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X-Com Command Staff Eyes Only
X-Com Incident Report, 15th July
Even though our enemy is now set on preventing capture of his vessels wherever possible, he still sends them to vex us.
Another ship was detected looking for the base in the United States. It was shot down, and the Skyranger left to retrieve it.
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X-Com Battle Report, UFO Crash Recovery 37
This area was heavily forested, so the skyranger had to touch down some distance from the target. No aliens fired from the treeline, and the team dispersed until they spotted the first hostile.
It's position was well covered by the trees and the downed vessel, but Combined II was able to get a bead on it and fire.
The rest were hiding inside the UFO. On this occasion, the team had left without high explosive packs, as the latest requisition had not arrived, so Cyberoth II used his blaster launcher to open the wall up.
The team converged on the entrance, and spotted two further crewmembers in the interior.
Kevvers stepped in and blasted both.
Whilst Combined II pursued an alien engineer into the central room and killed it.
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Mission Debriefing, General McSwine
This vessel was noticably short on crew. It could be that the alien foe is holding back forces for some major operation, we must be vigilant.
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Excerpt Personal Journal, General McSwine
Day 207, Reorganisation.
After losing two crashed vessels to self destruct, and knowing that the pace of the war was not about to abate, we requisitioned a second skyranger. Today it arrived.
The men are now split into two squads. Squad A in the first skyranger will consist of Birras, Jack Lavisn, Schizzy, Bling Cat II, RootOfAllEvil, Cyberoth II, Dekkarax, Kevvers, Combined II, and Higurashi (as soon as he is out of sickbay)
Squad B, in the new vessel, will be Armitage Shanks, Looney, CAPSLOCK FURY, Gamebrain89, Longshot, Vanilla Gorilla, Doomsly McSlaughter, ANTX81, Valiance, and Preacher Saul
This new structure will give us the ability to engage and recover two targets at once.
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X-Com Incident Report, 17th July
Our new ability to engage multiple crash sites came into it's own sooner than we'd ever have expected. First of all, another Harvester vessel was detected on approach to North America.
It was shot down over the western United States, and Skyranger 2 was dispatched to recover it. Whilst the team was in the air on their outbound flight, two more alien vessels, supply ships en route to establish a base in Central Asia, were picked up. This brought to mind the last time the aliens openly established a base on Earth. Then, we could do nothing but watch as their ships went where they pleased.
This time it was different.
Both were intercepted by Firestorms, and both were downed. One in the arctic tundra of Canada, one over China. Skyranger 1 was dispatched to the crash in Canada to recover. (Despite his protestations, the docs still don't want to let Sgt. Higurashi out of medical for another day, so the bird is a man short)
Both skyrangers were in the air, having the shorter journey, Skyranger 1 arrived first.
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X-Com Battle Report, UFO Crash Recovery 38
This UFO was crewed by Mutons, and held much of the required materiel to establish a facility on Earth, it was expected that the squad would face stiff resistance.
Dekkarax spotted the first alien
He opened fire and scored hits, but the alien didn't go down. Kevvers moved in to support, and the creature finally died.
Fire from the east indicated the presence of another hostile. It was sheltering under the bulk of the UFO.
Schizzy was able to move into position to get a clear shot and terminate the attacker.
At this point, the Mutons inside the vessel mounted an abortive offensive out of the western door. Two rushed out and were swiftly killed, though one fired a stun bomb which did nothing to power armoured soldiers, and shots into the interior killed another inside.
The team counterattacked and pursued the aliens inside their vessel.
One was waiting at the western door.
Another at the East was distracted by the first team's entry.
Both were gunned down.
Another two charged down the western grav-lift.
The team was ready for them though, and they both died.
The team at the east headed for the third floor, where another Muton exchanged fire with Bling Cat II. She hit the alien and it retreated. Schizzy pursued and killed it.
Report Ends
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Mission Debriefing, General McSwine
This was the first mission in another busy day for X-Com. Skyranger 2 is about to land at the Harvester crash site, and as soon as Skyranger 1 returns and is refuelled they will be heading to the other Supply Ship. We do not know if this will provoke the aliens to land in a Battleship to establish their base, but if they do, we will make them pay dearly.
