Under the Hammer's Shadow

[Groshyr]

So, this is how it begins?

Born on planet Volgograd, Anton Fomin was a Coalition soldier, an officer to patrol cruiser, which was lost due to his own mistake. Years later, he was given another chance - to be a part of the Third Syberian Battlegroup. He made some success and lately was transferred to the Sipukha of the SCEC. However, he failed again and ended up leaving the military service and the Coalition. Some time ago, he tried to work as a freelancer: the income from escort contracts was low, and Fomin barely could uphold the spending for fuel and repairs. Slowly, it started to change when he joined the Guild's paramilitary forces. Step by step from a regular soldier to an officer in a patrol cruiser. Back from where Anton started, he reached the position of a Captain and was assigned to Guild Patrol Vessel the Pathfinder, deployed in the system of Tau-44. All it happened recently before the Hammer fall.

For the last few days, they were fighting the Maltese: since the Hammer fell, the Outcasts were not abandoning the attempts attacking Melbourne and planet Minato but always had to face the battlegroup Hades of the Colonial Republic and IMG defence forces, deployed from Singapore. It made the station safe heaven in the heat of battle, where soldiers could get some rest while their ships under repairs and drink for the memory of those who left behind. The Guild was not afraid the Outcasts to spot the shipyard: it was near to impossible to pass the Sumatra cloud: composed mainly of microscopic ice particles, which renders most scanners inefficient. It appeared to be useful when IMG was choosing a location for their secret shipyard. The field contains pockets of volatile oxygen that are extremely dangerous to bypassing ships as well. Altogether, it creates incredibly beneficial conditions for the IMG. However, let us return to Captain Fomin and the GPV Pathfinder.

In the last combat, the cruiser got some physical damage from the debris impact after one of the outcast cruisers was blow up. Now, while the repairs of the ship are performing near Melbourne, the crew can get a quick moment of rest before another battle will get started. The Captain, alongside some officers from the ship, were resting in one of the bars of the station, named the Irregular Apocalypse. Oh, Lord, who could have named a bar like this? However, they have come not for discussing the bar's name but for drinking and taking rest, and this is what they do. However, the Fomin himself was interrupted by a short message his PDA received, the message was short: "Borneo is under the Orange Hammer's shadow.". He raised the eyes and tried to find Captain Naramov.