Nouvelle
Special Forces Group 1
Special Recon team

“ Damn, we’re in a tight spot” Kacha said, sliding back behind the crest of the hill “ We need to move, its only a matter of time before they find us.”. There was no doubt in his mind that these alines were looking for them, why else would be be here and so obviously armed? Pulling up the tactical map in his HUD, Kacha went over the terrain they just analyzed, trying to find an appropriate place to hide. Half a kilometer from their position was a small village, they passed it on the way up the hill. No lights, no movement, they looked completely abandoned to the Aradites. There was no room for discussion, the pair waited for the Iscandarins to fly over them before moving down the hill towards the small collection of cabins. Weighed down by their heavy bergans, they walked at a brisk pace, keeping an eye on the flying pair as they continued to fly away. Upon reaching the small cabin the two set up on either side of door with their weapons pointed at it, setting up to breach the door. Kacha nodded his head three times before mule kicking in the door, nearly kicking it off its hinges. Ura instinctively stepped through the doorway first, covering the left side of the room with his long sniper rifle while Kacha stepped through immediately after covering the right side with his designated marksmen rifle. Within seconds of entering the pair learned a couple things very quickly: 
1: The building was infact occupied by a small family
2: The building looked unoccupied because of the shutters over the windows.

While Septonian night vision is excellent, it still has its problems. The shadow casted by the building over the windows made it look like the interior of the house was dark, the actually shutters could not be seen. Once the door was opened however the light completely washed out their night vision visors, making the system automatically turn them off. Out of the blinding light, the figure of a woman, man and three small children appeared in the room, obviously terrified of the heavily armed aliens. Ura immediately threw his hands in the air, holding his long sniper rifle vertically as he tried to calm the children down. The woman was on Kacha’s side as he breached in quickly turned towards the pair. Kacha quickly slung the rifle around his back hand held his hands up as well, making a shushing sound towards the woman. “ No no, its ok…” he said through his exterior speakers before the woman let out a loud piercing scream. 

Task Force Blue ( 50 ships stong)
Special Operations Group 4
12 man team, Lt. Gul Timonus

“ Mining asteroid? or Military installation?” an operator said as he studied the defenses, before falling back to join the rest of his team. Every member of the team had painted their armor black to blend into the surface of the asteroid and space behind them, making it hard to locate the team without the aid of their HUDs. “ Whats the plan boss?” another operator said over the radio still studying the patrolling patterns of the Iscandarians. Gil hummed a bit as he slowly made his way back towards the observation post, taking another look at the defensive positions and roving patrols. His attention was then brought towards the small structure that occupied the asteroid, what he guessed was the command center of the operation. Gul activated his EM visor and studied the structure for a moment, looking for any spike in electronic activity or a communications hub. By his reasoning, any sort of off asteroid communications had to be something other then a personal communications system. Long range communication required a larger more powerful unit, something he would expect to be in that structure. Turning off his EM visor Gul backed away from the observation post, regrouping with the rest of the team “ Im getting a large EM reading from that structure, it could be their comms hub or it could be something else. Either way, its a good place to start.”. The rest of the team nodded and pulled in close for what was going to be a hasty briefing. Gul drew three X’s in the loose sand on the asteroid, drawing cones in front of each one. He then drew the paths of the roving patrols around the heavy machine gun emplacements, marking the direction of their path. “ We stay behind this ridge until we get here” he said pointing towards a point off to the side of the structure. “ Then we need to move from cover to cover, making sure to move only when we are out of the patrol’s field of view.” he said drawing a jagged line around the back of the structure. Gul then drew a line around the far end of the structure and drew a circle, marking the breach point “ From here, we make our way along the backside of the structure and make a soft breach into the building. It is important that we don’t use any explosives until after this comms hub is taken out, one message of our presence will certainly bring death upon us all.” Gul nodded and tapped the ground twice, “ Ready?”. The operators nodded and began slowly picking their way around the asteroid, making sure to stay below the line of sight of the turret gunners. With the lack of gravity on the asteroid, their movements were extremely calculated and slow, making sure to check their trajectory multiple times before making a short leap to their next position. Reaching the end of the ridge, Gul peaked his head around the rocks to steal another look towards their defenses, checking for changes.