<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #FF0000">Major Tom ‘TT’ Theophilus Peters</span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/0b1c5703-1ec6-4951-9974-ee41ec21aa28_zps54ccd4dc.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Tom realized that they would need all their united input into this. They had to look at both groups now, if the ambush went wrong then they may get overrun by the Getalians without any pre-warning.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“Karra, Geek, Tammy, let’s join the others. We have to make some plans now.”</span><br/><br/>They all left the freight area, leaving the sedated princess behind and took seats next to the group around the Hunter. The other members of Sarge’s  group joined them. They had not spoken so far, which wasn’t unusual for commandos. They preferred to fire over speaking.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“Ok, before you folks go into detail how to ambush the Getalians, we need to secure this place first. There will not be a lot of firepower left, so when the ambush doesn’t work and the Getalians arrive here, I want enough pre-warning to get the people out of here. We will turn tail and run. Karra just mentioned explosives. Maybe we can leave some corridors free for us to flee and spike the rest up with C4. Sarge, you have some fire-worker in your troop?”</span><br/><br/>One of the three guys who had not spoken yet, a huge black guy, gave a laugh. <span style="color: #80FF00">“Well, they call me Bang, so I guess that’s me, you are looking for.”</span><br/><br/>Tom nodded and pointed at Gleywine. It was best the  two checked for the best places now and Bang could prepare his explosives while they discussed the best ambush strategy.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“Ok, Gleywine, while we discuss how we best take the Getalians out, you should go outside with Bang and look for the best places to detect incoming troops. Bang will tell you what kind of places he needs and I guess you will find them quickly with your experience.”</span><br/><br/>Gleywine nodded but he hesitated for a moment to get up. He turned to the Professor and then to the others.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">“If you want to discuss how to ambush them, you should know how they are organized. Usually there are two hexapods in front and one in the back of the group. The foot-soldiers are in between and they are flanked by the tripods. Sarge asked me if there are places where he has a good sight on them from the distance. There are two large meadows between Ovia and here and as the foot-soldiers fear the carnivores, they will rest there for the night. The second one is just about there, where we could reach it two hours before the sun goes down and the rescue party should arrive after us. If we can take them out after they just settled in and the exhaustion is high…that would be the best time I guess. The size of the meadow is about four times the range of the weapons of the hexapods and the y will camp in the middle, so if your sniper or however you call the young lady is able to get to them from the forest, then you may have a good chance to eliminate all the mechanized weapons without them knowing how.”</span><br/><br/>The soldiers nodded satisfied, that sounded at least like some plan. They just had to refine it now, but they had done that before. Gleywine got up and he and the black guy walked to the door, but they got stopped by Tania’s words.<br/><span style="color: #80FF00"><br/>“The explosives sound nice, but what happens if a group of carnivores trips them and we all rush out to get our asses in safety and we happen to be the lunch then? Anyone thought about that, folks?”</span><br/><br/>A collective sigh escaped them and Gleywine and his companion stopped. Tom had to acknowledge that Tania was right. It was more than likely that some carnivore came walking along and sent them all into flight modus. Just that they would leave the safe harbor then in the middle of the storm.<br/><span style="color: #80FF00"><br/>“We have to send a recon out – No, that doesn’t work, if it is a carnivore the recon is gone – And if it are the Getalians, they know about us – No we need other ways…”</span> They were all talking with each other until Sarge spoke up. <span style="color: #80FF00">“Wireless cameras!”</span><br/><br/>All heads turned to him and he pointed to the freight room. <span style="color: #80FF00">“There’s a batch of wireless cams in a box in there. If Geek can connect those to the Recon unit in the cockpit, we could have a look on the scene from here and decide to run or stay then.”</span></div>