Robotech - Tales of the RDF

Andrew Bryer

Andrew quickly turned away from the destroyed officer pod to look for his next targets. He set his eyes upon Pod 5 and trained his mechas' guns on it. The Defender briefly adjusted the position of its firearms before both of its guns unleashed a linked-fire to the pod.

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Corporal Zaile Alencar


Maneuvering a mech this large nimbly and gracefully was a challenge. If there was one thing Zentraedi battle pods did better, it was move. Still, that much incoming fire could do her gorgeous Tomahawk some serious harm. So Zaile hit levers and tried to amble the huge machine out of the path of incoming fire.


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It is quickly apparent that these Battle Pods are all at full armor; a bit unusual considering how many of them have been beaten up over the years. Andrew's Defender nails Battle Pod 1 hard, and its armor is badly damaged.


Despite Zaile's efforts to dodge, she gets hit by two of the attackers. Your armor takes a total of 160 points of damage, most of that from the critical strike.


@Epiphany is now up with her attack action.


Order of Battle


23 - Andrew [2]


18 - Zaile [2] <====


17 - Taniya [1]


15 - Kevin [1]


13 - Connor [1]


12 - Battle Pods 1 [1] badly damaged


12 - Battle Pods 2-3 [1]


7 - Battle Pods 4-6 [1]
 
Corporal Zaile Alencar


Sparks fly inside the cockpit and Zaile hisses in rage at the warning indicators flaring to red life on her console. Not crippling damage, not yet, but much more of that and her beautiful Tomahawk would crumble like the paper mache pinata she'd tried and failed to make for one of Elyana's party once.


Zaile stabilizes her mech, grips the controls and thumbs the triggers for both of her cannons, sending a torrent of charged particles blasting across the space between her and one of the battle pods that hit her.


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Zaile's twin beams smash into the damaged Battle Pod, sending it spiraling out of control and it crashes into a heap alongside the river.


@Dannigan is up with Taniya. You have incoming fire to dodge, and a attack action.


Order of Battle


23 - Andrew [2]


18 - Zaile [3]


17 - Taniya [1] <====


15 - Kevin [1]


13 - Connor [1]


12 - Battle Pods 2-3 [1]


7 - Battle Pods 4-6 [1]
 
Sergeant Taniya


"Grab something, Tolson." Dodging in an RDF land-bound mech was slow and painful when compared to the three-dimensional, fast, and graceful movements of a Female Power Armor. Taniya realized she had time to sigh as she paid attention to both where the cannons were aiming and where her Tomahawk could not be in their way.


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Taniya shook her head as the blasts rocked her Tomahawk. So be it. Perhaps the fact that she had been hit too might make Zaile feel as if she were not the only one, for what that was worth.


With a turn of the joystick and a flip of some switches, she let fly 6 mini-missiles into the battle pod that had hit her the hardest.


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Taniya's mecha is rocked for 60 MDC worth of damage, and Tolson lets out a startled yelp. The counterfire against Pod 2 is more successful, and the target explodes.


Kevin sticks to the missiles and fires five into Battlepod 3, blowing it to bits also.


@Beowulf is up next with Connor.


Order of Battle


23 - Andrew [2]


18 - Zaile [3]


17 - Taniya [2]


15 - Kevin [2]


13 - Connor [1] <====


7 - Battle Pods 4-6 [1]
 
Connkr was surprised at how quickly the enemy pods were dropping. If he didn't know better, he would have thought that they were made out of tin instead of some exotic zentradi metal. But there were still a couple left, and he hadn't gotten a kill yet. So, aiming both barrels at a pod (number four), he unleashes the destroction the anti-everything rounds promised.


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((NATURAL 20!!))
 
Critical Strike! The sabot rounds rip and tear through the thin armor of the Pod and it explodes in a single hit! There are only two Battle Pods left.


In her seat behind Taniya, Barbara reports, "Ma'am, I'm still getting jammed. Those Pods are not the source of the interference. There is something else in play." As she makes this statement, the firefight in the city streets continues to rage between the marines and their ambushers. The teamwork of the RDF forces are making great advances against their attackers.


Since Connor managed to take out one of their number with a single hit, the last two Pods turn on him and fire their particle cannons at you. They will hit, and if you decide to dodge, you'll need to beat a 21 to evade both shots.


@TechnoParadox is up with Andrew


Order of Battle


23 - Andrew [2]


18 - Zaile [3]


17 - Taniya [2]


15 - Kevin [2]


13 - Connor [2]


7 - Battle Pods 5-6 [1]


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Andrew Bryer

Andrew was quite surprised at the extremely quick pace the battle was going in. Was it always this easy taking out some pods? Seeing that there were only two pods left, Andrew trained his aim once more at Battle Pod 5, hoping to take it out. They say third time's the charm but I think in this situation it's the second time. His eyebrows twitched as he once more fired at the vehicle, guns blazing.

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The punch of the heavy guns blow a hole through the lightweight armor of the battle pod and destroys it with one hit. The last surviving pod is badly outnumbered, but with typical Zentraedi ferocity, it is not surrendering.


@Epiphany is up with Zaile


Order of Battle


23 - Andrew [3]


18 - Zaile [3] <====


17 - Taniya [2]


15 - Kevin [2]


13 - Connor [2]


7 - Battle Pods 6 [2]
 
Corporal Zaile Alencar


The vicious thrill of watching the battle pod explode soothes Zaile's fury, even as she continues hitting switches and levers to instigate damage control procedures. Another battle pod came into her sights and Zaile threw one fist into the air as her other hand swung the grip to line up her other particle cannon barrel. One shot left before she had to switch to auxiliary weapon systems. Better make it count!


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About a third of the armor of the Battle Pod is vaporized by that blast, but it is still in the fight.


@Dannigan is up with Taniya next.


Order of Battle


23 - Andrew [3]


18 - Zaile [4]


17 - Taniya [2] <====


15 - Kevin [2]


13 - Connor [2]


7 - Battle Pod 6 [2] damaged
 
Sergeant Taniya

1. Chaff & Flares: 7/8


2. TZ-IV Gun ClusterGun Cluster


--25mm Autocannon: 99/100 and 99/100


--Flamethrower: 10/10 and 10/10


--180mm Mortar: 15/15 and 15/15


3. MDS-L-12 SRM Pack: 24/24


4. MDS-M-6 “Six Pack” (Note: Add +3 to strike against airborne targets): 6/6


5. RDS-2 Rocket Launcher Boxes (mini missiles): 2/8


6. GAU-20A1 Machine guns: 80/80 bursts.


Taniya watches the last soldier fight on. With the tone of respect in her voice, Taniya says over the loudspeakers in Zentraedi to the pilot of the battle pod, <"You fought bravely and to the last. Join your fellow soldiers in oblivion."> Then she opens up mercilessly with both 25mm autocannons.


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Just before the shells rip into the damaged armor of the pod, the pilot manages to shout out on his external microphone, "Traitor to your race! You will-" and whatever it was that he was about to say is cut short by the exploding pod taking his life.


Moving out of Combat Time.


At this time, Kevin carefully moves out down the road of the town, and kicks on his speakers. "Attention insurgents! Your mecha support has been eliminated, and you are facing impossible odds! Surrender now and you will be spared; continue fighting and you all will be killed. This is your only warning." His threat is punctuated by the sound of a trio of veritech fighters tearing overhead, breaking the sound barrier as they race in to support the ground troops. Over the radio, a signal comes in from the flyers: "This is Wolverine Lead to Destroid patrol. We are in the neighborhood and are looking for trouble, but it seems that the party is over. We detect no targets active in the area."


Inside Taniya's Tomahawk, Barbara looks up from her controls. "Jamming is now gone, but it didn't cut off at the same time the pods were destroyed. There was something else that was making the signal all screwy. Besides, a battle pod just doesn't have the electronics to be able to jam such a broad spectrum of signals; that is why the Recon Pods were made." She snorts. "Look at me, telling a Zentraedi ace about the avionics of her old mecha. How dumb do I sound right about now?"
 
Kevin takes his time moving through the town, giving the marines some needed fire support from his gun cluster. With the fighting in town dying down, there is a call for a helicopter to come and evacuate some wounded. Fortunately no one is in critical condition.


The lieutenant is more than a little bit pissed off that she walked into an ambush. She gets on the radio and calls in a status report.
 
Corporal Zaile Alencar


The status report is the Sergeant's job. Zaile takes advantage of the lull in the fighting to take stock of the damage to her beloved mech. Affectionately patting the controls of the Tomahawk, the Zentraedi woman calls in her unit's condition so Taniya can choose what to report or not.


Meanwhile, she mirrors Kevin, circling the village to pick up stragglers, any new hostiles wanting to mix it up and to get firing solutions that Kevin can't with his present line of sight. She also fights the urge to get out of her mech and help; she's a soldier now, again. Battle is what she was bred for. Combat is her instinct. How strange it is, though, that two years as a paramedic have created other instincts to vie with what she was born to be.


Those poor wounded...at least no one died...
 
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During the next few minutes, the destroids and infantry finish securing the town and a medical helicopter is dispatched for the wounded. The people of the town are insistent that they were being held as hostages and captives by the rouge Zentraedi forces and that they had nothing to do with the ambush. Lt. Moran has taken a bullet to the shoulder, but is not taking the helicopter back for treatment. Instead, she is busy interrogating her Intel source to see if the Zentraedi have left any clues for her to follow.
 
During those few minutes, The Kid will scramble out, and do what quick E fixes he can starting on the least damaged unit. This is the moment where having so much tools strapped on you is a good thing.


"Broke my mecha again, sheesh, I can't have anything nice."
 
"You can't have nice things because you probably carry a super magnet in your back pocket." Connor said jokingly. "All the shots seem to go right to you." He was fine, relatively speaking. Shaken, yes, but still kicking. That, in his book, was very important.
 
Sergeant Taniya


Earlier...


Taniya allows herself a smile. "Good work, Tolson. I had come to the same conclusion myself. That radio equipment is in this village somewhere... and more importantly, so is its operator..." The last word is drawn out with a contemptful tone.


Taniya takes a good long look at her squad right after this battle, this second ambush. She is examining the mental states of her people (some are new to battle after all). After contacting each of the squad for individual checks, she replies to Lt. Moran. Then she replies proudly. "Lieutenant, we are a little banged up, yet we are proud of our kills and ready for more." Then she emits something that sounds like a snarl. "Lieutenant, I have a request - our communications were jammed by something other than the enemy mecha. Could your marines search this village and outlying area for radio equipment and an operator?"


Then the Zentraedi ace becomes silent as she moves about her squad, searching the village. First, the Malcontents locate and steal the one truck with advanced equipment on it, and now this. Depending on what, or who, our search finds, I find myself coming closer to a distasteful conclusion - these look like what the humans call "inside jobs" perhaps from Malcontent sympathizers. If this is the case, and if it is left up to me, those found will become... poignant examples of why the RDF's honor and trust cannot come to be betrayed.





She bears a grim smile. Though the cost be blood and fire, the humans will win their planet and their freedom again; this is the lesson we will teach the Malcontents.





Now...





"Team," Taniya says over the squad-only channel, "provide me your thoughts of these recent ambushes. The stolen truck. This ambush in and among human friendlies. What thoughts and conclusions come to your minds?"
 
"Well," Connor began, "They seem more organized then the usual terrorist cell. They got clear targets, that truck, and apparently prepare for the worst, which would be the ambush we just had to deal with." But there was another option, one that he had to say. "Either that, or they knew we were coming. That means two things, good scouts, or a mole."
 
During this discussion, the infantry are scouring the town as they look for a radio. It turns up in the attic of one of the larger houses; an impressive set capable of sending encrypted messages over a long distance. Its design and construction is not Zentraedi, but human.


Private Tolson asks to be allowed to examine the set, and the lieutenant agrees. After a few minutes of examining the radio with the infantry comm specialist, they agree that they can use the directional radio signal to get a single bearing on where they were broadcasting to. Without a second signal to triangulate, that is all they can do at the moment.


As all of this is going on, Kevin says, "having someone on the inside feeding the insurgents data makes sense. We just need to narrow down the list of people that knew about the shipment that was attacked and compare it to the people that knew we were heading out here. By the way, has anyone bothered to look in the river to see if there are any signs of other battle pods? Because that would be a good way to get us off guard to hit us again."


To help speed things along, @Kaerri s character was with the squad in his Spartan, keeping an overwatch of the town and has now been called in to ply his trade as a doctor on the few wounded as they wait for evac.
 
Corporal Eadric Braidwood, Field Scientist


Eadric checks his gear as the medical chopper spiralled down to land. He hadn't had a chance to meet his new squad and squad leader before they'd been called out to deal with this latest of Anton-17's issues, but at least he was catching up to them now. Mech-less, of course, but then his Spartan needed one last ready check before deployment and there hadn't been time - not to mention it wouldn't exactly fit on the helicopter. Radio, check. Guns, check. Medical supplies, check. Toys and whistles, check. That was his personal reference to the technological partition of his oversized ready bag; though not up to a full-time mechanic's specs, it's more like a first-aid kit for electronics and small mechanicals. And with luck we won't need more out here. The jolt of the chopper's touchdown sends his attention outside, and he unsnaps his harness and jumps out, heading for the nearest injured. Once the wounded are set, I'll see about finding my new sergeant and reporting in.
 
Eadric is pleasantly surprised to see that the corpsman with the infantry squad has done a good job in stabilizing the casualties long enough for them to survive until a full fledged doctor to show up. Even the marine lieutenant has taken a round, but she is telling you that she is patched up enough and not to worry about her but instead focus on her men.


While he works, several soldiers spend their time looking over your shoulder, obviously concerned for the well being of their squad mates, and several destroids slowly patrol the area, keeping watch for more Zentraedi.


Unless he is told not to, Kevin makes his way over to the river to snoop around underwater to see what he can find, and Barbara returns to Taniyas mecha once her work on the radio is done. She tell her boss, "Ma'am, there may be a way to find the receiver for that set. If we can trick the people on the other end to talk to us, we can have multiple radio sets on this frequency listening in and use them to get a fix on their end. It wouldn't take long to set up; most of the needed assets are already in place."
 
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