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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 4251532" data-attributes="member: 1213">Black suggests "Ok then, the rest of you can wait in the plane off the coast."(I'm going to move this along.  This has been paused long enough.)The plane trip is uneventful, and quite the same as the last time. Star and Apollo cross onto land over Gaza (Neither they nor Egypt would appreciate you using their airspace, but Gaza has no know air defenses so its the safer bet), passing the border fence and veering south over the desert.  As Star and Apollo near the base and release the package, the base defenses spring to life.  They must have been detected on their way in.  Alarms sound, turrets pop out of the sand, and laser domes spring to life.  Each can fire a red beam from a certain point on the half sphere that can move with the sphere itself.  Star recognizes them as an anti-missile technology that some of the more technologically-advanced militaries are using in limited numbers and plan to soon deploy in larger numbers and on tanks in addition to as a base defense.  The laser's first attacks destroy the package, mistaking it for an incoming projectile of hostile intent.  Meanwhile, several rail gun emplacements attack Star and Apollo.  Apollo one of them draws a bead on Apollo and blasts him with several shots (1 injury, 1 bruise, stunned), but he manages to veer off and stay gliding in the air.  Two of them hit Star, however (two staggered results so disabled), and she crashes into a courtyard in the base (dying but autostabilized due to high con).Apollo notices that some of the railguns are firing into the distance, and with his super-vision he can see a stealthy, gravity-drive-based plane that must have been following them.  It releases a couple small balls which  explode into reflective decoy balls and EM interference, then turns to leave.  It takes some rail hits and flies back in the direction of Gaza and/or the ocean, smoke trailing from holes in its wing and fuselage.</blockquote>

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