Hulkamania wrote: ↑04 Oct 2017, 17:54
It was on Ice Colony. Alpha was chosen by Commander Carson to go down before briefing and secure telecomms and get the power online. We deployed to the frozen wastes, mere boys, not knowing what was truly waiting for us down below. After some confusion, we began trekking through the snow and arrived at telecomms, getting it online before moving to power. Around this time we began seeing the first signs of hostiles, and we got word that our specialist had strayed from the group, never to be seen again.
After power and communications were online we relocated back to telecomms to gather up some stragglers, and began to reinforce as per our orders. Slowly it became our fortress, our home, our village. The mighty Red Tribe was dug in, and we began to settle. Supplies were given from on high, meals and metal, and our tribe prospered. Soon the other squads began to run in to trouble, and Charlie sought refuge in the Red village. We welcomed them with open arms, the Purple Chieften gave us an offering of Sandals as a show of fellowship which I accepted with gratitude.
The tribes attempted to intermingle, but the Purple Women are strong and deemed our warriors unworthy, we remained a male dominated group with little prospects of interbreeding. Discussions were had about the possibility of Red and Blue becoming Purple together, but we all agreed Blue was not to be bred with. Soon word came from on high that we were to go down the elevator and face the enemy head on, which would ultimately be our downfall.
The entire crew that could fit inside the elevator brought all of our ample supplies with us, and we sought the foe. After a very brief struggle, most of both squads were wiped out, outside of myself the squad lead, a smartgunner, a medic and a single PFC. Normandy arrived to bring us to salvation but the fight was hard fought with the xeno's clawing at our doors to drag us away.
Once we were shipside, we treated our wounded and redeployed, battle hardened and ready for revenge. It was nought to be at the time, although our orbital bombardment claimed three of their lives. We gathered in briefing, and swapped tales of our previous conquest. The first squad to go, the last to leave we mourned our dead when the alarm came, the enemy was coming to us.
The Commander ordered us to gather in briefing, and Red Tribe prepared. Our forces were trained, they knew the enemy and they knew where to hit them hardest. As the collision impact announcement came the men prepared to drink the blood of the foe, and a flash of light accompanied their landing...
All of Alpha was wiped entirely out by the dropship, nary a bullet was fired. A dishonorable death for a warrior tribe, never to die in combat as they wished.
10/10 would do again. RIP Dinky, the Lost Tribesman.