinov wants.


With no further questions from the floor Ferguson said that Captain Hausa would be leading the raid with Mech Warrior Shirinov acting as his second. We had 8 hours before we had to meet up at the King Goblin So Jakari, Thornton and I went our separate ways to prepare. I made for Kaja's quarters and found her there looking royally pissed off. We talked for a little while about the raid and I made a promise to her that I would do everything in my power to minimise casualties, After all this was only meant to be a smash and grab objective raid. With that done I left and headed back to my own quarters to prepare... Piracy! How could a Solaris VII champion fall so far!... Aint life an absolute motherfucker!