TFA3 5.3 – Blue Crystal
Under the gentle sunset, a Super Hercules landed on Sommer Island. As soon as its wheels stopped, the loadmaster immediately lowered the ramp door. A moment later, General O’Neill and his security details exited the plane. At the same time, Lt. Colonel Gillray and Rear Admiral Norrak walked over to them.
“Welcome to Sommer Island, General,” Lt. Colonel Gillray said.
“General O’Neill, Ser,” Rear Admiral Norrak said, “It’s an honor to meet you personally.”
“The honor is mine, Admiral Norrak.” After giving Rear Admiral Norrak a smile, General O’Neill turned his gaze to Lt. Colonel Gillray. “Well, Colonel, take me to Captain Kasino and his men.”
“Right away, Sir,” Lt. Colonel Gillray firmly said. “They are holding dinner gathering in eastern side of the island right now.”
“Coincidently,” General O’Neill happily said, “I’m very hungry right now.”
Without further ado Lt. Colonel Gillray brought General O’Neill and his security detail to the Humvees he had prepared for them. A moment later, the convoy was already on its way to the eastern side of the island and arrived at the dinner gathering at no time.
When the frogmen realized that one of their guests was General O’Neill, they immediately gathered and fell in into a neat formation.
Some of the frogmen wore their combat fatigue and carried their carbine and sidearm. Some other wore jeans and collared shirt, but most of them wore only boxer and sneaker. So, at a glance the formation looked funny. However, if you looked deeper you would realized that each frogmen had determined eyes and stood ramrod straight.
Wasting no time, General O’Neill stood before the formation and calmly said, “I come to deliver a mission package that suits your specialties. But first, let’s have a good dinner and nice beer.
So, stand ease, frogmen.”
“““Aye Sir,”””” The frogmen replied in a calm but solemn tone.
A moment later, dinner was begun. The main menu was grilled skipjack tuna. Captain Kasino and Lieutenant Kidd managed to capture five skipjack tuna, weighing around 20 kg each. The two then cut each tuna into several big chunks before grilled it. For the cheek meat and lean part they glazed it using mix of soy sauce and mirin, while for the belly and other part that got lot of fat they added hot sesame oil to the glaze.
As for the drink, they had several brands of beer from earth, several packs each, along with two barrels of Amur beer. After taking their food and beer, everyone formed small circle of four or five, and enjoying their dinner and beer while having casual chat.
General O’Neil was no exception. He piled up two pieces of huge cheek meat and a piece of belly cut as big as child’s arm into a thick paper plate. To wash it down, he chose two cans of Sapporo premium black, a bold dark lager that well known for its distinct trait of making no apologies but has uncommonly smooth finish. Then, he sat in a circle with Lt. Colonel Gillray, Admiral Norrak, and officers from Frogman Platoon.
In a calm atmosphere, the dinner last for two hours. After that, everyone went straight to the briefing room in Command Center.
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While using projector to put a list of date and notes on the whiteboard, General O’Neil opened the briefing, “Gentlemen, this is the timeline of our war with Kingdom of Makai.”
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[28 Sept 2025, as soon as we learned that Kingdom of Makai will launch retaliatory invasion, we immediately initiated Tiger Leap with the goal to neutralize the threat from Kingdom of Makai for once and all.
Vex returned to earth the next day, that’s why he can’t come here to give you the brief, while General Rayden started to assembly the asset he needs to execute Tiger Leap.
1 Oct 2025, Colonel Meyer and the first batch of his men arrived at Jack Sparrow, a hidden forward base a few kilometers away from Makai Royal Palace, but it would take sometimes before all condition to launch Tiger Leap fell in place.
28 Oct 2025, the three battle groups from Kingdom of Makai launched their attack on multiple fronts, but we managed to neutralize them.
2 Nov 2025, we received tunnel attack on Levsait and Raisait and suffered huge loss, but in the end we managed to handle it and even temporary crippled Battle Group C’s combat potential. At the same time, element from Frogman Platoon managed to secured Prince Portho and Duke Fogel, and temporary neutralized the threat from Battle Group B.
5 Nov 2025, all conditions to launch Tiger Leap were met and we launched it. We managed to deliver fatal blow, but failed to capture of King Makai XXII. So, we literally fail to end the war as we have expected.]
After giving everyone in the room enough time to read the timeline, General O’Neil added, “After he learned that Prince Portho had surrendered, King Makai XII decided to send new command element for Battle Group B.
He chose Admiral Shoel, the best admiral in Makai Navy, and we will target his carrier ship, the Storm-01.”
Lt. Colonel Gillray immediately raised his hand, and as soon as General O’Neil gave him a nod he immediately asked, “If we target the carrier ship, isn’t a missile or two will do the job? Or, we plan to hijack it like Geko-01.”
“There is device in the Storm-01 we need to snatch covertly.” General O’Neil put a picture of big blue crystal on the white board as he added, “This is blue crystal communicator. It’s ten times more powerful than regular crystal communicator with the same size, and the only type of crystal communicator that can be integrated to our EW capability.
From the ops to seize gold mine under the Rocky Hill, we got our hand on our first blue crystal, and then we managed to integrate it to our Poseidon and used it to jam opposing crystal communication network.
Unfortunately, blue crystal is very rare while we are in dire need to expand our capability to jam crystal communication network.”
As soon as General O’Neil stopped his explanation, Rear Admiral Norrak immediately raised his hand and said, “General, may I add some information regarding the blue crystal.”
General O’Neil nodded and said, “Please, Admiral.”
“Blue crystal is not only rare. It’s impossible to buy it unless you are willing to be part of the alliance from the 1st World Authority who possesses this technology.” After letting out a deep sigh Rear Admiral Norrak continued, “That’s why, for many years Kingdom of Buriek fail to acquire blue crystal, and our communication network is always one step outdated than Kingdom of Makai.”
“Well, that’s the more reason we need to snatch blue crystal,” General O’Neil calmly said. “Makai Navy has only four blue crystals. If we manage to snatch one of them covertly, it will boost our capability while at the same time cripple their best communication network significantly.”
“General,” Captain Kasino calmly said. “Is Storm-01 already on the sea?”
“It is, and you have 28 hours before it enter FRS Goblin’s area of responsibility.”
“How will we get it done?” Captain Kasino asked another question.
“As usual,” General O’Neil happily replied. “You are tip of the tip, master of covert and discretionary warfare. So, how you get the job done is entirely up to your discretion.
I will only set the outline on what you can or can’t do, while providing the best support I can offer.”
“General, will you personally supervise the ops?” Lieutenant Caldwell asked.
“No. In three hours I have to fly to Buriek Royal City. Grand Commander Keraz asked me to help him form special operation command under Buriek Guard,” General O’Neill casually said. “So, I will put Colonel Gillray and Admiral Norrak to supervise the operation, but before I go I wish to see the initial oplan.”
Wasting no time, General O’Neil handed over the rest of the intels, including the real time aerial footage from Reaper, and everyone in the briefing room immediately started the work to device the oplan.
One of the Frogman Platoon’s specialties was covert asset retrieving in the sea, both for friendly and hostile asset. So, in no time they already produced a feasible oplan. Once General O’Neil approved it, the preparation was immediately being carried out.
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