Arc 1, Special Thread 1: The Onyx Spire
"Yes. We've got some last confirmation from Jess before she was taken. Apparently there's a group of traitors. Dragon-Blooded calling themselves the Immaculate Order were running the security of the station, piloting a new type of ship." Smoker takes a long drag of his cigarette, "We can assume they have abyssal handlers, yeah, but I doubt they're any of the big three. Battles, your show."
Battles waves away smoke from in front of his face, finally speaking up. "We can safely assume that, yes. I'm betting that these are newer Abyssals. Probably one to manage their design team, and one or two to test their new equipment. We can also assume they know we're coming so we have to move on this fast."
"Wait, so repeat that? We're gonna fight Dragon-Blooded? Traitor Dragon-Blooded? The hell?" Kumiho waves her hand in the air. "What the fuck?"
"That's right," Battles nods at her, "So instead of force polarization like we've seen before, we'll instead see a weaker overall enemy force but with the power spread more evenly. We'll have three objectives: 1) destroy the facility ONYX SPIRE, 2) eliminate the forces defending ONYX SPIRE, and 3) extract as much information we can from ONYX SPIRE while we work on objective 2. They'll know we're coming but they're not the only ones who've made some technological advancements. Grunt, you'll be pleased to know that you'll be well taken care of in that regard. Captain Magdeldrigal, care to fill us in?"
The many-fingered demon smiles at all of them and strums her fingers across her harp, a chord that settles them and also somehow communicates to them just how... angry... the angylkae is under her veneer of pleasant serenity. "Thank you, Battles. First of all the Jagganathika has undergone a massive retrofit since the last time it saw combat." She plucks the harp, "It has the strongest engines of any Nike-class cruiser, including the Flowing River and the Enterprise. We've also put a lot of work into equipping the entire outside of the ship with a thin layer of demonic tissue, which acts as a host for a thin skin of perroneles. The Jagganathika is therefore fast and extremely well armored. We should be able to survive depositing a strike force outside of ONYX SPIRE, and we'll be able to jump out of the system quicker than any other ship our class. We won't be able to provide much in terms of fire support, so after your insertion we'll pull away from ONYX SPIRE, so you won't have to babysit us.
In addition to this we've managed to do the same for a Mercury-class transport, the Konnidan. The Konnidan is run by Captain Fistfoot, and like most blood apes he loves hand-to-hand combat, so it's been redesigned for ramming operations. Grunt and Arkady will be aboard this ship, which should smash into the bowels of ONYX SPIRE and give them a shot at hitting their mainframe. Along the way you'll be accompanied by a new Infernal, Cosmo Corentine. His job will be to draw attention at the upper levels and to work his way down to extract you if need be."
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