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Thanks for the holiday wishes, @buggeroff! 😀 Sounds like you guys have a great group going!

We run RPGs every other week or so … HK Ops, Modern Military, presently running a private military contractor crew (to give players more leeway in creating / playing characters).

Phalanx Multinational
The Decisive Choice
Offices: Alexanria, VA – Edinburgh, UK
Escalation Team (X-Team) 619:

• Annika Visser (callsign “Taaki”) – Former South African Special Tactics and Rescue (@gladesrunner)
• Jackson Hyatt (callsign “Ajax”) – Former US Army reconnaissance (@brunhudson)
• Donovan Mach (callsign “Templar”) – American-Israeli Structural Engineer, Freedom Fighter (@templar007)
• Frederik Ottesen (callsign “Sirius”) – Former Greenland/Danish Navy, Arctic Warfare Expert (@rasmus)

Our latest mission:

A North Korean electronic warfare / surveillance aircraft is reported to have gone down somewhere in the Sea of Okhotsk.
The aircraft is believed to have crashed at Kimura Shima Island (Katyeva Island – marked on map below).
This island lies between the Kuril Islands and the Sakhalin Islands, disputed between Japan and Soviet Union since 1945. Thus, the territorial status of Kimura Shima Island remains unclear. Officially, “Katyeva” Island is part of the Russian Federation, although again, status is debated. The primary reason this matter has never been cleared up is frankly, the islands are tiny (10 square miles / 6000 acres at most ) and desolate. Honestly, no one cares.

The Japanese Self-Defense Force has contacted Phalanx International regarding a mission to recover the North Korean aircraft (codename Cheonji, Korean God of the Sky). Objectives are to recover the plane’s black box, comnav recordings (so intelligence can surmise where this place was flying and who/what it was spying on).

Most importantly, recover any uplink between Cheonji’s doppler look-down shoot-down radar and whatever satellite (if any). This is because North Korea has no satellites of their own, so if they’re using a satellite uplink for electronic warfare, navigation, or aerial surveillance, another nation is helping them expand maritime surveillance and control through North Pacific.

JSDF has provided a staging point and a small boat. But they cannot be connected further with this mission. If they are connected with a paramilitary mission onto Katyeva Island, that could constitute and act of war with the Russian Federation.

Here is the general position of Kimura Shima Island and the site of our mission.

An overview of the Kimura Shima Islands. X-Team 619 approached in a heavy storm with high seas, suffering damage to their boat that stranded them on this island until they could effect repair and find more fuel. None of these labels were in pace, the group had to search the island and investigate what was actually happening here.

We get to where the North Korean EW craft crashed. We see where Sirius, Templar, and Ajax (characters run by Rasmus, Templar007, and Brun) are approaching from the south, while we have Taaki (Jenn) on the crippled, low-fuel boat approaching along the east edge. A North Korean Navy patrol boat (twin 20mm cannon) lies at anchor to the north. The North Koreans have found this crash site, and have established a perimeter around it.

Sirius (Rasmus) and his K9 “Bubblegum” take out the first North Korean soldier at this hunting lodge in the extreme southwest corner of the map. The roof of this building, positioned on high ground, will give Rasmus the best available sniping position.

In the center, Templar and Ajax move against another pair of North Koreans. Ajjax and his new “friend” Piotr (one of three Russian Federation special forces encountered on this island, also with orders to recover the Cheonji’s electronics and eject any North Koreans from this Russian Island) go for stealth kills with fighting knives. Templar covers while Ajjax and Piotr make their approach. Russian Federation specops: Captain Nikolai Koslovski — Senior Sergeant Tanja Lavachenko — Corproral Piotr Shazhnikov.

In a dry suit (this is the North Pacific in February 2020), Taaki (Jenn) scuba-stealth swims her way up to the side of the North Korean boat while Captain Koslovski and SSgt Lavachenko put grenade launchers and AK-92 fire into the boat’s forward sections.

The firefight really heats up in the center. Ajax and Piotr have a great deal of trouble with that North Korean to the left. In fact, Piotr is badly hit. It’s up to Templar to finish him off, along with another trooper to the north. Sniper cover from Sirius comes in from the southwest.

Taaki (Jenn) is now aboard the boat. Three crew are down, one remains badly hit. Taaki is hit, but chooses to continue bleeding (delaying first aid on herself) until she finally puts down the last crewman. She’s having a tough time of it (wound penalties) until Sirius, from all the way across the table, put s a silenced .308 sniper found OVER her shoulder, through the door, and into the last target on the boat. Ab absurdly difficult shot, which Sirius made just barely with the expenditure of one of his “Grit” (optional willpower) points.