Somewhere To Run To

Tactical Withdrawal

‘Somewhere To Run To’ finds Commander Rick Cassidy and Gunnery Sergeant Molly Pickford with Jacks Company in Winter Cove, their hoped-for refuge for the coming winter, along with the nearly 500 Rangers and civilians they rescued from the downed transport Moscow. They know it’s only a matter of time before the aliens pay a visit to find out why the Winter Cove garrison hasn’t answered but with the comm equipment taken from the Moscow they hope to be able to call for pickup before that happens. In the West the aliens are closing in on New Hope Town by sea and ground while efforts continued to evacuate the thousands of inhabitants to the volcano bastions and to the Gamma continent but those bastions aren’t ready to accept so many people yet.


An alien fleet is on its way here and my detachment will be front and center waiting for them to show up. My mom’s coming in on the Antarctica with the Advanced Relief Expeditionary Force. She’ll kill me all over again if I get myself killed before she gets here.

• Lieutenant Nicole O’Brien, platoon leader in the American detachment of Blade Company

Commander Rick Cassidy and Gunnery Sergeant Molly Pickford’s Jacks Company has rescued the Rangers and civilians who’d been on the besieged transport Moscow and brought them back to the temporary safety of Winter Cove. Their time there could be short however. They know that the aliens would be coming to check on its Winter Cove garrison sooner or later. In the East, alien forces are closing in on the colonial capital New Hope Town and the evacuation of its population begins.