Eternity RPC Board
07-28-2018, 05:10 AM
Despite the general clamor of the men inside the artifical parade green created by the encircled vehicles, the silence outside their party seemed deafening. Barnes could hear it too, interrupted only so often by his Coyote's telex machine tapping out automated weather reports and menial updates from the Vestor comm tower three hundred klicks to the south, and the occasional cranking roar of a Coyote driver running engine tests while he had the downtime.
"Nothing, sir," replied Lieutenant Sarkov, commander of Coyote 33. "This is the problem. None of our men have reported any form of animal life, even when stopped here. No nests, no hibernation holes, no fish, no birds, no deer. Trees and high grass, indeed. But we have yet to sight a single common meiko."
"RegIntel advised that blast overpressure during the nuclear exchange may have caused a mass migration of most species," countered Lieutenant Karikov of Coyote 12. "Those that remained died when the ecosystem collapsed. Simple ecology."
Regimental Team B, moving up the lengthy highway to the south, reported a similar sight Barnes had witnessed when crossing the tank traps. It seemed a battle of some kind had taken place on the opposite side they had expected. Other than a few Lieutenants griping about their fuel consumption by taking the thorough, but long southern highway up to the rally point, Team B arrived without incident and set up their own circle of APCs as Team A had done. Bronze Regiment was reunited and ready to proceed together.
They had still not heard a single animal: unusual for early fall.
"Nothing, sir," replied Lieutenant Sarkov, commander of Coyote 33. "This is the problem. None of our men have reported any form of animal life, even when stopped here. No nests, no hibernation holes, no fish, no birds, no deer. Trees and high grass, indeed. But we have yet to sight a single common meiko."
"RegIntel advised that blast overpressure during the nuclear exchange may have caused a mass migration of most species," countered Lieutenant Karikov of Coyote 12. "Those that remained died when the ecosystem collapsed. Simple ecology."
Regimental Team B, moving up the lengthy highway to the south, reported a similar sight Barnes had witnessed when crossing the tank traps. It seemed a battle of some kind had taken place on the opposite side they had expected. Other than a few Lieutenants griping about their fuel consumption by taking the thorough, but long southern highway up to the rally point, Team B arrived without incident and set up their own circle of APCs as Team A had done. Bronze Regiment was reunited and ready to proceed together.
They had still not heard a single animal: unusual for early fall.
Capital Unit 1 Wrote:Bronze Regimental Team A
Position: O8
50x FC200 Coyote
[small]45 Vehicle Petrol Canister per
20 Standardized Vehicle Ammunition per
[/small][small]250 Infantry
Capt. Arnold Barnes onboard[/small]
Capital Unit 2 Wrote:Bronze Regimental Team B
Position: O8
50x FC200 Coyote
[small]41 Vehicle Petrol Canister per[/small][small] (-3)
20 Standardized Vehicle Ammunition per
250 Infantry[/small]