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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gomez" data-source="post: 2451966" data-attributes="member: 20204">High Pluto Orbit aboard the TFCT Alvin York1st Lt. John Wheeler looked out of the starbord veiw plate of the fast drop transport Alvin York staring at the collection of ships that made up the SICON Navy's Task Force 7 as they orbited the cold dark planet of Pluto. His back was to the collected Squads and Platoons of his Moble Infantry Company "The Wheeler's Wildcats" who stood at attention. He then turned to stare at the men. Lt. Wheeler might have been called a handsome man once before a bug clawed out his right eye. He had a metalic optical inplant now which tracked with his good eye as he looked over the ranks of men under his command. "Listen up Apes. For you new recruits, welcome to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, 7th Army of the Mobile Infantry." The new recruits fresh out of boot had been placed in Second Squad under Sergeant James just before the Alvin York took off from Sanctuary about a week ago. This is your first real interaction with the Lt. "Pay attention, cause this is only coming once. As most of you know, two months ago SICON detected activity on Pluto and went in to find an aggressive alien race infesting a run of valleys and caverns. There were a few... incidents, but we fought back against these aliens and managed to wipe them from the face of Pluto for good. Or so we though.That's right you heard me. Command has just gotten word of a reinfestation. Now maybe they had a bunch of eggs in hibernation cause of the cold. Maybe they had deeper tunnels the last force didn't find. All I need to know, and all you need to know, is that a month after clearing Pluto, the bugs have reappeared. They were sighted a few hours ago and are already swarming the back side of Entora Valley. They haven't spread out yet, but it's only a matter of time.Settle down! Now for the bad news, apes. There are a whole lot of them this time. SICON predicts at least five times as many as encountered the first time. The worst news is how few of us are here right now. Somebody up the chain of command miscalculated our need for reinforcements to hold this ball of rock, so we don’t have the manpower to assault the LZ Properly. Look left. Look right. What you see is all we got.It’ll be enough, Troopers! We have the tools and the talent, but this time we have to fight smarter. We have to be harder than the bugs. If they get their pincers into Pluto and dig in long enough to reproduce again, we’ll have a real incident on our hands. No one expected em to be seen again, let alone in such numbers. Hell, boys, the Black Hats at Intel are even saying there might be a whole colony system full of these things deeper underground.All I got to say is that is some other Company’s problem, at least until Intel makes it ours. All we have to do right now is keep our heads down and our guns up. We can theorize all day but that don’t put bullets in bugs! You get me? We either fight for this rock or we ditch it to the bugs. I don’t want Arachnids anywhere in my solar system. Do you? I don’t think so.On the Bounce Apes! I want tactical ops and combat clearance by 07:00 tomorrow. Hit your bunks, set your hypnopeidia units for deep sleep and wake up sharp. Nobody infests this planet but us!”</blockquote>

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