Mission 3027-02: Good news!

Aberystwyth, Timbuktu Theater, Lyran Commonwealth

March 31, 3027

Pilot Skill: 3-5

Okay Boys, listen up! Ever since you broke up our recent pirate raid, the locals have been stumbling around in the snow trying to find the rest of the bad guys without any luck. Our best guess is that the bandits have been just as blind and lost as we are.

Fortunately, for us, a local geological survey team spotted something odd on one of their satellite sweeps. It seems like they spotted a large mass of metal in a remote valley, not far from your last skirmish. We managed to scramble a recon drone during a brief lull in the weather, and good news! It looks like we’ve located the bandit dropship. It’s hard to say for sure how many pirates are hanging around to guard it, but they probably can’t take off until the storm passes, so we have ‘em trapped for now.

If you head on over to Grid Point Delta immediately, you might be able to sneak up on the bad guys, and capture their ride. Who knows? Maybe we can use the information in the nav computer to back track where their base is located. I know, dropships are big and scary and pack a lot of firepower. That's okay, we got you some toys to play with. Turns out the Lyran militia on planet has a trio of aging mobile Thumper artillery batteries. If you'd like, you can spot for them to take shots at the dropship. Be careful, though - if you hit it too hard you won't be able to salvage any goodies they might have inside.

Oh, and one more thing - we're kinda on the clock here. Radar tells us there's a lull in the storm coming pretty soon. If that happens, the pirates will be able to take off, and the Elsies really don't want that happening. They might be able to shoot it down (they do have some aerospace assets in system), but that's a risk they'd really prefer not to take.