“Our target is the main belt asteroid called 2685 Masursky.”
The planning room of FESWAT Unit 2 was filled to the last place as the Sergeant explained the mission.
“A stealthed recon flight confirms that the asteroid is primarily made from stone and has been mined to some extent, which left it with a series of tunnels and caves. According to the intel data there is no atmosphere inside.
We have only limited data about what to find inside.
First, we identified three persons which are involved.”
The picture of the holoprojector changed and three infosheets appeared.
“Alexander Ward, Miriam Fisher and Norman Fox. We think that all of them are originally US citizens. No known biomods, no known combat abilities, no known connections to major Factions or organizations. They are active in the ‘Red Mars’ movement and are vocal opponents of any kind of terraforming. Up to this point Patrol had them classified as insane but harmless.”
A hand in the room went up. “Commander, we are taking the whole team to grab these three jokers?”
“Yes we are. Yesterday I would have told my boss the same. I will come back to your comment later.
The only living space in the asteroid we know about is a Whistler Container type B. A few rooms, a parking lot for a compact car and an airlock. The weapon system they used to attack Pan doesn’t even fit into this container.”
The commander looked through the room.
“I am pretty sure we are missing more than a few facts, but that is all we got. Maybe there are more people on the asteroid, maybe these three sniffed too much Wavium last year and became full Mads.
We cannot afford to wait, we have to strike quickly. We go in with the whole team, the Clipper as as external backup and a Roughrider squadron to make sure no one gets out. If we see that its too much for us, we bail out and call the cavalry.
One last thing, we need these terrorists alive. We need answers, not dead bodies... any questions?”
----
Arthur Nkomo was sitting together with his two Earth co-workers in a different meeting room.
“I still would have liked to be there when we arrest this terrorists” Zenigata said and sighed. “Somehow its annoying to know that the grand final will happen without us.”
Arthur rolled with his eyes.
“You know the drill... this is a job for specialists, there is no way we would let someone without zero-g combat experience on this mission” he replied. “Calm down, we will get all the data they acquired during the raid. And they will bring back all prisoners directly to the White Tower, so we can interrogate them.”
“Do Japanese SWAT teams allow other personnel to accompany them on a mission” Jürgen Schmidt asked with a smirk on his face.
“No, they do not... yeah okay, I will shut up. But still, it would have been nice to see your people doing it.” Zenigate said. “Any news about this other men who used the truck?”
It had taken Data Mining only a few hours to gather all data about the truck standing on its parking slot. It had been taken away twice by different people.
The second one had been Norman Fox. His picture and the data from Kandors traffic control system had been the first evidence that had given the Patrol a clue where to find their current targets.
But the first person who had taken the truck and brought it back a few days later was a mystery. He had arrived in a small compact car and had left with the same car again. Neither the car nor the person had been found in any other data source Space Patrol had been looking into.
“I hope the interrogation will give us some insight what is going on” Arthur said. “This smells a lot like someone making sure there is no connection between him and this group. But who knows, maybe we'll get lucky.”
The planning room of FESWAT Unit 2 was filled to the last place as the Sergeant explained the mission.
“A stealthed recon flight confirms that the asteroid is primarily made from stone and has been mined to some extent, which left it with a series of tunnels and caves. According to the intel data there is no atmosphere inside.
We have only limited data about what to find inside.
First, we identified three persons which are involved.”
The picture of the holoprojector changed and three infosheets appeared.
“Alexander Ward, Miriam Fisher and Norman Fox. We think that all of them are originally US citizens. No known biomods, no known combat abilities, no known connections to major Factions or organizations. They are active in the ‘Red Mars’ movement and are vocal opponents of any kind of terraforming. Up to this point Patrol had them classified as insane but harmless.”
A hand in the room went up. “Commander, we are taking the whole team to grab these three jokers?”
“Yes we are. Yesterday I would have told my boss the same. I will come back to your comment later.
The only living space in the asteroid we know about is a Whistler Container type B. A few rooms, a parking lot for a compact car and an airlock. The weapon system they used to attack Pan doesn’t even fit into this container.”
The commander looked through the room.
“I am pretty sure we are missing more than a few facts, but that is all we got. Maybe there are more people on the asteroid, maybe these three sniffed too much Wavium last year and became full Mads.
We cannot afford to wait, we have to strike quickly. We go in with the whole team, the Clipper as as external backup and a Roughrider squadron to make sure no one gets out. If we see that its too much for us, we bail out and call the cavalry.
One last thing, we need these terrorists alive. We need answers, not dead bodies... any questions?”
----
Arthur Nkomo was sitting together with his two Earth co-workers in a different meeting room.
“I still would have liked to be there when we arrest this terrorists” Zenigata said and sighed. “Somehow its annoying to know that the grand final will happen without us.”
Arthur rolled with his eyes.
“You know the drill... this is a job for specialists, there is no way we would let someone without zero-g combat experience on this mission” he replied. “Calm down, we will get all the data they acquired during the raid. And they will bring back all prisoners directly to the White Tower, so we can interrogate them.”
“Do Japanese SWAT teams allow other personnel to accompany them on a mission” Jürgen Schmidt asked with a smirk on his face.
“No, they do not... yeah okay, I will shut up. But still, it would have been nice to see your people doing it.” Zenigate said. “Any news about this other men who used the truck?”
It had taken Data Mining only a few hours to gather all data about the truck standing on its parking slot. It had been taken away twice by different people.
The second one had been Norman Fox. His picture and the data from Kandors traffic control system had been the first evidence that had given the Patrol a clue where to find their current targets.
But the first person who had taken the truck and brought it back a few days later was a mystery. He had arrived in a small compact car and had left with the same car again. Neither the car nor the person had been found in any other data source Space Patrol had been looking into.
“I hope the interrogation will give us some insight what is going on” Arthur said. “This smells a lot like someone making sure there is no connection between him and this group. But who knows, maybe we'll get lucky.”