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X-Com Command Staff Eyes Only
Excerpt Personal Log, General McSwine
Day 59, Peace and quiet.
After the UFO caught on the first, the opening days of March have been quiet. The science team has had time to complete research on the first suit of Personal Armour for X-Com personnel.
However, this armour will certainly not be strong enough to withstand the aliens' weaponry. Much thicker, heavier armour will be required, but the kind of thickness that will protect a man from plasma weapons will be impossible to carry or move in. To that end, research has begun on the power generation systems of the aliens' vessels.
A replacement for the UCV destroyed on the last operation arrives, and it is loaded onto the Skyranger.
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X-Com Incident Report, 11th March
Once again, the South East Asia radars pick up an alien intruder. The interceptor there is currently undergoing maintenance*, so an interceptor from the main base is launched.
The UFO is smaller than any we've yet seen, and the Avalanche missiles terminate it in a spectacular fireball. Nothing larger than a penny survived the explosion, so there is nothing to recover.
End Report
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X-Com Daily Report
Shortly after we splashed the last UFO, work was completed on researching the UFO's power sources. With this, we have all the prerequisites to build powered armour suits. Research on these has begun.
Before too long, the call came in to action. Another attack on a populated city, this time Pretoria.
X-Com responds.
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X-Com Battle Report, Terror Mission 2
AceDiamond is able to deploy the new UCV without taking fire this time, as he scans the LZ an alien is spotted to the east. Higurashi, CAPSLOCK FURY, and a scout deploy and open fire, eventually the scout brings it down.
The squad disperses into the open lot next to the Skyranger, another alien is spotted next to the same building as the first. Higurashi shoots and kills it.
As the UCV advances onto the road, AceDiamond catches a flash of movement through a building, since it didn't look human, he let loose with a rocket into the nearside building wall to clear a firing line. The alien can't be seen at the moment though. Another two aliens are spotted to the south however, the southernmost one is sniped by Looney.
The other alien can't be hit by anyone at this point, it takes a few potshots at the UCV to no effect, but then hides behind the nearest building.
More movement is spotted through the hole AceDiamond's rocket made, but no-one can get a positive fix on the source still.
A scout moves forwards to try and find the alien that shot at the UCV, as he does he spots another one through the building. A soldier shoots it.
Having also spotted the other alien in that area, Higurashi manages to line up a shot and puts it down.
As the UCV advances south along the road, yet another alien is spotted in the open park area.
Looney snipes this one as well.
As the UCV's cameras sweep the area, they reveal an alien hiding behind the fence south of the LZ. As the fence is made of flimsy wood, CAPSLOCK FURY opens up on full auto and drills through it to kill the alien.
Advancing further along the road, the UCV spots a Reaper in a small empty lot at the south edge of the mission area.
As no-one else is in position to hurt it, AceDiamond blasts it with a rocket.
Meanwhile, a soldier advancing along the north edge of the mission area comes under fire from a building to the east.
Combined sends a rocket into the building wall and Looney tries to snipe the alien but misses, eventually the solder is able to fire himself and drops the threat.
Armitage Shanks and Higurashi on house clearance duty on the western edge of the area spot another Reaper, they open up with everything they've got and the reaper is killed.
Fighting continues around the building in the middle of the mission area. Unfortunately, an alien gets the drop on Cyberoth and kills him.
A second alien is spotted rounding the corner of the same building, and RootOfAllEvil snipes it through the rocket blast hole made previously.
Birras, CAPSLOCK FURY and the UCV converge on the point where Cyberoth died, AceDiamond sends a rocket into the alley entrance but to no effect.
Eventually AceDiamond spots the alien, and CAPSLOCK FURY is able to flank and kill it.
Report Ends
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Mission Debriefing, General McSwine
Urban combat has been shown time and again by wars on Earth to be dangerous and deadly, and fighting opponents from space renders this no less true. The loss of Cyberoth on this mission is a blow, his career looked to be promising. Fortunately, he matched the neuromedical profile and signed the release waiver for Project Lazarus, and his body was rendered to X-Com cybertechnicians for reanimation. They predict only minimal loss of combat skills through this operation.
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* OOC Note: because someone forgot to equip it's weapons when it got delivered....
