RMJ 1-11: Engaging the Red Iron Controller

Mission Report

Friday, February 26, 2027 ((2023-04-02))
Team: Aoibhe (Dae), Key (Dragon), Magni (absent), Pebble (Basil), Reezelyn (Aslene), Wraith (Mike)

We approached the cave of the Red Iron Controller. Magni modified a scout drone with a Geiger counter and we sent it ahead. The cave is small. It’s dominated by a pillar of oily black Reavertec inside a malfunctioning force field, surrounded by radiation and mud. The Controller has guarded itself on the Grid with locked Sihblosians from the past. In the Swift, we found the much large Reaver lorehold defended by the locked spirits of Republic troopers from the present. The Controller seems to be drawing locked hosts to its cave, where it eats their brains for intel. We began fighting the Controller and its puppets. On the Grid, the Controller raised more zombies from the trooper’s remains, but Skadi’s song sprites put them down. In the Swift, a trooper took down Doc.

Details

• Tactical Drill: Not this episode
• It's Friday, February 26, 2027. It's about 10 am. It's been 20 days since the Wall went up (2/7/27).
• Hot Objectives...
  • Complete your testing to join the Republic Marshals.
  • Get to know the other members of your squad.
  • Investigate the Reavernet signal.
• Skadi: Asking Marshal's command for coverstory about red iron crabs - and making sure other Marshal's are on the hunt for them.
• Radiation shielding is flickering in a repeating pattern
• Temperature = Freezing, Sky = Cloudy, Wind = 0, Precipitation = Light Snow
• Team gets pre-treatment for radiation
• Radiation emergency drug loaded into WIVERNs
• Skadi: The hazmat suits are dirty grey and thick, being the industrial use hazmat suits used on the walker for repairs - as opposed to medical hazmat suits. They make walking up the mountain a workout that makes the still suits whir overtime processing sweat. Reeze murmers through the chain - 'Those red lines mean we should try to use grip to or other methods to stay off the floor." Her suit is a little odd compared to the rest, carrying the glimmer of rainbow iridescence like an oil slick over it's surface. The swirls move.
• Reeze makes sure that sticky napalm bombs are in the standard kit.
• Key (Khione): The flaming sphere lights up the cave, overtaking the evil strobe effect with lively fire orange. Ice near it starts to steam and the belongings of the zombies are smoldering in the flames.