Star Citizen Online: Isekai Edition

Chapter 142 Medjay Strike Team and Cleaning Out the Colony (4)

For him, the idea of commanding the soldiers came a bit weird, because he would be responsible not only for the result of the operation, but also for their survival, as he was the leader of the entire operation.

Frutnealy enough, everything was planned by the strategists at the Imperial Colonial Defense Forces, so it wasn't like he would be needing to do anything. He just needed to go into the places that were marked on the holomap and arrest the people that he was ordered to arrest.

Nothing more and nothing less.

He could still use this as training for the future, when his mercenary group would be more than Jeniael, Zehal, and a bunch of bots. Commanding bots was rather easy, as there was almost zero to no responsibility for them.

Even if they were destroyed, then what?

Red Queen would just pick up the scraps and recycle them on the deck of Obscurus to make a new bot.

As simple as that.

She was already becoming rather expert in that, because she could recycle them in record time with an extremely small amount of waste that was left after the recyclation process, because the ship wasn't equipped with the Matter Disintegrator Fabrication Device.

If he could get his hand on one of those, then he could technically achieve recycling with the rate of 100% and he could manufacture anything that he wished as long as he had raw materials.

This was some really niche technology that belonged to the top-notch technologies of the High-Level Factions. Though even without it, he didn't really need to care much about the destroyed ABD-Spectre MK II. Battle Droids, because those could be rebuilt easily, and destroyed Spider Bastion Battle Droids hurt him a bit, it mainly hurt his wallet.

The living troops on the other hand were vastly different. Stay tuned with My Virtual Library Empire

Commanding the living troops wasn't like commanding a bunch of droids that were not even sentient and could be replaced at any moment.

There was a great deal of responsibility.

He was given the command not only because he was the strongest person around, which was, though true, as he was indeed the strongest person around, but also because this was some kind of another test from the Directorate.

If he was capable of leadership, and thus, if the Directorate and in the end, the Imperium could trust him with some future engagements and missions that would require personal leadership skills and similar things.

Not everything was solved through sheer strength.

Even though...

In this cruel world, the sheer strength was usually answer to most of the problems.

Though on the side note, most of the problems were also created by using brute force.

It was like an endless cycle.

Arcturus looked at the list of the arrests that they were about to do today, and at the top of the list and the first name was Colonel-Bashar Harzan, who was their most problematic infected and the one that was also the highest-ranked infected among the ones in the Imperial Colonial Defense Forces.

He skimmed through the report from the Directorate about the targets for the arrest, and not even one of them was somehow remarkable aside from the Colonel-Bashar Harzan, who was Gamma-Grade Psionics, so he was relatively powerful.

The rest of the people on the list were not particularly remarkable in the end and their parents won't be any kind of problematic. If the bugs that they were infesting them couldn't really unleash a lot of power, then their entire strike team would be alright.

"As you have all been briefed, we are the Strike Team Alpha tasked with arresting everyone at and above the Delta-Grade, be it infested Warriors, Psionics and Psykers. The prime target of the operation is the safe containment of the Colonel-Bashar Azthar Harzan, Gamma-Grade Psyker with Normal-Level Psyker Ability, Fire Control. Harzan is the highest-ranked infected in the entire Imperial Colony World and also the person with the highest military rank in the Imperial Colonial Defense Forces at the Ziras IV."

Arcturus was standing before the assembled soldiers of the Strike Team Alpha, which numbered fifty men. Being given command over the squad of fifty men wasn't that low, because that was rather a high number of men and women that were given to him under his command.

These were actually not ordinary soldiers or even the members of the Imperial Colonial Defense Forces, but actually they were the Strike Teams of the Medjay Forces.

"Well, if everything is clear, action go."

With the final orders being issued, everything readied their gears and armaments and went into the action.

***

Headquarters of the Imperial Colonial Defense Forces, Department of the Cyber Security of Imperial Colonial Defense Network

The Department of the Cyber Security of the Imperial Colonial Defense Network was located in the side building that was adjusted to the Headquarters of the Imperial Colonial Defense Forces.

It was a much smaller building, but the security measures were very high, and there were not many people in the buildings of the Department of the Cyber Security, because there was no need for that.

Most of the systems and things were already automated and done by the Artificial Intelligence, and there was only a need for a small oversight from several professionals who were working in the Department of Cyber Security, ensuring that the Cyber Security of the Colony was working as it should.

Today, like any other day, most of the Department of the Cyber Security of the Imperial Colonial Defense Network was empty. Aside from a few Military Officers, mostly Commissioned Officers and some civilian employees, the place was mostly empty and looked rather bleak.

When Arcturus saw it, he immediately recognized it as a perfect rat hole where you can just hide and chill.

Suddenly, several quinjets appeared around the smaller building and started surrounding the entire building of the Department of the Cyber Security as the Marines of the Imperial Colonial Defense Forces were securing the perimeter of the building.

At the same time, several tens of Marines were sent to barricade the underground pathways as Arcurturs, Jenaiel, and Zehal were in one of the bigger quinjets that were smaller warships which had landed in front of the building where the Department of the Cyber Security was located.

Zehal already took control over the automated defenses of the building and was locking down every single path, corridor and activating the emergency protocols, but doing it in such way so the people in the inside of the building won't notice anything as they were conducting this raid during the Main Oversight Time and Control Time.

This was specific time when during every day, the people working t the Department of the Cyber Security were checking on the entire Cyber Defense Networks and it was small window during every day that lasted around half an hour.

Rather routine thing.

But during this time, it was extremely strictly forbidden for anyone to leave their posts, so everyone was literally glued to their chair or they could risk even the death penalty for the insubordination of the highest order.

So they chose to do the raid this way.

Once Zehal achieved the complete lockdown of the building, she then confirmed the position of the Colonel-Bashar Azthar Harzan who was right now in his office doing his work, Zehal gave Arcturus nod as the man than raised his sword and exited the quinjet warship together with Jeniael and around twenty Medjay of the Strike Team Alpha.

The rest of the Strike Team Alpha would be entering the building from a different direction, as all of them were heading toward the office of the Colonel-Bashar Azthar Harzan. Zehal, who was acting as the technological support for their case, gave them green light, which meant that they were ready to go into action.

Arcturus led the team into the main lobby of the Department of the Cyber Security, which was empty, aside from the one receptionist in the lobby who immediately got onto the ground as she was then secured and bound by one of the soldiers.

Even though she was not on the list, they were taking precautions in case someone got too smart and wanted to obstruct them for whatever reason. Mainly the emotional ones would be the most problematic and they were the ones that they were aimed to prevent.

The entire building had only three floors, while also having a very extensive underground area that was probably five times bigger than the entire building, but the underground area was empty according to Zehal.

The number of people that had access to the underground area, which was used to house servers and other equipment for the Imperial Defense Network and other systems on the Imperial Colony World to properly work, could be counted on one hand.

And one of them was here.

Colonel-Bashar Azthar Harzan.

Arcturus motioned for the Medjay, who then followed him to the second floor of the building, where they entered long corridors with many doors. Zehal then navigated them to the entrance on the third floor because this place really seemed like a maze.

It was rather ironic that all of their targets were located on the third floor of the building.