New Galactic Supremacy - American Space Taliban / NGSCORP

The first recorded mention of NGSCORP is found in a UEE military operational report, citing the refusal of a lone remaining NGSCORP operator to yield the UEE authorized Widow embargo on behalf of its contractor, who was acting on a mandate and corresponding writ of assistance from UEE Central Fleet CMD, the corporate representative of which yet remains unnamed.

Civilians and drug traffickers were notified over broad spectrum multiple modulation that their intrusion into embargoed space had been detected, and that elite NGSCORP operational elements were being scrambled from their barracks to secure the site of a suspected drug lab, which was indicated by human intelligence to be supplying a disproportionate quantity of the Widow in the planetary system. Pamphlets were dropped on concentrations of civilians advising them that any remaining souls would be considered hostile combatants, and would be subject to armed action.

Upon approach to the surface, a shuttle containing a small detachment, which amounted to a squad sized element of heavily armed reconnaissance and interdiction specialists, NGSCORP operators, was detected by an enemy ISR vessel stationed on a terrain feature overlooking the contact area. This detection was relayed to the gun crew via plasma induced EHF LOS. The shuttle containing the NGSCORP team was subsequently engaged by anti-aircraft artillery on approach, and fell off glideslope as NME AAA fire dialed in its atmospherics. A round from the third burst fired by the radar guided anti-aircraft artillery detonated just inside the wake of the ship, tearing one engine asunder, shattering the windscreen and setting alight the twisted mass of searing metal, rendering it a spiraling death comet. This shuttle would prove to be a coffin for 7 of the eight operators on board.

The infrared burst from the detonation of the enemy ordinance employed against the NGSCORP transport were of sufficiently low magnitude as to be below the detection threshold of the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance assets NGSCORP had on station in the system, which proved in vivo to be wholly inadequate. The events, detected by UEE arrays, were not relayed to NGSCORP until corporate command elements contacted a UEE liason, who informed them an interdiction team had reported going kinetic, and subsequently fallen off the grid. All attempts to contact the team had failed, and only one Emergency Locator Transponder was detected as having been activated in the vicinity of the crash.

Several days later the NGSCORP council authorized the dispensation of an expeditionary party to travel to the site where the team had gone missing. The testimony contained within this report was obtained by careful analysis of the helmet camera recovered from the surviving operators body, amalgamated with information obtained during the debriefing of the recovery teams’ command elements.

The expeditionary team found it likely, based on the patterns of injuries found at the crash site, that 5 of the 7 NGSCORP fatalities found at the crash site were resultant from blunt force trauma, and 2 can be attributed to blood loss. As for the cause of the multiple fractures exhibited by the fatalities…it can only be postulated that during it’s powered descent the hull began a violent oscillation, which resulted in the operators “Pinballing” through the crew compartment, until such time as they lost consciousness due to volumetric hypoxia cephalus, or lack of oxygen delivery to the brain. The remaining 2 fatalities found at the impact site were found to have succumbed to hypovolemic shock as a result of the violent motion of the vessel – puncture wounds inflicted by fixtures inside the crew compartment.

The remaining operator, apparently, incensed by the loss of his unit, crawled out of that twisted, burning hunk of hastalloy, and began to asses his situation. Being that his long haul communications arrays were totally destroyed during the 3 kilometer powered descent to the surface, he activated his ELT transponder, and began to prepare to harbor in place. After a harbor site had been improvised, and lacerations bandaged, the operator found, we surmise, one transport that had remained operational inside of the cargo bay. Realizing rescue wasn’t coming anytime soon, and that it would be days before he was to report in, and that his targets would likely egress after having detected their entry, he began a movement.

The transport was heavily damaged at the time of recovery, but our experts have examined the damage sustained by it, and concluded that it was resultant from a firefight between the surviving operator, and an opposing force. We believe the NGSCORP operator began a movement, an advance to contact, to confront the personnel at the target facility with the vehicle recovered from the scene of the crash, despite being outnumbered 5:1, he had been detected, but was presumed dead, and so the much coveted element of surprise had been restored. We believe he somehow infiltrated the facility posing as a buyer, drew his sidearm, eliminated two guards, and proceeded to execute captured enemy personnel as well as technical advisers, before they could be withdrawn to a satellite outpost.

The Laboratory Staff managed to transmit a distress beacon before they were executed, presumably to their affiliates in the loose association of cartels we know as “The Syndicate”. It is the syndicate, we believe, that deployed their Quick Reaction Force to the facility, numbering 5 personnel. This vessel, a Constellation of some description, flying authentication codes of the syndicate, was detected and identified by the classified UEE ELF EM signature monitoring system, Gatekeeper, as it passed through the planetary cordon and was last observed by UEE ISR networks on a course that puts it in the contested area during the time in question.

Although damaged by an ionizing radiation storm prior to recovery, the video retrieved from the helmet camera of the survivng operator is somewhat intelligible. It clearly depicts our NGSCORP operator, traversing the target facility, assessing his course of action, plotting his rallypoints, killzones, fire sectors. Ultimately, our operator is shown to exit the facility, board his transport, and set up overwatch on a ridge overlooking the contact area.

Thereafter, a constellation is then seen to fall out of hyperspace, and begin an approach to the facility discharging its weapons with reckless abandon at the cyclilic rate, at anything and everything surrounding the facility. Our operator at this point puts glass on them, and observes 3 of the 5 enemy combatants disembark from the constellation, and enter the facility. It can only be presumed that the three which had headed inside radioed back to the ship that all they found were dead bodies, and this caused those two to, in turn, disembark from the ship. Our operator identified one of the two men disembarking as an officer, through careful observation. At this time, our operator observed the delineation, and calculated his force multiplier to be approximately 2-1/2, and so he boarded his transport, and set upon them from his observation point high on the ridge to a small outcropping of rocks, a covered position he had identified as having a good sector of fire on the airlock entrance, with no rat lines on either flank.

As our operator reached his final firing point, he dismounted his transport, and began the onslaught, discharging his weapon at the cyclilic rate, dividing his attention between hostiles until two magazines were expended, and one hostile, the enemy officer, the Constellation Captain, was eliminated. The remaining hostile, the captain of the Syndicate Constellation, took up a position opposing the FFP, and a firefight between the NGS operator and the Syndicate Rapid Action Team (RAT) member ensued. It is at this time, we believe, an unknown Titan Avenger, an asset heretofore unknown to be on station entered the battlespace, and proceeded to engage the Syndicate Rapid Action Team, decimating their position and killing the remaining RAT team member who was embattled. It is believed that amidst the fog of war, the unknown pilot who neutralized the enemy position disembarked from his vessel, and was subsequently engaged, and killed, by the very operator he had aided amidst the maelstrom.

The remaining rapid action team members rallied inside the drug lab which had become their prison, and began to mass for egress, at this point thinking they were outnumbered. Our operator heard their comms chatter, the countdown to their opening of the airlock for their movement to the cargo bay of their constellation, and he was ready with the slack out of the trigger, sighted and ready to go as soon as the airlock door opened, rounds were screaming in the airlock at the Rapid Action Team at the cyclilic rate, like a landing craft on D-Day. One of the rapid action team members hesitated, he who hesitates is lost, and so, he was struck in the head cold bore by the first series of rounds, and killed more or less instantly. A second member of the team made a bee line for the elevator of the Constellation, but was torn to pieces in the 30 meter killzone that separated the fatal funnel of the airlock from his transport. This man was seen to miraculously escape in critical condition – as a result of our agent embattled with the other remaining combatant, the more inveterate member of his Syndicate RAT, who knew how to shoot, move, and communicate.

This third member of the interior party, took a position on the flank, and attempted to advance directly into the rock outcropping in which our operator was stationed. In that microsend, our operator sensed his own weakness, and promptly struck a blow to nullify it – Because of this enemy action, he had a binary option: Fire or Maneuver. Rather than yield the day and make egress, this heralded our operators emergence from cover, a confrontation of the final remaining enemy toe to toe, in an ok-corrale esque wild western shootout in which there was no cover, or concealment – as he had emerged from defilade in the rocks to prevent being overrun in close combat, in which standoff range would be lost. Amazingly, the man kept advancing until our operator only had 13 rounds remaining in his weapon, at which point the enemy finally succumbed to the massive bloodloss resultant from the 23 impacts found to have occured on his SAPI, and fell dead.

In the process of eliminating this hostile combatant, our operator received three gunshot wounds, believed to have been ballistic in nature, to his torso, resulting in massive hemorrhaging and the onset of hypovolemic shock. It is at this point the video then shows our operator attempt to treat his wounds, until he observes the turrets on the constellation engage, as the last of the enemy RAT attempts to eliminate him. It is then our operator is seen to board his transport in order to make egress back to the designated landing zone, amidst perilously close supporting fires from the constellation, landing astride the Light Assault Vehicle. He then loses consciousness and succumbs to his wounds, not having had time to properly treat them.

Upon receipt of this report, a request for action was filed and granted by the NGSCORP chairmen, which resulted in a retaliatory strike against known and suspected Syndicate harbor sites throughout the system. During this subsequent campaign, vessels from the scene of the drug lab massacre were tracked to an abandoned artificial satellite within the planetary system. An internal NGSCORP communique then went out, requesting any assets already in position to launch an immediate retaliatory strike before the intelligence expired and the target vessels moved on.
One NGSCORP operator happened to be in a position to strike immediately, but he understood the time domain…It must be now, or its too little too late. He fell out of hyperspace, alone, in a cutlass black, with 8 magazines and a set of light armor. They weren’t expecting him, so the guard at the door was unaware when the first bolts from the cannon struck his torso.

NGSCORP ISR, had tracked the enemy vessel from the scene of the drug lab massacre to an abandoned artifical satellite. Six enemy combatants were killed by a single operator when an unmarked civilian ship piloted by an NGSCORP employee gunned down a gate guard, crashed his ship halfway through the window of the enemy facility, initiated the self destruct sequence, and jumped from the side door of the cutlass. Confused, engines on and afterburners aglow, the enemy began to move in on the ship that had decimated their fleet with intent to take blood in exchange for their steel. That is about the time the cutlass detonated, killing 3 enemy combatants instantly. Immediately after this cataclysmic blast, the NGSCORP operator begins his breach, only to see the last remaining combatant trying to flee the station, now burning and full of bodies – But – NGSCORP has no facilities for prisoners it cant sell, and this is about making a point – so, he squashed him. Quickly thereafter, two MISC Freelancers arrive with reinforcements, our man lies in wait until they pass over to enter the facility, infiltrates one freelancer in the convoy, kills the crew, and dives out of the ship – when it detonates, it takes out the second. A one man army? Hardly – Just another NGSCORP Operator In Motion, exploiting flaws in the enemies communication and coordination.