[center][h2]Planet: Arturio 3
Deployed Unit(s): 1st Infantry Division, 3rd Mech Division, 1st Armored Division.
Deployed Officers of Import: Captain Maria Valero
Mission Parameters: Destroy, or relocate local Populace.
Employer: Absterisk Mining Company.
ROE: Eliminate Any Resistance, Relocate peaceful surrenderees, Transport captured combatants to R&D facility.[/h2][/center]

Trees cracked, and fell over, the civilians of Arturio 3 running quickly from their positions in the tree line and into their town as Hover tanks punched holes in the forest, carving a path with their cannons as they closed in. It was devastating to the local populace they fell in droves, soldiers, and civilians alike. Starburst Valkyrie Corporation had little mercy for the locals, and soon several aerial vehicles were roaring by overhead. They released their contents large blue and purple explosions overtaking any structures, vehicles, and organic beings leaving behind only shimmering ash that danced in the air in varying bright colors that sharply contrasted with the destruction that they were the consequence of.

The assault raged on for several hours as the Valkyrie tore apart what little resistance the locals could put up. By the end of the attack barely anything remained of the locals in the area, and only four of the Valkyries had been lost in combat. Those who had been captured by the Valkyries were now lined up in rows on their knees, blindfolds around their eyes and hands tied behind their backs. The locals were a mixture of alien species and humans all of which were being looked over very closely, an inspection of sorts, from which the human women were pulled from the lines and led into the back of a nearby ship.  

One woman stood out among the mercenaries, her eyes wandered over the prisoners a slight smirk upon her lips. Captain Valero raised a single hand pointing to the captives. “Execute them, use the blades don’t waste ammunition. As for human females put them on the Frigate Mephisto and have them taken to the Kevos 2 Research station for repurposing.” Turning she looked over the devastated area. “Smell that?” She said looking towards one of the troops, the woman turning towards the Captain.

“The Burning Flesh Ma’am?” The trooper was new, obviously a fairly recent recruit by the rank insignia on her shoulders.

“No Private… No, that smells like money.” In the horizon the mining ships were slowly descending from the sky towards the surface. This was just the first stepping stone, soon the planet would be one giant mining colony, and the citizens would be made into slaves to work in the tunnels.

[center][h2]Planet: Kevos 2
Location: Valkyrie Research Station
Current Projects: Manchurian, Jamie Sommers, Edith[/h2][/center]

The operation room was rather busy today, some breakthroughs had been made and were very much in the process of being applied. Three of the operating tables had a patient on them, each of them deep under anesthetics. Surgeons, and Lab Techs stood over them, as well as some engineers. Two of the patients were troops, one of them a volunteer, the other injured in combat, and the final patient was a woman who had been captured during a raid the company had been hired to do. The injured troop had had her arms and legs amputated, nodes were being installed into the stumps of her arms and legs, connecting to nerves, and muscles. Once the wires were fused to flesh several robotic limbs were brought in, some with attachments some without.

The next woman had her skin split in several places and her muscles were being removed from around the bones they were attached to and being placed aside, the scent of burnt flesh in the air from the energy scalpels being used. Soon metal plates were being attached to the bones in her arms, the bones that made up her rib cage, legs, skull, and even her spine, soon vials of synthetic muscles made up of some metallic fiber were being brought forth to be placed into her body next.

And the final patient, her head shaved bald, her scalp had been cut and peeled back like a tent flap, and the top of her skull had been removed like a cap. Her brain revealed the patient was having wires planted into the organ and connected to a series of chips mounted to the inside of the skull cap. The scalpels cut into the woman’s flesh removing bones, skin, muscles in some places, filling the voids with different devices that were both combative, and utilitarian. Even other body parts were completely removed such as one arm was replaced with what looked like a rivet gun, and her eyes were even replaced with some type of ocular camera that was attached to her brain to allow her to see, and to allow a control room to see what she sees.

From a glass windowed room watching over what the surgeries taking places was Dr. Krauss taking notes ona  holographic datapad as she hummed lightly to herself. Turning she pulled up another screen, and the face that looked back at her was the Secretary of CEO Lyesmith. Krauss gave a nod in greeting, then without waiting for a response began to speak. “Inform Miss Lyesmith that the operations are repeatedly successful, and that soon we will go into field testing to ensure the products are in good working order. Who would have thought three different projects would have helped each other so much.”