"War to the end"

Chapter 1 : Mission Failed

The story begins in a spaceport near the crystal mines in sector #2056 named Fort Iris, a ruined fort that was rebuilt from scratch by the rest of the people that was spared by the great war. My name is Arthur Blackburn , I am a former special operations agent and now retired after that incident 6 years ago which cost the lives of all my men in my squad. It was in a mech research facility in a desert, in the south of Fort Iris which is now an unexplored territory, somewhere in sector #770. Me and my men were gathering intelligence about the new mechs called "Templars", a mech or a machine that is operated by a person inside it used for warfare, which were actually being created illegally since it carried weapons that were not authorized by the government and is considered to be dangerous. Our mission was to confirm the creation of these mechs so that the United Mech Federation (UMF) would be able to shut down these factories and arrest the scientists, who are actually a group of free fighters who were against the government, who were creating these weapons of mass destruction. As we reached the area by paradrop we already reached the landing zone (LZ), we prepared the radio for communication and geared up so that we could infiltrated the facility, which that was our main target. There was no serious problem in entering the target area, well there were only a few guards around, mostly wandering around checking for trespassers. It seemed like they didnt expect us there at all. I wondered why such a facility, that created massively, did not have that much guards for an illegal operation. When we reached the courtyard, which is within the central part of the facility, we overheard two guards, which were wondering what the scientists were doing ,talking about the "Templar mechs" we also heard them talking about the whereabouts of these mechs, which was near the docking bay beside the courtyard, and so we slipped passed the guards and made our way to the docking bay, as we entered in, we saw the mechs being created inside, the mechs were created in assembly lines making them increase in numbers in a short span of time only. We noticed a few nuclear warheads, which are able to destroy anything, being placed in the mechs arm. We took pictures of the mechs and the warheads being placed. We tried contacting our commander to confirm the creation of the mechs when suddenly the alarms are sounded, most of my men started to panic for it was impossible for them to be traced for nobody saw them. As i was talking to the commander, he told me that someone in the UMF has spoken of our presence here in the factory. No wonder there were no guards... they were all preparing to counter-attack us. I told the men to make way to the LZ as fast as they could but there was no chance, we were cornered... most of my men who tried to escape were already shot and only me and two of my soldiers were left .It was a tough fight we were able to kill a few guards but eventually we ran out of bullets and they started to outnumber us. We decided to give up, there was already no chance at all.. we were cornered. So we laid down our weapons and handed the pictures, that we took in the docking bay, and confiscated it from us.. it was a mission failed for we have lost everything including the only thing that could shut down the production of these mechs. We were thrown into a prison in that compound and two of my men who survived were already executed, since our commanding officer did not pay the price that the scientists wanted for the release of the two soldiers.. I was the only one left, after a few weeks I was freed for my commanding officer paid the head scientist for my release. I did not have the evidence and so the factory was not shut down and still continued, and as years passed by the scientists created more and more "Templars" and soon overpowered the government and the UMF. The scientists soon took over the government and posed a new order called the "Dark Union". All that stands against them are a few rebels and one of them is me... We call our selves the "New Republic" , our goal is to take back our land which is rightfully ours and to reform the Old Republic, which has been destroyed and turned to rubble, which brought peace to our planet, since the leaders by then were good. We are being commanded by the former leader of UMF named Viktor Cross. Before the invasion the UMF was able to salvage a few mechs from the "Imperial Army", which made the mechs that were used by the UMF, which is now owned by the Dark Union, and kept it somewhere here in Fort Iris where i live now as a rebel. These mechs that we have salvaged are used for our campaign in retaking back the planet and defeating the Dark Union and banish them for good.