Operation Brass Predator

== Operation Brass Predator ==
Operation Brass Predator was a small-scale covert military operation conducted by SAACC. The mission profile consisted of infiltrating Coxsackie Correctional Facility in New York, to extract a valued informant, Olivera DeBravka.
Led by SAACC Lieutenant Brian Burnett, the mission was meant to be completed as low-profile as possible. This was quickly given up on after armed prison guards began exchanging fire. Shortly after, Seaboard Peacekeepers were dispatched to the scene. The Appalachian elites were able to hold off the Peacekeepers whilst attempting to infiltrate the control room. The mission took a turn when, anticipating the elites arrival, The Subject and a light Sentinel were deployed in response.
== Background ==
A long time informant of the reconstructed powers against Seaboard, Olivera Debravka was otherwise unknown in her whereabouts. Sometime earlier in 2024, information regarding her apprehension by Seaboard was gained by the Harrisburg Committee. Between then and September, a highly-secretive mission, codenamed Operation Brass Predator, was formed.
Due to the extraordinary operative skills of the SAACC squad leaders, it was decided for them to be the ones carrying out the mission. Once inside word revealed Debravka's location being the Coxsackie Correctional Facility, the rest of the mission was quickly put into place.
Originally, only five elites were chosen to inflitrate the prison- units Omega (Brian Burnett), Beta (Leonardo Evans), Delta (Bryanna Sandoval), Epsilon (Dakota Taylor) and Zeta (Savanna Voland). This decision was changed when Sergeant Sandoval vouched for her trainee, Carly Young, to join them. The action was approved by the mission organizers. Lieutenant Burnett personally, and without higher approval, allowed his sister- a trained Marine in her own right- to join them days prior.
== Events ==
The morning of the mission, 27 September, Abel Clark insisted upon joining the mission. At the time no longer in service due to an honorable discharge for medical reasons, it would've been strictly forbidden for him to join as a civilian. Despite the confusion about Clark's sudden ability to walk and move as if he were never injured previously, and his status as a civilian, Burnett gave the go-ahead for him to join.
Now with eight highly-trained elite soldiers, the group was shuttled to Greene County, New York. Once in the county, half of the team (Omega, Alpha, Beta, Epsilon) intercepted and commandeered a box truck taking a shipment of material to the prison. The crew loaded into the back, and used the vehicle to gain access to the loading docks of the facility. At the same time, the other half of the squad air dropped to the other side of the prison (Delta, Zeta, Young and Burnett). Once inside, their wishes to pursue a quiet infiltration were quickly foiled due to prison guards firing at the team and sounding the alarms.
After pushing the guards back, a alert was sent out to nearby Seaboard forces. While the SAACC team temporarily turned off the main power and secured the prison's electronic control room, a large platoon of Peacekeepers began into the facility. Though they slowed the progress of the SAACC team, the Peacekeepers didn't have the firepower or training to effectively combat the team. Instead, most were injured and many killed. As the Peacekeepers called for backup, unknown to the SAACC team, two highly specialized Seaboard units entered the prison. Among them, the Subject and a light Sentinel.
With half of the squad working on maintaining control of the command rooms, they quickly failed to continue to do so once the Sentinel arrived. It was able to remove Sergeant Sandoval and Corporal Voland from the control room, and using the camera monitors, realized that two mercenaries had also infiltrated the prison, both trying to capture informant Debravka as well. Using this as an advantage, the sentinel closed off doors between Dakota Taylor and Brian Burnett, hoping the two mercenaries would defeat Burnett and leave Taylor to deal with the remaining Peacekeepers in the double-tiered prison halls.
The plan was moderately successful, and while Abel Clark was returning to the power control units and circuit breakers, Burnett battled the two mercenaries. Despite the advantage they presented, Burnett was successful. During his battle, the Sentinel fought Corporal Voland, Sergeant Sandoval, Lance Corporal Young, and Maria Burnett. The four hardly phased the sentinel, and during the fight, Carly Young was killed. Sandoval sustained injuries that rendered her useless to fight, and before being killed, Abel Clark was able to stagger the sentinel just long enough for the four to escape the area.
While regrouping, Burnett and Taylor had opened the cell for Olivera Debravka. Upon doing so, Burnett realized that his own father- Jack Burnett- was with her. Amid a confusing situation, the others joined in. Realizing there was still a sentinel on their tail, and that much of the team was injured, Brian Burnett commanded Debravka and the others with the exception of Abel Clark and his father to leave with the asset. They did so, and the remaining three prepared to keep the sentinel at bay.
As Brian and Jack Burnett as well as Abel Clark repelled the sentinel, they realized there were actually two combatants. The three managed to fight the sentinel and the subject, and eventually, Abel Clark was able to defeat the subject with the help of Jack Burnett. However, due to the lack of firepower and depleted stamina, the sentinel simply couldn't be defeated. Before Burnett was killed by the sentinel, it was rammed by a box truck impacting the front of the prison. Inside the truck, Paul Coleman helped the three escape.
The team gathered back together and regrouped on their mobile rail unit.