ORDERS FOR AUREK SQUADRON
FROM: GENERAL NARTOL
TO: COLONEL ATUM
YOUR SQUADRON IS BEING SENT ON A MISSION THAT I THINK SHOULD BE
RIGHT UP YOUR ALLEY.
YOU ARE TO LOCATE AND DESTROY AN IMPERIAL WEAPONS FACTORY ON THE
JUNGLE PLANET OF MEIRWEN. WHAT CHARTS WE HAVE ARE INCLUDED HERE,
BUT SOME SEARCHING WILL BE INVOLVED.
THIS FACTORY IS CURRENTLY PRODUCING VARIOUS BASIC IMPERIAL ARMAMENTS
-- BLASTER RIFLES, CANNON FOR SPACECRAFT, ETC., BUT IT ALSO MAY
OR MAY NOT HAVE SOMETHING UP ITS SLEEVE, SO TO SPEAK. THAT JUST
MEANS YOU NEED TO MAKE DAMNED SURE THE WHOLE COMPOUND IS OBLITERATED.
WE DO NOT REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE UP TO, HOWEVER. THERE
IS NO REASON TO TRY TO INFILTRATE THE FACTORY OTHER THAN TO PLACE
EXPLOSIVES. NO DOUBT YOUR SERGEANT CAN SUGGEST THE EXACT MEANS OF
DESTRUCTION.
JUST MAKE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THE JOB IS THOROUGH.
I, AND CERTAIN OTHER MEMBERS OF HIGH COMMAND, HAVE OUR COLLECTIVE
EYE ON YOUR SQUAD, COLONEL. WE ARE NOT AMUSED BY YOUR RECENT ANTICS,
ESPECIALLY THE EPISODE WITH THE TOY FACTORY, WHICH WE ARE GETTING
MAJOR HELL ABOUT FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT CORPORATIONS.
THIS TIME, HOWEVER, WE THINK YOU SHOULD BE SUCCESSFUL, SINCE YOU
ARE, AFTER ALL, DOING WHAT YOU DO BEST -- BLOWING SHIT UP.
GOOD LUCK, COLONEL.
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