Firefight Event: Return to Zagreus

Description

Return to Zagreus is a narrative event that is welcoming of new players. Following the highly successful "battle for Zagreus 13", we return to Zagreus for a follow up event!

 

Background

As a narrative event, some background is provided here! Please use this as a prompt for any details you want to add to your army’s background “fluff”.

Motivations

GCPS

In the aftermath of the events of the Assault on Zagreus 13, Cortando corporation were required to evacuate all valuable assets (and a few of the most important people) from the planet. However, their leaders have decided to double down on their ownership and are sending a larger force to reclaim what is “rightfully” theirs.  Other corporations smell blood and may have sent mercenary forces of their own…

Marauders

The Marauders were beaten back during the events of the Assault on Zagreus 13. Plague infections run rife across large areas and, although the Marauders are immune, there are still enough infected creatures to keep them busy and confined to a smaller and smaller area of the planet.  However, additional forces are due to arrive from elsewhere in the system with the plan of reclaiming the whole planet for the green skins.

Enforcers

The black company of the enforcers is tasked with ensuring that Marauders never manage to get back together in the numbers that led to the mandrake rebellion.  They are looking to wipe the Marauders off the map, and it seems that the plague did much of their work for them last time around.  New orders from the council have been received – find and extract information from the unlicensed facility somewhere on the planet, then destroy the whole place!

Asterians

The balance of the galaxy was is in jeopardy, and was somewhat restored by the reduction in Marauder numbers on Zagreus 13. However, the risks of others discovering more about the scourge through the human facility on the planet is too large – best to find and eliminate anyone who may know too much. To maintain the balance of course…

Forge Fathers

Obviously, all the planets in all the systems belong to the forge fathers.  This one has particularly useful mineral resources – enough to power a star-forge. Recent events make the planet even more appealing to come and claim now.

Veer-Myn

Having been in hiding on the forge fathers’ ships for several years, it is time for the veer-myn to make themselves known. They have already wiped out the force whose ship they landed in, but the brood need more meat and more resources to grow. Time to scavenge across this world.

Plague

The plague now dominate Zagreus 13 but the plague lord at the top of command knows that they must leave the planet to spread throughout the system.  The human facility hidden on the planet will have the resources (and live meat) required to keep the plague force growing and expanding.

Mazon Labs

Almost complete success on the planet resulted in a new hidden facility to fully investigate the miraculous effects of Renascentia on all forms of life. Unfortunately the plague outbreak got a little out of control and the facility had to be (temporarily) abandoned due to a lack of living work force.  The results of the studies are still there – time to get in and claim them back! If only the facility hadn’t been hidden so well!

Nightstalkers

Whilst the core effects of Renascentia seem to be very positive, the rumours of side effects have some people worried.  Dismissed as “fake news” spread by Reb cells, some users of Renascentia seem to suffer terrible nightmares, and there are stories circulating that these nightmares are becoming more than mere dreams.

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