[center][h3]~Isaac Holcomb~[/h3]
[i]Approximately one week after Zeus' death[/i]
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Isaac was pleased to see his army return in one piece, relatively speaking anyway. There had been quite a few losses from the raid on Elysium granted, though he had taken more than enough material to make up for that. All that remained was for him to run it through the drexler and replenish his numbers, then conduct some more raids against the rest of his crewmates and their territories farther south. To that end his recon drones had been busy monitoring the southern lands while he'd been preoccupied with transporting the backup arrays to a more secure location and expanding his existing facilities deeper into the mountain, and they'd fed him some very interesting information during that time indeed. First and foremost, the news of Fletcher's death had finally traveled beyond the gilded walls of Olympus, and it was causing quite a stir, which was exactly what he needed right now. While his former coworkers were the main problem, the fact that they might not be able to rely on their colonist pawns much longer only served him and his secondary goal of avoiding mass civilian casualties.

Furthermore, should this distrust and doubt erupt into all-out rebellion yet again, it would finally present him with the opportunity to make some allies. Maybe even regain a measure of the colonists' trust, something he would desperately need if he ever wanted to get things back on track, not to mention avoid an even messier conflict with the Earth as its government didn't tend to look kindly upon planetary uprisings when last he'd checked. That development aside however, his drones had also spent the last couple of days or so keeping tabs on Meredith's domain. Probing it for any signs of weakness or vulnerability he could turn to his advantage. Beyond sabotage, which was fairly obvious insofar as offensives were concerned, Holcomb wanted to do something a bit more drastic. He was well aware of Meredith's control over GAIA, to say nothing of the damage it could cause in the right hands... but, of course, he was getting ahead of himself. The first order of business was to eliminate the so-called goddess herself, and to that end he had hidden away a handful of drones within her lands.

Their goal?

Assassination.

In all honesty whether he gained control of GAIA or not was of little consequence, so long as he could successfully remove another piece from the board he would be happy. As for the remainder of his warforms they would not be sent out to raid. Instead they would stay behind to work on the expansions and see to the defense of the base, primarily the drexler, as if that was compromised then Isaac would have no army to wage his war against the false gods with.