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Let's roll!

 

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We land in a meadow on the edge of a farm. The ramp drops to the ground with a thud. Two smoke grenades are used to cover our exit.

 

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We all hit the ground and look around. It's a LOOONG way to any real cover, so we'd better be cautious on our approach.

 

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Tycho and Thorondor lead the way!

 

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A bolt of plasma sails from down range. It narrowly misses Thor and Paul. The alien then moves back into cover.

 

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Thorondor takes one step forward and spots one. NKF raises his minigun and carefully taps off a single well aimed shot.

 

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Tycho spots the alien that fired on Thorondor. Jman takes an aimed shot on the alien and drops him.

 

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BB, Paul and Tycho move southeast. NKF, Jman and Thorondor move southwest.

 

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Thorondor reaches the safety of the side of the UFO. He then pulls out a grenade and uses it to cover the front door while our squad gets the LZ cleared.

 

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Jman and NKF kneel just north of the UFO and wait on the rest of the squad to clear a building.

 

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Paul has spotted an alien...and it's FLYING! Did NOT know that those purple bastards could actually get up like that. BB, drop him! Direct hit!..and half the walls are blown out of that building.

 

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Jman and NKF move in closer to the UFO. Paul and Tycho move to clear that building. Paul moves into the building and reaches the base of the staircase....

 

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AND DIES!

 

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Jman fires his stun gun, then BB fires a rocket just to make sure....Yep, dead.

 

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Our squad sets up an ambush outside the UFO. An alien comes out and trips the grenade. It is blown to hell in the explosion. Another follows right behind him and a plasma bolt drops him. Then another, and finally a 4th alien exits and is not dropped with a stun bomb. A hot laser beam then cuts him down.

 

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Another good mission. We lost Paul, but I'm sure the Pete clone that's being grown will be a worthy replacement. Next time, we're just nuking the top floors of those buildings so we don't have a repeat of that nonsense.

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We sell all our stuff on the black market and we get quite the haul!

 

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Go Tycho! 2 kills! Strike is out for 15 days, sucks to be Strike, but at least he's not idk..dead...Uta has 4 kills from her first mission, but barely any state increase at all. Maybe next time Uta!

 

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We spot a very small craft near our base. Our interceptor goes up and blasts it to pieces. HA! (Any bets on whether that was a BAAAAAD idea?)

 

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We keep the interceptor out patrolling for an alien base that may have been put down by that huge flood of large ships. We find...nothing...and return to base.

 

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Our Eurasian base picks up another UFO over Russia. We go out and chase it, but we lose it over Siberia.

 

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Our New Guinea base picks up the UFO again and our interceptor goes down to find kill it. We're low on fuel and this thing won't go over land, so we send her into the drink!

 

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Oh yes! We have something that we can sell to the world militaries now! Now we're going to try and do the same thing with alien tech using their heavy plasma gun as a basis for a craft weapon.

 

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We get our psi labs constructed before the month is out. Yes!

 

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A new Pete crawls from the spawning vats! This one is more of less a super soldier except for the fact that he wets the bed.

 

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Awww hell! Looks like a Battleship has landed next to the base and a crack team of alien commandos is coming in through the access lift to kick our asses. (Yep, figured it was a bad idea to shoot that small scout down..)

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Only thing to do about it now is be optimistic and assume we'll give them a good thrashing, even if we lose.

 

On the other hand, it might be a bit early for them, if it's the ethereals then we're doomed! Doom-ed I say!

 

Now who's up for burninating some alien invaders?

 

- NKF

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We patrol our base, trying to find the alien assault force. BB spots a pair of reapers under the psi lab. Seems the aliens have some kind of teleporter that let them get this far into our base! BB fires off a rocket and nothing dies. 3 more troops come into range and gun them down with their pistols. Leonid still sees something, seems like one of them teleported into a wall!

 

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Thorondor spots a floater at the access lift. He opens fire and the bastard just....disappears! Holograms, man! AHHHH!!!!

 

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Our internal security cameras pick up a large cluster of aliens leaving the lift and moving south.

 

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Leonid moves in to try and get a visual. He fires on an alien, misses, then dies to incoming fire!

 

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Frank steps out and fires his stun launcher. It's a hit, the alien next to the target appears to have dropped, but not the one we were aiming for. Frank moves back into the computer room. Yet another alien opens fire! He hits the alien we were aiming at, and the rest of his shots plow right into Frank and kill him!

 

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Brett steps out and sees two aliens, one armed and the other not. He targets the armed one first and drops him, then guns down the other.

 

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Tycho sneaks up on the aliens that were massing south of the lift. He ducks into that computer room and takes up a position behind the door. He spots an alien and squeezes off a 3 round burst...it drops.

 

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Brett steps out again. He spots 3 this time, 2 of them armed with heavy plasmas! He hauls ass back into cover and begs NKF to help him. NKF steps out of his closet and lays down a burst of fire on the aliens killing the pair with the guns. Pete then steps out and kills the third.

 

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Tycho comes out of hiding and ambushes another alien! Good work, Tycho!

 

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And NKF comes out yet again to solve Brett's problems with HE autofire!

 

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Klaus then rounds the corner to finish off the other unarmed alien!

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An unarmed alien comes running out of the access lift and passes right by Brett and Klaus. Klaus spots him trying to hide in the corner and guns him down.

 

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Our force sweeps the base checking every possible place where an alien could have gotten past us.

 

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A reaper attempts to run into the lift and becomes fused with the door! Jman uses this opportunity to dispatch it with his pistol.

 

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Time to head out looking for what's left in the hangar! Brett spots 2 floaters.

 

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Brett drops the one on the ground, Jman shoots the one in the air, then Thorondor kneels down to cover their exit.

 

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We hear a reaper freaking out in a roaring fit somewhere in the base....Stay frosty guys, this ain't over yet!

 

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We move into the hangar again trying to find it...nothing. Jman goes up top in the radar...nothing...we're running out of places to look...

 

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Looks like we have another failed teleport....DIE!

 

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Another excellent mission! In total there were 27 aliens in our base. How they all got in is beyond us. Seems those reapers were somehow teleported in behind us to inflict terror on our forces. Fortunately for us, only 4 of them managed to materialize outside of the bulkheads. They also appear to have some kind holographic system that doesn't leave behind bodies. Probably some alien controlling an avatar from that base we've been hunting in North America. We'd better get back to finding that thing, ASAP.

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We sell all the loot from that base attack. This puts us up over $12 million in funds!

 

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NKF hits 20 kills! Pete somehow has 0, could have sworn he dropped a couple.. Thorondor VI has 10 kills and is on his way to being a passible soldier. Don't let the kill count fool you, Jman's stun launcher is awesome! Bomb Bloke continues to lag behind in kills, guess lagging behind carrying the rocket launcher has something to do with it. Tycho is slowly building up accuracy and strength, he's up to 4 kills! WOW! Go Brett! 9 kills! In 1 mission! You da man!

 

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Our interceptor is sent up to patrol for that base. Since we've gone through Central America and the US southwest, we're headed to Canada to patrol up there, one of the UFOs did disappear up there for a while, maybe it was building the base there. AHHA! There it is, up in the Territories! A nice fat floater base ripe for the picking!

 

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For our end of month purchases, we're going to hire on 25 more scientists. We are also going to change from medi-kits to laser cannons. Pew pew!

 

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Radar is picking up a large mass moving at over 3,000kt! This thing is coming from the general direction of that alien base we just IDed. We have no chance of actually catching up with this thing and shooting at it, or even getting so much as a visual, so we just let it go and it disappears off the coast of Africa.

 

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Excellent work out there, ladies! We've completely wiped out all previous monthly ratings with a score of nearly 3000! And the council is very pleased with this! They give us a $900,000 raise!

 

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After meeting with our funders, we retire to the psi lab to see what our men are made of!

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Looks like we've got ourselves another small scout! Oh joy!

 

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It starts out over Siberia and our interceptor chases it out of radar range in northwest Africa.

 

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A large! And our interceptor clocks it at 4800kt while it's out...Terror ship! We quickly get our other interceptor in the air as well to attempt to tag team it, but it decides not to stick around and leaves the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

 

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Our American radar picks up UFO #19 moving into range. It ends up putting down in Venesuela somewhere. Hopefully it will remain until our transport is refueled.

 

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After 4 hours, she's still on the ground and we get our bird in the air!

 

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We land next to a wheat field. NKF, Thorondor and Pete step off the transport and hide in the smoke. Moments later, a snakeman moves into NKF's line of sight. NKF's superior reactions allow him to get off 3 snap shots on the poor snakeman. Sadly, only 2 of them hit, and they aren't enough to kill the alien...

 

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A burst of hot plasma brings the Commander of X-com forces to the ground...dead.

 

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Thor takes revenge on the alien that shot his commanding officer!

 

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Pete spots another alien moving into view.

 

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He fires off some AC fire that misses. They stare each other down, both of them with guns leveled and ready to fire!

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Aww. I hate episodes that end with a cliff-hanger..

 

The commander is dead, the troops' morale shaken by the fall of their mighty leader..Can they overcome the odds and save the day?? Tune in next week! Same X-Time..Same X-station!

 

dum - da - dummm!

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Well, at least NKF went down in a blaze of glory!

 

Count me in. Laser rifle and some grenades, preferably.

 

Do you fancy a heavy laser? Rifles do not exist in this universe.

 

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And Thorondor brains the alien stealing Pete's kill!

 

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Tycho sneaks up on another one that is also approaching.

 

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SCORE!

 

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Thorondor sneaks through the orchard, soon a snakeman comes into view and it ducks behind cover. Thorondor follows it and blasts him! Moments later...

 

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*BOOM!* A well placed proximity charge kills an alien exiting the craft. Ok, here's the plan... This is a medium scout, it's just one big ass room. Jman is gonna go in there with his stun gun and drop everything in the room in the blast, including himself. This should save everything in there for our salvage team.

 

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The door opens, an alien is cut down with reaction fire. BB spots another alien inside moving for the rear of the craft. Seconds later, an explosive roar is heard as the alien throws a grenade into the reactor, killing all surviving aliens in the craft.

 

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We kill six aliens, that last one died sabotaging the reactor. We also lost our commanding officer, NKF. The body will be dumped at sea on the return trip. A new clone will emerge shortly.

 

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SV rises to take command of X-com. Jman is promoted to lead the force at the American base. BB makes captain, Tycho and Pete make sergeant.

 

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From the spawning vats under the New Guinea base crawls NKF MkII!

 

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Another 25 scientists arrive to work on our black projects at the Saudi site.

 

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We also hire enough engineers to optimize our arms manufacturing enterprise.

 

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FINALLY!

 

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Dun duh dun!

 

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At the New Guinea base we rent our 3rd interceptor and enough ammo to hold it over until we get our plasma cannon in production.

 

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Shit..a terror ship.

 

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It finally slows down and our interceptor catches up. We fire on it and hit twice, the third shot misses. The other interceptor is just too far away to do anything about this, we're completely at the aliens' mercy as far as if this is a terror mission or not.

 

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The alien craft has touched down in the German capital. All available emergency units are fleeing the area in panic. It is up to X-com to come to the aid of one of the top funders!

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