Looking for Loot (2)

Looking for Loot is the 88th episode of Assertive Acquisitions. Alternatively, you may be looking for episode 59, also called Looking for Loot. 
Splitsie McSplitsington, Capac, and TFE cross a ravine, fight drones and trees, and team up with an ally. 
==Synopsis==
Facing a ravine, they build a beautiful "yellow bridge road"Reference to the Yellow Brick Road from the US movie The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. out of cheap X and V shaped beam blocks, which contrasts nicely with the foggy monochrome planet. Capac drives the rover across the treacherous bridge flawlessly. 
While they are driving towards the DST base, TFE stands on the rover's periscope top so his "elf eyes" can see. Splitsie flies ahead in his yellow fighter to help them scout the terrain ahead. After his return, Splitsie playfully buzzes the tower (the periscope) and gives TFE a little "love tap" which gets TFE killed, twice. 
They stop to drill some magnesium, but soon they have to fight off drones, rovers, attackers on foot, and trees. Splitsie's fighter is destroyed, the rover loses a tyre, and TFE keeps getting swiped off the periscope... On the plus side, their planetary attack strategy has gained them the research points they came here for. 
They capture and loot the next enemy base by hiding behind trees and fighting off drones. Some of the drones seem to be attacking the bridge. 
Outside the base, Capac deforests distractingly as Splitsie meets their new ally again: The mysterious engineer in the purple suit has a business proposition. They team up to take revenge on the local security forces by raiding one of their convoys. Despite their hurry to plant some mines on a reddish ice lake, they have to battle the convoy directly instead. After gaining the upper hand, our heroes take over the truck and successfully "acquire" a large ASSERT atmospheric thruster. 
During the raid, Capac accidentally drives over their ally's smaller vehicle and damages it. The ally laughs mysteriously and Splitsie soon notices that the crash has destroyed one of their ammo containers. When they later help him fix the damage, the ally cheakily points out a "3-tonnes" heavy crate in his trunk... They don't realise that it contains their dropped ammo.
Finally, Splitsie steals Capac's Unknown Signal, and due to karmic retribution for his earlier bet on what Capac would get, he gets a cow rifle. 
 
==Quotes==
Capac: We are going to build a city! It'll be called Capac City! - Splitsie: Capacity? - Capac: ... Yes.
TFE: This bridge is sponsored by the letters V and X, I suppose? - Capac: And also by the letter Y. - TFE: What? - Splitsie: ... Why... would we spend this effort making a bridge? - Capac: Yup.
Ally: [The convoy] is carrying some goodies on the back and... - Capac: Tim, Bill, or Graeme?This is a reference to the first names of the members of the British comedy TV show The Goodies. - Ally: Steve! - Splitsie: (laughs) Oh Capac so few people are gonna get that, I love it. 
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