From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Miles Quaritch, who issued the order on the communication channel, was a former RDA member from Universe 02.

In October 1994, Quaritch selected 15 old subordinates from AECS and 15 veterans from ARS to form a special operations team.

In November 1994, Quaritch was ordered to lead this team across the space gate and enter New Paris on Earth 01.

Afterwards, Quaritch received another direct order from the owner of Atlas:

"Colonel Miles Quaritch, please build a company-sized "airborne" force based on this unnamed special operations team.

Member requirements: must pass the most rigorous gravity endurance training, and have skills such as deep monitoring, long-distance reconnaissance, and field survival.

Force nature: highly mobile special operations force, can face the most intensive enemy firepower areas, carve out a safe landing area for follow-up troops, and can also raid, infiltrate, and reconnaissance from behind.

Force name: Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST)."

After receiving the order, Quaritch began to execute it. In May 1995, the company took shape, with a total of 146 people, and the members came from different organizations of the company, and even different universes.

In July 1995, the Accra Park began to produce exclusive individual equipment for this company.

At this moment.

In the airdrop chamber;

The "soldiers" wearing black one-piece combat suits are ODSTs.

Although their equipment is far inferior to the Hazardous Environment Protection Suit (HEV) of the advance team, when the helmet and combat suit are sealed, they also have the function of maintaining pressure and internal air circulation system.

This means that even if they are unfortunately exposed to the space environment, they still have ten minutes to fight or complete self-rescue.

Qi-!

Accompanied by the sound of gas surging, the screen of the helmet gradually lights up, providing comprehensive data and real-time status for an ODST.

And the name of this ODST, "Carlos Oliveira", is also displayed on the screen.

Beep-!

Suddenly, the light in the airdrop chamber switched to dark red.

"The airdrop will be carried out in thirty seconds, everyone be prepared." Quaritch's reminder also came through the communication.

Hearing this, Carlos checked his mechanical skeleton again to see if it was firmly connected to the card slot of the fixed bracket.

After confirming that everything was correct, Carlos began to count down silently in his heart.

Twenty seconds;

Through the observation window of the airdrop pod, he found that the airdrop dock outside had completely fallen into darkness.

Ten seconds;

The window lit up again, but the light source was not artificial light, but natural light shining from below.

Zero seconds;

Click-.

There was a noise from the top of the airdrop pod.

Boom-!

Then, the noise of the engine starting at the top was transmitted into the airdrop pod through vibration.

At this time, everything outside the observation window was "moving" upwards rapidly, indicating that the airdrop pod Carlos was riding on was actually descending rapidly.

The scene outside the window changed from the dim and narrow airdrop dock to the vast space and the earth that Carlos could not see in full view.

Not long after.

Boom-boom-.

The trembling of the airdrop pod became more and more obvious.

"Attention all personnel, we are about to enter the black barrier area, be prepared...hiss...hiss!"

Before Quaritch finished his reminder, he was interrupted by a noisy busy tone.

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Carlos frowned and closed his eyes when he heard the busy tone.

Because the gorgeous scene outside the window had long been replaced by the "fierce fire", and what was even more "deadly" was that the vibration and shaking of the airdrop chamber had also reached its peak.

Carlos only felt that his body was clearly being "pulled down" with force, but his brain was "floating up" with all his strength. In addition, the violent shaking that seemed to be turned upside down also made his consciousness gradually confused, almost on the verge of coma.

And this is the various phenomena brought about by breaking through the "black barrier zone".

The airdrop chamber entered the atmosphere at a very fast speed, causing the friction between the two sides to produce a high temperature of more than 2000℃.

If there is no thermal insulation coating on the outer wall, the airdrop chamber would have been destroyed by the earth's atmosphere before reaching the target location.

The reason why it is called "black barrier" is that the high temperature of 2000° or more causes the thin air around the airdrop chamber to form plasma, which then shields the electromagnetic waves of communication.

And when breaking through the black barrier zone, it will also cause physical invisibility.

The violent shaking lasted for a full three minutes.

When the flames outside the window quickly dissipated, the view was no longer the dark deep space of the universe, but the deep blue sky.

"Uh..."

Carlos' head was swollen, and it took more than ten seconds for him to completely recover.

The comrades beside him were also shaking their heads, looking like they had just woken up from a hangover.

"Don't dream, launch the decoy immediately!"

"Yes!"

After hearing Quaritch's order again, Carlos, who had recovered his spirits, and his teammates responded in unison, and at the same time he freed his left hand and reached for the red lever placed on the side.

Pull hard.

Bang~ Bang~ Bang.

The decoy popped out of the airdrop chamber.

However, due to the angle and height, Carlos, who was in the airdrop chamber, could not use the observation window to witness this situation.

Boom-! Boom-!

Soon, he heard a few explosions outside that did not last long.

It seemed that thousands of decoy aircraft had successfully interfered with the enemy's few interceptor missiles.

After more than ten seconds, Carlos could see lakes, forests, rivers and other landforms located ten thousand meters below through the observation window, as well as a medium-sized city.

"Wait for the collision in forty seconds! Don't forget what your duties are!"

"We land on both feet! Sir!" Carlos and a group of ODSTs shouted in unison.

"Very good! After landing, Groups 3 and 4 will be responsible for cleaning up the debris, and Groups 1 and 2 will follow me to capture the target... There are still 25 seconds left, and the airdrop chamber will automatically decelerate. Get ready!"

"..."

Hearing this, Carlos took a deep breath and adjusted his own state as much as possible.

Boom--Boom--.

The airdrop chamber performed several decelerations in a short period of time, which made Carlos feel the feeling of his head falling and his body rising, which was comparable to the "overturning the sea" when entering the black barrier area.

Fortunately, the twenty-five seconds passed in a flash.

Boom! !

The heavy object fell to the ground and caused a violent shock.

Qi-! !

Then there was the airflow when the hatch opened.

A series of movements indicated that the airdrop chamber had landed successfully.

When Carlos and his nine comrades saw the green light, they untied themselves, rushed out of the chamber with their guns in hand, and deployed drones to provide them with more comprehensive vision assistance.

"Charge! Charge!"

"There are enemies at three o'clock!"

"Capture the whereabouts of the mission target!

In the drone's bird's-eye view, the hiding place of the head of the Nia organization has been "surrounded" by six airdrop chambers.

To be precise, it was surrounded by forty ODSTs, four special mechas, and six Tyrants equipped with heavy armor and heavy artillery.