bunker fortitude – Humanity Ascendant

Fortitude Election 2524 – Captain Frank Malone – Soldier

Captain Franklyn W. Malone Manifesto

Bet you lot didn’t expect this! Some of you might think that I’m doing this for a laugh, but I’m here with you now, serious as an erection problem.

A lot has changed since our way of life was destroyed. Instead of shooting first, we’re talking. Instead of doing the smacking, we turn the other cheek.

And look what we’ve got to show for it with this ‘new Fortitude.’ Savages making demands. Eggheads making mutants. Spies living amongst us. Psionics at our borders. And the Network always baring down on us.

Now this might all sound shite but actually I’m fucking loving having all these people to shoot. But we’ve been lucky. We’ve barely scraped by, losing friends and family along the way. But there’s more we could be doing, more we could be fighting and more we could be killing.

Instead of just reacting, we need to be proactive. Instead of defending, we need to be conquering.

Instead of forgiveness, there needs to be retribution.

Vote for Malone and we’ll cut a bloody swathe across this blasted land.

Fortitude Election 2524 – Dr Wesley “Cass” Snipes – Medic

So one term done and I feel some of what I aspired to do for the bunker and fef has come to pass.

We are working towards rolling out more memory implants for skilled operatives to pick up the invaluable work done within the bunkers.

Cybernetic research is above and beyond my goals to date with limbs now being perfected and soon available for installing once a few are out I will start to work on other technologies down this path and then begin work on reducing the cost on materials and credits for all of these and start to roll them out for the bunker in general to allow for a cleaner living and more healthy life but for now we need to focus on more military based ones to keep the wolves from the door.

I have other goals I want to achieve, a cleaner energy which is something we all as councillors are working on and should carry on doing.

I want to openly work with the psionic community and try figure out more about this to better protect those with these abilities and those without. I feel more understanding of what they have to deal with and what people are capable of will allow me to form a better understanding. This is something I will work along side the other council members to get up and running and perhaps have someone from within that community work alongside me also.

I want to maintain an open door policy, there or facts and fiction out there that do nothing put harm what we as a people are trying to achieve and that will not be tolerated anymore. I for one will look towards the people as my moral compass as I endeavour to drive our medical team to do their best and we have an excellent team within bunker fortitude.

Don’t vote for me if you feel your needs are not met from me being were I am, I’m here to make a change and help bring a better future and if me not being a councillor achieves that I’m more than happy with that out come.

Thank you for your time

Dr Cass

Fortitude Election 2524 – Lead Engineer Travis Brenner – Engineer

Fortitude is changing, there are big changes happening, in which case I’d say it was time for a change in our council positions.

Mr Welkerson has run things his way for a while now but I think we need to change, get in some new ideas and new leaders, in this vain I want to put myself forward as the engineering councillor for fortitude.

I do not wish to take anything away from the person currently in this post. I think they have done the best they could in a difficult position but a fresh look at things could improve our bunkers position and make life a little easier for us.

Let’s make a basic start though, let’s get back to basics the network have played with our AI and may have other links into our bunker fortitude, let get our hands dirty and check all our nooks and crannies look for signs the network are monitoring us tidy up some of the mess and insure we are not passing information to the wrong people.

While we are doing this let’s look at food production, sanitary systems, let’s see if we can get those working better, maybe even improve our relations with some of our neighbours to see if we can help one another.

Vote for Travis vote for a change

Ascendancy & Fortitude Election 2524- Mitchel Grant & Ali Lowen- Crat

Unity? Survival?

What do these words really mean?

We have been in communication since Ali in Bunker Fortitude uncovered a series of protocols from a PADD left over from the Network Occupation. These protocols had been corrupted by the Network however at their core they provide a framework for the organisation and management of multiple disparate societies that join together to form a single entity.

Our current Coalition of societies was a great first step, but its not enough. We have significant threats including the Network, Super Mutant Tribes, Hive, and more unknown beyond our current sphere of visibility. We have potential allies in The Office of the Home, AEGIS, and other societies yet un-contacted.

At the moment we put trust in a group of hired mercenaries to advance our knowledge, negotiate diplomacy, research new technology and defeat significant threats (military and other). And the FEF has done amazing things, without this collaboration of minds we would have fallen to any number of threats and challenges.

We are standing on a platform of reform. We need to change and adapt, the FEF protocol was written 500 years ago with a vision of what the future would hold, those people are not living in this reality and its time to move on. We will champion a referendum in both bunkers (and hopefully within the Free People) should we be elected. The intention is simple, form a single society out of the 3 main groups in the Coalition (with the option for currently unaligned groups to join).

One governing body rather than 4 or more, the goal? Not only survive, but thrive. Together we will achieve more than on our own. The positions within government will be open for any member to stand for, not restricted by training or rank, using the same voting system as now, with every member (regardless of location or current allegiance) having a vote.

No doubt this will seem strange, and after many of you have fought, bled and lost for your current homes it might not be an easy future to imagine. But we believe that it represents our best chance for a future.

Vote for us and we will do everything within out power to give you this choice.

We envisage many questions on our idea, we have small teams working in the archives of each bunker (and with DAHL) to work out what we believe the best structure would be. If you would like input in that, we would love to hear from you.

Fortitude Election 2524- Olivia Bilderman- Crat

Stop the invasion!

Our bunker is for our citizens, those loyal to the Fortitude and that do not posses weird mutations or talk with strange accents.

We have so called “tame tribals” wandering around our bunker! They are coming here and doing the work of honest bunker citizens, this needs to stop!

And lets not forget the biggest threat to our free will, dirty psionics! With them around how do i know if i really wanted a sandwich for lunch? Maybe i wanted soup, but the psionic mutant decided they wanted it instead and made me pick a sandwich! Wont anyone think of the children?!

Vote for me and i will see all of this alien invasion removed from our bunker and we can return to a more civilised time.

Fortitude Election 2524- Lead Engineer Pantelic- Engineer

Many of you will know me as our most prominent Ironclad engineer, or as the survivor of Level 17.

I am a citizen of Fortitude, and i take that word to my core. I have seen and been effected by the worst that the world has to offer, and i am still here, doing my job supporting our troops and maintaining our systems.

Chief Engineer Welkerson has laid excellent ground work and guided our engineering focus in 2 areas, survival and expansion. I plan to continue the same focus on power, food and sanitation that he has.

With the discovery of Dr Alverson as a Network spy, many of the projects where put on hold while the archives where cleansed and checked. We need to restart those. We have new allies and skilled workers, from a society that has grown on lived on the surface for hundreds of years. With their experience and different view points we can really start to make some progress.

I intend to continue to liaise with Bunker Ascendant on wider research projects ensuring we are leading the way in the search for alternative energy sources.

I dont think we need radical change, we just need to see through the plans that are already in motion, and provide dedicated plans for the survival of our people.

Get Your Boots Wet- AAR- Payne

Rain. They never really tell you how pissing wet it really is in boot. Sure we’ve all seen pipes leak, vents spray water or the anti-fire sprinklers kick in but the shear amount of fluid that came out of the sky beggars belief.

We advanced from our comfortable outpost on a new mission to secure a facility. It rained. A lot. I’m not looking forward to this ‘Snow’ in whatever form that takes. Our first objective was to set up a communications array for relaying to Bunker. This mostly involved us standing on guard whilst the engineers tried not to blow themselves up. I was tasked to stay on rear guard whilst the main body moved off to secure the facility. Once the communications array was established, we proceeded to join the main body at the facility. I report no hostile contacts and only one incident of taking fire, presumably from a trigger happy FNP.

On arrival at the facility, the engineers and scientists had mostly got all systems operational. After nourishment an investigation was performed into some form of dream ‘suicide’ machine which involved several simulation tests. My judgement of this system is it was written by the kind of scientists you see in all those old movies, you know…the type that are immediately torn apart by their creations and only their gristly remains left for some unwitting future keeno scientists to discover and unleash upon the earth. We did claim the facility in the name of Bunker Ascendant and name it ‘Fort Leon’. An extremely dangerous place making highly volatile fluid…it’s what he would have wanted. Still no grenades.

Day 1- The Fortening.

In the wake of the destruction of the hive it was time to negotiate with some of the surface dwellers for who got what bits of what. Our mission was to go and bring the leader of the clans back, a Raze. We encountered some hostiles who we later discovered to be from another Bunker- Fortitude. They engaged us supported by some local tribe who had 3 bolts joined in a triangle necklace and we gunned all those fucks down. We then met some ‘Religious’ folks who worshipped some gods. We also encountered some FEF who had looted some of the technology that they worship. Bit too much like politics for me so I swiftly detailed them to speak to a Bureaucrat. We found this Raze and took him back. Some more hostiles tried to assault the new position but some red hot nanites to the face sorted them out. Still no grenades.

I had patrol for several hours and some routine armoury maintenance. By the time I returned it was time for mission to take out a key tribal leader and it was starting to get dark. Once bunker had established our intel for the mission and confirmed target location we proceeded on mission, Quinn, Hawk, Tower, Chigwell, Fredrickson and myself. After skirting the first patrol Quinn and Tower split off to try to locate the target with the second squad forming up to cover once engaged. The target was considerably further away and second squad broke off their cover to move up to the first squad. After travelling through dense undergrowth and around several patrols their ritual and religious leader was located. This site was well lit and they performed some sacrifice. Once the target was confirmed all parties opened fire. The target was kill confirmed and all soldiers began their exfiltration back to the facility. Still no grenades.

Day 2- Up yours fortitude

2 missions today. One to secure some crazy scientist who escaped the lower facility levels (not my idea of fun) or go and smash up one of fortitude’s outposts, steal all their trousers and shit in their kettle.

We set out on line to assault their output and encountered multiple hostile patrols on route. I took the high ground with Avery, Hawk and Wayne and advanced in parallel with the main group. After flushing out some enemies from undergrowth we took up overwatch positions in support of the main advance. Once multiple hostiles were defeated Ascendant forces lined up for the final push on the outpost. All FEF forces rallied and pushed on this. Some person rocked up in a suit of augmented armour but was soon murderised by concentrated fire and neat work by the rail gunners. We got in, sacked the place and planted an explosive device which I am happy to report went off correctly.
Still no grenades.

Fort Leon

Following the defeat of the hive new land had opened up and the Bunker wanted land to facilitate our return to the surface, it was the Job of the FEF to secure an old outpost in sector K10, and negotiate with the Free people for the settlement rights to this land.

It was decided that the FEF would make a night march to the new facility along the edge of the disputed land in the K axis. Quinn led an advance group of scouts to feel our way there, Maverick then had the main body of soldiers following on and I took ‘command’ of the Scientists, Engineers, Bureaucrats and Medics.

Now I am sure Quinn’s point team were just that, ‘on point’ Leading a well oiled recon group with sufficient Radios, they encountered some unknowns, shot them, realised they were bunker personnel and sent them for processing to me.

Mavericks shield group pressed on in a line abreast formation maintaining contact with the forward group.

I then proceeded with the aforementioned main body, the light fell quickly and I had to make a decision. we were all over the place and so, I called a halt and explained I couldn’t see anyone and the fact we had the shield of Mavericks group ahead of us normal march discipline was likely to get some of us lost, I determined we should form a sausage formation, a blob of sorts, I had Pinner and Tower with me and decided that a caterpillar would work better as an analogy and used these two fine soldiers to feel for the shield group and report back to me in instalments, the body of the caterpillar was the other services and their job was to catch up to my position as I issued the caterpillar command.

It worked but it was slow, Quin had found a site the bunker wanted a communication device set up and radioed back as such, it transpired that the light scouts had quickly advanced uncontested and put the shield group someway behind them, the caterpillar was further behind still. In the near pitch darkness I set my feelers pinner and tower farther forward.

Progress was slow and I radioed for an assurance the area was secure but the message back was it seemed secure but there may be a group that got passed us and it became necessary to use Ivan and soap as additional march security, while they are not military trained, I had confidence in these capable gentlemen due to their surface and fieldcraft experience.

Pinner reported contact with Mavericks group and they reported it was clear to Quinn, I took further executive action and converted my group to a lights on advance leading the way with my own lights on at the front, to ensure any hostile contact was attracted my way first, we made better progress and the engineers got to work finding the best spot at the location for the dish.

once done I stayed with 4 soldiers and 4 engineers to ensure the dish was set up safely while Quinn pressed on to the facility, Maverick then merged the main group to his and followed up. I was given a deadline for complete or abandon the setting up of the dish, I chose not to relay the details to Laker, Monument Wilf and Harry as they seemed to be having technical issues with what a windmill looked like as per the instructions from the bunker, there was also a screw shortage, but a few cable ties later, the dish was up.

It is worth noting here I have footage should it be required of field engineering where no one died It does still show details of the operation and so a judgement will need to be made around the propaganda value vs disclosing secrets….

Quinn reported some tribals near the facility but they fled at his teams approach they were the children of gaia a name we had not previously heard of.

The engineers and scientists proceeded to open the door and lift to the Ribec Research Facility, Fort Leon, and proceeded to make it habitable for the FEF, which I believe was easier said than done and involved gas masks and the like. Luckily no one drowned on the surface in the rain that had been dampening our spirits and comms in equal measure.

Once inside the scientists had discovered a testing station, and the engineers buttons, which were pressed and started the facilities power generator, a fraking station, this in turn led to a series of potentially terminal error messages where the coolant systems were knackered, I assisted laker and then Ivan assisted both of us in determining we needed to sort this out asap, certainly 12-14 hours we would have bad times and 48 hours terminal melt down. The three Silos each required a 2 man engineering team, scientist supervision and an escort as the operations at the 3 silos needed completing at the same time, due to the low threat it was determined a soldier and a medic would be needed at each station as there were reports of a similar operation inflicting serious issues on an engineer. We needed to order some cooling fluid and so would wait to the morning to attempt the fix. The scientists began to test FEF members to determine if we could unlock the door to the medical lab on level 2.

Day 2 operations,

There were 4 separate operations of which I participated in 2, The first was a mission to collect Raize from a near location and begin the matter of negotiating the land rights.

We set off fairly promptly with Quinn leading the front group again, we had some misinformation from the drone reports about the direction of the contacts and we found ourselves engaged with trained soldiers supported by the children of Gaia, one of these soldiers was questioned by Elizabeth and revealed that they were from bunker fortitude and they had designs on the facility too, we pressed on and found some wolf clan preachers who explained about their ancestors and we had suspicions they may have been having some sort of psychic interventions as their ancestor spirits seemed unlikely.

Raize was contacted and brought back for negotiation here Pip and Vlad did a sterling job in obtaining a fair split of the land available:

We knew Raize’s position as leader of the clans was weaker without a solid threat to unify the clans, and the arrival of the children of Gaia and Bunker fortitude provided this all too easily and he was keen to send warriors to Fort Leon to both guard his lands from attack and to show the clans there is a real threat. He went as far to propose that his clansmen should be marked as friends on our nanite technology and he wanted to visit the bunker, we politely refused these requests lest we give up our only advantage against a large number of clans men, he relented and suggested just his mornival guard and his wolf clan, we said we would look into it..

As the negotiations were winding up we had a radio call from the silo repair mission that they were being heavily assaulted and while Silo 2 and 3 had reported in silo 1 was having difficulty.

Vlad and I grabbed a med kit and sallied forth to assist, we immediately picked up Theo who was pinned down and then out of action Vlad and I went on a sniper hunt and after slotting the sniper I picked up vlad and then theo.

We moved along the treeline to assist Prince and his group who once recovered moved off to the silo, My mini group then moved up the hill where we intercepted a large number of insurgents headed to the silo we took turns on the med kit taking fire alternately.

We then moved to assist Wilf who was cut down at the bottom of the hill and rescued him before I too was cut down with vlad and theo, wilf bravely crawled the length of a small trench to reach us just as the remaining silo had concluded the first part of the operation and pinner made it back to us first to get us up , we then fell back in good order where the scientists prepared the coolant:

Following this I reinforced the silo team and fought offer further attacks while the engineers and scientists did their work.

I then had to take rest for the day as I had received a number of hits in the rescue, I believe Quinn then led a large group in defence of the facility truly earning it the title ‘fort’, as bunker fortitude forces attacked, surprisingly their tech seemed better then ours and they had a power armoured guy, who while slow and awkward to move did take a large amount of firepower to bring down, our LMG operatives seemed quite interested in this technology…

A local fanatic leader of the Children of Gaia was also removed from the game board later that evening.

Over night the Scientists had eventually tested enough suitable FEF members to unlock the next level of the facility, unfortunately they encountered a 500 year old still living test subject, that critically injured the majority of the team and escaped out into the night, this white witch also destroyed the drones we sent after it.

Day three, I led a mission with Fredrickson to track the witch, we had sent all our heavy weapons after an outpost held by bunker fortitude, so while we had a large number of soldiers the heaviest weapon we had was pinner’s sniper rifle.

We encountered bunker fortitude, children of Gaia and Risen clan opponents, the risen are a member of the free peoples and their minds seemed turned against us by the witch.

We made good progress and my top team of Riggs and Prince did me proud along the flank, when an order from adam valton told us to abort the mission, a quick check with the senior team present Lexi, laker and Will we determined to press on the bunker then confirmed no transmission had come from them and that adam valton was away from operations at the time.

Now I don’t know what this means but I have met Councillor Valton and it did sound like him, I can only assume it was the influence of the witch here…

Soon laker had identified the witch was 100 meters west and we regrouped, and as were we about to push on we received word a large group of enemies was approaching from the east….

We attempted to form a rear guard but with frantic comms from the bunker I had to seize the initiative and led a charge for the solitary witch… still with no clear intel on how to bring her down other than shoot her a lot.

I ran into a wall of fire, the cursed drone operatives had got their compass directions wrong again, the team to our east were very much to the west of us, Here I was thankful for the auto-stabilisation patch made by the medical team as I had run along way into the teeth of enemy fire and as I lay there contemplating a long crawl back to the main group a wild eyed tribal ran for me and as I thought I am doomed here, he was brought down by well disciplined fire from the Fef.

Next came the witch in wild fury and swept past me she did for a few members of the FEF but more damaging was Vlad who had been part of the science program the night before and had encountered the witch first hand, apparently she had entered his mind and he added toxin to his blade and went round slaying unsuspecting FEF members, while the team was able to recover the Witch did escape and while laker did activate his device to call her back it failed his pad caught fire and so did the witches collar hurting her and setting fire to some vegetation, by the time we got to that location she had disappeared but injured.

some nearby scouting suggested she had met with a camp of tribals, the risen? who had apparently waited for her, this was at odds with the theory she had turned people she met, with her followers already waiting?

We returned to Fort leon to await the outcome of Quinns team and their assault on the fortitude outpost, I am sure that will be reported else where suffice to say they achieved victory in destroying the fort and nearby comms post, but at the cost of Kaleb Hassel chief Medical officer, a fiery character that will be missed in a manner similar to the impact of Leon.

So the facility, a medical research lab a mining site (Fracking) but now our bulwark against bunker fortitude, to be garrisoned by some of the 500, some of the free people will camp nearby and show us farming and hunting but it is as Fort Leon it will be known a place that we truly begin placing roots on the surface.