Crush the Smouldering Rebellion

Crush the Smouldering Rebellion
Part of Cold Union
Date 2087-03-07 GM Asmodeus Location Turkestan Status Threat Level: Deadly, escalated to Extreme
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Chilbuk Khan	Petrovski Security Corp
Dango Brunhilde Huntress Tsarina	SGT Kurt Zlapowski Numerous Suppression Drones Patrolling Security Roto Swarm Technomancer Spider Contractor Artillery Teams
Casualties and losses
None, save for Tsarina knocking herself out with drain and spite	One swarm destroyed, along with a suppression drone, and one knocked out patrolling security member. The Sergeant is a wanted man.

Summary

Runners have worked for some time in Turkestan to assist with the rebellion, an effort to wrestle control away from the corporations, to make their own country free from their governance. This operation was no difference. Chilbuk Khan needed runners to help deal with a new agent in the plans - One Sergeant Kurt Zlapowski. A veteran, a hunter, and a pain in the ass. While the job is simply to help a future ambush for the Khan's people, tensions rise and the group finds their animosity for this utter warmonger rising higher and higher.

Background

For some time now, and after some prior help from other runners, Chilbuk Khan has amassed a great number of tribes in the plains of Turkestan to assist him in raiding along the New Silk Road and slowly unseating SK's PMC, Petrovski Security, out of a government contract to assert their legitimacy by taking it. But A new hire, the aforementioned Kurt Zlapowski, has shown himself to be a massively successful strategist - one better than Chilbuk militarily. With multiple tours in the Desert Wars, the Rad Wars, and a penchant for hunting down SHadowrunners for fun, he's shown himself to be a massive threat to their operations. However, he's in a bit too fortified a position behind strongholds, VTOLs, Drone Armies, and artillery. So for now, Chilbuk just needs to get a win to prove that his people are still worth backing and keep the tribes together. And in order to avoid reinforcements becoming a problem, they need runners backing them.

The Meet

The four flew over from Seattle to Turkestan on private charter. Dango brought along a number of explosives, drones, and other equipment, Brunhilde brought her helicopter, and Tsarina and Huntress kept it light as they traveled along with a fake shipping permit. They did some light research on the country, the client, and got some pointers from Huntress as they made their long trip over to the abandoned, polluted city the insurgents were hiding out in (to Tsarina's dismay). They were taken inside of a church that was thankfully purified and likely warded, escorted by men on horseback as they had to rely on a diesel car. Inside, a projection of Chilbuk explained the dire straits the group was in and gave the runners a dossier on the Sergeant giving his group so much trouble. He gave them two routes of likely assistance: either they ambushed the first wave responders who would be hitting the group as they hit their next target, or they served as a diversion to lure away that same first response team and give the insurgents the window they needed to do their work.

And when they were discussing payment, an artillery shell struck the northeastern wall of the church and knocked all but Brunhilde to the ground.

The entire city erupted into chaos, and the runners had to fight their way past swarms of roto drones and suppressive fire drones while escorting civilians out of the blasting zones and into safety. The city only calmed down after the Sergeant came up on the mic to offer a warning and an offer: Chilbuk Khan's head in exchange for a corporate life and 300k in nuyen. Oh, and to offer the "mercenaries" a chance to regroup and make the upcoming engagement more exciting.

So needless to say the group was a little motivated now.

Game Quotes

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