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Wed 1st Jun 2022 06:07

To Dhaab

by Armand Serrano

Here we are on the Mantella. All ready for our mission of 60000 BIrr. At this moment we are in a stationary orbit above Zurha. After a few moments the speaker called us to the briefing room. Here we heard about our mission to Dhaab station. The plan was pretty straight forward. We split up in two teams: Team Scorpion comprised of Zeluba brigade mercenaries create a diversion for us Team frog. Our task is to escort Dr Farrah to the control room. We would be accompanied by Captain Lysa Wada and Anjil, the army engineer.
After discussing the plan and memorize the layout of the station we had to suit up. The temperature on the planet is -50 Celsius amd there was a stormfront (Jhina) close to our landing spot.
 
After an hour we were descending to the station. Dr Farrah assured us he could open every lock in the station using this Tag. It was a bumpy ride because we came in via the Harballa Massif. But we could not do anything until the pilot landed us safely on the south entrance. This was a good time as any to pray for the deckhand. Hoping for a clean ship, because a lot of people started too feel their last meal again.
 
Through one of the windows i could see team scorpion land there shuttle to engage the smugglers who were operating out of the station. Then it was time for us to land. We stepped out of the shuttle and entered the station. We followed dr Farrah through the tunnels. At the first passage Anjil seperated from our team to disable the power.
While we walked towards the tunnel we heard shooting and people running away from us. Team Scorpion was engaged in combat. Unfortunately not all mercenaries. There were two soldiers guarding the stairwell we need to go to the control room. Khadyr and Shamus peaked at the soldiers and were able to determine that they were not paying attention. We could use the moment to sneak past them.
 
Everything was running very smooth. We were able to gain control of the control room very quickly. Two kids and an older man were only present. Dr. Farrah immediatly started working on the computer system. Khaydr, Shamus and i were checking the rooms and talking with our hostages. The older man was Moses Umbara. The leader of the smugglers: Red Hyenas. This was almost to easy. Almost. Suddenly Dr. farrah had accessed the communication system and was broadcasting around the entire base. He told the Hyenas to stand down. After some deliberation. The shooting stopped and we heard Team Scorpion that the smugglers had surrendered.
After closing the comm system a fire broke out in the control room. I tried to repair the system, but it was to old and beyond repair. Also the power was going out. At first we thought it was Anjil. But he had an issue. I rushed down and helped him to repair the generator. But this was also no good.
 
We were in control of the base. And on mission. Not to take control of the base. After an update we learned this was Dhaab-1 station and we had to move to Dhaab-2 station.
 
This was the easy part.