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Hidden : 7/28/2011
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Terrain:
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Sweden is under attack! Can you save us? Complete each mission in Operation Centroid to find and neutralize the enemy!

Remember, the enemy has eyes and ears everywhere! Use stealth and the cover of darkness wherever necessary!

The given coordinates have nothing to do with this story and does not have to be visited to complete the first mission. Prepare to have to revisit some stages if you're not extremely well equipped...


>>> Codename: Air Assault
>>> Location: Unknown
>>> Time: Unknown
>>> Mission: Find the ground team

Three airplanes are on a mission somewhere over Linköping trying to defend the nation from the unknown attackers. Mission control checks in with the planes:

"- Gentlemen, your first targets are on your maps. There is another objective, but access to that information is on a need-to-know basis. We don't expect all of you to get that far... - Vertex 1, where are you, how far away?"

"- I'm 716 meters away from my target and heading 344 degrees!"

Suddenly mission control spots something on the radar and contacts the nearest plane:

"- Vertex 2, there is yet another airplane 775 meters away from you on bearing 134 degrees. Take down that bogey!"
"- Zschhshschhshshs..."

No reply, just static.

"- Vertex 3, I think we've lost Vertex 2! What's your status?"
"- I've "zschhshschhshshs" into a flock of birds, my plane is severely damaged! I still got 2525 meters "zschhshschhshshs" drop my bombs, heading 310 degrees! Zschhshschhshshs..."

Mission control:

"- We think our radio communication is being jammed! Before we lose all communication, there is now a need to know about your second target! We "zschhshschhshshs" have not much time so you have to figure out "zschhshschhshshs" main target position on your own based on "zschhshschhshshs" current positions! Hopefully one of you can get there and accomplish your mission so the ground team can take over!"

>>> End of mission


 

>>> Codename: Men In Black
>>> Location: Unknown
>>> Time: Night
>>> Mission: Find clues on how to cripple the enemy

The captain gathers the men and clears his throat:

"- Listen up soldiers, this is the situation. With help from our friends in the sky we have successfully taken this sector. Our objective is to keep it secure so that the guys from Intelligence can search this place for clues."

From one of the tunnels two men, dressed in black, emerge. One of them says:

"- We're not sure what we're looking for here but we believe there might be some clues to where the enemy HQ is located. Have you seen anything suspicious or out of place?"
"- Sir, we took a stroll and saw three strange things a few meters away in the directions from where the airplanes were last heard from. We saw some writing on them but could not read out any information", one soldier says.

The captain is not amused:

"- Are you nuts?! You were supposed to stay on your post!"

The moon has risen and there's a chill in the air when one of the men in black says:

"- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

>>> End of mission


>>> Codename: Going Deep
>>> Location: Unknown
>>> Time: Unknown
>>> Mission: Find instructions on how to infiltrate the enemy

Not far away I can hear traffic, people seem to be unaware of the fact that the intruder's HQ is so close to their homes. Have they already given up? Not me.

The power seems to be cut off. Somewhere here in the dark there should be intel on the HQ's location and how to intercept the enemy's radio traffic. If we can listen in on their plans maybe we can deliver the final blow and once and for all get rid of the intruders. Seems like they have been trying to clean up this place in a hurry, there is burnt paper and trash everywhere. Maybe they've forgotten something?

>>> End of mission


>>> Codename: Infiltration
>>> Location: Unknown
>>> Time: Unknown
>>> Mission: Listen in on the enemy and plant explosives

The guards never saw or heard me coming and as long as I keep silent and my nerves under control they will never know that I'm under here... Planting the explosives was the easy bit, there are lots of places to put them down here.

I make my adjustments and the panel lights up - would have taken forever without the clues left behind. A foreign voice can be heard, what is it saying? Speech mixed up with some code. The spoken part is probably not of as much interest as the coded one.

>>> End of mission


>>> Codename: Writing Off
>>> Location: Unknown
>>> Time: Unknown

>>> Mission: Press the button and sign the log

In the distance the enemy HQ sits quietly. All guards have been taken care of. There is silence. It's just me, this trigger and a few pounds of C4.

Click.

>>> End of mission and story


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