Valley of 1 thousand hills, South Africa
The Scath beach head was full of motion. Each hour had brought more and more Scath. Gargantuan Pale Scath laboured to raise watch spires with sickened grunts while at there feet Y'rek'd units mobilised into their various wings in preparations. The knightly orders were present in huge numbers, they themselves wearing branded and unique harnesses or a more archaic design to the militaries combat harness. The Scath of the order were mostly smaller too, indicating they were far younger than the professional soldiers. The most gifted of sight of the Scath kept watch, with no need for the development of most detections technologies, this reliance and trust in their eyes is as much a weakness as a phenomenal strength. The valley had long been cleared of vegetation, beginning to form a scarred wilderness now.
Johannusburg
Scath agility didn't decrease when landed. Normal soldiers were an afterthought to prowling Scath but any eye that caught sight of a heavy weapon or the markings and behaviour of an officer sent a quick and deadly accurate burst of fire to shred those select targets. In fact all Scath fought with immense precision as long as they were able. Ground soldiers with small arms not a threat to the armoured bulk but leadership and ordnance were. Hrem forces put up stiff resistance as expected, no enemy should be under estimated. The still bodies of Scath that lay collapsed through building or in the dirt a testament to this.
Ptaak maintained his command, unohased despite his far smaller force. Unlike the Hrem Scath didn't gain as much from fighting together in close proximity. Their tactics worked st a greater distance. Now engaged in the city the Scath wings, organised in 3 used a baiting system. 1 Scath operating far ahead, swooping and dodging with impossible poise and grace. Fire on these Scath rarely found there mark. The 2 other Scath noted positions of firing, following the smoke trails and scorched air from the larger weapons back to the source to swiftly destroy them before they could bring their weapons to bear on a different target. Ptaak noted reports of incoming fast movers, despatched a detachment of Scath to gain altitude far above the city into the clouds. As he done this he noticed the Scath in front of him take several shots through his wing from a laser, light far too fast for a Scath to dodge. The wounded Scath rolled onto its back in the air to brace him self for crashing rather than risk more damage to his wings. Ptaak was on the source of the blasts, swooping down to engage the firer and allowing the Scath behind him ahead to take over and become the new bait. The airborne Scath were weaving a rotating stream through the blocks of the city and defense lines like a great worm. While his reserves had moved up they had yet to commit.
montreal.
Faa was fitted with restraints that in turn fitted into a container, allowing him to be shrouded by the same nano tech as the Neptune sropship silently coming to pick him up.
