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Mission Name: "Neither Rain nor snow..."
Mission Type: Subplot to Sentinels
Difficulty: Easy
Number of Players: 2-3
Setting to Be Started In: SDF-3
Comments: This should be used as a lead-in to an Invid Invasion series of adventures.
As newly trained pilots you don't expect such a sudden assignment. However, you are suddenly awakened when Admiral Hunter calls you to a briefing in the middle of the night.
"Good evening gentlemen. You have been chosen for a special assignment. It is not one that requires much combat, but is important nonetheless. As you know, morale among the troops has been, a bit low. So the leaders of the REF- Me, Commander Hayes-Hunter, and Colonel Edwards- have decided have decided to send a fold capable ship bearing letters from the crew back to Earth.
"Since we need all the experienced pilots we can get for the war, we decided to send a few newer pilots. You will fly escort for the Mailman, the craft bearing the letters. You must fly quite close to be caught in the fold. You will deliver the letters, pick up all letters from Earth, and return back to the SDF-3. You leave tomorrow at thirteen-hundred hours. Dismissed."
You are issued back to your bunks. The night passes without further disturbance and you wake up.
heading to the main hangar at the expected time and your mecha are there waiting there for you and the last of the capsules bearing the letters from the crew are loaded. At long last you launch.
The first few hours go without circumstance until you reach the fold point. The blinding blue light engulfs you and you arrive at the fold location. You look down at a bluish planet, but it is not Earth. The controller from the Mailman radios that you were tricked. Somebody tampered with the fold coordinates and the the blue planet you see is Optera: homeworld and military stonghold of the Invid.
You are given the command to stick to the Mailman while the pilot sets in the new coordinates for Earth. Radar indicates six Invid Shock Troopers heading toward the Veritechs. (Roll initiative) [At the first actions of the Invid, they attempt to attach to the Veritechs' cockpits and electrocute the pilot.]
[After Shock Troopers are destroyed] The pilot of the Mailman says he almost has the coordinates in the navigational computer but says there are fifteen Armored Scouts are on their way.
[After last of the Invid are destroyed] The coordinates are locked in the computers and you fold to Earth. You arrive at Earth and enter the atmosphere.
END OF FIRST HALF OF ADVENTURE-------------------------------
Mission Name: "Neither Rain Nor Snow Part II"
Mission Type: Continuation
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
Number of Players: 2-3
Comments: This should be used as a lead-in to an Invid Invasion series of adventures.
You land safely at the designated site. It is nearly destroyed, and the remains of the sentry force are strewn miles around.
[If they decide to search]
Very little is left except for a few holed carcasses slumped on their computer equipment. A recorded message sender button is blinking, ready to be played.
It says (not yet encoded): "This is Earth Outpost 00248. We are requesting immediate backup! Mars Base support has been eliminated! We're under attack! Repeat: Requesting immediate...Arrghh!" Static comes over the message. You reach the conclusion that the majority of the recipients of the Mailman's mail have been killed. Over the next few days you distribute the mail to the surviving humans. You always hear of a rendezvous somewhere near a place called Reflex Point. You run into soldiers who are on their way to fight the Invid. One soldier asks you to help with the fight against the Invid Invaders after telling you the story of the Invasion. Do you wish to help in the assault on Reflex Point?
[If they decide to immediately distribute the messages]
Over the next few days you distribute the mail to the surviving humans. You always hear of a rendezvous somewhere near a place called Reflex Point. You run into soldiers who are on their way to fight the Invid. One soldier asks you to help with the fight against the Invid Invaders after telling you the story of the Invasion. Do you wish to help in the assault on Reflex Point?
