The targets popped up and Draxus dropped them one by one.
"Well done" Draxus heard in his head
"You have a phenomenal time, I'm moving you to the A team" the commander of the corporations ground forces branch said as the VR sim ended.

"Report to hanger 2 and take the transport to our staging facility in Pure Blind, you might as well also gear up and provide defense for the transport, we're carrying some rather valuable blueprints and would rather not loose them to a boarding party. You have a formidable escort of capsulers and Valkyries so it shouldn't be an issue but its better to be safe then sorry."

"Thank you sir" Draxus exclaimed.

Draxus suited up in a minmatar assault suit and a assault combat rifle, preffering mobility over hp.

Draxus walked by many capsulers who were just socializing and messing around. Half the eve population permanently reside in stations since they added WIS

Draxus boarded the transport and switched to squad comms. He was joined by 30 other mercs and a contingent of sentry drones.

One of the mercs started shooting the ceiling for no reason.

"******* blueberries" Draxus muttured.

They took off and were going steady for 20 minutes until the FC barked "All callsigns move to battle channels, commanders move to theater channel. Prepare for contact"

Draxus being team leader ordered his team to set up near weak points in the ships hull, each squad having 4 sentry drones.

"Holy ****, Draxus prepare for contact, enemy fleet warped in and they have a Nyx deploying dropships, we'll do our best but you guys are outnumbered. I suggest having a backup plan."

After 10 tense minutes they all heard "prepare for breach", followed by a metallic clunk.

Draxus trained his rifle at the weak point then a blinding flash disoriented him and his squad, then they were mercilessly slaughtered.
They woke up in the clone bay and got ready to run back.

Apparently the same thing happened to 2 other squads leaving their CRU empty with the other offline from the explosion.
Draxus heard gunfire and explosions and saw his team members being slaughtered so he ordered the survivors to collect the blueprints and report to the hanger bay.

They got there and commondered a Terra ops dropship and flew out into the chaos. He ordered the pilot to land on the closest planet, mostly a water world.

They sped towards it while Valkyries kept fighters off their backs and breached the atmosphere only to be hit by an AA battery, they crashed hard on one of the few pieces of land.

They all got out and he demanded to know who shot them out.

" Uh sir it looks like this a player owned district belonging to Russia Co..." *snap* the soldier was cut off by a sniper bullet to his head.
Get to cover Draxus yelled only to realize their comms were being jammed. He repeated the command in proximity chat.
They all one by one died to the unseen snipers until Draxus was the last one.
He wasnt going down without a fight. He picked up a sniper off his dead comrade and shot randomly at the surrounding rock formations until he was out of ammo.

He then took a bullet to the midsection.
As he was bleeding put he saw a Amarr scout approach then saw in proximity chat, "HeT, you're not going anywhere".

" god damn Rus..." He was cut off by a scrambler pistol round to the head and woke up in a station on the other side of the cluster.

"What an ass"