Shattergrounds

Being sidelined by fate Maj. Hademar was finally able to spring back into action. This time he had to investigate some suspicious individuals who were caught on camera in the vicinity of a misguided Dropship that came down in the lesser frequented back alleys of Montalbán's elegant Marina (where the actual work happens behind the posh facade), classical police work, then - and totally differen from what happened cose by, see: Holiday Incident. The only difference, well... actual nuisance, was the presence of an O-12 detachment. And given the last devastating encounter with O-12 forces also led by the High (in love) Comissioner Maj. Hademar was all but relaxed.

Again O-12 acted agressively an let the cubeless vikings off the leash but both Varangians got annihilated by the Riot Grrl's Missle launcher, one of them even took a Siriusbot with him to the underworld. Furthermore the enemy Kyttä attempted to discover Bran do Castro and the nervous Monkey-Operative, furthermore threatened by a madtrap, failed to evade the flash pulse and thusly got stunned

Therefore with one less gun aiming at him Knauf started his attack against the Riot Grrl and Bran and in succession against Wolfgang and Bran, followed by a fullblown attack on Bran rendering the Grrl unconcious, Bran dead and wounding Wolfgang.
With the Riot Grrl out of commission O-12 was a able to cloack it's Hackers in cybermasks and advance all of them towards the consoles. The Gangbuster on the right flank was therefore eventually able to activate the right-hand console which gave O-12 the infomation about the Designated Target. But this information was payed by the Gangbuster with the high price of his own life, ended by Wolfi's DA rounds. This interaction was followed by a parachuting Roadbot who then wasn't able to do more than prepare itself for the coming strike against the Designated Target whilst the remaining Sirius and Gangbuster further reinforced their positions. finally the opponent missile bot was sent out to further guard the perimeter and the chance was used to kill the Riot Grrl with a critical missile hit.

Losing the Riot Grrl's long range support again proved to be quite a challenge again, in particular opposing O-12's threat by Knauf and the Missile Launchers. Therefore the Zellenkrieger were ordered to provide smoke cover against the missile bot where applicable and against the Kytta on the right flank. On the mentioned right flank the Orphan Haris advanced toward the console situated there and covered by white noise against Knauf the Tsyklon managed it to clear the way for the Orphan by destroying the Kyttä.
After the Orphan was able to uncover one of the decoys Identity the operatives on the left flank pushed forward, mainly to ge themselves rid of the Roadbot.
This undertaking drained the bakunian's resources more than expected beause the Bikerbot from Concilium was able to avoid the Zellenkrieger's attacks, Wolfgang's AP rounds which eventually led to the Zero Killer Hacker's heroic victory over the bot leaving him and the Zellenkrieger immobilized.

With the immediate threat for Bakunin's Designated Target avoided the Tsyklon used it's favourable position to relentlessly kill Knauf before repositioning the fireteam. The surveilance gap cut by Knauf's demise was then exploited by the remaining Zellenkrieger (MOV 8-4) in order advance into the Repeater riddled center. This rather hastly executed approach not only ended with the Krieger's death but also had no effect on the targeted Sirius who's armour saved her from any harm of the Krieger's melee attack.

The following Phase was started by O-12 with a missle strike against the targeted Zellenkrieger followed by the Sirius' cold murder of the also immobile Zero. Furthermore the synchronized bot awanced right in front of Wolfgang's position staying unharmed despite the resulting reactions from the Vertigo and the Moira thanks to it's formidable (or also bacon greasy) armour.
After that the remaining Gangbuster advanced towards the middle console and, in succession, was able to uncover a decoy's identity. Furthermore the trigger happy operative managed to kill that decoy. Finally he secured his perimeter by deploying another MadTrap. The Sirius' further advances got hampered by Uhahu's previously pitchered Repeater an eventually Waolfgang, the Moira and the Vertigo, together with Uhahu's and the Moderrator Hacker's help the Sirius and her Bot could be targeted and eventually killed. Unfortunately the O-12 Operative was still able Discover the remaining Decoy's true identity

After losing the first HVT Bakunin's best Wolf attempted a kill on the Gngbuster in order to pave Uhahu's way to the middle console wich ended no harm for the Gangbuster, and luckily also no harm for Wolfgang who acted in Plain sight of the enemy Missile Bot. Uhahu then tried to advance towards the middle on her own whilst showering the gngbuster with barrage of hacking attacks, eventually rendering him useless but kepping her out of reach of any of the consoles but enabling her to target the decoy and let justice (aka. Guided Missile) hail onto the LabTech who clearly helped in conducting PanO's cruel experiments on our Pilots. SAVE THE PILOTS!!! Mean while the Orphan haris had to take a tiny detour through the flooded canal in order to place the Tsyklon in the favoured position to kill the remaining Sirius opertive and to deter the Cyberghost from any shenanigans by tossing another Pitcher right nex to the O-12 Hacker.

Suddenly lmos like out of thin air the a Lynx apeared on the Left flank heading towards the discovered bakunian Designated Target starting a surprisingly unsussessful Plasma Carabine barrage at her. realizing that he could run out of options if the HVT dodges more like this the Lynx leaps forward right into Wolfgang's, Uhahu's, the Vertigo's and the Orphan Haris' sight finally killing the Designated target but failing to cause harm to the Haris and succumbing to Wolfgang's Chain Colt blasts. This forced Saladin, the mighty leader himself, to spring into action and to neutralize the Tsyklon.

In an attempt to save the day Uhahu advances to the left console and dispite the disturbances coming from the Cyberghost, who got blasted away by the resurrected Tsyklon after Uhahu reached the console, she hacked it effortlessly. This was then followes by a failed attempt to employ a repeater right in front of the recently discovered PanO researcher. Her direct approach was more successful and soon after the morale-lacking scientist was met by justice in form of a guided missle.
Still angry about Saladin's audacious plan to use that devilish Plasma ammuniton her Sister had to endure during the last clash with O-12 forces and due to the lack of Hector or the prevoiusly killed Lynx Sister Agrotera let O-12's leading officer have a liason with a barrage of her AP ammunition, adding another kill mark to the venerable Multi Rifle she inherited from Sister Andromachi.

And the usual report appendix with the game's hard facts, folks!
Lady Numiria and I were each able to kill the Designated Targets and a Decoy but by the merits of the second Turn I was able to score the win with 6 : 4 MP by having more activated consoles - thanks to the final rolls being very fortunate, it was a really tight game - also my last reportable game for this campaign so good bye and thanks for all the fish! :)

And with this success it might to be fair to say (since PanO will never get Montalbán back):

Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back
PanO, PanO, PanO, PanO
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back PanO
What you say?
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back
PanO, PanO, PanO, PanO
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back PanO
Old woman, old woman, don't treat me so mean
You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen
I guess if you said so
You'll have to pack ya things and go (that's right)
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back
PanO, PanO, PanO, PanO
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back PanO
What you say?
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back
PanO, PanO, PanO, PanO
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back PanO
Now baby, listen baby, don't ya treat me this way
'Cause I'll be back on my feet some day
(Don't care if you do 'cause it's understood)
(You ain't got no money, you just ain't no good)
Well, I guess if you say so
you'll have to pack ya things and go (that's right)
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back
PanO, PanO, PanO, PanO
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back PanO
What you say?
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back
PanO, PanO, PanO, PanO
Hit the road Jeanne and don't you come back PanO
Well (don't you come back PanO)
Uh, what you say? (Don't you come back PanO)
I didn't understand you (don't you come back PanO)
You can't mean that (don't you come back PanO)
Oh, now baby, please (don't you come back PanO)
What you tryin' to do to me? (Don't you come back PanO)
Oh, don't treat me like that (don't you come back PanO)