Flamia Files: Part 3

Here we are once again for the third week to bring you another edition of the Flamia Files. With Wotan soon wrapping up, I will definitely be publishing my battle reports from those right after this. There are probably one or two more parts to the Flamia Files before heading into the Wotan storyline which will pick up after this. I was reading through these and realized that my friend and I were never able to conclude this story line which I will do here once the final battle report is finished. Without further delay, let's get into the third part of the Flamia Files!
For those who have missed the first to parts they can be found at the following links:
Flamia Files: Part 1
Flamia Files: Part 2 

The Price Paid in War

+++The following account is taken from Lieutenant Fadi, the lone survivor of a biotech virus attack on Tianxian perpetrated by a rogue element within the Military Orders of PanOceania known as Xandis. This report has been submitted to Hassassin Bahram for review to determine the threat posed by this Xandis and what further action is to be taken. The account details of the final moments of a squad in the Guardian Falcons of Qapu Khalqi. The command of the Guardian Falcons belongs to one Envihon who was away in command of a different squad forewarned about the attack thanks to a Lieutenant Garret surrendering to his forces and warning Envihon. The account is as follows:+++

The attack happened fast and we weren’t prepared for it at all. We were on a routine security patrol safe guarding the portions of Tianxian that Haqqislam controlled when the sirens blasted about a coming blast but these weren’t the usually bomb sirens. These were the ones that indicated a biochemcial hazard release. I radioed my team to move into the safe zones quickly. I coordinated with the Ghulam Doctor I was with…I forget her name now, and it pains me to but as we were moving to position a sniper shot for a TO Camoed Order Sergeant range out and shot her unconcious…there was nothing I could do except take cover as best as I could.

I ordered the Azra’il to move into position to take out the sniper but he was having trouble locking down on the target and there was a Father Knight as well that was giving them trouble. A Yuan yuan dropped down in front of me but she was in the clear so I ordered her to hold. Her partner moved up to provide smoke coverage and allow the others to move out of the danger zones and then the Odalisques that were with us moved up in position. They were taking constant fire but they made it to the safe area fine. The fireteam with the Azra’il then took point and finally a lucky shot brought down the sniper allowing me to join the Yuan Yuan in cover and out of the safe zone. The Shihab, Kaplan Engineer and Ghulam along with the Yuan yuan moved up into an exposed position but they were out of the danger zones. The Azra’il and Hafzas took position along the wall waiting for the rest of the Military Order forces to advance on them and advanced they did. The only causality to die of the biotech virus was the Doctor since her body had to be left behind…

From there, it was a slaughter…the Shihab remote tried to get the Magisters as they left their backfield but it missed. A warrior woman advanced on the Odalisque position and they shot tried to shoot but it just didn’t work but the warrior woman found the Odalisques to be more of a match as their i-Khol took the mysterious woman by surprise. The Husam Spec Ops was able to hack one of the Magisters and stop them but it didn’t slow them down and they began to slaughter the Hafzas. Our forces were brought into temporary reprieve when the Military Orders Lieutenant died…I think maybe to the plague they released but I am not sure in all the chaos…but it unleashed the Magisters even more as they began advance. The chaos there was overwhelming that I don’t remember it…shotgun blasts rang out and the Azra’il tried but it too was brought down. The Kaplan tried to help but was taken down along with the remote. There was nothing we could do. The Yuan yuan I was with eventually left to go kill something but she was taken down by Fusilier gun fire.

The Odalisques held their own against the warrior woman, matching blow for blow with their pheromones disorientating their assailant. An Odalisque stepped out and wounded a Magister but she was soon gunned down as well. The woman took a wound but eventually landed a blow killing the Odalisque. That was when the last Odalisque opened fire with shotgun finally killing the warrior woman but she too died at the Magisters fury. At least they made them pay for it…

It was chaos…a massacre…there was nothing we could do…in the aftermath, I was able to gather everyone’s cube but that didn’t make up for the fact that we were utterly destroyed. This isn’t even counting all the civilians who died because of the attack, hundreds…needlessly dead for what? Do we even know?

+++That is the end of the report. Lieutenant Fadi will be entering a mental health program to treat him for his PTSD. Whether he returns to active duty or not, only time and treatment will tell. It is a shame when a good soldier like this is broken.+++

***Envihon’s personal notes after reviewing the battle. To be submitted to Hassassin Bahram along with mission report for further analysis***
The intelligence received about this attack shows that this now infamous Xandis was behind the attack. What drove him to perform such an act is still unclear. The medical supplies coup was one thing, but the biotech virus release is quite another. This is a dangerous individual. As I have stated before, his behavior doesn’t match that of a typical PanOceanian, they are bullies for sure and will throw their weight around but to release a biotech virus to complete his ends? To have one victory? I have looked into it and it would seem that this battle follows a string of losses at his command. He probably has been getting desperate for some recognition that he finally broke. He decided that if his tactics weren’t going to do it for him, might as well swing the odds in his favor by doing something like killing hundreds of innocents and one of my squads with a biotech virus. He’s now a mad dog without a leash and PanOceania will eventually regret doing that. I actually feel bad for PanOceania.

Even now, they try to say that we are the ones that released the virus to some how save face. Luckily, people aren’t buying it. The people know who protect them and won’t turn on Haqqislam, no matter how much libel PanOceania spews. He needs to be stopped, either by our hands or another.
***End of notes.***

In Pursuit of Justice

***Intelligence Communications Between a Hassassin Govad known as Cerathian and the Qapu Khalqi commander known as Envihon***

Cerathian (C): Commander Envihon, we have some new intelligence on the enigmatic individual within the Military Orders known as Xandis. With how your team has been affected by his actions, we thought you would personally like to look into the matter.

Envihon (E): Well, in that case, you have my attention. Who is this Xandis and why did the PanOceania Lieutenant say he was hunting me? I want to know if my actions did indeed lead to the horrors at Tianxian.

C: Good, I was hoping to peak your interests. Your actions in the field during the conflict of Flamia Island do seem to be connected to Xandis. Your unit has come in contact with him before. During one of your missions when they were protecting a medical transport that was delivering medical supplies to Camp Antela, Military Order forces that Xandis was in ambushed the convoy. It was during their offensive against Antela and they didn’t like the fact that the medical supplies were destined to help Ariadnan citizens not involved with conflict. PanOceania still took offense to this and saw it as aiding the enemy…

E: Those civilians didn’t ask for this war…

C: Envihon, we know how you feel about this. We know how arrogant the PanOceanians are. Any action that they don’t see as directly beneficial to themselves is an act against them. We can’t fix this attitude so regardless of the moral implications of the attack, the Military Order forces still attacked your forces who were guarding the medical transports to prevent the supplies from their intended destination. Fortunately, you used the PanOceanian arrogance against themselves and they underestimated how the Paradiso jungle can act like an enemy itself. You utterly annihilated them. Xandis was an Indigo Spec Ops during the mission and was brought down swiftly by a Djanbazan sniper. His cube was captured but then exchanged in a prisoner swap. This is how we have this information. We downloaded all the information before handing them back to the PanOceania forces. Apparently, he was then resurrected and suppose to be discharged for his gross failure but he made a deal with his command. Enter his radicalization and zealotry which spurned on a vendetta against your forces. His continued losses made him select a most extreme means to finally achieve victory…

E: The Incident at TianXian…

C: The incident at TianXian…yes, it was an attempt to remove you and the Guardian Falcons from delivering the medical supplies once and for all. The plan was to make it look like we have been smuggling weapons but the fail safe was if they failed to release the biotech virus to ensure that the Guardian Falcons were no more. Luckily that Lieutenant warned your forces but the Falcons still took casualties and of course, the price the civilian population paid. No cost was too high it would seem…the virus even killed PanOceania forces but they still authorized it which is odd for PanOceania. They want to win but they always had some honor in doing and if this was Yu Jing, I wouldn’t be surprised but PanO…it’s just weird. Which is why it’s the opinion of Hassassin Bahram that this Xandis is a rogue agent still under the protection of PanOceania. His vengeance has made him reckless and dangerous. He will stop at nothing until he makes amends for the loss at Antela. For this, he is now a target for Hassassin Bahram to be eliminated.

E: Okay, who are you sending in?

C: You, we are taking you out of sleeper status. We felt it was good for you to deal with this personally since you have been so passionate about facing the PanOceania forces and Xandis himself.

E: My unit will notice my absence.

C: Already taken care of. They are being sent to Zhurong. They already know of your leave of absence, it was unexpected but needed for the major offensive. They understood, quite a team of loyal men you have.

E: That is what happens when you are more than just a face or a name to them. Well, time to dust off the old viral rifle.

C: Good, a team is standing by for you in the field. We have Xandis’ location but access to the facility is difficult. The mission is to ambush PanOceania attacking Aranda. We have identified individuals who are connected to Xandis and who would have access to the facility. Eliminate one of those individuals and obtain their cube so that we may extract the information we need.

E: Isn’t PanOceania the main force that could take back Aranda from the Combined Army and place it back into the hands of Humanity? To attack them there would be in direct opposition of Haqqislam’s goal to help humanity…

C: Negative Commander. Our reports show that the biotech virus had a hand in eliminating the Nomad forces holding the city which allowed the Combined Army to take Aranda in the first place. Finding and eliminating Xandis is of the utmost importance before he does something else that helps the Combined Army to get another foothold in Human Sphere territory. This small infraction on PanOceania forces in Aranda is but a small price to pay for the eventual elimination of the dangerous criminal known as Xandis. Good luck brother.
***End of Intelligence Communications***

+++Top Secret Report from Hassassin Envihon+++

The operation to Aranda didn’t go as well as planned but the main objective was complete. For once, we were on the offensive. I attached myself to a contingent of specially trained Ghulam unit that was hand picked for this mission. Our early scouting showed that the PanOceania forces were heavily entrenched. It wasn’t because they had detected us though, the fighting for them had been hard against the Combined Army, in the distance you could always hear distance gun fire and explosions. The Combined Army had hit hard and PanOceania was doing everything they could do to make a dent in the Combined Army forces. They were ready too, with a heavy defensive line established. This defensive line would do a lot to stop our forces from doing anything besides completing our mission.

We had a Fiday who infiltrated their lines in order to get close to their Fusilier Lieutenant. They didn’t suspect a thing as he ran a distraction so we could get the rest of our forces set up to take the offensive. We were able to establish a Shihab remote to cover any forward advance. Our Muyib, Barid, Lasiq and Fiday operatives got into position as we coordinated our strike. The first offensive maneuver was for the infiltrating Fiday to eliminate their leadership at the start of the mission, which he pulled off flawlessly, the Fusilier did not have any time to react but unfortunately when his cover was revealed which resulted in the fate the awaits many Fidays, death and honor in sacrifice for Haqqislam.

The chaos that resulted from this allowed our Fiday on our lines to put out several mines in order to stop any advance from the PanOceanian forces while remaining secret. Our Muttawia’ah that we had also brought along were able to sneak forward as the defensive lines were distracted. It was then that our Muyib fired off several rockets at their defensive line to no avail, they were heavily protected from their vantage point. The Lasiq then advanced forward to get into an advantageous spot to lay down suppressive viral fire but it never got the chance after what happened next.

The PanOceania forces reacted quickly by dropping two Crusaders into out lines. The one from the right struck quickly to mow down the Barid operative with HMG fire while the other dropped behind the Lasiq and gunned him down. The Lasiq could do nothing to safe himself as the Crusader unloaded into the unsuspecting Lasiq’s back, the Lasiq did not survive the Crusader’s well timed attack. This allowed him to move further into our lines where the Shihab opened fire but was ineffective in it’s mission and was also gunned down by the wayward Crusader allowing him to take position to try and flank our Muyib that was raining rockets down onto the defensive team.

This is when I called in the Ragiks to provide counter relief to our forces. One with a spitfire landed behind the Crusader with the HMG where he gunned him down avenging the Barid’s death. The second, landed beyond the flanking Crusader but lost in a shotgun shootout. This is where the Muttawia’ah moved in to isolate the Crusader and then using their chain rifles finally bringing the Crusader down while sacrificing themselves for Haqqislam. The unconscious Crusader finally presented itself with the opportunity we were looking for to complete our mission. The surviving Fiday came under the second group’s authority and moved under my orders to engage the Crusader. He took back to his disguise to move with impunity. He stepped up to slit the Crusader’s throat ending his life and providing the opportunity we needed to extract his cube in order to gain the information we needed to get into the PanOceania facility.

We took heavy casualties but such is the way of the Hassassin Bahram, sacrifice is needed for victory. We ended in a stalemate with the opposing forces but we will win this war with Xandis as his days are now numbered. In the end, we may have not achieved total victory, this Crusader known as Angel is now under our control thanks to him giving us his cube on a silver platter.

We move to extract…be ready for our signal.

***Personal Remarks***
The PanOceania forces are getting better. We weren’t expecting such a heavily defended position and it definitely cost us some men. I did not know those that gave their lives today, that is sacrifice of being Hassassin Bahram but I know they died believing in what they fought for. People like Xandis must be brought to justice and PanOceania has left us no other choice by to act through Hassassin Bahram to achieve victory. Everyone answers for their crimes whether in this world or the next, no one escapes judgement. I will personally ensure that Xandis comes to terms with his crimes.
+++End Report+++

That is the end of Part 3, I hoped you enjoyed it. As always, my friend, until next time, continue to seek knowledge! Mashallah.