TIEC: Mars Mission

[Parthini]

Colonel Wruth was steaming. Although he was sitting in his chair, in a neitralized state, due to the high speeds, he was still angry at the late departure. Several of the civilians were not at the ship to depart at 1300 in order to reach Diemos on time. They were off "meeting" the new women of the Moon Base. He, the first platoon had searched the whole base, finally finding the 3 remaining civilians in the local wenchhouse.

Now they would have to wait a full 13 hours for Phobos to come around the planet to a point where the colonist ships could land and form the base, Bloody civilians.

GPP

[Parthini]

Lieutenant Grish stepped out onto the Martian surface and shuddered. He was the first man to come to Mars in 98 years and he could tell. He, 40 Marines, a medic, a mechanic, and a Navy comm. guy, had landed near an abandoned nickel mining camp. It looked like it hadn't been touched in over 120 years.

"These guys must of been the first ones to be hit by the storms. Took 'em all out. Damn!"

It was Sargent Helom talking. He was known for stating the obvious at bad times, and he had just done it again.

"Correct. Would you like a cookie? Now move out! 1st squad check the inside of the compound! 2nd squad, partol around the outside with the non-combats, give 1st a break! 3rd Squad, patrol on top of that hill there. 4th squad, follow me. We're examining on the other side of that canyon. Move out!"

Grish had led his men down almost 2000 ft of a canyon. Compared to Earth, Mars was shredded. They had landed in the Valles Marineris, a system of canyons that had rich nickel mines.

As he was swooping down a canyon at 80mph he heard Helom say something. "Sir! I've found a hole. It seems rather dark, but the dust here looks somewhat disturbed compared to the dust several feet away."

"4th Squad, report to Sgt. Helom's position immeadiatley! 1st Squad have you found anything?"

"Sir, there seems to be streaks along the walls and floors here. Something seems to have disturbed it.'

Damnit! The Lieutenant growled. "3rd Squad, report to 4th Squad's position and ready yourselves. 1st Squad, arm up. 2nd squad, keep sure nothing gets near the mine. 4th Squad, we're going in!"

One of the Marines threw in a shiner, or a small capsule of neon gas in a clear tube that lights up when used. The hole was about 20 ft wide all around, so each Marine went in with his partner.

All around the walls of the hole seemed to be markings of some sort. Grish was worried some. These are either vale marks left by the Miners or left by someone, or something, else.

"Whoa! What the hell was that?" one of the Privates demanded. He picked up the shiner and threw it where he saw the shadow. He took three cautious steps when he was attacked by 3 or more shadows. The Private cussed, put up his gun attached to his right arm, and opened his photon blades. Two Marines opened fire at the area where the shadows had come out of, while the other Marine slashed at the shadows.

Grish could hear unnerving sounds come from his ears, as one of the shadows died. Another one exploded in a gory, green mass as many bullets tore its body apart. Apparently, Sargent Helom had captured one as its disgusting body was hunched over with Helom's gun pointed at it.
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20 minutes later Dr. Ulkash was already digging into the monster's flesh. It had humanoid charicteristics, but was dark red and about 2 feet taller than a man.

"What is it?" asked Lieutenant Grish. "I have no idea," replied the Dr. rather sarcasitcally, "but you can ask that." He pointed to the captive. Helom was rather proud of his capture. The creature didn't make a move. Instead it seemed to have rooted itsself into the Martian surface. Helom kicked it, but it did nothing other than move from the force. Helom cursed as he opened his MRE.

[Parthini]

"Kale out."

"That was a good speech, sir."

"Thank you Neif"

"Sir! We have a report from the Mars team we sent down."

"Go ahead, play it."

The wide screen in front of the Captain opened. The flushed face of a Lieutenant looked at it. He had some smeared green on his helmet, and behind him was a Private being cleaned up.

"Sir! This is Lieutenant Grish of the 3rd Platoon! We have discovered lifeforms on Mars. They seem to be tree-like, but have many human characteristics. They are also heavily radioactive. They live in holes in the ground but also, must come out once a day to gather heat, much like a lizard. They also are able to breathe the air here. We are examining one corpse, and watching another. We were attacked by a group of five of them. We killed two and captured another. We will send 2 more squads to examine the hole where we found them. Grish out."

The Commodore sat in his chair, expressionless. "Well damn."

"Send down two more platoons around the area where 3rd is. Also, put the ship on medium alert. Do we have a report on the Phobos team?"

"Yes sir, bringing that up now."

"This be Colonel Wruth speakin'. 'Ow ya doin' sah?"

"We found some lifeforms on Mars. They look like my mother-in-law. And they're just as nice."

"Aww crap, sah. Tat ain't gud sah. 'Neways, th' base be goin' 'long fine sah. We 'ave th' faust part don sah. Ozzygen 'most be ready sah."

"Good. Oh and Wruth."

"Yessah?"

"Stop saying sir, we're almost equals here. Plus, I've known you since Acadamy days."

"Yes sah... ah mean ok...."

"Good job Grish. This is going to be a long voyage and I don't want it to be tedious. Kale out."

[Bonaduce Alander]

Captain Keyes broght the GRS Peregrin on screen.
" This is Captain Keyes calling the GRS Peregrin, how's everything on Mars Commodore?" He said." We have discovered some sort of moving coral beneath the surface of Titan. Apparently goethermal vents have made the water there suitable for life. Genral Cospel has gone under the surface to build a small research facility that will gather samples. We are no longer able to establish radio contact with him beneath the surface do to the lead in the ice. I will reestblish contact later on."

[Parthini]

OOC: I'm going off to football camp but without my computer I might gain the will to go to the library (if it's open) to get a few posts in, but mostly I'll be gone for about 2 weeks. I leave Beta Aurigae IIV in charge of the mission for now.

IC: "Overall, things are fine. We have discovered hostile life forms on Mars and are working to dispatch them. Also, our communicators are beginning to malfunction due to recent solar hyperactivity and solar flares. We should be able to patch through a few messages from time to time. Keep the mission going well, and good luck. Klalleeooue claaaaaahhhhhchhhhhhahhh." (that's static, not us dying)

[Parthini]

OOC: Bah! I'll finish this later.

IC: "Leclerc, Pensuke, Cospel, anyone report! We have repaired our communications. Mars needs work. Those damn Treeth, er that's what we call the aliens, trees with teeth, are VERY populous here.

There seems to be a large human population here that harnesses the treeth. Finally, there is a refugee band on the north pole. They drink the water there after de-CO2-ing it. Like what the previous colonists did but less complex. They seem willing to help us kill the treeth.

Apparently, the equatorial humans, the ones with treeth, are pushing northwards to get the ice. The polar humans have put up a stout resistance but are losing badly.

From fights with the equatorials, we have lost 67 marines, with 390 injured and 142 suits that need repairing. We are going to return to Moon HQ for reinforcements and repairs.

I have left Colonel Wruth with a Company (120) of Marines to protect the polars. I also left 30 special staff to continue communications and to get a fort built.

Lastly, the base on Phobos is completed so now the Prince himself can be in full contact with Wruth or anything on Mars within 30 minutes. Kale out."

[BealtleManium]

Pensuke replied over the comm "And we didn't want to bring weapons... we're on ourway" he scrambles the blue impulse with its second in command, Ender Fallcon. "prepare sub orbital barrage, rotate the rail guns 90 degrees" "FIRE!" rail huns fire their white hot iron projectiles directly at the border of white ice and red land. "Blue Impulse wait for the SC to scout, we'll give you the go ahead if need be" many "Yessirs" filled the comm. The SC then came online, a large portion of Treeth people were dead or mortally injured but there were still way too many. "Blue Impulse guard the Drop ship we need to get those CO2s out of there!" "Yessir"

Ender Fallcon entered the atmosphere along with the rest of the impulse and all communications were lost for a while, when they came back there was a sigh of relief, they didn't have anti atmospheric weapons. They traveled till they saw the debris left by the orbital barrage. "put it super cruise guys we're gonna have to catch up" The Impulse soon found what they were looking for, the treeth army. Ender lowered his X-36 to the ground and fired his minigun cuttying out a huge swath of the army "hurry we got to save the parthinians!" They continued on their way to the pole. When they came upon the encampment however the CO2 guys didn't quite trust them and fired 1 or 2 shot which were easily avoided. But the sight of the Drop ship made them cheer. Soon they had all boarded and were off for latest weaponry earth forces had to offer. in the mean time The blue impulse kept up its devestating attacks on the enemy....

[BealtleManium]

OOC Guys, respond in this thread... we don't want to make too many pages on home base

[Beta Aurigae VII]

"Sir, we have arrived at Mars."

"Begin troop transport immediatly," replied Leclerc. "I want cover fire for the transports. Deploy the fighters and move the Sabertooth into position for planetary bombardment once they're away."

"Yes sir"

The transport shuttles and fighters left the docking bay of the Sabertooth and got moving towards Mars as fast as they could. Once the last ships were away the Sabertooth moved into bombardment range and focused on the largest concentration of Treeth forces.

"We're in position sir."

"Open fire," said Leclerc.

"Firing sequence commencing sir."

"Put it on the viewscreen."

A large image of Mars appeared on the front viewscreen, followed by a series of explosions.

"Magnification factor 10," said Leclerc. "I want to get a closer look at the situation."

The image zoomed on the swath of destruction from the Beta Aurigae attack. But it was almost immediatly replaced by huge numbers of Treeth reinforcements.

"Sir we have recieved word that the troops have touched down and are moving toward the battle. We lost two shuttles and 15 men to ground fire sir."

OOC: more on the way

[BealtleManium]

Ender looked below him at the planet surface. He saw the Parthinian Marine's and the newly refitted Pole people's convoys to the battle line. "Blue Impulse 1 set." the roll cotinued, however 2 were now off the list and the silent reminder pained Ender. Ender then rose 20000 ft into the dusty clouds. Ender watched his screen as the target area got closer. The Target was the Treeth Dual Seismic cannon. "Wolf 1, away." as Ender fired the first Sword Dancer missile, quickly followed by a barrage of missiles of the same calibur. Then after a few more minutes most of the Blue impulse left, leaving only Ender. The AI now spoke, "Sir, the Abyss Bomb has been prepped" "good" replied Ender "Fire" soon an electric blue sphere appeared below the X-36 and seconds later Dropped. "Atticus, activate jump system" "Yessir" Before the Abyss bomb fell the X-36 disappeared and reappered 20 miles from the base soon followed by a blue explosion on the horizon...

Pensuke was in the coordinator room, when the comm suddenly went into a torrent of of hastily spluttered words. Pensuke walked to the Private PA and said "Now Lt. you know your not easily under stood like that." the Lt replied "yes sir sorry sir." "Now what were you trying to say?" "that the Poraxis, and Bonaduce Alander forces are within comm range" replied the Lt "Then open a link, we need to coordinate this as best as possible" "Yes sir"

[Bonaduce Alander]

"Captain Keyes", One of his Lt.s called through the Autumn's comm system," you have a call from the X-36"
"Alright Lt." The Captain replied as he walked back to the lift.
The captain opened up the comm system to the X-36 and said"Yes X-36, What is it?"

[Parthini]

Wruth shot off several hundred rounds at a group of treeth, then swung around and torched the remains. One of the treeth leaped on his leg but he sliced it's body with his photon blade. He then looked up to see some 200 treeth running at him. He adjusted his nuclear launcher and fired at them, incinerating every last one of them. He then radioed his squad and pulled back to the fort. As he did so he saw several ships from the rest of the committee fly in. He then commed the Phobos base.

"Where is the Peregrine?"

"Sir, they are 20 minutes away. They shot off course, and are headed back."

"Good. Wruth out."

[BealtleManium]

Pensuke replied from the Lief Ericsson "We just want to confirmyour Drop points..." Pensuke watched the screen "sectors 39-43 are clear for landing." and with that Pensuke left the room. An under officer soon caught his attention "What is it Enson Mithos?" the young man replied "The Angelus Barrage Cannon is ready." "then fire at will" The enson relayed the oders and 30seconds later a white blast ripped through space and started swirling in 9 concentric rings, then faltered out. seconds later a red hue appeared on the planet... the area would be burning for 3 days...

[Bonaduce Alander]

"Ok",Replied the Captain," Just put us where ever we are needed, I'm not exactly familiar with the martain landscape".
The Captain turned the comm system on standby and turned to the Lt. and holi-pad next to him.
"Cortana, pick a number 1-4 then tell me that number"
"Ok, 3" The AI replied.
"Then we are going to sector 42", The Captain said with a smile,"Cortana plot a course for sector 42"
The Captain then headed to the hanger.

[BealtleManium]

OOC: what a way to chose a sector might aswell go ani mini moe

[poraxis]

The protector slows here approach as mars fills the view screen.
"General Hagar to low orbit shuttle crews prep for launch, I want full sensor sweeps of sectors 5 through 30, let's see whats here. I want to know Treeth numbers, locations and movments. Were not going to fight this war blind!"

"Shuttle senors reporting back sir, there's Treeth alright, lots of them, numbers spike like hell in sector 12 sir."

"Sector twelve, relay that tactical data over to the Lief Ericsson, sounds like a job for the Angelus Barrage Cannon!"

[BealtleManium]

"they want what?!"
"They need the Angelus cannon" replied a young enson. Pensuke then went to the comm,"you'll have it, but you need to slow down the advance to a stand still... it requires another 3 hours to recharge." he then signed off from the inter ship comm. then opened up a new link. "Ender, do your best, we need you to help to Poraxis fighters slow down the anomaly of treeth." ender replied "Yes sir, I'll to my best"

[Beta Aurigae VII]

On the ground the Beta Aurigae special forces moved towards the rear of the Treeth lines.

"Split into three groups and flank them on either side. We need to drive a wedge up the middle of their army," relayed the Colonel in charge of the Beta Aurigae forces.

A chorus of "Yessir's," came back to him over the radio as the Aurigean forces split and moved toward the Treeth main force.

"Switch to grenade launchers, I want to see if we can take a few of them out before we reach main combat."

The grenade launchers attached to the troops OCIW Assault Rifles fire and landed in the middle of the Treeth formation ahead blowing a huge hole in it and creating a giant weakness in the Treeth army, a weakness which the Aurigeans were prepared to take full advantage of.

"Swith back to standard fire and commence attack."

The assault rifles chattered away as a portion of the Treeth forces broke away to engage the Aurigae's.

[Bonaduce Alander]

The Pillar of Autumn came into full view of sector 12. After dropping off their troops Captain Keyes had told them to glass the sector with the highest treeth consentration. He had also yelled into his ear to make sure that he asks for permission from the others first.
"This Lt. Anderson calling the X-36", He said,"Requesting permission to glass sector 12".

[BealtleManium]

Pensuke Radioed the BA VII forces." get out of there, the Angelus Barrage cannon is prepped to fire" the screens then showed the BA VII forces retreating, however no Treeth followed, they thought they had won "Wiggin, fire the Angelus cannon." Wiggin did as he was told. suddenly the angelus cannon fired its deady bolts upon the enemy, desimating their numbers. Then as the Angelus cannon finished the outer most ring, it suddenly went dead. "whats going on?!" "I dunno sir... looking.... there it is! it's the Irving power core. Its drained... it'll take days to recharge...." Pensuke replied "then so be it.... tell ender he'll be by himself for a while"

[Parthini]

"God's Teeth! That took too long." Commodore Kale said on the screen. Well, Gentlemen, we're here finally.

"I want Companies 1 thru 8 down on the main line. Companies 9 thru 12, you are going to the place where the first platoon landed. See if you can find the root of the Treeth.

"I want all squadrons to engage the areas around the ground zero of the Angelus Cannon. Mop up what you can find, and hit the backs of the Treeth force. And try to keep the land as normal as possible. I want a summer home here."

[BealtleManium]

OOC your humor brightens everyones day

[Bonaduce Alander]

OOC: Has this died already

[karnnis]

OOC.Hey im new to this forum and i want to know abot any requirments for rpg like Nations Economy, Using a charicter(s) from a previous story, and forum level.Please reply

[Parthini]

OOC: I hope it hasn't. I'm waiting for someone to make an IC response.

GPP

[karnnis]

500 miles from mars J,a ship enters communication range of the Parties on mars
"Admiral, we are in range of the ships the transmissions we received were broadcast from"

"Good, open communications with the Command base down there." Admiral Corsalas said as he viewed the surface of mars in the holopool."


Their ship, The "Archimedes",a Marine class Escort vessel moved at a steady pace as he headed towards the surface of Mars.

Admiral Corsalas paced as he awaited the response from the other ships.
He had already had a rough day today and he hoped his luck could turn around.

"Do we have a Connection yet Lieutenant?"

"Yes Admiral was waiting for them to open up communications."

"Good now all we need to do is wait.” admiral Corsalas said as he sat down to rest.

"Do you think there in trouble down there?"

"Well Lieutenent from the latest pickups i see that there having a weapon malfunction"

"As long as they have food im happy"Replyed Colonel Marsh"

"Colonel i am not up to take your crap today."

Admiral Corsalas sat down to clear his mind as he waited

He had a tough day today, getting cut away from the fleet in a full retreat from a skirmish turned slaughter. After seeing these transmissions though, maybe he has found a new fleet.

[Beta Aurigae VII]

OOC: guys we should try and finish this episode up. so we can move on with getting out of the solar system.

IC: The Beta Aurigae's had regrouped after the firing of the Angelus cannon and were moving in on the remnants of the Treeth forces. The whole exploration committee had turned out for this and the Treeth we getting slaughtered. A small group of Treeth came off the main group and engaged the Aurigaeian troops.

"Open fire," yelled the Colonel in charge.

The Treeth responded with their own attack and the Aurigaeians lost 5 in the whole skirmish. The Aurigaeians then continued on and fell upon the Treeth from behind. Joining up with the Parthinian forces after a few minutes of heated combat.

[karnnis]

OOC:Sure,lets go to another planet

[Parthini]

Colonel Wruth stepped down into the hole. This was where the first Treeth were found. Now he had 2 companies with him and they were going to take out the Treeth feeding spot.

Wruth flipped on his flamethrowers as he shot down the hole at 30mph. Suddenly Treeth exploded everywhere. Grish and 20 other Marines spewed napalm all over the Treeth. They exploded in gross green globs. Then Grish and the others broke up. He took half of them and moved for the breeding ground. Grish took the other Marines and hit the Treeth Army.

Wruth stepped into a huge cavern full of disgusting eggs.

"Marines, arm you TNLs (Thermo-Nuclear Launchers). Ready....FIRE!!!"

The cavern shook as 40 small thermo-nuclear warheads shocked the cavern.

"GO! GET OUT OF HERE!!"

Each Marine flew out of the cavern at full speed. Grish looked behind him as hundreds of Treeth evaporated.

20 minutes later, Wruth opened his Comm. Unit. "Commodore, the Treeth breeding station is no more. Request pickup."

"Good job, Colonel. Evacs will be there in 10 minutes. It seems the job of cleanup will be somewhat difficult but since the breeding ground is gone it will be much simpler. I'm sure the Prince would love to meet your company."
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Grish was beeming. He was in his royal uniform and the Prince was stepping out of his EV. This Prince looked like a god in his uniform and guard. Then the Prince opened his mouth and delivered a speech.

"Men! You have done the Princedom a most glorious service! You have secured a new home for our people. Now, thousands of Parthinian families will be able to move to a new home and live there where life was once not possible. You have also assured Parthini's place in the Galaxy. Previous to this, were were just stuck on a small archipelago. Now we have the Universe to be ours!"

"As a reward, I will grant each Marine and Midshipman who has participated on the Peregrine 20 miles of land on the Mars colony New Perfasi. You will also recieve the Royal Banner of the Platypus, the highest medal given to a Marine in combat. Congratulations!"

Each Marine then saluted the Prince. He bowed to them. Then he ordered Grish to his EV.

The Prince started, "You are happy, no?"

"Y-yes sir!"

"Good. Happy soldiers fight well. How would you like a promotion? You discovered the Treeth home base, did you not?"

"Yes I-I did, sir!"

"Then I would promote you to Colonel of the New Perfasi Defense Army. We need occupiers and I think you will do the best. I need Wruth for the Peregrine."

"You will be given command of 5,000 Marines, and your job will be to protect the terraformers and the new colonists as well as eliminating any extra Treeth. You will also be granted an extra 30 miles of land. Congratulations!"

[Bonaduce Alander]

The Bonaduce Alanderian Army marched along picking off all of the remaining Treeth. He turned to the men and signaled a halt.
"Men, you've done my proud, I just wish we weren't the maids of this op" ,Captain Keyes Said as he pulled a strage looking weapon out of his pocket,"this men is what I like to call a a stun grenade, it releases a gas that will trigger a reaction in the brain stopping all functions but the heart". He smiled at the smile on each of the mens faces, dumbfounded though it may be.
"The reason I brought this up is because each of your guns has been ordered a small grenade launching attachment that can hold up too 3 of these", He smiled as he pulled one of the launchers out and placed it on his gun.
" Oh and by the way the prime minister of Bonaduce Alander will be visiting to discuss your reward" the Captain stepped onto the near-by specialy modified "clean-up" pelicans and took up the nearest sniper rifle. It was hunting time.