Scenario 4 : So which OPA are you fighting for ? (85/2335 - After Action Report)

The scenario is here.

Fiday and Ashlee went down the main street, amidst the jostling crowds, and three OPA affiliate henchmen coming towards them.

Ashlee definitely had some sort of history with one these thugs, as the usually ice-cold calm starship pilot savagely knifed him on the streets of Ceres, leaving him in a pool of blood (-1 pt for the Tears of Corruption crew).  Fortunately Fiday and Ashlee quickly blended back into the crowd, and without encountering any further trouble, made it to the streets around Beckercoiler's shop.

As for Mercy, she was escorting Fred Johnson's OPA hacker, Eretria Windrey, through a less savoury part of town, where two OPA hitmen were awaiting.  Mercy beat up one of them, but Eretria was in danger from the second.  Other thugs were coming in off the street to back them up.

Fortunately, Fiday and Ashlee had moved round their position.  Whilst Ashlee climbed up scaffolding and put herself on overwatch, Fiday blocking the narrow alleyway leading to the main street.  She was however jostled at an unfortunate moment and stunned by a blow from her enemy (+1 for the Zig Ochoa OPA).  Fortunately Eretria was now within range and began extracting data from Beckercoiler's system (+1 for the ToC crew, for a total of 0).

 

The Zig Ochoa were now getting desperate as the dataflow looked to accelerate (+1 for the ToC, for a total of +1).  Pistols and shotguns came out and some really fierce fighting broke out in the back alley.  Star Helix reacted, and moved in to prepare to arrest an OPA hitwoman and the local agitator leading them all.  Fiday was in the thick of the fighting, breaking jaws and making sure people stayed down.

Pressure slowly mounted, nonetheless, on Eretria.  Ashlee decided to pull out her pistol and take down the Guard Bot in front of Beckercoiler's shop, drawing the attention of Star Helix to her, and she couldn't stop another OPA thug reaching the hacker and stunning her with a blow to the head.

 

Mercy, the ToC's combat medic, charged in to the fray but had to take the risk of drawing her energy blade.  Unfortunately for both of them, the Zig Ochoa gangster clumsily got her own head sliced clean off, a gory death which sent the other OPA in the back alley running, but this was not how things were supposed to go (-2 for the ToC, for a total of -1).

To make matters worse, Eretria took too long to recover from the blow to her head (+1 for Zig Ochoa OPA, for a total of +2).

The attempt to pirate the data came to an untimely end (due to the 3 pt difference of +2 to -1), Star Helix now swarming into the area.  The ToC crew managed to get away, and drag Eretria Windrey with them, but the results of this attack were disastrous.  With the Zig Ochoa counting two dead, one in particularly brutal circumstances, and looking for revenge, Fred Johnson was forced to tone down his assets on Ceres, leaving Anderson Dawes with a totally free hand in the years to come.

As for Fiday Cylus and her crew, they could forget about any help from Tycho Station and, being no longer welcome at Ceres, and hunted by the Martians, are in for some unpleasant and dangerous times.

Last of all, Fiday's failure, and the fact that Beckercoiler was found dead in his shop two days later, his datacores fried, meant that the OPA had learned nothing about the mysterious bio-weapon.  For the time being, it faded from memory...

This was a victory for the Zig Ochoa OPA, and no characters gained any Renown.