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X-Com Command Staff Eyes Only
X-Com Incident Report, 30th April
Whether in retaliation for the attack on their base, or just as part of the ongoing terror campaign against civilians, we don't know, but mere days after the base assault we picked up a large vessel heading in for a terror assault.
Determined not to let the aliens have their way with civilian populations, two interceptors were dispatched and the vessel was caught and downed over the central Sahara.
With the craft downed in inhospitable terrain, the Skyranger was able to wait for full daylight before beginning the recovery assault.
Report Ends
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X-Com Battle Report, UFO Crash Recovery 12
Though slightly smaller than the supply vessels we have assaulted, this UFO was still the largest yet shot down by X-Com interceptors, and since it's mission was aggressive in nature, fierce resistance was expected. The skyranger touched down to the west of the crashed vessel, and AceDiamond rolled the UCV down the ramp. He met no initial resistance, and took up an overwatch position.
Scouts deployed to the other side of the Skyranger reported first sighting of an alien, this was not one of the reptilian Snakemen indicated by comms intercept, but a nightmarish mockery of human form in black chitin.
Cyberoth II disembarked from the skyranger and brought his heavy plasma to bear on the alien monstrosity. It screamed and died.
AceDiamond began advancing, another of the horrific aliens was spotted on the crest of a dune to the southwest.
RootOfAllEvil and GameBrain89 opened fire on this one, it survived RootOfAllEvil's hit, but Gamebrain89's put it down for good.
As AceDiamond rounded the corner of a dune south of the UFO, a Snakeman finally appeared, taking a shot at the UCV and damaging it, AceDiamond responded with a rocket, but it clipped the sand dune and exploded prematurely.
Birras climbed to the top of the dune and fired a rocket down onto the Snakeman from above, this one connected.
Advancing further between the dunes, another snakeman is spotted and destroyed by a rocket from Combined, this flushes out a third, who meets a rocket from AceDiamond.
The sound of rocket fire to the south draws another of the aliens out of the UFO.
It is shot by soldiers covering the door.
The team prepares to enter the UFO, elements will enter both doors and a breach in the central wall.
The charges go off and the squad rush in. Bling Cat II and the soldier at the western door come face to face with a Snakeman.
Heavy Plasma fire soon puts it out of action though.
Higurashi and Dekkarax follow the UCV into the eastern door, this side appaears clear for now.
Not so at the east, where another of the chitinous monstrosities is spotted.
Fortunately it is swiftly exterminated.
It is followed by a Snakeman, who is stunned by Bling Cat II, instinctively firing a stun bomb at the movement. Meanwhile, Dekkarax' sharp eyes spot two Snakemen lying in wait above an ambush hole on the first floor of the UFO. He shoots one.
And signals the position of the other to Higurashi, who terminates it.
Report Ends.
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Mission Debriefing, General McSwine
Swift action on the part of X-Com prevented these aliens from attacking civilian populations. I dread to think what damage could have been done if they had managed to reach a major city. We have also met the third alien species' terror weapons, and never could there have been a more apt description.
X-Com Command Staff Eyes Only
X-Com Incident Report, 30th April
Whether in retaliation for the attack on their base, or just as part of the ongoing terror campaign against civilians, we don't know, but mere days after the base assault we picked up a large vessel heading in for a terror assault.
Determined not to let the aliens have their way with civilian populations, two interceptors were dispatched and the vessel was caught and downed over the central Sahara.
With the craft downed in inhospitable terrain, the Skyranger was able to wait for full daylight before beginning the recovery assault.
Report Ends
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X-Com Battle Report, UFO Crash Recovery 12
Though slightly smaller than the supply vessels we have assaulted, this UFO was still the largest yet shot down by X-Com interceptors, and since it's mission was aggressive in nature, fierce resistance was expected. The skyranger touched down to the west of the crashed vessel, and AceDiamond rolled the UCV down the ramp. He met no initial resistance, and took up an overwatch position.
Scouts deployed to the other side of the Skyranger reported first sighting of an alien, this was not one of the reptilian Snakemen indicated by comms intercept, but a nightmarish mockery of human form in black chitin.
Cyberoth II disembarked from the skyranger and brought his heavy plasma to bear on the alien monstrosity. It screamed and died.
AceDiamond began advancing, another of the horrific aliens was spotted on the crest of a dune to the southwest.
RootOfAllEvil and GameBrain89 opened fire on this one, it survived RootOfAllEvil's hit, but Gamebrain89's put it down for good.
As AceDiamond rounded the corner of a dune south of the UFO, a Snakeman finally appeared, taking a shot at the UCV and damaging it, AceDiamond responded with a rocket, but it clipped the sand dune and exploded prematurely.
Birras climbed to the top of the dune and fired a rocket down onto the Snakeman from above, this one connected.
Advancing further between the dunes, another snakeman is spotted and destroyed by a rocket from Combined, this flushes out a third, who meets a rocket from AceDiamond.
The sound of rocket fire to the south draws another of the aliens out of the UFO.
It is shot by soldiers covering the door.
The team prepares to enter the UFO, elements will enter both doors and a breach in the central wall.
The charges go off and the squad rush in. Bling Cat II and the soldier at the western door come face to face with a Snakeman.
Heavy Plasma fire soon puts it out of action though.
Higurashi and Dekkarax follow the UCV into the eastern door, this side appaears clear for now.
Not so at the east, where another of the chitinous monstrosities is spotted.
Fortunately it is swiftly exterminated.
It is followed by a Snakeman, who is stunned by Bling Cat II, instinctively firing a stun bomb at the movement. Meanwhile, Dekkarax' sharp eyes spot two Snakemen lying in wait above an ambush hole on the first floor of the UFO. He shoots one.
And signals the position of the other to Higurashi, who terminates it.
Report Ends.
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Mission Debriefing, General McSwine
Swift action on the part of X-Com prevented these aliens from attacking civilian populations. I dread to think what damage could have been done if they had managed to reach a major city. We have also met the third alien species' terror weapons, and never could there have been a more apt description.
