The ground - an asphalt pavement specifically - rushed up to Eva, and she found herself suddenly face-down on it. As though she had been there the entire time. She quickly got up, brushed off her dark grey pressure suit, and looked around. There was a long treeline that surrounded the neighborhoo
111 Years Ago - Dendrus IV Fire fell from the sky as multiple fleets tore each other apart in the upper atmosphere. Dendrus IV’s gravity pulled down the debris and detritus greedily, and burned them to atoms as they descended. As though in offering. In turn, the ashes and soot darkened the sky and
It mirrored the city precisely, down to the cracks and debris around the destroyed buildings. Every unit on the field was represented on it with unit markers that exactly matched its real-life counterpart. More impressively, the markers moved and the map changed according to what was actually happen
“Yessir.” The comms operator immediately turned towards their terminal and relayed their status to high command. His hands sped around the terminal as they expertly worked their way through ComSec protocols. The senior officer turned back towards the tacmap and leaned on it for support. The pain i
A few kilometers away on a ridge overlooking the city, a handful of Hussar officers watched as the horrifying battle unfolded before them. Though most of them wore faces of defeat and despair, one was stoic throughout. It seemed as though her face was carved out of stone - her expression was unblin
A forward operations wing up on the ridge then painted the Federation bunker with their targeting array. The array blanketed an entire swath of land around the hill, with the bunker and its pillboxes at the very center of it. Below the ridge, the artillery mecha pilots cranked open their power limi
Deep inside the bunker, only the sound of groans and buckling metal filled the darkened rooms and hallways. After a moment, emergency orange lights switched on as the secondary generators spun up and delivered much-needed power to the nearly-dead base. The thick heavily reinforced bunker walls had
In fact, only half of the equipment in the command center had power going to it, and that severely impacted their effectiveness. With the major down, and no-one in command, the junior officer was forced to step up. Although she had plenty of officer training, this was on a whole ‘nother level. She