<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Dark Sun Rising: Rise From the Ashes</span></strong></div><div align="center">(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j77/wulfjaeger/MechwarriorOnline_zpse8f593c9.jpg)</div><br/><br/>The plan had been simple.  Land on the planet of Wrociaw with two other Merc companies and support the local Lyran military units against an impending incursion by the Jade Falcons.  The focus had been to secure the two main cities against assault and attempt to split the two Falcon Clusters among the different objectives and fight them to a standstill.  By the intelligence estimation the Mech forces along with the planets fielded forces should have been more than enough to push back two Falcon Clusters.<br/><br/>As usual......Intelligence was wrong!!!<br/><br/>What no one bothered to recognize was that the leader of the Falcons was Malvina Hazen.  A lunatic with an itchy trigger finger and the troops to use it.  No one expected bombardment of troop positions from space as the Falcon units were landing.  No one expected to be overrun before they ever landed planetside.  When the Falcon troops did eventually land, it didn't take them long to tear through the battered and shell shocked units on the ground.  All remaining units had been called to protect the Aerospace base in Wrociaw's main city for an all out retaliation.  Of course when you're a Merc company, and you see C-bills eaten away with each mech and warrior that's torn down by the Falcons, you tend to forget about orders.<br/><br/>The Black Suns commander Carlos Moreno called the retreat, pulling his assault units to cover the retreat as their drops ship the Dark Star attempted to fight off fighter attacks while taking on what was left of the company.  The pitched running battle through a portion of Wrociaw's more densly wooded areas was the only thing between the slowly dying units salvation and their destruction at the hands of the Falcons.