With Simms' Thunderbolt having suffered heavy damage, Cooke and Shabayev are left to assist Miller, one of whose wingmen is killed by two Sentries just as they arrive. Orange Squad flee back to the outpost expecting an imminent attack, with Cooke splitting off to intercept a pair of incoming Scion Scouts along the way.Īs Orange Squad return to the outpost, they receive a mayday from Red Squad, who have similarly come under attack. Simms soon picks up an enemy craft in his area the two Sentries begin to attack him as Shabatev and Cooke are en-route to provide support. Investigating, Cooke finds Manson within, apparently injured, who informs Orange Squad that there are hostiles all over the area and jamming ship-to-shore communications. Once Cooke has located the building, Shabayev is quick to notice some abnormal readings originating from within. Instead heading inside the base's perimeter, Simms comments that it is remarkably heavily armed for a scout outpost and departs to commence a perimeter sweep, while Shabayev orders Cooke to locate the communications building as she checks the base's tunnel network. Shabayev identifies the remains of the outpost from the other side of a ridge and attempts to contact SkyEye, but fails to make contact due to radio interference. He soon picks up an unidentified signal heading north along the same path, which Shabayev and Cooke intercept when their paths converge when the object (a Scion Guardian) opens fire on Shabayev, it is promptly destroyed. Simms, and Commander Miller and the rest of Red Squad.Īfter splitting up with Red Squad, Simms is ordered to take a path to the east of Cooke and Shabayev. Lieutenant John Cooke, a member of Orange Squad and Secret Operations, is amongst the first to land on Pluto with his commander Yelena Shabayev, her other wingman Lt. Fearing Pax Kossieh and the AAN will use the investigation's outcome to sieze control over the ISDF, General Bradock sends a message ahead to Manson and orders him to make sure Cerberus appears to be a scout base, before proceeding to lead the investigation and search-and-recovery mission himself. Scion Plasma appears green and ISDF Plasma appears blue, and one Warrior seems to be wielding a chargeable weapon similar to the MAG Cannon.Īfter contact is lost with Cerberus Base on Pluto, the AAN vote to send the ISDF Second Fleet to investigate. The weapons used during the intro differ significantly from those seen in-game.Presumably a Scion Scavenger should have been used instead, but its presence is regardless never explained. The "unidentified" Scavenger encountered early on in the intro is actually an early model of the ISDF Scavenger.Seeing what is happening, Manson quickly retreats to the communications facility to send a distress call to ISDF Command and co-ordinate the evacuation of the base. A squadron of Scion Warriors appear through the smoke and launch an attack on the base, quickly disabling its defences. Moments later, Delta Command is destroyed and Delta One soon follows. Upon hearing that the satellite was fired upon, Manson heads into the facility where the satellite was monitored, ordering his squadron to continue to patrol.Īfter a momentary encounter with an unrecognised unit, Delta Squad continue on patrol. Despite activating its self-defence mode and firing on the projectile, the satellite is destroyed.Īt a nearby base on Pluto, the engineer monitoring the satellite reports to his superior, Major Manson, that he has lost contact. Zooming in to an area of high activity, it very quickly picks up an incoming missile. As it enters orbit over the Dark Planet, it begins to scan the surface. Voyager II, launched by NASA in 1977, is just beginning to reach the edges of the solar system by the late 1990s.
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