Log (transcript): mission key Papa Delta 492/Radio Communications callsigns Nightfall, Citadel/Date logged: 02070012-0040H/Location: Canterlot City/Begin transcript follow///
02070012-0040H: Nightfall Lead (Ground Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::Citadel, this is Nightfall Lead! We've been pushed back to the city's power relay station and are about to be overrun! Operation: Dead Winds has failed to meet mission objectives and is moving to contingency six-zero: hostile forces must not be allowed possession of the Manaveil drive. We need to detonate, over!///
02070012-0042H: Citadel Direct (command asset) relay Nightfall Team (ground Asset)///
::Damnit, Spitfire! You can't do that!
02070012-0043H: Nightfall Lead (Ground Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::My team knows what they signed up for, ma'am. There's no other way.
02070012-0044H: Citadel Direct (command asset) relay Nightfall Team (ground Asset)///
::Don't you pull the ma'am card on me now, "Captain"! You promised me one thing! Do you remember what that was?
02070012-0046H: Nightfall Lead (Ground Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::I'm sorry, I can't ///break///
02070012-0046H: Citadel Direct (command asset) relay Nightfall Team (ground Asset)///
::What was it?
02070012-0050H: Nightfall Lead (Ground Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::I'd come home.
02070012-0052H: Nightfall Lead (Ground Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::For whatever it's worth, I'm sorry.
02070012-0053H: Citadel Direct (command asset) relay Nightfall Team (ground Asset)///
::Don't be sorry! Just hold out a little while longer! Reinforcements are coming!
02070012-0055H: Nightfall Lead (Ground Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::Not soon enough.
02070012-0055H: Citadel Direct (command asset) relay Nightfall Team (ground Asset)///
::Don't you dare detonate that ///break///
02070012-0056H: Nightfall Lead (Ground Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::I love you.
02070012-0058H: Citadel Direct (command asset) relay Nightfall Team (ground Asset)///
::I love you too.
System error report: all communication status [blackout] in the vicinity of Canterlot City. Teams in the area run risk of high-level mana-radiation exposure. No further deployment recommended (overruled by authority Alpha, keystroke follows: [Princess Twilight Sparkle] That's my wife down there, you son of a bitch! I don't care what the "military recommendation" is, go find her!")
System error report: Communications in the vicinity of Canterlot reestablished after two-three mikes. Legion Flight Niner-Zero-Seven, callsign Gatekeeper, deployed with magical scanning equipment to look for any survivors from Operation: Dead Wind. Communications transcript excerpt follows:
Log (transcript): mission key Papa Delta 496/Radio Communications callsigns Gatekeeper, Citadel/Date logged: 02070012-0144H/Location: Canterlot City/Begin transcript follow///
02070012-0144H: Gatekeeper Lead (Flight Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::Citadel, this is Gatekeeper. We've finished our sweep over Impact Zero. MRI equipment was useless--the area's coated in some pretty dense radiation. No survivors located on visual scans. Mission parameters met. Advice course of action, over.
02070012-0145H: Citadel Direct (command asset) relay Nightfall Team (ground Asset)///
::Gatekeeper, this is Citadel. There has to be someone down there. Keep looking, over.
02070012-0158H: Gatekeeper Lead (Flight Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::Citadel, this is Gatekeeper. We just finished our third pass over the city. No survivors.
02070012-0204H: Gatekeeper Lead (Flight Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::Citadel, this is Gatekeeper. Repeat: We just finished our third pass over the city. No survivors.
02070012-0204H: Citadel Direct (command asset) relay Nightfall Team (ground Asset)///
::I know. Return to base at this time.
02070012-0205H: Gatekeeper Lead (Flight Asset) relay Citadel (command asset)///
::Copy that. We are RTB at this time, out.
File notes: transcript files contain additional surveillance transcripts from ENS Solaris (PCV-1). As follows:
Log (transcript): mission key NONE/Surveillance subjects: [Commandant] Celestia [Commandant] Luna/Date logged: 08230021-1624H/Location: ENS Solaris/Begin transcript follow///
08230021-1624H: [commandant] Luna to [Commandant] Celestia///
::I had no idea she lost so much.
08230021-1626H: [commandant] Luna to [Commandant] Celestia///
::Is this why she refuses to talk about the war?
08230021-1627H: [commandant] Celestia to [camera]///
::Kill the feeds.
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