Opening Speech: Greetings! At ease soldiers! I am Colonel Jake Rimerez, and I will be your permanent commanding officer. I am Pepper's right hand, so if you mess with me, you mess with him, so don't get on my bad side! Understand? Good! My second in command, Major Michelle Jenkinson, will assist me with many of my briefs and debriefs, and may even do a few herself in my absence. Michelle, I'll turn this briefing over to you, you need the practice.
~Michelle takes over~
I'll start by briefing you on the current galactic state of affairs. As we are now approaching the fourth year of the Androssian War, and we have made little progress, since we only control Corneria, Fortuna, and Katina, General Pepper has called for the forming of a group of new, elite teams. These teams will be known as Lylatian Elite Strike Teams.
The LESTs mission and long-term goal will be to fight the Androssian forces back to Venom with covert and overt tactics. The general will be making an undisclosed number of these groups, although at this time it's believed that he will be making three. The LESTs will also be top secret. You are not to speak of this group to anyone, not even your families, and when in public places you are not to even talk amongst each other about these new, elite groups.
These groups will be made up of the best of the best; the crème da la crème; the elite of the elite. You are these elite few, and you are LEST 3. Your mission is to uphold justice, to protect the innocent, to bring order to chaos, to protect the Lylat worlds, and to bring the eventual fall of the evil Androssian Empire! Good luck, for you will need it. Our lives are in your hands...
Background: Okay people, listen up, we got a problem. As many of you already know, we have many Greenie Fighters in our fleet. As many of you also know, these fighters do not have hyperspace capability, and require Carrier transport for offensive operations and transport. As many of you don't know, however, we have an abundance of cruisers, but very few carriers to carry "Greenies," as you pilots like to call them, into battle. This mission involves this, as we need every carrier and dreadnought (a cross between a Carrier and a Cruiser… the Great Fox is a Dreadnought) we can get our hands on. If we run out of Carriers, our primary advantage, our abundance of Greenies, goes flying out the window. This mission involves "liberating" one of these Carriers from the enemy.
Mission Situation: The particular ship you will be capturing from the enemy is the VISS "Phoenix." She is a carrier of immense power, being able to carry over three wings of fighters (216 fighters). She is also equipped with excellent point defense (PD) and one forward-fixed heavy offensive laser cannon, designed to take out particularly nasty Cruisers that may be threatening her. In simpletons' terms, she's the jewel of the Venomian Star Fleet. The capture of her would not only bring a huge military asset to our forces, but would also raise moral across the front considerably, and God knows our people need something to lift there spirits. To this end, we will be capturing her. Since the heavy laser cannon prevents a starship boarding by multiple heavy Cruisers, we will be sending in a small group of fighters to quickly get passed her defenses and land in her massive docking bay, taking the ship by force with a small but elite team. That team is you, LEST 3.
Mission: Your mission is a simple but hard one. Capture the "Phoenix" at all costs. Upon coming out of hyper three kilometers from the Phoenix, you will have to speedily take out her shield generators, and then land on her. Upon landing you will have to rendezvous with our informant on board, Zachary Morrow. He has stated he will be on the first or bottom deck (deck 32) when the attack starts, so look for him along the way. After finding him, enter the turbolift if you have not already done so and head for deck 1. Do not, I repeat, do NOT go to any other deck. If you were to try to make your way through all 32 decks, you'd be killed. Upon reaching deck 1, if you have not already found our informant, look for him further. Another person you should look out for is the captain of the ship. He should be somewhere on deck one. Upon finding him, kill him. Show no mercy LEST 3, no matter how much he begs. Remember that this man has killed thousands of our pilots and crewman with his ship, and has ruthlessly tortured many more. He must be made an example of. After finding the informant and killing the captain, make your way to bridge and destroy the self-destruct mechanism. The Vennies would rather destroy their jewel of a ship than have it captured by the likes of us. Remember, if an officer triggers that mechanism, both you, and almost more importantly, that ship dies. Do not allow them to trigger that mechanism, and be sure to destroy it! After you have done all of these things, found and killed the captain, found our informant and escort him, and destroy the self-destruct mechanism, make your way to the Enviromental Control (EC) station on the bridge. Our informant now comes into play, since he is the EC Officer. He will proceed to flush all oxygen out of all decks except one. Upon doing this, secure deck 1, and the ship is ours! Once all of this is completed, the LASS "Truman" will come in to dock with the Phoenix, and give her a new, Cornerian crew for the flight home to Corneria. Good luck! Also, during this mission you will be equipped with a subspace comm that will allow you to contact me if the situation becomes dire. However, this subspace comm only has one power pack, and since the comm eats up power so quickly, it will only last ten minutes, at absolute most! Good luck, and Godspeed!
In-Mission Referance Area
MAP:
Objectives:
PRIMARY: Capture the VISS "Phoenix" at all costs.
SECONDARY:
I. Upon coming out of hyper destroy the shield generators.
II. Land in the docking bay of the VISS "Phoenix."
III. Find our informant and escort him to the bridge of the "Phoenix."
IV. Kill the captain of the "Phoenix." Show NO mercy.
V. Destroy the self-destruct mechanism and prevent it's triggering.
VI. Flush all oxygen out of decks 32 through 2.
VII. Secure deck 1 personally.
VIII. Assist the LASS "Truman" in there docking efforts.
IX. Head home.
Equipment:
1 Mydron-SXL Laser Pistol Each
1 Intek Pulse Laser Rifle Each
1 Rorynex Laser SMG Each
8 Extra Energy Clips
6 Grenades Each (Your choice of type. explosive, frag, incendiary, flash, concussion)
1 Flak/Ablative Tactical Vest Each
1 Commlink Plus One Extra Each
1 Subspace comm w/powerpack
1 Melee Weapon of Choice Each
2 Paw Cuffs Each