In game 1 the quartz had been found at a distant mining camp. It had caused some miners to flee but some had been driven mad and started to worship the crystal. The Hermes crew had to get an engineer to the crystal so it could be damped.
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| The isolated camp |
The cultists advanced rapidly as I approached the crystal but I was able to put out a security detail and protect the engineer.
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| The cultists |
After a brisk melee the cultists were driven off and no damage had been done.
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| Crystal damped |
In the second game the mission was get get sample of the crystal back to HQ for testing my the boffins. Mindful of its value a rival mining company had dispatched some hired assassins to intercept the Hermes crew.
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| The assassins |
The aggressive assassins pushed forward attack under cover of fire from a sniper that was accompanying them.
It was a congested battlefield so I set up a fire zone using the engineer with the crystal as bait. The planned worked decently with the attack beaten off.
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| Ambush |