Mars Battlefront '87

*In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon in history.*

*In 1970, Buzz Aldrin was the first man to step on a planet that wasn't Earth in history.*

*In 1982, the first ever human colony in Mars was established.*

*In 1987, Earth went quiet.*

*Centuries later, Mars still breathes.*

# MARS BATTLEFRONT '87

The city of **Ares' *burns, protests against the authoritarian government of the Red Circle have turned into riots that are burning the City of the Dunes down. The invasions of several external planets, combined with the discontent of the population because of rising taxes and disregard for the rising poverty, while authoritarianism rises; coupled with both ethnic and species-based tensions have made of the Pearl of Mars a near unhospitable place to live. In the center of a speech, Minister*** *Nimeo **gives a speech to the angry population with promises of great conquest across the dunes to get more material, but in the process of making the speech a Neurogenic Bomb is thrown at his feet, he's saved by his bodyguard, whose nervous system is completely destroyed. Unable to take care of him, he's shot on stage, and his body is devoured by the hungry crowd, split apart by Carnivorous aliens and even some cannibalistic humans. Tired of the situation, Mureo decides to hire a squad to systematically stop the riots, fearing that he won't be able to march in glorious conquest before his term as minister ends, as the populace would be too unhappy to go to war. While he decides on political reforms, he sends scout Glibglabble to scout out some** Do-Jobbers*'.

While wandering through the lower streets of Ares, Glibglabble is forced to interact with the lowlife scum and criminals of the city. When he's about to get robbed and murdered by a gang of genetically enhanced humans, they're all thankfully slayed by Mob Enforcer Café, a mysterious figure who does dirty jobs for a few crews in the Ares underworld. Although at first he thinks he's saved, Cafe kidnaps Glibglabble

Glibglabble explains the job that he's trying to attempt to pull. Café agrees on the condition that his boss, Nimeo, agrees to free 'Gloova', his former boss and one of the most successful 'night owners' of Ares from jail. Nimeo and Café agree to meet in the Agora of Ares, where they discuss the terms of the agreement. There, its decided that Gloova's best enforcers: **Cafe**, **Queens** and **Whiskey**; along with other enforcers, in exchange, Gloova will be released from prision, being held in the Underground Torture Chamber. Unbeknowst to them, Gloova is actually released into the middle of the Martian Desert, and swears revenge upon the Red Circle and the enforcers who teamed up with them.

Before departing, Nimeo orders Glibglabble to accompany the Enforcers at all time, giving him a backpack with two deployable nano-soldiers that will defend him in case he gets in trouble. Glibglabble agrees, and sets off from the ground floor of the Palacium onwards to adventure, meeting up with Cafe, Queens and Whiskey at a bar to decide on the best course of action. Once there, strategist Cafe deducts that the first course of action would be to completely destroy any organization the riots has, kill major figures, neutralize revolutionary leaders, so that the revolts seem less like justified pronounciations of anger due to several accumulated reasons and more like childish savage riots. To achieve this, they decide to savotage the SAND-ROLLER REVOLUTIONARY PARADE that would be happening in the outskirts of Ares, sabotaging the mechanisms of the Sand-Roller to make it explote, killing all major figures of the movement. Glibglabble is horrified by this, but reluctantly follows along. He's mocked by the enforcers, and is given the nickname 'Glib'. There, the company enjoys a nice game of Poker, eventually being the only patrons in the bar when morning comes around. Cafe suddenly wakes up, screaming for everyone to wake up, as the Parade was taking place an hour ago.

They all rush through the city in what I can only assume would look like a fucking sick one-shot setpiece, riding creatures and having to run through the narrow passages as we get to really see just the sheer atmosphere and ambience of Ares City, remniscent of ancient cities like Rome, Athens or Alexandria, with the 'sci fi' technology being completely adyacent to the otherwise ancient society that surrounds them. They jump from rooftops of entire skyscrapers, land in pools, trespass through tight alleyways and even private property; and even interrupt a professional game of football. Eventually though they manage to reach the outer City, where they can do nothing but watch as the Sandroller speeds away, unable to plant the explosives. Whiskey proposes to just catch up to them and kill them, Glib is horrified, but the rest agree, and Quinns commands they set off to try and catch them.

Whiskey and Cafe are sent down to disperse the mob so they can make their way to the Sandroller, fighting their way through the infuriated mases to catch the Sandroller. There, Cafe is sniped in the head, and it's revealed he's entirely powered out of oil, being an 'Exohuman'. Cafe devises the partisan who shot him, on the Sandroller, and tells Whiskey to hurry. Meanwhile, Glib and Queens make their way through the Dunes freely on Queens' motorbike, speeding off towards the Sandroller, which they hang onto via a harpoon, being pulled towards it, Queens uses his Martian Snake and plants it on the harpoon string, watching it slither up the ship and start attacking any Partisan attempting to cut it off. **The Arm**, a human mutant and leader of the Partisans, deduces that these enforcers were sent by the government, and decides to cut it for the domains of the Colonial Union, the main rival of the Red Circle, deducing that if the Red Circle enact their law in foreign territory it would be an act of war. Whiskey and Cafe meet up with Gibs and Queens, and the group fight their way through the surface of the Sandroller, while they do so Cafe finds the girl that had shot him. They engage in a scuffle and fall on the edge of the ship, as they fight they begin quoting Ian Wright, Milton-Keynes, García Lorca and end up quoting Romeo and Juliet from William Shakespeare, and while on the floor, viciously start making out. Cafe asks what her name is, to which she responds Beak, revealing her hands to be talons that she uses to split Cafe's throat, as she says "sorry", before her entire face is splashed by oil, rendering her unable to see, and both incapacitated. On the main ship, the Arm comes outside to confront the group, and he uses his physic powers to blow up literally every other enforcer's head up. Whiskey survives due to the way his species' brain is located, and Queens has too little grey matter to be affected, Glib is mysteriously not affected, leading him to wonder why. Taking advantage of their confusion, the Arm uses a physic shockwave to send them off the ship and into the dunes of Mars. Completely stranded in the desert, not too far from them they find Cafe and Beak, struggling to fight eachother, both clearly unable to (Cafe from his several injuries and Beak from her impaired vision and eye pain).