Board Thread:Lores/@comment-30517583-20170819011909

One minor note: R2D Gun references are used here.

MP5 appeared in R2D and R2DA Debug.

SPAS-12 also appeared in R2D, with a differet design.

“Well, people, it seems that we are in some deep shit right now.”

Chief Engineer Fall cleared his throat before continuing, glancing around the small conference room in the mineral processing facility at each of the seated people arrayed around him.

“We are almost out of building material. I’ve put the construction of the new building on hold until we can get a full inventory of our supplies. If there is enough, we can commit the last of our explosives to extract rock from the mountains. If the military forces give us some of their military explosives, I am sure we can lower the amou-“

“The military cannot afford to use up its resources on such a menial task! All of our equipment should be prepared for countering whatever the higher-ups have told us is coming! And that should include stockpiling all our resources, civilian included, to fortify our holdings! You people have been holding back fuel for our vehicles and building material to secure our perimeter! We are already in such a bad state, and you want us to give up a portion of our military firepower?”

“Lieutenant Colonel Waltrun”, Fall began.” I have not finished speaking yet.”

“Not only are we lacking in building resources, we are also running low on fuel. Our engineers have rigged a temporary solar array to lower our dependence on diesel generators, but winter is coming. The only things in abundant supply are our food supplies, of which we have just harvested our batch of crops, our water which comes in via purifiers, and our military power. However, the most worrying problem is not supply, it’s that every expedition we’ve sent to the mainland has not returned.”

At the mention of the mainland, a ripple of murmurs spread among the group, before the door to the conference room slammed open.

And into it strode Victor ‘Rattlesnake”, head of the Department of Infrastructure, carrying a vicious looking SPAS-12 Semi-Automatic, 12-gauge shotgun slung across his back, but it was different from the SPAS-12 shotguns that some of the troops on the island had been issued with. It had its stock folded back, and was larger and more vicious-looking.

“Good morning, gentlemen. I assume that you all want to know what happened to the mainland?”

At first, the room remained silent. And then room exploded with action.

Two soldiers who had remained in the shadows brought up their MP5 submachine-guns, only to be knocked to the ground by a masked soldier in what appeared to be an advanced EOD suit.

Two more men broke through the windows and descended via zip lines, clad in combat fatigues under a heavy bulletproof vest and cradling FAMAS assault rifles, which they brandished at the occupants of the room.

The masked soldier unslung the M249 SAW that hung from his back, holding it at his hip, and pointed it anybody that dared to look him in the eye. Throughout the whole scene the people seated at the table dared not move, not risking the chance of being cut down in a hail of bullets.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Now then, down to the facts.”

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;">The head of the Department of Infrastructure stared at Fall with his ever-present sneer. “Well, people, it seems that we are in some deep shit right now.”

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Chief Engineer Fall cleared his throat before continuing, glancing around the small conference room in the mineral processing facility at each of the seated people arrayed around him.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“We are almost out of building material. I’ve put the construction of the new building on hold until we can get a full inventory of our supplies. If there is enough, we can commit the last of our explosives to extract rock from the mountains. If the military forces give us some of their military explosives, I am sure we can lower the amou-“

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“The military cannot afford to use up its resources on such a menial task! All of our equipment should be prepared for countering whatever the higher-ups have told us is coming! And that should include stockpiling all our resources, civilian included, to fortify our holdings! You people have been holding back fuel for our vehicles and building material to secure our perimeter! We are already in such a bad state, and you want us to give up a portion of our military firepower?”

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Lieutenant Colonel Waltrun”, Fall began.” I have not finished speaking yet.”

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Not only are we lacking in building resources, we are also running low on fuel. Our engineers have rigged a temporary solar array to lower our dependence on diesel generators, but winter is coming. The only things in abundant supply are our food supplies, of which we have just harvested our batch of crops, our water which comes in via purifiers, and our military power. However, the most worrying problem is not supply, it’s that every expedition we’ve sent to the mainland has not returned.”

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">At the mention of the mainland, a ripple of murmurs spread among the group, before the door to the conference room slammed open.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">And into it strode Victor ‘Rattlesnake”, head of the Department of Infrastructure, carrying a vicious looking SPAS-12 Semi-Automatic, 12-gauge shotgun slung across his back, but it was different from the SPAS-12 shotguns that some of the troops on the island had been issued with. It had its stock folded back, and was larger and more vicious-looking.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Good morning, gentlemen. I assume that you all want to know what happened to the mainland?”

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">At first, the room remained silent. And then room exploded with action.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Two soldiers who had remained in the shadows brought up their MP5 submachine-guns, only to be knocked to the ground by a masked soldier in what appeared to be an advanced EOD suit.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Two more men broke through the windows and descended via zip lines, clad in combat fatigues under a heavy bulletproof vest and cradling FAMAS assault rifles, which they brandished at the occupants of the room.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The masked soldier unslung the M249 SAW that hung from his back, holding it at his hip, and pointed it anybody that dared to look him in the eye. Throughout the whole scene the people seated at the table dared not move, not risking the chance of being cut down in a hail of bullets.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Now then, down to the facts.”

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The head of the Department of Infrastructure stared at Fall with his ever-present sneer.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Victor had been a Decorated combat veteran, due to his numerous exploits and his ability to crush anything that stood in his way. First, he had served in the Air Force as a leader of a squadron, but had ditched in hostile territory after being shot down by an anti-aircraft battery that shouldn’t have existed in the first place, and evaded capture for a whole month without any supplies to speak of, and making it back to base a gaunt, haggard ghost of what he had been. This granted him enormous status within the Air Force. However, malnutrition made him forever a ghost of his former self.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Not that it was bad for him. Using his decoration in the Air Force, he ascended the rungs in political service, and came in direct contact with the president.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Still, he found political work with a group of stuffy ‘vipers’ tiring, and he rejoiced when the president told him he was eligible for a sabotage mission against a rival nation due to his expertise for evading capture.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Victor performed extremely well, not only completing the sabotage mission but also crippling the rival nation’s economy.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">After that happened, the president pulled off an extremely stupid move, and advanced the certain nation’s armed forces to the border, and annexed the whole region.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Victor, seeing the whole farce, also saw the international committee frown at this disturbance among these ‘civilized’ first world countries, and sent in waves upon waves of troops and men to try and settle the situation.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Victor knew the logical situation would be to ditch, but he did his job. He staged a series of guerilla movements, weakening the allied coalition of nations, cutting communications and destroying supply convoys, maintaining an information network in high places among the enemy force.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">After placing a massive army group into one important city, the allies, becoming tired of minor skirmishes and willing for a decisive blow to end the war, began a siege of the city.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">At that point, Victor swept through the ports and airports that carried the allied army’s supplies, and among these airports, he turned the skies against the allied nations. After hearing of the seizure of their supply bases and airports, the allied army began a mass withdrawal across the entire front to take back their only ties with the outside.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">And at this point Victor redoubled his efforts at guerilla warfare, blowing up infrastructure, attacking the supply trucks in the back, forcing the allied army to slow down further to protect their over-exposed rear.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In the end, Victor collected his forces and arrayed them in front of the allied army halfway from the city to the ports and airports along the coast.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The allied army, running low on supplies, low in morale and struggling to keep going, simply gave up and surrendered.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It had been a textbook maneuver that should have been easily avoided by the allied army, but they had been too blind, too eager to rush at Victor’s forces. It was a fault that had also been shared by Napoleon and Hitler in Russia, and the North Korean/Chinese Forces in Korea.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Nevertheless, Victor had defeated a coalition of all the major world powers. In his country’s eyes, he was a hero, lifted to a godlike status.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">All the major powers, though, were less thrilled at the losses that they had suffered at the hands of a minor country.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">And so, they vowed revenge, and began plans to get rid of Victor as soon as possible. <ac_metadata title="Kingstreet and the Infection, Part 2."> </ac_metadata>