GATE: Thus Atlas Fought There

Chapter 2: Utopia Defiled

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Mission Loadout [1]

Weapons issued: Bal-27 Assault Rifle (Gideon & Mitchell), Ameli LMG (Joker), SN6 SMG (Ilona)

Exo-Type: Assault

Exo-abilities:

Boost Jump - Very brief and light booster allows increased jump height up to several metres high.

Sonics – Emits a high frequency which stuns nearby enemies

Stim – Temporarily boost user's overall strength and durability

Mission Objective: To clear the Karkh district of unknown enemies and Search and Rescue for any survivors.

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Just on the outskirts of Karkh District, New Badghad

1240 HRS

"Just what happen here?" Mitchell ponders as he looks out of the VRAP's window. Although the district is only a few kilometres away from Base, combined with the evacuation and traffic, it took almost half an hour to reach here, however, at this point, much of the area is empty.

"Well the city looks damaged, but they aren't from shells or any explosives. The damage on the buildings just looks too minor for a terrorist attack." Gideon calls in command, "Command, this is Atlas One, we passed Echo point, any ideas who we're up against?"

"This is Command, ISR detects large number of movement within in the city, but reasons unknown, their progress is slow, this is abnormal for a hostile force. We also detected aerial signatures moving at subsonic speeds of under a 100 kilometres per hour just behind the city skylines." Command reports as the team were also updated with mission briefing on their HUD. [2] "But that's where our intel ends, we don't know who these people are, there are no reports of gunfire aside from local police, nor is any group claiming responsible"

"Well, since you mention those aerial threats, do we have any air support?" Mitchell ask as without air support, the mission would be more difficult.