Black Tusk Comms: Backup Plan

## Backup Plan

### Description

Nikolai "Scourge" Gaiseric receives a status update on the Front assault and creates a backup plan.

### Speaker(s)

Nikolai "Scourge" Gaiseric
Linda "Harley" Handerval
Otto "Canavar" Emir

**Harley:** Scourge, Canavar, status report from Blackout.

**Canavar:** Hit us.

**Harley:** Operation was a fucking bust. The Front were able to counter us thanks to their Head of Intelligence, Emmerich Vaughn, tailing Blitz. They used an EMP to disable their drones, UAVs, and Warhounds and sent the primary squad into the sewers.

**Canavar:** I'm sorry, did you say EMP? How in the actual hell did those picket farmers in the Front get their hands on a fucking EMP?

**Scourge:** So the Front managed to catch us off guard. This time.

**Canavar:** We need to act swiftly. Strike them fast and hard, deal a crushing blow to their morale.

**Harley:** Blitz could try to convince a group of soldiers from his old unit to defect to our side. We'll lure Vaughn out and I could put a bullet through his skull, another bullet in his heart, and one for his dick.

**Scourge:** Aside from your obvious calling card, Harley, that plan might not go over so well.

**Harley:** Really, "commander"? How so?

**Scourge:** For one, Richmond may be paranoid and insane, but she's smart. Plus, the Front soldiers are zealous, more so than the Outcasts. Even if Blitz succeeds, there's a chance that Richmond will just cut them loose. She'll know we'll go for Vaughn and take out their information network.

**Harley:** Well, I don't see you coming up with any plans.

**Canavar:** We can use Quadcopters to wipe out their stockpiles. Deprives them of resources, preserves ours, and cripples the Front. We'll have Oracle and Anarchy lay some honey traps and ambush their forces when they come to collect. Their forces will be so deprived of manpower and morale that it'll be easy pickings.

**Scourge:** That won't work either, brilliant as it may be. The EMP took us by surprise, so we can't take any risks. Assuming that they only had one EMP would be a risk and if we use Quadcopters, we would be depriving ourselves of some of our most powerful weaponry.

**Canavar:** Well, I'm out of ideas, Scourge. And Harley's right, unless you've got a better plan, we should go with mine.

**Harley:** Bullshit, mine's better!

**Canavar:** Alright, fine. We'll flip a coin to decide, then.

**Scourge:** Enough, both of you! I already have a plan, but I only thought we should go for it if we had no other options. And we don't.

**Harley:** So tell us, Scourge. What brilliant plan do you have to combat the Front?

**Scourge:** We blow up the fucking Capitol Building.

**Canavar:** I'm sorry, I must be hard or hearing. Did you say that you're gonna BLOW UP THE FUCKING CAPITAL!?

**Scourge:** Affirmative, Canavar. The hovercraft still has the launchers and the missiles from Wyvern's fuckup, so we use them to strike at locations that are deemed vital to the Front, such as their primary headquarters in the Capitol Building, their stronghold at the Smithsonian Castle, and any other major stockpiles that we're able to identify. If we have enough explosives, we can reinforce the destructive capabilities of the missiles and that's just the missiles that are already in the launchers. If the Front doesn't surrender then, we'll load up the launchers again and strike their basic services. Hospitals, energy providers, training centers, any location that could help the Front rebuild. If the Front comes for us while we prep, then we defend the hovercraft by any means necessary, chemical weapons included.

**Harley:** Normally, I would be down for a good explosion. But this is overkill. There will be civilian casualties. Your plan might go too far.

**Scourge:** Look around, Harley! We are the most trained, most qualified, and the most feared unit since the BTSU! And we just got our asses handed to us by fucking dipshit tyrants with sticks for weapons and garbage cans for shields! We are a total warfare unit, goddammit, and this is war! I, a fucking colonel in the German Army, will not be killed by a child playing God!

**Canavar:** Harley, I have to agree with Scourge. The Darkest Horizon was formed to solve problems with solutions that no one has the guts to use. It would be a shame not to live up to our purpose. Besides, we can't focus on the Front forever. There are other enemies to deal with.

**Harley:** Fine. If it gets the Black Tusk one step closer to victory, then I'm all for it.

**Scourge:** Perfect. I'll talk to Blackout about it when he returns. Given his recent experience, he'd be a fool not to go through with it.