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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>655</BIN><narrator>:Dear Blackwell, I don't think this is a good time to reactivate the "Holy Grail", but I have no choice. +I considered waiting until all the preparations were complete, but... the situation doesn't allow it. Oh, how I resent my past self! If I had been more tactful, more cautious, I wouldn't be targeted by those assholes at the Relic Agency... +I can't return to the States, but it's at least a three-day wait just for a dexamethasone injection at the local hospital for us foreigners. +Perhaps I was too weak and cowardly. It was already technologically feasible back then, but I was simply too scared. I didn't have the courage to get to my feet again... +But now, I can't afford to hesitate anymore. I've decided to leave behind my old name and take a new one—"Hela". +Sana's eyes are closed as I hold her in my arms, but there may still come a day when she will walk again. +Meitner, Moscow, 2051.
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Gunfire</SE1><黑屏2><BIN>99</BIN><narrator>:By spring 2051, it has been seven years since World War III broke out. +Collapse radiation has contaminated large swathes of land, and high-intensity conventional warfare has decimated the world population. +All that can be seen with the naked eye is the scorched earth left by the war. It is unclear when the tender green that represents hope will ever return to this land.
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>GF_EV9_Intermission</BGM><黑屏2><BIN>480</BIN>:Islands in the Yellow Zone, Southwest Pacific.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_wind_grass</SE1>:The thick and sticky wind blows by, bringing up bits and pieces of green crystal fragments, which are crushed underfoot by a pair of military boots. +Alexander, who is in a protective suit, trudges through the wet soil, his communicator's signal light alternating between green and red.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Pan, anything from the Rangers' transports?
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Pan(0)<Speaker>Pan  Squad 2 Leader</Speaker><通讯框>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Let me see... Damn this visibility. Even Pushkin's poems are clearer than my view.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>The transports are still stationary. They haven't moved at all.</color>
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Pan(0)||:Keep a close eye on it. If anything changes, report it at once.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Pan(0)<Speaker>Pan  Squad 2 Leader</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Alright!</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Oh, I can't wait for this goddamned war to be over so I can go back to Moscow and kiss my muses.</color>
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If the platoon leader hears about your noble dream, trust me, her boot will kiss your nose with great passion.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The soldiers monitoring the other sentry point snicker over the comms channel.
NPC-Pan(0)<Speaker>Pan  Squad 2 Leader</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF><size=50>What's so funny?!</size></color> +<color=#00CCFF>She became a platoon leader without ever setting foot on the battlefield. Heh! Command College graduates are just different.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Unlike us pure cannon fodders.</color>
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Pan(0)||:Is this really the point?
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Pan(0)<Speaker>Pan  Squad 2 Leader</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Obviously, not everyone who graduates from Command College gets this kind of special treatment. It's mostly down to her family background.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Her brother is a captain, and she practically has "I want to be a field marshal" carved on her forehead!</color>
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Focus on your job and watch Sentry Post 2 properly. +The platoon leader is determined to complete her first field mission with flying colors. If you mess up...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Beep. Pan mutes the channel while spewing a string of expletives.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Alexander shakes his head. Then comes another transmission request, and a listless voice speaks.
NPC-Wiktor(0)<Speaker>Wiktor</Speaker><通讯框>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1><SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Alexander, something seems to be happening at Sentry Point 1.</color>
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Wiktor(0)||:Have the Rangers' reinforcements arrived? Hold on, have you notified the platoon leader?
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Wiktor(0)<Speaker>Wiktor</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>I've got nothing to say to that little devochka. You are the platoon leader to me.</color>
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Wiktor(0)||:...You must obey the chain of command on the field.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Wiktor(0)<Speaker>Wiktor</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Their reinforcements haven't arrived yet. I noticed a radio signal at Sentry Point 1, but it disappeared. I suspect...</color> 
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Wiktor(0)||:In the Rangers' comms channel? +Can you crack the encryption?
NPC-Wiktor(0)<Speaker>Wiktor</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>No can do. The radiation levels are too high. Our equipment is older than me and totally useless.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:By then, Alexander has already reached the temporary assembly point—a run-down factory building on one of the islands.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:One of the three transport drivers is standing sentry at the entrance. Alexander waves at him.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Any equipment younger than you is either at the repair plant or in the junkyard. +Now stop whining and keep an eye on Sentry Point 1.
NPC-Wiktor(0)<Speaker>Wiktor</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>No point in busting our asses. We're just doing recon, not any actual fighting.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Alexander walks up to the entrance of the factory building. He is just about to end the transmission when Wiktor pipes up again.
NPC-Wiktor(0)<Speaker>Wiktor</Speaker><通讯框>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Let me tell you, we're lucky that this is just a recon mission. I would be really uneasy if the rookie leader were to command us in an actual battle.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>You know what people who come from academia are like. They're so by-the-book! They do exactly what their textbooks tell them to do!</color>
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Enough.
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2><BIN>222</BIN>:In the empty factory building, Anna, the new platoon leader, is seated behind a splicer's table on which her comms equipment is set up. Leaning back into her chair, she scrolls through her tablet with her long legs propped up against the table edge.
NPC-Wiktor(0)<Speaker>Wiktor</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>You just can't count on pedants like that!</color>
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Ma'am, I'm here for another dose of anti-radiation meds.
NPC-Wiktor(0)<Speaker>Wiktor</Speaker><通讯框>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:<color=#00CCFF>...!!</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Beep. The transmission from Sentry Point 1 is cut off abruptly.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Anna points at the vehicle outside without looking up from her tablet.
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:In the vehicle. Supply crate. Get it yourself.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:The driver standing by inside the vehicle pokes his head out. He gives Alexander a thumb-up and winks meaningfully at him.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<BGM>GF_EV9_Story</BGM>:...You heard all that?
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:Yep, the new equipment I swiped from the command post picks up chatter pretty well.
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Grey_Hand_Mech</SE1><BIN>9</BIN><黑点2>:...
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2><BIN>222</BIN>:When Alexander returns from getting his new dose of anti-radiation medication, he finds Anna still staring pensively at the screen.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:What are you doing?
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:Trying to figure out the Rangers' objective.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Ange(28)||:...Our job is just to observe their movements, no? +With our strength, we can't possibly engage them in a direct confrontation. 
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:That much is obvious. But these remote and deserted islands have no tactical value whatsoever. +So what are the Rangers doing here? +Try to make use of the thing that's attached to your neck. Merits on the battlefield don't just jump into your hand.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Ange(28)||:You're not thinking about scouting the island in the Red Zone, are you? The radiation levels there...
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:The radiation levels there are way beyond what the human body can withstand. I know that.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_button</SE1>:Anna aims her laser pointer at the holographic projection. The two sentry points are like two pieces of sesame on the topographical map. +One of the islands is largely blank—the radioactive fallout has rendered the area impossible to survey.
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:However, the Rangers think it's worth conducting a mission all the way out here. +Who knows? This "objective" could earn us a couple of stars on our uniforms, or maybe more?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Alexander is not swayed by the prospect of being promoted. He gazes at Anna evenly.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Ma'am, there are only two squads in 3rd Platoon. Half of our men are new recruits conscripted at the beginning of the year. They're basically civilians given guns.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:It's worth a try. +As long as we're smart about it, it isn't impossible.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Ange(28)||:...I thought you'd be different from the previous platoon leader.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:The jackass who squandered his subordinates' lives? No, no, I'm nothing like him at all. +He wouldn't think twice about sending you to your deaths, but I will make sure you stay alive long enough till the war ends, and you can go home as heroes.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If you had any real experience on the battlefield, you'd know how small and fragile we humans really are—like snowflakes in the Siberian winter. +When snowflakes fall into the flames of war, they disappear without a single trace.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Anna lowers her eyes.
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:Yeah? I've known that for a long time.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:The comms suddenly comes to life. Anna gets up to answer the call.
NPC-Pan(0)<Speaker>Pan  Squad 2 Leader</Speaker><通讯框>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Ma'am, something's going on at Sentry Point 2. The Geiger counter is detecting a large spike in radiation levels.</color>
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>;NPC-Pan(0)||:How big of a spike? How long did it last? Give me specific data.
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pan(0)<Speaker>Pan  Squad 2 Leader</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Let me see... Uh, how come it's gone down again?</color>
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>;NPC-Pan(0)||:...Have you read the "Reconnaissance and Surveillance Handbook"?
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pan(0)<Speaker>Pan  Squad 2 Leader</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>What's that?</color>
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>;NPC-Pan(0)||:"Basic Infantry Tactics"?
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pan(0)<Speaker>Pan  Squad 2 Leader</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Uh...</color>
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:...I'll make sure you find out when we get back to camp. +Keep monitoring the situation.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Click. +Ignoring Pan's dismayed groan, Anna terminates the transmission.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Do you really intend to train them?
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:What else?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Anna holds Alexander's gaze firmly.
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:One or two snowflakes will melt when they come into contact with fire, but what if it's a Siberian blizzard?
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...What exactly are you planning to do?
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:Isn't it carved on my forehead? "I want to be a field marshal."
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Alexander lets out a bark of laughter, but he collects himself immediately.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Let me think about it.
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:Now that you're my subordinates, I'll be sure to make excellent soldiers out of you. +You're hesitant to put your faith in me—that's only natural, but I firmly believe that time will tell everything.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Anna holds out her fist with a tentative smile.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Alexander grins and bumps her fist.
NPC-Alexander(0)<Speaker>Alexander</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If you manage to get the soldiers in 3rd Platoon up to your brother Ramzan's level, you might actually achieve world domination.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1><BGM>10213</BGM>:Anna's features suddenly darken. She retracts her hand.
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:I only have one brother—Armin. +And he's dead.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Alexander makes some excuse and scurries away. The driver guarding the vehicle keeps his head down quietly.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_button</SE1>:Anna goes back to puzzling over the topographical map.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:After a short while, the communicator sounds again. Anna picks up absentmindedly.
NPC-Ange(28)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:This is Infantry Platoon Leader Anna Tsoi of the 57th Guards Division stationed on Island P.
NPC-Pamzan(4)<Speaker>???</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>This is Captain Ramzan.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Anna freezes, but the man on the other end of the line appears calm and placid.
NPC-Pamzan(4)<Speaker>Ramzan</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>The Military have sent out troops to intercept the Rangers' standard ground combat reinforcements.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>However, a company has slipped through the blockade. I'm ordering your troops to intercept them at once and prevent them from linking up with the Rangers.</color>
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>;NPC-Pamzan(4)<通讯框>||:You have no authority to mobilize my troops.
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pamzan(4)<Speaker>Ramzan</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>I have been authorized by the brass. I am to direct the preliminary military operations here.</color>
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>;NPC-Pamzan(4)<通讯框>||:Captain, I must remind you that the 3rd Platoon only comprises two squads which are currently split up across two sentry points to monitor the enemy. We have minimal recon equipment and firepower.
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pamzan(4)<Speaker>Ramzan</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Recall them all and set up a line of defense immediately. Just leave the equipment behind. I am coming with backup.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>That's an order.</color>
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>;NPC-Pamzan(4)<通讯框>||:One last question—what are the Rangers doing in the Red Zone? +At the very least, I need to know what the 3rd Platoon is fighting for!
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pamzan(4)<Speaker>Ramzan</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>...Their objective is to capture a criminal codenamed "Capita". This person may be in possession of top secret information pertaining to Relic technology.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>That's all we currently know; Intelligence is still investigating the matter.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>It will take the main force three hours to get here. You and I are the only ones who can intercept the Rangers' reinforcements right now.</color>
NPC-Ange(31)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Ange(29)<Speaker>Anna</Speaker>||:Acknowledged, Captain.
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