WK6 Clegg's Corpse

The K'iou lead STRIKE Operator K'voth Terex, Captain Grant of the Lions of Earth, and the leader of the UFC element gather in an small room used for storage. A blueprint like scan of the ship is on a stack of crates they are using as a table.
"Ok that echoing scream of rage has been identified by base as DP2, a high level TRILAT Prisoner. The half dead consript that got run through in the breach confirmed it before lapsing into a coma. My company has given me the go to get him, if what the Uloh and my teams interrogations of the manslayers here are correct, Clegg is dead and gone, if the mental images the manslayers are sending each other are right their is no bringing her back. So what are we going to do?"

This is Lt. K'nelda of the EEF Fifth Fleet. Elements of the Fifth Fleet have moved into position and with F. M. Strykker's approval, we will be glad to serve in any way we can. What assistance do you require?

Terex nodded hearing her transmission through the small comm crystal he wore as an earring. "Alright we might need the help. Here's my plan:"

First we need Strykker to lock this ship down with his shadowmancers, we can't have its shadow drive activate or anyone shadow jump on or off. CPT Grant (LoE) can you please ask him for that. Also when the time for the assault comes have him send in a team of goliaths the heavy weapons might help us break through

We use the UFC to negotiate with the hive aboard the ship. They lost their magnavore and they are feeling angry and like they are being invaded. We offer the E-strain the Olive Branch. We help them clean up the Rabble, we all get off their ship and shield them till they can get away. We need their help, no way we can move fast enough without it.

Second we get a squad of fighting fifth marines on board to gather up rabble or pieces of them and take them prisoner, we start offering them a better life than dying for the E-strain. Half my fellow STRIKE Contractors will work with them and use their abilities to hack that primitive uplink system Ryuk drilled into their skulls. Legally taken prisoners of war are a great bargaining chip, and will likely be a resource to VLAD. The fighting fifth will be engaging the rabble on the rest of the ship.

The actual assault will be driven by the Lions and the Uloh Squad on board with me and my other man supporting. We blast through to the bridge where the body is, and try some high intensity last second negotiations to get the body and maybe prisoner DP2. I don't mind letting Ryuk go, I won't be getting paid extra for taking him down.

Ok, does some one have something better?

MSgt. Timmons here,

I have something that we can use for leverage with DPrisoner. Uloh has access to a toxin that can kill the larva with out killing the host. It is kept under lock and key with the president and his personel staff.

Checking the crew that came aboard, i have my TechSgt (EEF Technician), 4 manslayers and 1 lamia assualt unit. we were just supposed to hold the door for you but the damn KFeds screwed the pooch as usual. I have been listening to the chatter from the bloomship and the Estrain are going to be out for blood. I can try to negoiate with them for asylum in uloh, see if we can turn them. So long as they have a chance they may listen. I should know I was born one before i evolved to Magnavore status.

CPT Grant nodded, "I like it. We gotta make sure the IR knows our plans also, I bet Palomedes is getting an itchy trigger finger, and we already know Deers has one. Hopefully they can stop the TRILAT from interfering. If Blackheart doesn't succeed at negotiating its release my Lions will go in hot and get them."

"If we breach the heavy lions will act as a meat shield for the rest of the strike team to breach."

Grant took out his radio, "EEF Command This is Lion Alpha. We need you to shadow ward the Honeymoon cruiser and prepare to send a team of goliaths to assist. Over."

Jeremaih's voice broke into the comm net.
"Lion Alpha. Command reads you. We don't have any shadow mancers on hand to send. we can provide a goliath sqaud eqiupped with trap guns that will make shadow wards. They should be enough to close the ship up pretty tight.

Lt. K'nelda, you and the 5th fleet are clear to render any aid you can to Blackheart and the Lions."

CPT Granted nodded to the gathered commanders. "Ok, lets do this." He radioed Strykker, "EEF Command, and 5th fleet command this is Lion Alpha, we are actioning on the objective."