| From: | Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Village forensics results |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:15:52 -0700 |
>>>>>[ JM: Lt. Cmdr. Jose Montoya
CD: Cmdr. Paul Drake
JM: Boss, most of the forensics results are in.
CD: Excellent. What are you still waiting for?
JM: Magical, mostly. They're trying to get a lock on some of the blood
samples that we believe were from the attackers, rather than the villagers.
CD: How long on those?
JM: Another couple of days. We'll be back in town by the time they're done.
CD: Fair enough. Report on the current results.
JM: The sites show all the evidence of a professional merc unit. The
approach was timed to cut off all exits and to give the villagers a false
sense of escape. Basically, the first team hit and drove the villagers out
of their huts, and those who tried to flee were cut down by an implaced
team. The surivors fled the one remaining direction only to be turned back
by the arrival of the final team.
Over at the second site, the attack was more subtle and significantly
nastier. The unit approached under the cover of several jammer drones
which cut off the reports from the patrols. The patrols were then
eliminated, and the site penetrated. The site, by the way, was and
underground armaments bunker, as we suspected, with enough weaponry to
finance a small civil war. But back to the attack, the penetration team
utilized several advanced sneaksuits to suppress thier thermal and
ultrasonic signatures, penetrated the central bunker, and planted explosive
charges. They were discovered, probably in the process of planting the
explosives, and the teams outside the bunker blew the bunker, possibly
prematurely. That alerted everyone outside the radius of the explosion
that something was going on, and the firefight ensued shortly thereafter.
The attacking unit had excellent intel, as they had all the exits from the
bunker covered and brought down every person exiting the bunker. There
does not appear to have been any survivors. That's the jist of it.
CD: You don't think the bunker was blown prematurely, I take it.
JM: No, I don't, and neither do the forensics guys. The charges were
placed so specifically that they destroyed preciesely what they were
supposed to, and very little else was seriously damaged. In addition,
there were several dozen thermite charges in the ceiling designed to slag
everything in the bunker down to scrap metal and carbon, but they didn't go
off because one of the demolition charges was "dropped" right over the
control system. Convenient, that.
CD: Definately. What about the villagers?
JM: They were killed in seriously sadistic manners. No-one uses API on
unarmored civilians unless they want the target to die quickly, but
horribly. There's a lot less nasty ways to drive people out of huts than
willy pete. Hell, the guys thought that the elderly and sick were targeted
first, before the villagers who actually had a chance to defend themselves.
And no-one uses FLEX armor-degrading ammo on unarmored targets. Forensics
thinks that some of the people were killed by bone fragments from their
friends' and relatives' exploding limbs and skulls due to the FLEX rounds.
Basically, the whole area shows wanton cruelty. Someone may be trying to
pin it on Dr. Jackson, but no legal or corporate orginization would believe
it. This is so far outside his MO that you couldn't see the MO
CD: And the magic forensics?
JM: We found a page out of one of the inventory reports. It indicated
that this site was paying out to a Man UpTown. On the other side we found,
written in blood, the words "No Innocents". Other partial document
fragments indicate that this was a Man UpTown storage area.
CD: That's a name I haven't heard for a while. Interesting to hear he's
still in buisness. He and Alex were direct competitors, and with Alex out
of the market, I imagine that MUT has picked up much of the slack. No hard
evidence, unfortunately. Anything else?
JM: No, sir. That's about all. I'll have a full report for you upon
arrival in Seattle.
CD: Glad to hear it. If anything comes up, let me know.]<<<<<
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