Battle of Grid Echo-Five

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Battle of Grid Echo-Five
Conflict	Lambent Invasion
Date	Storm, 15 A.E.
Place	Vectes Grid Echo-Five
Outcome	COG Victory Discovery of Lambent stalks on Vectes Discovery of dead zones
Combatants
Coalition of Ordered Governments
Lambent
Commanders
Col.Victor Hoffman Major Gill Gettner Sgt.Marcus Fenix
Imulsion
Strength
Gears Delta-One Pvt.Dizzy Wallin Two King Ravens KR Eight-Zero KR-239 One Assault Derrick Rig 314 COG Engineering Corps SSgt.Lennard Parry
Two Lambent Stalks Dozens of Polyps
Casualties
One farmer Daniel
All Polyps

The Battle of Grid Echo-Five occurred in the middle of Vectes when KR Eight-Zero spotted a Lambent Stalk emerging.

Order of Battle

The Stalk's Emergence

When KR Eight-Zero spotted a Lambent Stalk emerge in Grid Echo-Five of Vectes, Major Gill Gettner contacted Lt.Donneld Mathieson at Control and told him about the emergence and requested back-up. Mathieson said that he would send reinforcements as soon as he could and KR Eight-Zero flew around the Stalk, waiting for the Lambent to emerge, but none came. After ten minutes, they decided to land and Delta-One approached the Stalk to investigate it. They investigated for several minutes until Sgt.Bernadette Mataki's dog, Mac began clawing at the ground and another Stalk emerged with the Polyps emerging from the ground around it. The five Gears opened fire on the Polyps, detonating many of them and began backing away from the Stalk. KR Eight-Zero took off again and provided covering fire for the Gears. Pvt.Augustus Cole used a Bolo Grenade to finish most of the Polyps off, but the two packs of them splitted off from the rest.

Hunting the Polyps

Sgt.Marcus Fenix, Bernie and Mac began hunting one group of Polyps in a field while KR Eight-Zero pursued another group from the air with the rest of Delta staying at the emergence site to secure it for inspection by Chairman Richard Prescott and Col.Victor Hoffman. KR-239 arrived with them as KR Eight-Zero found the Polyps that it was chasing and Gettner finished them off. Marcus, Bernie and Mac chased the Polyps that they were pursing to a farm and killed several. They warned a farmer who was plowing the fields to stay in his tractor, but a Polyp managed to get inside and detonate, severely wounding him. Marcus and Bernie killed the last of the Polyps and hurried to help the farm, calling KR Eight-Zero in to help provide medical attention. However, they were unable to save the farmer due to his severe wounds and he died.

The Second Attack

An hour later, Pvt.Dizzy Wallin arrived at the emergence site with Rig 314 to attempt to remove the Stalks with the help of SSgt.Lennard Parry. Prescott, Hoffman and Delta observed them using the Rig to remove the Stalk from the ground and tried to form theories on the nature of the Stalks. They used the rig's drill to dig a hole around the Stalk and stuck a bot camera into it and Mac began to get agitated. They saw a lot of glittering eyes and realized that the Polyps were down there and began backing away from the hole. The Polyps began swarming out and all of the Gears opened fire, cutting them down as they emerged. Marcus tossed a grenade into the hole, killing most of the Polyps and Cpl.Dominic Santiago went up to the hole and fired several rounds into the hole to finish the remaining Polyps. Mac chased a Polyp off that tried to get away and killed it, but was slightly burned by the explosion. With the data that they recovered, they determined that the Stalks were using fissures under the island to emerge and began plotting the fissures to create no go areas on the island.