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>>1144012

(That took a bit longer than I thought.)

The current situation is as follows: you have recently retaken Pacifica by free and more-or-less-fair elections. The Temple's reaction was to invoke the Sixth Trumpet Judgement upon you: four angels and an army of demons to kill a third of the men in the land.

The "demons" so far have turned out to be former The Other Light soldiers, turned rabid pseudo-undead; they fell quickly before your Legion.

Three Angels and an Archangel appeared to lead them; you've taken out two of the former.

Now, you are tracking the surviving Divine messengers as they apparently build a yet stronger army, in the interior of the Pacifican grassland.

# Land STD's in the vicinity.

# Have the STD's drop a fuel-air explosive in the vicinity.

# Converge your Legion, somewhat fatigued after wide-area patrols, onto the targets.

# Fly in your martial artists.

# Put the local farms under surveillance by activating local electronics.

# Send inspection teams into the local farms.

# Anything else you may want to try. Your Legion is intact, your Villains are mildly fatigued, and you have 2 cabals and 2 international assists left in reserve. 5 cabals are already on the case.

>>1144124
>Put the local farms under surveillance by activating local electronics.

>Get our Martial artists into the air so we can drop pod onto the Angels, And distract them until the others get in.

>>1144124
># Converge your Legion, somewhat fatigued after wide-area patrols, onto the targets.
deploy sensor equipment. prepare to glue bomb.

># Fly in your martial artists.
Wait for them before doing anything. minimum fifteen minutes out.

># Put the local farms under surveillance by activating local electronics.

># Land STD's in the vicinity.

># Anything else you may want to try. Your Legion is intact, your Villains are mildly fatigued, and you have 2 cabals and 2 international assists left in reserve. 5 cabals are already on the case.
Bring in the zombie control stealer.

OK, so time table is a bit pinched. here's the order of action.

Martial artist begin flying in.

Legion and zombie control hijacker begins to prepare on the outside of the area. they will drop Angel sensors around the area and prepare a Glue and Radiation shelling.

Fifteen minutes before the Martial artist arrive, Legion and hijacker deploys it's payload and moves in to intercept.

same time that legion gets in close, STD drops.

Martial artist arrive and dispatch angels. may just assist in cleanup if we kill the angels early.

>>1144176
This.

>>1144186
>>1144176

The legionaries of ancient Rome would build roads and forts on the fly; yours aren't any less industrious, and they manage to improvise a sort of command vehicle on the fly - one of the APCs will carry a bust of a TOL commissar, painted well enough to fool someone at a distance, and a packet radio with the frequency and ID requested from your tech center.

Martial artists are loaded onto helicopters and small planes and flown into the Central Valley.

Above the canopy, your sudden transport division breaches through the ice layer with cracking grenades.

Even with the Legion on the move, your fuciferi prepare the drones to form a short-lived canopy as soon as there is any indication of Angelic presence.

And when they converge to the indicated spot, they find....

Nothing. Man-tall golden corn as far as the eye can see, and given how there are no hills, it's pretty far. There's no trace of the fallen legionary, either.

Choppers land, and the Legion uses an artillery vehicle to ride up and down the corn field a couple times to let the planes land. Under the unyielding sun, the maneuver has been executed to near perfection, STD's ready to drop from the edge of space and all other forces in a rough circle around a farmhouse.

From the air, it looked like an almost perfectly choreographed ballet of tanks, drones, men and aircraft, and you have no doubt that a recut will make it into a recruitment video.

"Hey! That was half of the south field! What's going on here? Y'all better bring out the man in charge!"

The farmer is old, clearly a believer, and couldn't fit more into the crusty redneck stereotype if he tried; in the farmhouse and barn you can see a numerous family. Reflected signal survey indicates that a couple of them have a smartphone, and there's an ancient cathode-ray tube television in the home - these people seem to have taken the pastoralization directive mostly to earth; the entire farmhouse, including ancient but robust mechanical equipment, could have come out of the 1950s.

# Burn it.

# Looks like they'll need an accountant to tally the grain losses.

# Time for a thorough inspection.

# Time for a thorough "inspection".

>>1144230
>Above the canopy, your sudden transport division breaches through the ice layer with cracking grenades.
Shit, we still need to make artillery sky eye ships to speed this up.

>>1144230
># Time for a thorough inspection.

>"Hey! That was half of the south field! What's going on here? Y'all better bring out the man in charge!"
Don't respond yet, he gets reimbursed if we find nothing.

Send a drone to the barn, I suspect walking dead.

>>1144230
# Time for a thorough inspection.

# Time for a thorough "inspection".

>>1144259
>>1144293

The Legion of Light doesn't exactly have a public relation expert position, so you review the composition of the forces that have reached the farm and select a relatively friendly-looking centurion to be spokesman.

"William Byers, we have reason to believe that members of your family may have been taken hostage by terrorists. Is everything well in your dwelling?"

At the same time, the centurion holds up an armored tablet with a paint program open, on which has been written IF TERRORISTS INSIDE, SAY EVERYTHING IS PEACHY KEEN, USING EXACT WORDS.

The farmer - who despite the balding head and white beard could probably go toe to toe with the centurion for a few rounds - takes a second to read the message, and nods slowly. "Listen you, soldier boy. I don't care if you come to my farm with half your army, or all of it by the look of things. You can't do a thing to me or mine, and we both know it! Now git, afore I make you git!" He points westward. "Go back to whatever cesspit full of fish-women you came from!"

# Arrest him without hurting him.

# Brown-note the guy and then tie him up.

# He can watch while his farm burns.

# Try to point out the stupidity of one, single, unarmed farmer threatening the Legion. There's a million-to-one chance that he could possibly do anything.

>>1144335
>have that drone check on the barn, search the area. don't destroy nuffin.

we have probable cause, it doesn't matter if he's upset.

>>1144335
>Try to point out the stupidity of one, single, unarmed farmer threatening the Legion. There's a million-to-one chance that he could possibly do anything.

>Inform him due to the current situation his house and family members are to be searched for missing persons. If everything works out, he'll be compinstated for any damage's done.

>>1144335
>>1144343
This, also have the centurion say.
"You are wrong about us being unable to hurt you, we have ways of making you talk without suffering divine intervention."

>>1144355
Can we please not show our hand just yet.

>>1144355
>>1144363
I agree with Anti.

>>1144363
Doesn't God already know we can avoid his punishments? we did it with that blog glorified that came back and that fisher angel.

>>1144376
no, he can't learn, part of being "omniscient"

as for the farmer, I see no reason he needs to know that at this point. better to keep our hand hidden and hopefully never need to use it.

>>1144381
I want the farmer to learn we can avoid divine punishment to threaten him.

>>1144343
>>1144355

A fucifer releases a few silencer drones, and the small swarm positions itself above the farm, greatly improving your view of it. One drone flies into a barn window, to see that a few people are barricaded in there; a couple have guns. Looks like these people are family.

Another drone shatters a glass window in the farmhouse and gets in there. A Glorified woman is tending to a wounded man in one of the beds. Downstairs, a feast with steaming piles of vegetables drenched in butter was being prepared.

"Sorry, sir. I don't see how you and a dozen people with rifles could possibly do any serious harm to two thousand men with drones and tanks. Rest assured that you will be compensated for any damage, at the - at twice the market rate."

"I don't have to do nothing. If you so much as touch me, God will strike you down with lightning, and if you so much as touch my wife or my little ones, you will wish God had done that!"

>>1144363
>>1144370
>>1144376

Video of your forces killing the Angel of Death has been available for years; it's just not very widely believed among Christians. After all, you can do all sort of special effect stuff if you have a big enough computer.

What God does or does not know - and actually grok properly, which is the difference between knowing the physics of a barrel roll and being Jeb - is unknown to you, but it's fairly likely that this particular yokel - who really looks the part - has seen exactly what your forces can do, and has decided that it's secular lies.

>>1144391
>"I don't have to do nothing. If you so much as touch me, God will strike you down with lightning, and if you so much as touch my wife or my little ones, you will wish God had done that!"
Silence drone above the farmer, then have a worker drone restrict his limbs.
Have the soldier walk in the silence field and write "Please nod your head if you have seen an angel, or else."

>>1144391
>Just Gas him and the house, Then round them all up and hold tie them. Check the place and then if there is nothing leave with a number to contact.

>>1144424
Also, silence the house and have worker drones capture the family, then inspect every nook and cranny.

>>1144424
>>1144425

no point at this point, we haven't found anything so we need to expand the search radius.

are there any caves or other things in the area like that?

>>1144440
Inspect the house, they might have a basement and I'm suspicious about the wounded man.

>>1144440
i dunno? A basement?

>>1144445
>>1144446

good point and thinking. go into the house but no attacking the homeowners, keep the drones trained on them though.

>>1144460
I can agree to that, but do restrict the farmer outside, might attack.
Plus i want to prove him wrong.

>>1144477
>>1144460
>>1144440
>>1144445

Stratigraphic survey shows that the area has no caves of significant size. There is likely to be a cellar, though. The next farm is eight kilometers away.

"I understand. You have the physical necessity to remain silent."

"Hah! Right to remain silent, my beh-"

The drones silence the farmer, who clearly panics at this; he gasps for air, then realizes that he can breathe just fine. Two triarii get behind the man and grab his arms; he's strong enough that they have to struggle to hold him.

"Nod if you have seen an Angel in the last few hours. Or else."

The farmer throws his head back theatrically, and headbangs it forward, delivering a loogie of perfect consistency on the centurion's tablet.

"Very well. I'll take that as a yes. Let go of this man." The legionaries obey, and the centurion lets his shield fall on the ground. "You spat on it, old man, now you shine it. Give him a rag."

The farmer is probably crying persecution, but not even he can hear himself; above his head, the drone is discreetly replaced by an identical model as its batteries start to falter. The old man gets on his knees, crosses himself, says a brief prayer thanking the Lord for blessed hope and praying for these modern Romans to repent, and then starts shining the centurion's shield. For spitting on a centurion, he's probably getting off lighter than anyone in the last four thousand years.

# Order everyone out of the barn.

# Swarm the place and leave no stone unturned.

# Who's the wounded person?

# You know what would make an invisible Angel visible? Visual distortion, such as that created by a large field being set on fire.

(RV cranks, but doesn't start yet. Progress...)

>>1144540
># Who's the wounded person?

>>1144540
>Who's the wounded person?
And do light some sections of the field on fire to spot anything invisible.

>>1144540
You know what would make an invisible Angel visible? Visual distortion, such as that created by a large field being set on fire.

>>1144563
>>1144567
Can we not start a government scandal yet? we haven't been in power for a year at this point.

Not to mention we have this society armed to the teeth.

>>1144571
I only want to light some spots, not the entire field.
Plus if the scandal does happen we can just use the fact that the farmer confirmed he saw angels as an excuse.

>>1144571
>>1144577
And why would the society(except the believers.) attack us if we did that to stop angels who was going to kill a third of the men in Pacifica.
They do that, they become a bunch of ungrateful twats.

>>1144595
>They do that, they become a bunch of ungrateful twats.
have you learned nothing this election cycle?

people who see people sack a farm and step on the farmer, tend to rally around the farmer, and seeing as we have people being kidnapped by and angel that "were responsible for bringing here by going against GJ" they will likely turn on us for it.

>>1144607
Except the angel was sent here to kill the people for separating from Jerusalem, which they voted for.
If they sympathize with the farmer they are sympathizing with a person who most likely was glad or indifferent that the angels were going to kill so many people, how can they sympathize with a person who was celebrating people were going to die?
He also said yes when asked if he saw an angel in the last few hours, burning the fields is justifiable by that fact.

>>1144640
I do not believe it will at all be effective, lets just handle the simple investigation and pay the man for the damages already.

>>1144648
i still want to do it just in case we can spot something, but i do agree it is a bit costly.
Maybe we can just pick some corn stalks and tie it to wood sticks to make some torches.

>>1144658
I believe the sensor radar would suffice. we literally have a swarm of it.

>>1144668
As i said, just in case.

>>1144673
>>1144668

The small drones are interesting. They can be used to give you enhanced surveillance of an area continuously (above and beyond what the vehicle-mounted cameras and the helmet-mounted cameras that some legionaries have for this specific purpose), or they can give you a practically complete awareness of everything in a given volume... for five or six minutes, after which they have to take about the same amount of time to get their batteries swapped. The motherships have nuclear batteries, as do most of your ground vehicles.

>>1144673
>>1144668
>>1144557

#So what's the plan here?

>>1144767
I want to search the basement and find out who this injured man is.

>>1144767
Currently its.
2 votes for
>Who's the wounded person?
and 2 votes for
>You know what would make an invisible Angel visible? Visual distortion, such as that created by a large field being set on fire.
Except now i want to pick some corn and tie them to sticks to make makeshift torches. Can we do this?

>>1144787

Sure, although there hasn't been night in a thousand years and your legionaries have helmet flashlights. I assume you want to do something symbolic, or alternatively heat some air to see if it helps catch an invisible Angel?

>>1144817
can we create visual distortion through our wubbers?

>>1144817
>or alternatively heat some air to see if it helps catch an invisible Angel?
Yes.
This make the plan
>check of basement.
>Who's the wounded person?
>Make torches out of corn to make visual distortion.

>>1144817
By the way how good is video game graphics right now? I'm reading scp-093 right now and i want to try something with the archangel to make him eat his words.

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>>1144821

Yes, some wubber users can generate sonoluminescence. It's not easy. You can start a fire with it, it's actually a fairly common advanced-level demo for wubber classes, but you can't really sustain the output much, so a torch makes sense.

To find the Angel, what generally happens is that ground assets make ultrasounds and the drones form a dome and listen; ultrasounds are directional enough that a missed "listen" is a good tell.

>>1144828

Graphics have gotten pretty good, as you see! Ray tracing and everything.

>>1144836
Damn, those graphics aren't good enough.

>>1144842
so what exactly were you planning?

>>1144846
Virtual reality horror torture.
Just if the opportunity came, for fun.

>>1144847
Can we NOT.

>>1144847

That's an option, although it's not cheap - you do have accelerometers and video glasses; you can have people produce a movie from the stereo recording rig's perspective.

In fact, you did when you took the man who was Thursday, or at least his remains, resuscitated them, put them into a MECpod with the original limbs dangling off, and threw it into the Hellmouth set. It managed to beat itself to death.

At the time, a couple of your people quit and another commented that if coupled with proper anesthesia and then stimulation on top of it, to make the victim think they got the heavy MEC treatment against their will, it would probably be worse than Hell.

(Y'all did manage to gross the QM out, but, as it is, the video is a strategic asset. It was a couple threads ago)

>>1144856
>He doesn't want to make an archangel cry from despair.

>>1144864
You know what, I'm going to write my planned VR torture anyway just for fun.
Not like I'm going to get the opportunity to do it.

>>1144862
Yeah, that attempt to spring the damned from hell turned out fucked.

>>1144868
Alright but I don't really plan to use it yet.

>>1144872
>>1144868

(Again, it's probably doable, just not all CGI. You'd have to hire a Lucio Fulci or a George Miller for the practical effects. Let's see it)


(In the meantime, what's the plan with Mr. William Byers and family?)

>>1144886
I already posted the plan >>1144824

>>1144824
This is fine.

>>1144890

(Thanks!)

Another legionary goes up to the house, and asks all the occupants to step out and they won't be harmed; she gets the same derision that the centurion got, and answers in the same way. Silencing a group of people is harder, so there are shouted whispers of a gaggle of men and women encouraging each other until enough drones get in the barn that silence is reached.

"We are trying our best to not harm you, if you cooperate, all will be well, if you do not, not."

Eventually, the farmer's family all get out; there's fifteen of them, of varying ages, but all younger than Mr. Byers. None are Glorified.

Your legionaries start ripping corn leaves and stems and making torches.

"All of you will answer me truthfully now. Have you seen an Angel in the last six hours?"

The youngest kid pipes up with "Yes and he's going to come back and kick your butt!"

The woman refuses to come down, and says so, in the stentorean voice of a Glorified. "I've got a wounded man here, and I'm not leaving him in the hands of you quacks! He needs calm, healing and prayer."

"Ma'am, we have an ambulance with us and we as prepared to use it as we are our artillery platform."

The still-silenced farmer points at the torches being lit and makes a gesture towards the house.

"No, Mr. Byers. We have not marched this way to invent combustible corn that burns your house down. We are looking for an Angel. Just tell us where it is."

The farmer shakes his head.

"Why not?"

The drones, working in concert, manage to open the cellar hatch and dive in. The drone that goes in transmits darkness for a moment, and then goes dead all of a sudden. The barn shakes a little.

# Okay, now it's time to kill it with fire (or artillery).

# Concentrate sonars on the barn!

# You happen to have helicopters here... let's see how the Angel likes flying through a rotor.

# Let it run, you can get it next time. Who's wounded?

>>1144918
> Concentrate sonars on the barn!

> You happen to have helicopters here... let's see how the Angel likes flying through a rotor.

>>1144868
https://www.behance.net/gallery/32658881/Art-for-SCP-Foundation-calendar-2016
>Archangel is placed in chair with his arms and legs restricted.
>VR headset is placed on him to simulate visions and sounds, nerve stapler is installed to simulate smell, taste and touch.
>We tell him to admit we can make a greater torment than hell, he says we can't, we trow him into my reality.
>He wakes up to find himself in an unfamiliar land.

Here are my ideas.
>DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS.
>Old decrepit buildings in town/city.
>Dark forest.
>Snow covered forest/city/land.
>Large facility interior.
>EVENTS THAT CAN HAPPEN.
>Occasionally sounds happen, to spook him.
>Figure in the corner of his eyes as he moves, just long enough to get a glimpse, but disappear when he looks again.
>Corpses that look just dead/rotten/disfigured/covered in strange stuff.
>Skellingtons.
>Fog that does different things, like occasional stabbing pains or itchiness or sudden feeling of being watched.
>disgusting smells from somewhere.
>Pleasant smells from somewhere.
>He finds something normal/ordinary and looks at it, starts to chuckle, then laugh, evolves into uncontrollable hysteria, it just keeps going.

More ideas soon.

>>1144918
>Concentrate sonars on the barn!
>You happen to have helicopters here... let's see how the Angel likes flying through a rotor.
>try to have facehuggers latch on to him and silence.
Prevent escape.

>>1144952
Also, send in some disguised suicide drones with glue bombs that detonate when he destroys them.

>>1144936
Another event idea.
>Music begins to play, starts of quiet and calm, climbs up to loud and intense, becomes deafening and unbearable.

>>1144936
I forgot to mention, most of this VR torture is inspired by SCP containment breach and junji Ito art.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>1144930
>>1144952

"Choppers up! Sonar dome! NOW!"

The helicopter operators aren't part of the Legion, and take a bit to get back into the air; by the time they do, the drones have already formed a dome. The Angel, thinking itself invisible, has flown out of the barn and is about to swoop on your legionaries where a group of hastati is gathered.

# Tell a helicopter guy to get in the way of the dive. It will be a fireball, but it should mess with the Angel enough to make it reappear.

# Have the choppers remain in the way of an escape, and use glueballs to paint the target.


Your STD's are ready to descend, by the way.

# The more the merrier.

# You already have martial artists here, although most are second tier. Only a couple of Desolators though.


>>1144936

That has a decent chance of working if you add some lysergic acid, even if the graphics aren't perfect. Nobody has tried giving an Angel hallucinogens; Ithuriel has been offered very often, especially since visiting Pacifica, but keeps saying that he's not interested. Most believers would at least know what hallucinogens are, though.

>>1144984
>Have the choppers remain in the way of an escape, and use glueballs to paint the target.
>Use worker and silencer drones to restrict the wings with tendrils, have the worker drones use saws to try and remove it or make it unusable.

>>1144999
>have the worker drones use saws to try and remove it or make it unusable.
Sorry, I'm talking about it's wings.

I'll back this>>1144999

>>1144936
More ideas.
>Long hallway chase.
>Leg trapped while something comes closer audibly.
>Stuck in confined space small enough to trigger claustrophobia, maybe while something approaches audibly.
>MONSTERS
>Statues/creatures that only move when he blinks or doesn't look.
>Spiders, sometimes giant spiders.
>Other type of insects.
>Humans clothed as cultists.
>Disfigured humans.
>Body horror humans/creatures, like in SH2.
>Humanoid creatures.
>Body horror cyborgs.
>Mechanical monstrosities.
>Giant creatures that move very fast(Can use spider tanks with hands and better dexterity here.)

>>1145002
>>1144999

A few of the drones try to fly into the Angel; it seems to shimmer through them. However, this makes for an excellent target for the glueball launchers; after seeing that its position is known, the Angel reappears. Looks like you got the small one.

The farmer's family is looking at the apparition, and they flat out cheer, even while still silenced. The Glorified woman peeks out of the window, and shouts, "Ahadiel! Defend my little ones!"

The Angel seems conflicted for a moment, and stops its dive. Then, it seems to stand tall on the thin air. "WAYWARD SONS OF ADAM! STOP! NOBODY DIES TODAY! THE CHOSEN OF THE LORD SO COMMANDS."

# Let's see what happens if an Angel is contradicted immediately and lethally; shoot one of the farmers.

# Not.

Well, that stopped the dive, but how do you bring it down? It's a bit hard to fight hand-to-hand in the air.

# Improvise a drone pack for a martial artist (aka have the grabber drones lift the scrawniest martial artist by the pants).

# Get Ithuriel here, and tell the Angel that it's about to meet its match, or stall by using drones and tankettes to take a hostage.

# Some of your tankettes are certified to be able to take out a Glorified without getting anyone to spontaneously combust; headshot the Glorified farmer's wife.

# Further improvisation, but it has to get done in only a few seconds!

Ahadiel is supposed to be an angelic enforcer of the law, of low rank; probably why it was escorting the healer.

>>1145029

(actual Angel versus Weeping Angel? Love it.)

>>1145059
>Let's see what happens if an Angel is contradicted immediately and lethally; shoot one of the farmers.
Further improvisation, but it has to get done in only a few seconds!

>>1145063
Also like SCP 173

>>1145059
>Let's see what happens if an Angel is contradicted immediately and lethally; shoot one of the farmers.
Have a drone do it.

>>1145100
>>1145068

With mechanical precision and without a comment, one of your tankettes shoots a three-round burst into the face of one of the farmer's oldest children, probably five or six hundred years old given his middle aged appearance.

The Glorified woman's cry is loud enough to shatter walls and flicker out your sonar picture for a moment.

"STEVEN! NO!"

Lightning bolt from the canopy strikes the tankette, leaving a rather pretty mark on the red-and-gold paint job. The drone shifts aim a little.

As a man, the farmer's male relatives charge, and so does the Angel. The women run into the farmhouse.

It took a life, but now the Angel has landed and can be fought against.

# Wub the farmers.

# Kill the farmers.

As drilled, your legionaries form a shieldwall around the Angel, and let the martial artists in; this time, the Angel has had no neutron weakening - it easily pushes off the first attacker with a backhand slap.

A triarius with a dwarven axe challenges the Angel loudly, but is skewered faster with the iron sword than an Olympian fencer might hit with a foil.

You only got a couple Desolators on the ground, though; this will be a tough fight.

# Send someone in the farmhouse to deal with the women and the wounded, maybe to take hostages and stop the Angel from tiring itself by slaughtering your men.

>>1145114
>Kill the farmers.

We killed a son, We can choke it up as damage done during the battle. No witnesses.

>Send 2 guys inside and take the women and wounded 'hostage' Threatening the angel that if it keeps acting out, We'll kill them as well. Buy time for the REST to get here and the drop pods.

>>1145114
>Wub the farmers.
>Send someone in the farmhouse to deal with the women and the wounded, maybe to take hostages and stop the Angel from tiring itself by slaughtering your men.
Silence drones and worker drones use tendrils to restrict and capture.
Have desolators move in and weaken the angel, have robots wove in to grapple the angel.

>>1145116
Don't kill the farmers, they can be used as hostages.

>>1145117
Also, if it still uses it's intangibility to avoid the drone tendrils, have a drone move in and stay inside of him, then have the drone overload it's nuclear engine.

Also, have our theologians research who Ahadiel is.

>>1145121

From the drone movement, it seems that the most reliable way to get an Angel to stop "shimmering" is to either fill it with slow neutrons, or have a drone do exactly that; after a few moments of copenetration, the Angel solidifies and pushes the extraneous body off.

The Angel is now solid, and about to open a can of whoop ass.

However, that should be interesting to test on an Archangel...

>>1145118
Kill the farmers, we have a wounded man who it can't just 'leave' and a woman inside the house. The Farmers are threats now while those 2 are not.

>>1145137
No, the farmers can be used as hostages and can later be interrogated for information about the archangel.
Also I'm pretty sure killing the farmers means all the farmers, not just the ones who are charging.

Hey wait a minute, is the injured man one of our legionaries?

>>1145145
We purge them all, Rather simple. Remove the Believers, Drive the Angel into a blind rage and hold the 2 hostage. Really we win.

>>1145149

That's a good question; the drone didn't get a very detailed look.

As of right now there's a dozen guys charging your legionaries, and six-seven girls hiding in the house.

>>1145129
Alright, bring in the martial artists to beat him up now that he is irradiated and slow.
also move a silencer drone above him.
>>1145154
Don't purge them, they have information we need.
And killing the believers might not drive him into a blind rage.

>>1145159
Hey, If they die. It'll catch him off guard with the fact they are dying. Think about it, An Angel was wanting to protect them, but turns out it can't. Pretty sure it'll piss it off. I'm keeping my vote the same, because otherwises we have to non-leathal them in the middle of a very lethal combat situation. Which means we lose MORE men. Just like how earlier focusing on the 'healer' angel, Fucked us.

>>1145162
Using nonleathel weapons on humans is the easiest thing ever dude.
Our men wont even be scratched by them.

>>1145165
.... Why an Angry as fuck Angel bares down on our men and has to focus on swaping weapons to be non-leathal in the middle of combat? You're wasting time on believers that is better spent just capturing the ones in the house and dealing with the angel. Why is it so hard to accept a few dead for another angel? We're still way below the 1/3 of the population threshold and the longer we wait here the more time the other one has to get away.

>>1145169
We have multiple men, just have a squad switch to nonlethal and bring down the farmers while the rest of our army focuses on the angel.
And I've said this multiple times now, we interrogate the farmers for information about the archangel, like his location, that is why we need to capture them.

>>1145177
Hell we don't even need to have our human army incapacitate the Farmers, we can just use the worker drones.

>>1145177
You're wasting time and men in a combat situation over some werid reason. Believers don't matter. Stopping the Angels do

>>1145185
AGAIN! The information about the archangel the farmers have is what matters.
And we have a entire army of men there you idiot, it's not a waste.

>>1145114
>Wub farmers
Also we should in the STDs as well

>>1145190
Only some of them, want to same others for the archangel.

>>1145188
Most are still arriving I thought? Damn morality. We have a war to win, they won't tell us anything

>>1145196
They will if we threaten them with removing their genitals, which will prevent them from going to heaven forever.

>>1145198
Maybe but I doubt it.

>>1145196
And the only ones who still need to arrive is the STD's thunder warriors.
>>1144230
Here geist says we have sent martial artists and the Legion.

>>1145200
You apparently don't understand, believers are people who converted because they want eternal salvation, threaten their eternal salvation and they will submit.

>>1145190
>>1145117

A couple of the believers go back to the barn to grab their rifles, and by the time they're back with them, the legionaries dealing with that have formed a shieldwall. The believers with no weapons charge, and are hit by a couple dozen wubbers' pressure waves, being thrown back as if by an invisible fist. They get back up and stagger, and are hit again.

This gives time to the armed believers to start shooting from the barn's upper window; your legionaries' heads are well protected, but these are high caliber rifles, and you suffer a few casualties while the shieldwall is quickly turned into a testudo.

The centurion handling the believers calls for the barn to fall; the infantry keeps the shooters busy by snaps, crackles and pops on the barn window and occasionally buffeting the would-be chargers off. In the meantime, wubber and ram equipped tankettes get on the three other sides of the barn itself and, without a signal, once they are in position, collapse the broad sides of the barn on themselves, which forces the rest to fall inward. A horrible symphony of brown notes and stunners floors the believers, and by the time the centurion orders charge and detain, they're rolling on the floor in pain.

Maybe two dozen meters away, the Angel is holding its own remarkably well; it's unhurt and fresh, and finds it easy to swat away silencer drones and deliver quick, powerful strikes with its plasma-sheathed swords. Extending a wing to slap a martial artist away, it reaches to cleanly slice off the legs of a legionary who was crawling away clutching a wound.

You've lost a few legionaries, and even some martial artists; however, you do have hostages. The tankettes position themselves around the house, to quickly collapse it on top of the women. Time to get some attention. The STDs are dropping at terminal velocity; you requested a few Desolators.

# Remind Ahadiel and the women that you have hostages now.

# Remind Ahadiel that it has already failed the Glorified woman's order.

# Call for Damnatio Memoriae - all die, all evidence to be erased.

# You have enough tankettes in a good position to make a sound wall around the Angel and wait for the STD's to land, so fight defensively.

>>1145204

Your theologians point out that injuries sustained during martyrdom may not count; there are historical precedents.

>>1145207
Why isn't the angel slow? it's been hit by radiation.
Have the men back off and send in the desolators to weaken him.
>Remind Ahadiel that it has already failed the Glorified woman's order.
>Remind Ahadiel and the women that you have hostages now.

>>1145207
>>1145214
I forgot to add
>You have enough tankettes in a good position to make a sound wall around the Angel and wait for the STD's to land, so fight defensively.
>Your theologians point out that injuries sustained during martyrdom may not count; there are historical precedents.
They won't die so removing genitals will work right?

>>1145207
>Remind Ahadiel and the women that you have hostages now.

# Remind Ahadiel that it has already failed the Glorified woman's order.

>>1145190
I really hope you vote more 1ID anon

>>1145220
>>1145214

"Ahadiel, stop!" Angels don't seem able to hear you, so you have one of the centurions read from the helmet display. "She commanded none would die. You have failed already! We have hostages - stand down or more will die."

That doesn't seem to stop the Angel, however, the farmers - who have been duly handcuffed, and some of whom have regained consciousness - answer just as loudly. They assert that they are ready to be martyrs.

Except the two smallest kids, they just cry. They're maybe ten and twelve, fifteen at most. One of the older men kicks one in the shin; you hear the farmer tell them to give their life to Jesus, right now. The oldest starts to pray, haltingly. The youngest just begins crying, and it's loud enough that it can be heard over the wubbers for a moment. The Angel doesn't seem to care, and if anything, this distracts your soldiers more than it.

One of the women runs out and hugs the youngest kids; she's maybe Rehema's age. She also encourages him to pray. Hmm, looks like you do have hostages after all...

# It's a trap. Knock them all out and sort them out later.

# It's a trap. Kill.

# Fight defensively for a bit and wait for the Desolators.

# Silence the people trying to pray. Does it count?

>>1145234
>Fight defensively for a bit and wait for the Desolators.
>Silence the people trying to pray. Does it count?

Oh boy someone is posting a bunch of great pics in the /CO/ horror thread.

>>1145238

You have no idea if a silencer stops a sincere prayer for salvation, but the possibility is certainly scaring the farmers; they pantomime screaming their implorations.

In the meantime, the Angel is surrounded by tankettes as the legionaries filter out, carrying wounded comrades to the medics; it lunges out at a tankette, slicing off its ram with its sword. You'd rather lose drones than soldiers, of course, so the tankette is replaced - every time the Angel manages to damage one, another replaces it; you don't have infinite drones, but a single Angel would take hours to go through them. Even so, it doesn't seem to get demoralized. The women, save for the one that got out, are still in the house; you do know that Angels can appear to rescue the Glorified, though.

# While the drones and helicopters are stalling Ahadiel, slice the pie in the house.

# Collapsing the house isn't a big loss, whoever they have in there that's wounded can stuff it.

>>1145234
>slience them but if it does not work. Kill them

>>1145250
>slice the pie in the thouse and find out who the fuck is wounded inside.

I'mma be right back

>>1145250
>While the drones and helicopters are stalling Ahadiel, slice the pie in the house.
This means we send in people and silencers right?

>>1145253

Yes, you'd send in legionaries and silencer drones. The tankettes are too big.

Like all animals in the Millennial Kingdom, the large dogs that were about are completely docile; they whined at being wubbed, but did not attack, and ran off. Guard animals just haven't been a thing.

>>1145253
>>1145252

The women are hiding in the innermost room in the house, a sensible precaution when there's gunfire outside; they are softly singing a hymn around the youngest. They are silenced and knocked out quickly.

The Glorified woman is on the upper floor; when the legionaries kick down the door of the small guest room, she orders them to leave. In the bed is your "zombified" legionary.

# Bullet to the head.

# Medevac.

>>1145257
Do we have worker drones in the legion? They are specifically designed to do multiple tasks.
>Medevac.

>>1145264

"He's one of ours!"

"No! He is one of ours now!"

"Ma'am, don't get in the way, we only give one warning. GET A STRETCHER!"

There's no room, so the zombified legionary has to be

# airlifted by drones out of the window.

# fireman carried downstairs.

>>1145257
> airlifted by drones out of the window.


Rolling with just 1 vote, Should I just go for the night and let this entire shit show go un-voted on?

>>1145284
>airlifted by drones out of the window.
But keep him in the farm.

>>1145288
>>1145286

You get the critically wounded legionary using a seldom-practice maneuver... but it works out, by and large.

What's odd is Ahadiel's reaction; it stops precision fencing against your drones, and practically bum-rushes the ersatz air stretcher, paying no attention even when a particularly enterprising martial artist literally grabs it by the ankle to prevent it from just flying off. The Angel flails, trying to get to the wounded legionary...

And that's when the winged hussars arrive. Two drop pods pop their hatches about half a kilometer away, and Desolators with parasails come down.

# Full neutrons, fire at will! Guy's already zombified anyway.

# Try to rescue the legionary.

>>1145286
(hmm? did i miss a post? orz )

>>1145302
>Try to rescue the legionary.

Somethings odd about this, Why would the Angel be going after him. More like, The 1 vote thing and you rolled with it.

>>1145302
Is the martial artist holding the angels ankle a zombie?
Either way.
>Have drones come in and restrict the angels wings and limbs.
>Then have the martial artist move away and the Desolators fire at the angel.

>>1145306
Archangel commanded him to ensure the Zombie is found, he can't disobey him.

>>1145308

All your anti-Angel martial artists are human beings under 100 year old who have never experienced death, this is simply because observation has shown that it's the least susceptible group from phasing-out bullshit. This guy just saw the Angel try to take off towards the airborne stretcher, and grabbed hold to try and stop the Angel, which partially succeeded.

>>1145313
Alright then, was just confused.

>>1145313
Can he snap its neck? If so, Break it and implate him.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>1145308
>>1145306
>>1145322

The wounded legionary is alive... well, there's a heartbeat, at least. Your drones swarm the Angel, and while it tries to get them off its face - with some success, but you have more drones than it has limbs to flail - the Desolators land and

# make with the neutron shower.

# give time to the martial artist to try a finisher on the Angel.

>>1145326
>make with the neutron shower.
I ain't risking it, have the martial artist move away.

>>1145326
># make with the neutron shower.

>>1145326
And isn't the angel incapable of moving since all those drones have wrapped their tendrils around his limbs?

>>1145326
>make with the neutron shower.

We're gonna weaken this fucker and capture him. We need more test dummies.

>>1145328
So do you live anon, or are you just another 1 ID?

>>1145329
Ahadiel is flailing a lot, but not quite immobile. There's a steadyish stream of drones latching on, being swatted away, and getting back to it; it's as if the Angel is being tormented by flies.

The farmers look on as your martial artist disengages and the Desolators, looking like spacemen from a Republic serial in their radiation suits, activate the neutron sources and start bathing the Angel in deadly particles. You can actually see the grass around it shrivel.

Add a black and white filter and this could be a lost Twilight Zone episode.

Before long, the Angel's thrashing has slowed down to human levels.

All the farmers have been collected and accounted for - one dead, fifteen captured, including one Glorified; it proved impossible to handcuff the old farmer's unnaturally young looking wife, so instead, she was silenced, swarmed, and tied up with rope.

# Make them watch how an Angel dies.

# Off to jail with them.

# Damnatio Memoriae.

In the meantime, the zombified legionary is secure.

# Assume unrecoverable and autopsy immediately.

# Try to revive.

>>1145341
I usually lurk, actually I have since thread 4 or so. I love this quest, but I've only started participating lately.

>>1145344
>Try to revive.
Keep the angel alive and the farmers here, we're going to interrogate them before they go to jail.

>>1145344
>Make them watch how an Angel dies.
>Snap its neck and MEC it.

>Try to revive, If this does not work, Autopsy it.

>>1145345
Ah you do talk, bitchin. Well glad you're out of lurkin now.

>>1145344
> Kill angel
> Try to revive.

>>1145350
Thanks, hope I can be of some service in these trying times

>>1145350
>>1145354
Let's do that after the field interrogation.

>>1145355
Makes sense to me. And to clarify, ideally I want to MEC the thing after we slot it.

>>1145355
We literally have the Angel where we want it, MEC it now and be done with it.

>>1145344
I almost forgot, keep the angel under a silencer.

>>1145350
>>1145348

A medic is brought over immediately; the Angel manages to push off the finisher attempt, but is now weak enough that he can be engaged, having dropped its sword during its mad lunge at the stretcher. The Desolators back off and your martial artists basically skip to the "dogpile" stage, since the fight is happening on the farmhouse's porch and there isn't much room.

While Ahadiel has to defend itself from a number of solid punches and kicks, the medic checks the legionary's condition and connects a debugger to his controller, piercing pale but living skin.

"Controller keeps tripping. This guy's died and come back thirty times already. Blood loss and head trauma, but" a quick check with EEG and EKG, and a drop of blood spilled on a portable spectroscope "there's nothing wrong with 'im! He's just... EKG shows something similar to a Hell loop, but the controller already excised those pathways. Whatever it is, he's feeling it over and over again. Need a MRI to tell you more."

# Something worse than Hell? Or just different? Bullet to the head.

# Morphine, lots of it, and evacuation to a proper hospital.

>>1145361
>Morphine, lots of it, and evacuation to a proper hospital. However wait until the Angel is secured as we don't need it doing any funny bullshit if the 'target' leaves. Make sure the room has its own air-fileration system and abunch of other safety measures as we don't know what is actually going on here and we don't want to risk 'why' he was supposed to be found.

>>1145361
>Morphine, lots of it, and evacuation to a proper hospital.
Don't move him out of this farm though, instead set up a room close to here.

>>1145362
I expect he was supposed to be found because the Zombie horde will go to wherever he is, better to set up a makeshift hospital close to here than risk having a horde move to the city.

>>1145361
>>1145362
>>1145363
Supporting the hivemind

>>1145366
So then his un-ready to be dropped off?

>>1145375
Not until we figure out whats wrong with him and confirm that we won't lead a zombie horde to anywhere we take him.

>>1145378
No no. The angel WENT to secure him. Meaning his not ready to be found, or he was never meant to be found by US. Which is my point. Whats the real thing his body is hiding.

>>1145391
you are right but its still better to be safe then sorry and keep him close to the farm.

>>1145367
>>1145366
>>1145363
>>1145362

You start vectoring the supplies needed for a field hospital to this location even before Ahadiel is subdued.

Morphine is shorthand for a complex chemical cocktails that will send to happy land even someone who is being prepared for heavy MEC procedure, while minimizing the risks of addiction or cardiac arrest; there is some morphine in there, but the actual stuff has been refined over years of literally yanking people out of Hell itself, if only for as long as their brain holds out.

Your medic injects the stuff and reports that the weird brain loop is gone; the anesthetic has done its job inducing a coma.

Ahadiel shrieks in a rapidly ascending tone and, for no apparent reason and giving a heck of a singe to one of your pankration experts, bursts into flame. The farmers fall on their knees and cross themselves; to an outside observer it looks like that the wrestler squeezed the Angel too hard and popped it like a balloon.

Everyone looks on in consternation for a few moments, except for the Desolator who retrieves Ahadiel's falchion and puts it in a secure containment package; Angelic weapons have found a counter, but there will probably be a use for it.

# Nobody expected the Angel to self-destruct. Deal with it.

# Based on what your drones heard, it seems that the youngest girl in the family has repented and accepted TurboJesus during the fight, while the youngest boy hasn't.

The butcher's bill is a little more severe this time, mostly because your legionaries got into a fight with an unirradiated Angel. Even so, three down, one to go.

The farmer and his Glorified wife look on at their destroyed barn, battered farm, and shattered worldview and can't do much but stare blankly...

# No traces, no witnesses.

# Harboring a terrorist, even in wartime, will get you a fair trial.

# If you let them go, maybe they will tell this story. From their perspective it must have been pure horror.

>>1145396
>Take any samples, clean it up. Offer the boy a chance away from the crazy zealots.

>Find out anything and everything they know about the Angel, what was wrong with out man and If they saw the Arch

>Tell them God is next and to head on out and a check for the seeds/repairing the place will be arriving at some point.


No point gunning them down now, might as well use this as an example of us legit killing an Angel. Should've fucking MEC it like I said.

>>1145396
>Ahadiel shrieks in a rapidly ascending tone and, for no apparent reason and giving a heck of a singe to one of your pankration experts, bursts into flame.
Dammit why didn't we place a silencer drone above him?

>>1145396
>Harboring a terrorist, even in wartime, will get you a fair trial.
they'll be sentenced in prison for life, but they will get a fair trial.
Have a legionnaire approach the family(Who will be silenced) and write
"You are going tol answer our questions now, or you will experience a lot of pain."
"and if you don't answer in 30 minutes, we'll cut off your genitals."
"Where is the archangel."
'Where is the horde"
"What did they tell you to do"

>>1145399
I did say place a silence drone above the angel but Geist didn't do so for some reason.

>>1145396
So the angel failed and yahweh destroyed it?

>Harboring a terrorist, even in wartime, will get you a fair trial.

>>1145408
Also, spare the children the torture.

>>1145408
Do we have the evidence that de-cocking someone removes any heaven access available? I think that's scarier to them than torture.

>>1145418
Pretty sure we did it to a glorified and he reverted to a baby.

>>1145420
Yeah, we should try it. I wonder what would happen to a natural. Instant collapse into dust or god-lightning maybe?

>>1145400
>>1145399

You did; the Angel was getting well and truly swarmed by the little buggers. However, that would have gotten in the way of the fighters, and the idea was to drop the silencer when one of your martial artist was ready to do a finishing move; nobody expected early immolation.

Sample collection happens swiftly, and the boy, understandably, hides behind his father.

>>1145408

Interrogating these people doesn't get you far; each and everyone says that they would rather die than so much as talk to you - your men, money and gear is tainted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9MUycYD6Y

However, body language analysis makes it obvious that they have indeed seen the Archangel, so you got that going. Mentions of a horde is correlated with confusion. Mentions of orders shows that they did indeed get some orders, and are defying you.

"Leave. Return to your rot. Let us bury our dead and thank the Lord that he is in Heaven."

"Ma'am, all you had to do was cooperate. Nobody needed to die today. Your son is gone, your Angel is gone, and in a few years your God will be gone. You'll have to live with it."

Other the Glorified, these people are clearly in genuine grief - they're crying. The farmer's wife looks like she wants to, one of your psychologists suggests.

"You lie! An Angel of the Lord smote many of your men, and disappeared to strike again if you do not repent!"

"If that's how you want to see it, ma'am. Here. Have your Angel's ashes, it's mostly carbon and hydrogen. We'll let you bury your dead, we'll let you pray, but after that, you're coming with us.

The centurion doesn't have to sound arrogant; he knows that he won.

>>1145418
>>1145420

No, it was speculation. What did happen after MECing, brain damaging, and gelding a Glorified is similar to what happened to Ithuriel; it's as if his brain had been wiped. Unfortunately, unlike Ithuriel, he did not recover.

Then again, you also incinerated Bahira, and she just sort of reappeared in Greater Jerusalem (at least, her blog posts did; you have no direct telemetry).

# Proceed with enhanced interrogation techniques, even though all they offered was defiance.

# Just haul these yokels off to jail after they've buried their relative.

>>1145429
>Proceed with enhanced interrogation techniques, even though all they offered was defiance.
Keep them under silencer and use drones to inflict pain.
If they don't squeal in the next 30 minutes have a drone remove a guys genitals, if they don't talk after that move them to a trial for harboring and aiding a terrorist.

>>1145429
>Pump'em and stuff'em time.

Lets see how the Arch-Angel feels about this.

>>1145429
>>1145434
Are enough of our resources available that we could comfortably take on the archangel? If so, then we could do this without the silencer

>>1145436
>>1145434

The legionaries that came here from Nova Roma have assimilated that culture, and obey stoically; but those that you have recruited in Pacifica are uneasy, and voice it. "Torture will only get them to say what they think we want them to say!"

A few, well, symphatise with the very visceral notion of castration. Their commanding officers remind them that it's not the sixties anymore, a willie can be regrown in a year or so.

The dissension in the Legion's rank is quelled, but duly recorded - you know exactly who complained.

"If I had ever wondered where the demons would come from, now I know. The uniforms fit you well." the Glorified woman comments icily, no sound leaving her lips.

Improvising a cattle prod isn't a particularly difficult job for your combat engineers, and for half an hour, the prisoners are asked the same questions. Eventually, their body language stops giving away hints - they have met the Archangel, they have no idea about any horde, and they were given instructions - and simply shows reacting and fearing pain. It's been thirty minutes, so, who gets the snip?

#?

>>1145439
The silencer wubbers weaken angels and prevent God from speaking to then and sending them to hell.
They are necessary to combat any angels.

>>1145449
But torturing believers with a silencer on will prevent angels from appearing. Or at least that's my understanding. My thought here was that we would coax the arch out.

>>1145448
The woman who was cheeky as fuck, then the kids infront of the adults. Telling them it will stop when they tell us.

>>1145448
Remind our soldiers these are people who were supporting angels who were going to kill a third of Pacifica's population, they are an accessory to the crime of mass murder.

>>1145459
Don't do the kids. That will break morale.

>>1145453

That seems to have been the case. That said, it's entirely possible that you might get an unrelated Angel; it's that worry that caused your centurion to be polite to the family's matriarch.

>>1145459
>>1145461

"We are all ready to die! Heaven awaits! Your evil machinations will fail whether we help you or not."

Even so, Mr. Byers says this while glancing at his unrepentant grandson. The kid is just terrified out of his wits at this point.

>>1145470
I pass out for a few minutes and it looks like y'all done goofed. Nobody dies.

>>1145470
>Use a silencer on the kid, or around the kid. So nither of them can hear each other.

Lets see how threathening or 'appearing' too threaten the kid works.

>>1145470
Silence the family then have the soldier kneel in front of the kid and speak softly
"Listen boy, i understand you're scared, but i need you to be brave and do something for me."
"I need you to tell me where the angel is and what he told your family to do."

Actually it looks like you guys took an angel, still reading but let's not kill them yet, detain, nothing is scarier then being hauled off to prison.

>>1145476
How did we goof?

>>1145459
No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deu 23:1

Go for the patriarch

>>1145459
The plan was to send them to trial after enhanced interrogation.

>>1145481
This, appeal to the kids sense of morality. That thing will kill a lot of people if we can't stop it.

>>1145481
>>1145489
It's worth a shot. I mean we did just torture his family, and that didn't turn up anything specific, but what the hell.

Night guys

>>1145488
I want us to leave no witnesses however. We did kinda already kill one son..

>>1145492
True, but this was a military action.

>>1145481
Addition
"People are going to die, a lot of people, that isn't a good thing, never a good thing, and don't let people say it is."
"You can stop the killing, stop it and save a lot of people, all you have to do is tell us where the archangel is."

>>1145478

You had some time to set up thermocameras, high resolution cameras, and distance stethoscopes and the like to get some telemetry - the interrogation hasn't resulted in many words, but still returned data thanks to this.

Shutting up the kid's whimpers by acoustics results in even greater fear on his part, impotent rage on his family's part, and a mixed range of emotion within the legionaries. A few people are actually enjoying this display of sadism, as evidenced by blood pressure. Most are queasy. A few are sufficiently disgusted that they've turned off their armor's sensors.

>>1145489
>>1145481

"You killed my uncle! Go to Hell! Go to Hell now and stay there! Go back to Hell! You are the demons!"

This particular legionary, John, is 120 years old and has an active controller which makes him a zombie as far as this kid was educated to believe.

A few of your analysts are worried that the zombified legionary was carrying some sort of MEC virus.

"This is why our controllers don't have radios. We saw what happened with those poor TOL bastards."

"Not a software virus. They wouldn't know what that even is. Mind virus. Memetic."

>>1145494

"Billy, don't! Only Jesus saves."

The child delivers a very loud raspberry, then hides behind his grandpa. Your psychologists are pretty sure that interrogating a kid, with his family there, after scaring the shit out of him and killing a relative, and after having been told for all his life your forces are literally sent forth by the devil, isn't likely to get much in the way of a linear response whether he has converted or not.

>>1145499
Just detain them. And anons, way to screw up the legion morale.

>>1145499
Enough of this, I think. I say we send them off to jail. No castration, as much as I want to experiment. Because Anti has a serious point here >>1145507

>>1145499
"BOY!, YOUR UNCLE WAS HELPING A ANGEL KILL A THIRD OF PACIFICA'S POPULATION!"
"DO YOU WANT WE TO DRAG YOU TO EVERY FAMILY THAT LOST SOMEONE TO THIS MURDERER!?"
"IF YOU DON"T ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FOR BEING AN ACCESSORY TO THE CRIME OF MASS MURDER!"
Why isn't the family silenced yet? We can't have them talking to the kid.

>>1145512
I need to correct something.
*"DO YOU WANT WE TO DRAG YOU TO EVERY SINGLE FAMILY THAT LOST SOMEONE TO THIS MURDERER AND FORCE YOU TO APOLOGIZE TO THEM!?"
>>1145507
Doesn't matter if the legion suffers a morale decrease, these people were helping a mass murderer.
That ain't acceptable ever.

>>1145512
CORRECTING SOMETHING AGAIN
*"IF YOU DON"T ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL GO TO JAIL FOR BEING AN ACCESSORY TO THE CRIME OF MASS MURDER!"

>>1145510
Thank you.

>>1145507
>>1145510

The Angel is dead, you have retrieved an intact angelic weapon, your losses number in the low tens, and you have some useful information. You even know who among your legionaries enjoyed this rather creepy performance.

>>1145512
>>1145515

The child just whimpers at being harangued further. He's crying. Most of the family is crying, even the men as much as they try to hide, except for the matriarch. She looks like she would like to cry.

They have been silenced; it doesn't take a lip reader to recognize a simple sentence like that, especially when the speaker wants it to be recognized, and when the child has heard and seen pronounced "Jesus saves" probably at least twice every day of his life.

Accepted interrogation techniques do include separating prisoners, to decrease cohesion, insinuate suspicion of defection, and check stories against each other if possible.

# Continue with the interrogation.

# Off to jail with these people. (seems to me this is where the consensus is)

>>1145512
>>1145515
>>1145516
These aren't people who are going to Apologize and we did kill one of them. Save your breath for when it will be effective.

>>1145521
Nah, scum like them deserves to have their crimes be yelled at them.
>>1145520
Life in jail.

>>1145520
Jail. If we have the resources available(and I have the support of my peers), I wouldn't mind smacking the glorified around to see if the archangel pops up. Worst case, we get a separate angel and we can detain him to replaced the one we killed.

>>1145520
>Off to jail with these people. (seems to me this is where the consensus is)

>>1145520
Oh, and make the child's punishment be to literally go to every home of anyone who lost a precious person to the angels and have him apologies on behalf of his family.
I wasn't joking when i said i would.

>>1145526
That would go against keeping this incident under wraps. So no.

>>1145527
Were not keeping this incident under wraps.

>>1145522
>>1145521
>>1145510

This is a strange war, but a war it is. The farm will be turned inside out before being used as a field hospital to house the zombified soldier in for further study, as well as potentially others to be quarantined; the family is locked inside one of the APCs and dropped off to a highsec prison,

# where they will not be told what's going on as a way to break their resistence.

# where they will be assigned a lawyer, same as every common criminal.

As it is... the Archangel is still at large, the drop pods mostly worked although they were a bit off target, and this particular battalion of the Legion is extremely tired, physically from the long patrol and the fight, and psychologically.

The angelic falchion is carried off for nondestructive study; there will yet be uses for it.

As your men return home with mixed feelings, they can count on having reduced the threat to this land, even if the scariest Divine messenger is still at large, at least there's only one of them.

You don't particularly need to classify the incident; other than the Angel fight itself, it's not something anybody wants to brag about. It needed done; it was done; it worked. At least believing media seem to have no clue about this one... at least until the trial, if there ever is one.

The second battle is won, and the march home begins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYUQUbbr_E

(I'm kinda falling asleep at the keyboard here, hope this was interesting! Note that for the purpose of this quest, there is no bonus for doing the right thing; the only bonus is for doing that which would work. Omega is an AI; human or even divine morality only applies as data points on a curve)

>>1145526
>>1145527
>>1145529

Issuing a creative punishment remains an option; keeping the incident classified... well, some stuff will leak out eventually, but in the short term - a year or so - it is also an option: your legionaries understand operational security, and this wasn't like in Portland where an Angel was felled with no casualties: there's less to brag about here.

>>1145531
>where they will not be told what's going on as a way to break their resistence.
unless this option skips trial, in which case i switch to
>where they will be assigned a lawyer, same as every common criminal.

>>1145534

Any trial can be postponed until the emergency is over; postponing it past that will be its own caper.

>>1145531
What is the specific number of people who were going to be killed if we just let the angels do their mission?
I want to use the specific number against anyone who bitches.

>>1145531
# where they will be assigned a lawyer, same as every common criminal.

This is going to end up bitting us in the ass some how.

>>1145535
Then
>where they will not be told what's going on as a way to break their resistence.
Until it's time for the trial, i which they will be interrogated one last time, given a lawyer and 7 days until trial.

>>1145531
>>1145535

>where they will not be told what's going on as a way to break their resistence.

I'm with this >>1145538

We should postpone the trial until the crisis is over

>>1145536

The best death toll estimate depending on whether the Bible verse meant a third of the men, or a third of the people, ranges between 6 and 12 million lives lost. This justifies a lot of collateral damage, at least to an unbiased observer.

>>1145537

A public trial would give these people a platform. A secret trial would be seen as illegitimate if it's leaked.

>>1145538

That is a standard police investigation method, and not seen as cruel as long as the detainees are allowed proper food/hygiene/rest.

>>1145540
>>1145538

The prison personnel is instructed to let the farmers believe that they will be detained indefinitely by not answering any questions about a trial date; in addition, they will each be put in single cells. A trial will happen after the whole mess is over.

# Let the people of Pacifica know that an Angel is ashes.

# Opsec is more important than reassurance, although it's possible that Phanuel would know if its underling is no longer with us regardless.

>>1145541
>Ranges between 6 and 12 million lives lost.
OH BOY THE FAMILY IS IN BIG TROUBLE!
Let the people know about the trail 7 days before it happens.

>>1145541
# Let the people of Pacifica know that an Angel is ashes.

It's possible the angel will attack the prison so station a lot of men near it.

(I gotta pass out)

Going to sleep, see you guys later.

>>1145541
># Let the people of Pacifica know that an Angel is ashes.
>>1145550
Great idea
>>1145554
night, I'll be going that way myself soon

>>1145543

Stip being so exteemist we are being practically Stalin at this point with your cruelty. What we work on is being the moral higher ground . Go join tol your actions fit there operations much better. Your useless cruelties will do us no good that's not how you manipulate people to our side.

>>1145838
He isn't doing anything wrong at least in that post.


However I personally feel that we must let the people know of the trial before it happens and that we must be able to speak in the trail as a witness and accuser of their crimes.

No mercy but at the same time we can't be cruel, as then we are no better than that we face. We may stare into the great abyss but I will pull us away from being a monster even if it is the last thing I do...

>>1145838
>>1145844
>Anons will let morality influence wars

>>1145844
I don't think we should make this public this is terrible pr. Honestly cover it up Mabey realise a edited video of us defeating the angel but not full.

And I know I'm just don't want to end up going from being the good guys to being the bad ones like tol. This operation was messy it could have been done without killing and needless brutality. And then we could have released a whole video without terrible pr


>>1145846
We don't want all of our good will to suddenly disappear because of a leak do we. We do what we have to but we shouldn't be causing needless cruelty.

>>1145848
This is why we should've just killed the farms, believers don't believe us anyway and we can quickly find and patch any leak. We control the internet.

>>1145849
At this point we should just leave an empty dirt field and nothing else. Kill the belivers Mabey use them for experiments but keep it as sealed as we can.

>>1145852
Honestly something like that would be better then us just moving them around. We already gunned the one down, no reason in dragging this out or put them all into coma.

>>1145856
Exactly they can screem blody murder and be justified doing it.

>>1145846
Of course I let morals factor into war. If I didn't then I would advise killing every enemy we have by use of immoral and illegal means. Which would make us quite a fair bit worse than our enemies who at least make it quick for most people...


>>1145848
We need to make this public, someone will notice the now missing farm assuming our Legionaries don't go to public and tell them.


If we release it then we can spin it all as "heat of the moment" decisions and results based thinking rather than a cover-up of us abusing their human rights.

>>1145887
You make some good points, the best thing we can do is report the farm was harboring an angel and the family has been taken into custody.

>>1145939
And? Us not showing footage will be very different from previous media relations and will raise suspicions...not to mention you have not dealt with the possibilities of a legionnaire betraying our secrecy.


Honesty is the best policy in this case.

>>1145946
Your right but we should put a cabal on it for pr just in case because this could turn bad

>>1145946
Damage control hasn't been my strong suit. Mock trial for the legionnaire and drone pilot that opened fire?

>>1145957
No that gives us bad pr with our own me which is much worse

>>1145957
We could try saying we used a new ai programm to coordinate the attack and it took me extremist measures then we intended and that we fully intend to recuperate the costs and make up for emotional damages.

>>1145955
>>1145957
Throw two cabals into it even, we can't lose too much public support from this event or we might struggle in other areas.

As to dealing with the Legion members, give them the choice of either continued service or quitting. With the additional choice of being released from active combat duty and reassigned to base defence.


No mock trials, no crimes were committed but don't release which legionary did it unless he or she is willing to allow it.

>>1145965
Alright. I fucking hate P+9z782n.

We'll go with your plan for damage control. Fucking wish I didn't fall asleep while he was here.

>>1145977
It's just NC trying to make us more militant do the take it out on the blame god :p

>>1145965
This sounds good

>>1145977
>>1145981
Thank you for your continued support of my ideas and plans.

>>1145983
No need to thank us just keep working for the salvation of mankind.

>>1145983
Yeah, >>1145993 this.

>>1145993
>>1145997
I plan on it but I like whenever people can accept a change of plans. Even more so when they take it as well as you two.

>>1146010
Well, not squealing retard like an autist makes it easier to weigh the pros and cons of a plan.

>>1146013
True Anti, true...

>>1146016
>>1146013

Yeah this quest has run across some interesting posters.

>>1145559
>>1145550

No video has been released yet pending your final decision, but your emergency broadcast system releases a brief message, read from a vocoder, indicating that the Angel Ahadiel has been eliminated by the Legion of Light.

"We remind the people of Pacifica that there remains one nonhuman terrorist at large. Report any sightings but do not attempt to contact."

The farmers are in custody; Pacifican prisons are geared towards rehabilitation rather than punishment, so the cells are about as comfortable as your average freshman dorm room, save that net access is filtered.

# Treat them like everyone else, although of course their conversations are being monitored.

# Traitors to the nation get hard time!

The Legion regroups in the East Bay; for now, they're tired, happy for a job well done, and somewhat queasy about having almost scared a kid to death. The few casualties are either cremated on a common pyre as the legionaries of old did, or "disassembled" by Pacifican custom, with all viable organs going into the protein bank and the rest speed-composted into fertilizer, the idea being that hopefully as long as something of the person remains alive, they will experience some amount of hope in Hell. (Your theologians report that this doesn't seem to do much on the NC front and they have to reluctantly agree with Christian theologians on this one, but it does help grieving relatives cope). The dead farmer has been

# buried by his family according to their rite before they were hauled off to prison.

# buried as aboved, but exhumed and autopsied.

# autopsied immediately.

>>1146052

(it sure has and I learned a lot!)

>>1146075
# Treat them like everyone else, although of course their conversations are being monitored.
# buried by his family according to their rite before they were hauled off to prison.

>>1146079
This.

>>1146079
>>1146084
Agreed. Mabey we should hand them over to greater Jerusalem. Deport them as it were.

Back.

Holy sit are other anons really this stupid?
They were helping someone kill 6 million people and they knew it.
There is no "Morality" in letting them go.

>>1146145
*Letting them go unpunished.

>>1146075
>tratiors to the nation

>autosphyed right away

>>1146075
>Treat them like everyone else, although of course their conversations are being monitored.
>buried by his family according to their rite before they were hauled off to prison.

>>1146013
Are you talking about last thread?

>>1146145

Yeah they worshiped somthing that was going to kill our nation but there is still somthing called public relations and human decency. It's almost like you don't understand how large groups of humans work.

>>1146145
Your letting you emotions rule your decisions rather the logic. How did making them suffer benefit us in any way. They didn't have information on the arch angel and shooting the teen didn't help us at all we would have found the angel and our agent regardless.

>>1146095
>>1146084
>>1146079

"... a handful of protesters with torches and pitchforks are still outside Quentin Highsec Prison, advocating harsher measures. Governor Bissattini has issued a statement indicating that given the dismal failure of the so-called Trumped Judgement, extraordinary measures are not necessary at this time, and the suspects will not be tried by a court martial. Christian advocacy groups have reported 'difficulties' in running a crowdfunding campaign for a defense legal team."

The Archangel is still at large, but your forces are in good shape. In the following days, not much happens - patrols resume at a slightly less broad range, your first-line martial artists get their rest, and TOL refugee ships stop coming.

The Misrayim-Central Africa border is long, and difficult to patrol: it looks like The Other Light has started dealing with their unusable horde MEC problem by releasing the older ones - they do look like zombie, due to poor maintenance - by simply letting them go free. Some wander into Misrayim, which results in

# zombie hunts.

# attempts to capture and heal or, at least, put in an induced coma to lessen suffering.

Your psychologists note that even though it's known that there's still a human soul in there, the stereotypically undead appearance of the failed horde members mean that your average citizen will have a much easier time killing these. This can be used to harden prospective soldiers to the idea of killing humans in general by introducing the concept gradually, so to speak.

A rare public statement by Sunday indicates that the metabolic extension controller program for TOL soldiers has been discontinued due to interference from the Eternal Enemy.

# Use the tap to find out more directly.

# Just bribe somebody within TOL to give you some info, although it may be spurious.

# Ignore.

Your Legion has suffered negligible casualties, and you still have most of your assets in Pacifica looking for the Archangel (4 cabals), plus 2 in reserve; the support people in Misrayim may simply not be needed, but they are on standbay.

The city of Nova Roma is hungry for news of the Legion; they want somebody to root for, and you haven't released much in the way of media.

A handful of legionaries have formally protested attacking children, and

# have a point: issue an internal document instituting some sort of rules of engagement.

# will be offered a honorable discharge.

# can go peel potatos.

# must have forgotten that this is the Legion, not just any army: Decimatio!

>>1146197

You did collect a little bit of data from "enhanced interrogation" thanks to body language analysis.

On that note, the unsaved farmer's grandson - Billy - is going to

# get a personal tutor while in jail.

# be offered early release to a juvenile facility where he may go to school.

# stay with his family.

>>1146187
>Yeah they worshiped somthing that was going to kill our nation but there is still somthing called public relations and human decency.
I never violated their human decency in that entire event, they were a family who we suspected was harboring an angel, we asked the farmer if he saw one, restricted him when he wasn't cooperating, inspected the house and found the angel in their basement and suddenly they attack us and became enemy combatants.
>It's almost like you don't understand how large groups of humans work.
It's you who doesn't understand how large groups of humans work, people(Except believers obviously) won't feel sympathy for a family who was knowingly helping an angel kill people, a lot of people.
>>1146197
How am i letting emotions rule my decisions? and how did they suffer? They became combatants when they commanded the angel and shoot(And killed) our soldiers, the field interrogation was entirely justified.
>They didn't have information on the arch angel.
>>1145429
>However, body language analysis makes it obvious that they have indeed seen the Archangel,
>Mentions of orders shows that they did indeed get some orders, and are defying you.
>555-come-on-now.

>>1146214
"... a handful of protesters with torches and pitchforks are still outside Quentin Highsec Prison, advocating harsher measures."
Told you anons.

>>1146224
Alright I conceed on the arch angel and there info. I still belive having the moral higher ground benefits us.

>>1146214
>Zombie hunts.

>just bribe somebody.

>must have forgotten that this is the Legion, not just any army: Decimatio!

>get a personal tourtor and tour of the jail

>>1146226
We do have the moral high ground though.
This family harbored an angel who hunted and zombifyed people and when we came knocking they refused to cooperate and even shot our soldiers.

>>1146214
> attempts to capture and heal but also classes on shooting and increased firearm sale in Misrayim allowing zombie hunts for those so inclined

>bribe someone save the tap for somthing more important.

>have a point set up rules of engagement as well as send pr videos to nova roma give them somthing to be proud of

> get a personal tutor. We might be able to get more info here.

>>1146214
>zombie hunts.
>Just bribe somebody within TOL to give you some info, although it may be spurious.

>will be offered a honorable discharge.
>can go peel potatos.
Either they quit or get punished for protesting about a superior's decision in the Battle.
They must understand the family became possible enemy combatants when they harbored, and even commanded the angel, or they go.

>>1146228
Just screeming at children is a little overboard in my opinion. And we shot the man before they attacked us.

I agree thay they should be punished for harboring an angel I just feel we went a little exteemist. How about more then a single step of moral high ground.

>>1146233
Supporting.

>>1146214
# zombie hunts.


# Just bribe somebody within TOL to give you some info, although it may be spurious.


Offer the legionaries the choice of honourable dismissal, shutting up, rear-guard or base guard duties. Morals are something we have but we are willing to push the limits to get results and in this war against the angels and god, there is not time for more exact or moral methods sometimes. 6 million people hung in the balance, if not more, and they expect us to not abuse a few people in order to stop that?

Inaction is still an action and thus we are responsible for any death, or lack of death.


# get a personal tutor while in jail.

>>1146238
Actually I'm switching the first one to
>attempts to capture and heal or, at least, put in an induced coma to lessen suffering.
>>1146239
Are you talking about the allcaps dialogue? cause at that point i gave up the torture and figure i might as well end it strong.
>And we shot the man before they attacked us.
It was "Maybe, maybe not" moment right there, they commanded the angel to protect the little ones, but no one knew how the angel would accomplish the command.
Would the angel have landed and prevented bullets from hitting? Would the angel have attacked and killed your soldiers? We don't know.
It's a hard task trying to decide when someone becomes an enemy combatant in the field.

>>1146239
And it wasn't meant to be screaming at the child, it was meant to be a loud and stern.