Proceed to the Landing Zone

With the Pacific Shores Industries complex cleaned out, my next objective was added to the Heads-up display on my helmet. I have the location of Helena (Dr. Rosenthal's daughter) and another American scientist now on my radar - compliments of the Korean People's Army (KPA) and a very lackluster security implementation of their computer network.

The two remaining scientists are being held against their will by General Kyong of the KPA. Their location is within the mine shaft, that appears to be under a huge rock formation that is currently glowing blue. My guess is that thing is loaded with some alien-like machines that have taken the life of three of my Delta Team members. I will remember you always, Aztec, Jester and Prophet.

In order to get to the entrance to the mine, I am going to need some help by the US forces in the area. However, in order to get them near me, I need to clear out a path for them to land. The Pacific Shores area might seem like an ideal choice, but the area is too small to be a landing zone for the VTOL machines. Additionally, the structure of the land is very unstable - due to the tremors resonating off that huge glowing-blue rock that I am certain I am going to enter at least once while I am on this mission.

So, my next objective is to clear out a landing zone. The zone has been identified and is located along the dirt path leading out of the Pacific Shores Industries complex.



As I walked along the dirt trail, I was taken back in amazement at the huge excavation dig before me. In a hole large enough to contain a modest-sized city were several KPA vehicles who had evidently seized the area. This area, by no surprise, pushes right up against the mine.



I would guess that from sea level to the bottom of that huge hole is no less than 10 building stories. So, not even with the Nanosuit would I be able to survive a fall that steep. Looking around the hole, I noticed that outer roads snake down from the top of the hole to it's lowest point. This information might come in handy, if I am expected to plow through that hole in order to arrive at the entrance to the mine.

Continuing onward, my expectations were met, as I could see the entrance to the mine.



The entrance does appear to require navigation through that huge hole. I made some quick notes regarding the structure of the area. I also noted that the mine entrance appears to be guarded by a couple ground-mounted machine guns and some troops as well.

The hole might appear to be a great landing zone, but it is not the area marked on my Heads-up display. The reason this is the case, is likely due to the fact that the VTOLs would be sinking below sea level in order to drop the troops. In addition to the troops being placed at the lower elevation than the KPA guards, the route to drop them would pass through the cross-hairs of many laser guided KPA missiles as well.

I faced the direction of the marked landing zone and noticed an industrial area before me.



This area would certainly be big enough to clear out a path for the VTOLs to land with support troops to help us secure the mine entrance. However, the area appears to be very well guarded as well. Looks like the KPA have a few more of those suits that are similar to our Nanosuits.



I really need to stake out the area and determine how I can clear out the landing zone for the support troops to land.

I am going to stealth forward for a bit, but will be back in touch soon.

Nomad ... signing out.

Secure the Landing Zone

I was able to continue toward the landing zone under cover of stealth and I ended up positioning myself on top of a small hill that over looked the landing zone. From what I could tell, there are at least two KPA troops in suits that closely resemble my Nanosuit. There might be more, but I can only see two of them from my current vantage point. How in the world were they able to acquire our Nanosuit technology?!!!

Laying prone on the ground I was able to pick off a single KPA troop using my submachine gun in single-shot mode with the sniper scope enabled. This caused a few troops to head in the direction of where I was located. I remained in my position using the cloak feature to stay out of site. As the troops headed my way, I used a single shot to take each down, then returned to cloak mode. I have a feeling it all won't be this easy!

I had one of the troops directly in my sites that was wearing the Nanosuit. Since I had three rockets in my launcher, I figured two of them could easily take him out. I launched two rockets in his direction and either they missed or they didn't phase him, because when the dust settled, he was still standing close to his original position. Crud!

What made things worse is that someone from the KPA lit a red flare, which means that more support will be heading this way soon. I moved from my original position and located myself on top of a dirt pile closer to the compound.



In the distance I heard a helicopter. I knew it wasn't our VTOLs, so it had to be another KPA helicopter - maybe even the one that flew overhead before I reached Pacific Shores. I had only one rocket left from my attempt to destroy on of the Nanosuit wearing KPA troops. For now, I had to stay out of site from the helicopter. I wondered, though, if the Gauss rifle might be able to take down the helicopter. If worse came to worse, that would have to be my only hope.

The helicopter arrived and began to seek me out. It remained above the guarded compound that we would like to turn into a landing zone for our VTOLs. I also began to hear noises. There were more KPA troops coming up from behind my current location. They were guarding the rail lines that lead directly into the camp.



I took up a good position behind a rock and the rail car and took out the troops guarding the rail lines one by one. So far, the helicopter had not noticed me and the silencer was a big help in keeping a low profile.

I noticed one last KPA soldier guarding the area with a ground-mounted machine gun. Just as I knocked him out, I noticed the helicopter was now heading my way. I quickly hid behind the train car on the ground while my suit charged back up. There was no way I could make the cover of the trees at this point. It was time to see if one rocket and some shots from the Gauss rifle could take down this chopper.

With my shields maxed out, I stood up and fired a rocket at the helicopter. It began to smoke, but it wasn't destroyed - just as I expected. So, at this point, I began to wonder if this is where my mission was going to end. Would it now be up to Psycho to finish the mission? Heck, I didn't have a clue where he was even located at this point. Maybe he was gone as well.

I wasn't going to let it end without giving it everything I had. So I grabbed my Gauss rifle and began to fire shots at the middle of the KPA helicopter. After the third shot hit the chopper, the chopper exploded into a ball of flames.



I could not believe it. The Gauss rifle took out the helicopter. I felt like I must of stood there in awe for several minutes before I realized there were more troops in the area to secure. So, I dropped down and let my suit recharge to max power. Once in max power, I went cloak and moved through the compound.

I found a weapons depot and was able to pick-up another rocket launcher and refill my submachine gun ammo. For now, I am set. My weapons cache consists of the submachine gun, the Gauss rifle, a rocket launcher, two pistols and a bunch of grenades.

There were two Nanosuit-wearing KPA troops that had to be eliminated. The other troops appear to have been taken care of already. The first troop was located on top of a roof and was standing in cloak mode. I was able to spot him from the edge/light reflections I spoke of earlier in my mission. Quickly I fired two rockets at the image and the heavily armed KPA solder was destroyed. Interestingly, I noticed that once I hit him with the first rocket, that his cloak powers were disabled - making the second shot very easy.

Before focusing on the other KPA soldier with a Nanosuit, I returned to the depot to pick up another rocket launcher. This was the last one in the depot, so I had to make it last.

The second soldier was stationed in the middle of a conveyor belt leading toward where the first soldier was in stealth mode. Could this be the last guy in the camp? I hoped so.

This time, I decided I would use the Gauss rifle. My only issue is that this soldier had a huge gun in his hands. It looked like a massive machine gun. So, I would need to get close before taking him down. The good news is that I had a good one or two seconds before his machine gun would wind up to speed - since the gun was kind of Gatlin-like in design. The bad news is, if I missed, I was going to be full of lead in a matter of seconds.

I moved between many sand barges that proved to be very good cover. Once I was at the end of my cover, I made sure that plenty of Gauss ammo was loaded and ran directly at the KPA soldier. I managed to hit him directly with my first shot - which stunned him. My second shot hit him just as he began to pull the trigger on his weapon. By the time my third shot hit, not a single bullet left the gun in my direction.

I dropped down and let my suit recharge. Was the area clear? No! There was one more troop in the area. I could not see him. Where was he located?!!!

I navigated to the rear of the camp and found that I could climb all the way up a silo to get a bird's eye view of the area. I still had three rockets left and plenty of Gauss ammo - if another chopper arrived.

I reached the top of the silo and pointed my binoculars in the direction of the last KPA troop. Turns out there was one more Nanosuit wearing KPA soldier, who remained in cloak mode and was hidden at the top of the compound - which happened to be below my current position.



Since I was in cloak mode, he didn't notice me. So, that is when I oped to use the rocket launcher again. I fired the first shot which caused the suit to fail. Then a second shot to fully clear the area.

With the area clear, the VTOLs arrived into the area and planted a green flare to allow a second VTOL to land.



The landing zone was complete. While this mini battle had just ended, another battle was beginning as troops stationed in that huge hold and along the mine entrance were now aware of our presence.

I better get down this silo and see if I can help our troops with this battle.

I will be in touch soon!

Nomad ... signing out.