Masquerade Conflict

Military action

Disaster gives way to Greenbriar's first conflict.

In the wake of The Scream, pieces of the colony ship crashed all over the planet. Most still aboard, or not jettisoned in their cold sleep modules in the ships final moments were killed on impact, but for some, luck was on their side.   A large bloc of the engineering section landed in the forest east of the colony. Those who survived the impact were burned almost beyond recognition, and believed the fire that ripped through the section was a test from God, burning away the unfaithful. The survivors attached masks of metal to their cooling flesh, so they would never again have to look upon their ravaged faces.   Relationships with the colony were cold, once discovered, the engineers believing the other Greenbriar survivors as lesser, since they had not undergone the same test of faith.   A small advance team was seen setting up mortar emplacements at the edge of the forest, causing Greenbriar to act.   Samuel Kellevan led a team of Helios One and Greenbriar Militia into the forest, attacking their wooden-walled compound and setting it aflame. Resistance was heavy, culminating in the Masquerade leaders attempting to escape via an armored truck. Tires blown out, it flipped, and a grenade was thrown inside.   The prisoners were brought back to the colony, and eventually integrated into the general population, now putting their skills to work as engineers, and construction crew.   Later reports sent Seung and Brethan Allemond back into the forest, where a small- die hard group of survivors had rallied around one leader surviving the grenade attack. A head, kept alive with revenant wiring, and connected to an experimental power cell, it vowed to see the 'unbelievers' in Greenbriar crushed, for the twin sins of apostasy, and what he viewed as the enslavement of his people. A lengthy interrogation occurred, and finally, seeing the error of his ways, he requested to be unplugged.