• Mission Type: Initial Mission
• Mission Goal: Rescue the Commander from Blighter's Troops
• Specialists: Heavy, Officer, Sniper, Scout, Medic
• Squad: The Grinning Ravens
• Enemy Forces: Hosts, Hives (Blighter)
• Losses: Squad Private Zaya Danovich

= Day 1

== TODO Name of the mission

=== TL;DR heroic

• *siv* kites big group away from the main street
• *sapphire* shreds a group in the main street, dancing
• *amber* snipes down the big hybrid
• *colay* survives a full artillery blast

=== Story

==== Prelude

.The one in which we find our Ascendant

A cloudy day. Not that you could see it from within the stuffy APG. The vanguard seems peaceful and safe. So they say... We arrive on the market square or whatever there's left of it. Finally fresh air again. A deep breath and then we join the other soldiers.

After securing the perimeters, we spot some allies approaching. They fly the [?] flag. Finally! A fellow soldiers runs ahead to greet them. The faint sound of approaching shells lets our blood freeze. No, no no no! And a deafening explosion blows the soldier into a million pieces. Ambush! Upon closer inspection the allies look only half human. Metal parts and wires protrude from their bodies, what a grizzly view. We start firing on our former allies. To our horror there are not only soldiers but also a large hybrid human/machine construct. Upon firing on it, a swarm of corruption assaults the shooter. The army of machine-soldiers approaches further through the main street. Just when things were getting desparate, a soldier of ours -- *Karoi Zayovich* -- started to levitate into the air, creating a protecting force-field around him. What a bizarre sight. Under heavy artillery fire, *Colay* runs through a collapsing hallway, surviving a full on shell-blast. To relieve the pressure in the main street, *Siv* kites away a large group of machine-soldiers. Under fire she leads them towards our main group, where *Amber* snipes down the big hybrid with a targeted shot. Just in time. Now that the main street the storm of enemies is a bit relieved, *Sapphire* starts to dance the deadly dance of her people, clearing out the street. Thanks to the cleared main street and the fallen large hybrid, we mop up the remaining enemies easily.

==== The Rescue

.The one in which we rescue our commander

Just after the skirmish an urgent message arrives: Our commander is abducted. We jump in our APG and rush to the reported crime scene, narrowly avoiding big mines. At the battlefield we are greeted with a grim sight: Lots of blood, bodies and corruption. A (barely) surviving ally points us towards a nearby hospital. Our ascendant stays behind and distracts scattered enemies. In the resulting conclusion, we sneak into the hospital. Relatively quickly we find our commander, unconcious and tied to an operation table. We tie him to a rolling table, booby-trap the operation room and head out of the hospital. While retreating and picking up the ascendant, the enemies intensify their fire. Our fellow soldier *Zaya Danovich* falls, while heroically securing our retreat.