“Squad One move into secure point Gamma, Squad Four and Five move to secure the EVZ Two and Three lay down covering fire. MOVE MOVE MOVE!” all squads moved in a unified mass each squad comprised of seven men each, all five squads had one thing in common each squad had one radio operator, one medic, one heavy gunner and one recon or sniper if you prefer to make up the squad but every soldier here wore the same high tech full body vanguard mark armor, its sleek titanium plates covering every inch of the upper body from the neck to the waist with a skin tight polymer bodysuit under it each helmet completely covering the head the face guard was actual equipped with dozens of micro cameras hooked up to a display inside the helmet so that the soldier could see in front of him. The helmets each had a digital zoom and flashlight, an ammo tracker for their rifles and side arms as well as a heart monitor and vital systems check. As well as a small radar that showed where everyone in the unit was at all times. The armor along the arms appeared more cloth like than anything as it was made from titanium-based thread sewn together in some high tech ai driven factory. An emblem engraved onto the patches was a circle made of red, blue and white, four white stars on a blue square, then three white and red lines with the letters CDFM. The soldier’s thighs and shines were covered in a similar type of armor plating, polymer and cloth mixture.

To anyone who saw these men and women approaching them would think some highly trained and heavily equipped military unit was headed towards them and they would be right, these brave men and women where members of the Colonial Defense Force Marines. Sworn to defend the weak and uphold the righteous cause of the Colonial Front. A preliminary government that was formed in the year 3222 or more commonly known as the 22^nd year of the galactic calendar the Colonial Front was established as a way for earths space-based colonies to remain in contact with the home world and the united Government.

But in the year 3230 a radical faction broke away from the Colonial Front and the united government back on earth in a horrific attack on the Midway systems jump gate a massive ring-shaped station that used dark matter to create worm holes allowing for space faring ships to travel light years in just mere seconds. In the attack the dark matter chamber was breached which led to the destruction of not just the Midway jump gate but also the three colony worlds that were in the Midway star system. This was the spark of the Cerberus Wars. Now in the year 3351 the Cerberus Wars. Still continue a hundred and twenty years later they enter Cerberus Galaxy divided between those that support the Colonial Front and its mission and those that believe that the colonies should be free from the control of the earth and the would-be tyrants of the Colonial Fronts. In the time since the Midway catastrophe the Colonial Front managed to make contact with earth again and it was deemed by the United Government and was given full autonomy and President Elenor Whitmore was appointed as the first acting president of the Colonial Front in the year 3256 thirty four years after the Midway catastrophe in which she served fifteen years before retiring in which followed eight other presidents of the Colonial Front leading to the current and ninth president Mark Huges on his fifth year in office.

Now the Colonial Marines have landed on Planet Seb, a small C class agricultural world in the Detron star system as it was reported that a group of separatists had taken control of a small farmstead outside of the main colony hub. And so, they slowly moved in to either capture or eliminate the hostiles and stop the threat.

“Squad one ready to breach on your order Star Commander.” Squad one had set up by the barn door ready to enter the building.

“On my mark.” A long pause of a second filled the air. “Mark!

As the squad member assigned the breacher point went to kick the door in suddenly the entire building erupted in a greenish ball of fire consuming all within its reach.

“Squad one is done, repeat Squad one is.. there just gone.”

“Avoid the gas our mask.. Our helmets can’t filter the gas. Clearly the area.”

“Where is the commander has anyone seen the commander.”