Home coming welcome – My first Hellfire scenario

I have put this scenario together mainly to get use to the rules and add a loose frame work for a campaign at a future date. It pits the Independent Colonies against a mega Corporation, who are part of the Galactic Core Union. As things develop I can add other factions and even different aliens. Think of it like 2000AD type of future setting.

It will also give me some focus on buying and getting things ready for the table top, instead of my usual magpie approach to gaming ;-)

Introduction

The small terra like planet of Regina VI has come to the attention of ‘Widdows Interstellar Mining Corp’ due to an orbital scan that identified large mineral rich deposits in the Northern hemisphere, in the region that is known locally as the ‘Ariel Plateau’.

Normally WIM Corp would file for mining rights, bribe a few officials and then begin to extract whatever they have found, refine the raw product and then make a huge margin selling it on, however, Regina VI isn’t in the Galactic Core Union it is part of the Independent Colonies. Tensions between these two rival factions have increased over the past few decades, with open hostilities only being shown on the boarders between the two. Striking at Regina VI, might provoke the IC into a full blown conflict situation which the GCU can ill afford at the moment, however WIM Corp want these resources.

Objectives

 Widdows Interstellar Mining Corporation has hired a small mercenary taskforce to accompany their “survey team” while they extract some mineral samples from an IC mining outpost.
The mercenaries need to protect the survey team for 4 turns while they take samples and then proceed to the extraction point, due South of Outpost Griffon.

The IC forces will protect themselves and also try and raise the alarm to call for reinforcements which will arrive on turn 5 from Crosby Junction.

Survey Team

Projectile weapons
One Group of Two bases
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Mercenaries - Hired Help

Well trained, comlinks, energy weapons, flak armour
Three groups of Three bases
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Mining station ‘Griffon’

Mining station Griffon is located to the North West on the Ariel Plateau and is regularly supplied from the nearest local frontier outpost 12 km away at Crosby Junction.

Miners

Projectile weapons
Three Group of Four bases
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Local Militia

Projectile weapons, Flak armour
Two Group of Four bases
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