With half the crew recovering in the medbay Augustus Holmes, Lars Nicolau and Oslan Baratski decided to take on a job from the interstellar Dockworkers Guild. Having worked with them before there was an existing relationship there which would on occasion lead to some jobs.
A carrier transporting some important cargo was lost in a storm a few days ago. The storm had only just passed and the Guild were hoping to secure the cargo and any survivors asap, before any scavengers or other organisations made a claim.
It was too late though - bunch of tech gangers were also interested in the cargo! It must have been some pretty interesting gear that was being transported for this bunch to venture out so far into the storm regions.
The plan was for Lars to cover from the rear, hugging cover, while Holmes and Baratski were going to move as quickly as they could up the gap made by the crashed carrier as it tore through the forest.
Moving in onto their target was simple, but they saw movement and began being more cautious.
The tech gangers split into two groups. The left team was armed with a blast rifle, a grenade launcher, and a high tech laser. The other team had two blast rifles and a grenade launcher. They were armed to the teeth.
Lars moved into a cluster of trees to hunker down and snipe. Holmes and Baratski took cover and slowed their advance.
Seizing some initiative Holmes and Lars opened fire on the left fire team, knocking back two of them forcing them to find cover.
The team leader of one fire team managed to get line of site to Holmes and launched a grenade at him. Luckily he was in enough cover to avoid any harm.
Baratski pumped out a few rounds at the grenade launcher carrying ganger, ripping his modified body open. She made note of where he fell, looking to secure that grenade launcher for herself later. One of the gangers decided enough was enough and took off back into the forest.
Holmes laid down some fire again sending the ganger scrambling for cover again.
Kaboom! With Holmes concentrating on the gangers in front of him, he had neglected to watch his flanks. The other team had managed to sneak around and get behind the crew of
The Pelican. A few grenades launched over and managed to take him down.
Quite a firefight broke out. Baratski trying to hold down her left flank against the grenade launcher ganger, Lars plugging away at the remainder of the other fire team. Inaccurate fire was flying everywhere.
Lars got sent scrambling for further cover! That was too close.
Baratski managed to rush up to the crashed carrier and get some shots off at her targets. The ganger with the grenade launcher fell while the other dived for cover. That cover didn't help though as Lars got a bead on him and took him down with a well placed shot.
With one ganger remaining Baratski decided to poke her head around the engine and shoot him. He fell never to get up again.
With the crashsite secured Lars came over to provide overwatch. A disheveled survivor exited the wreckage as a Dockworker Guild crew arrived to check out and salvage the cargo.
In the end the crew got paid, picked up a grenade launcher and Holmes' injuries were minor.
When back on The Pelican an emergency broadcast came on - UCS were ordering all ships in the sector to be grounded as there was a threat of invasion from The Collective. It looked like this was going to be a longer stay than anticipated.
A few days later Mao recieved a communication from home - it looked like there were rumblings of invasion and the UCS grounding of ships was warranted.
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