1. The first sight
Basilus halted his squad and went down on his knees to crawl near the top edge of the Mesa. He took up the Ranger issued Viewer and trained it on the scenes below. The viewer looks like a triangle box but one side had the view screen while the other side is the lens. The Production Line and Settlement looks intact and so are the stockpiles. The Space Port wrecked to its foundation and sill in flames with the smoke rising. What concerned Basilus was the scores of Draconian and their armor on the ground. He can see their heavy armor; the Vampire Class Battle Tank with its main gun, three rotary guns; one on the cupola on the top turret and two incendiary gun on its sponson on both side. The tank comprised of ten man crew with a complement to carry four soldiers. There are five of these tanks on the ground. They are moving towards the Settlement and probably on route towards the staging area.
There are also two units of the heavy artillery with its long range firepower through its hundred millimeter diameter barrel; nicknamed the Big Banger, or BB for short. There are also twenty of those armored vehicles with their double mini rotary guns at the rear as its carry troops to the front nicknamed Tiger as they have stripes painted on the hull. There are the scout units which rode on those mini pods; personal hover discs which allow the scouts to move over flat surfaces but are underpowered to climb up higher gradient.
Those are not what Basilus was most concerned on but the two long rectangle metal command posts being parked near the wrecked space port. Those are not Command posts but Research centers. He had not seen what these center done in other colonies but they were many evidence of unsanctioned cloning experiments and DNA tampering. These were all reported by Intelligence based on finding when the Draconian fought the Rimulan in the last war; another warring breed that survived on some of the far out planets. Sine the Rimulan were defeated in the war, they had allied with the Federation but they are of no use to fight any battles now.
Cloning experiments are banned in the Federation and was the initial conflict with the Draconian from joining the Federation. The Draconian used closing to replenished their lost or missing ones, and they also experimented with other breed to perfect their DNA. The Federation order was they are never to experiment with the Federation subjects.
Basilus signaled Pete to come forth as he was carrying the comm set. He then remotely linked the viewer to the comms and sent off the findings. He also signaled Micheal.
2. The Staging Area
The carriers carried both the squads to the designated points in the staging area surface upon landing. They had earmarked the area of four hundred metres width by five metres in length. Squad One went to the right while Squad Two proceed to the left. Squad Three went to work on the signals to bring in the rest of the Division. Squad Four rolled out the heavier armaments which include the three sets of the double rotary guns portable units named Weasels at the Staging Area. The Seniors said when someone shoot at you with a Weasel, you wished you were one like the namesake and crawled like one. The squad also brought out two sets of eight tripod mounted missiles launcher nicknamed Eagles; they would fly up and find their target then swoop down in a screaming dive.
"Perimeter One, report in." Squad Four Leader Nur asked for update as he crouched down on his right knee. Her Rangers start confirming their position and then she got the final confirmation.
"I read you all. Now keep those sensors on full sweep." Squad Four Leader replied back. The sensors are good for two hundred metres but the Viewer he had on told him a different reading. "Reading coming in. We got company in ten clicks max."
Across the landing, Squad Two Leader Perkins crouched behind a mound of sands and looked over the top. He does not click on his squad as they are all spaced out behind him. He is a leader which liked to go before any of his Rangers. He took up the viewer and looked at the horizon. He wished he had more of these Viewer but they are fewer left in their storage. Leader Perkins got similar readings on his Viewer.
Squad Three Leader Toole was calibrating the signals when he heard the message. Ten clicks was running it too close; muttered Leader Toole to himself. The Companies would need at least twenty clicks to descent and ten clicks to move for action.
Squad Leader Nur of Squad Four climbed up the carrier that brought her squad and had the rotary guns positioned up there. She had the second and third gun set up a distance of twenty metres from the carrier on both sides. Her second in command, Ranger Ramirez positioned the Eagles on the carrier.
"Do not shoot until you can see their fangs." She told her squad. It was supposed to make her squad Rangers laugh but they hardly did. Then she heard the comms.
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