to adjust if they missed some- thing or call for more help if needed. Soon all the identified targets were burning or ren- dered combat ineffective. Bro - dy orbited for another fifteen minutes doing his version of BDA (or bomb damage assess- ment), and then turned for his base where he landed. Kon- trol congratulated him on the mission’s success, highlighted
ways to improve, and updated his status with regard to the leaderboard. Then Brody slowly shut down the process and took a shower, as it was very warm in the P-51’s virtual cockpit, even while in real life his house was quite nice due to the air-conditioning humming in the background. The in-game haptics were also quite realistic: his chair and the controls would shudder or have other responses to game events, adding to the feeling of extreme realism. Scene #5 – Port of Baraga, Cordova [Friday] President Sula and what remained of his government and their families crowded into the small port of Baraga along with the bulk of his loyal troops. He informed his tiny navy they needed to coordinate a rescue mission and told them to use everything they could muster in his most presidential tone. He had given the same order to his air force, but there just wasn’t much left once the CAR suddenly deployed ample shoul- der-fired SAMs. He gave his best stump speech and told the assembled group to take shelter in the port until the ships arrived, since he could not guarantee their safety in the open. Then he sent his family, Chase Grunwald (the last American diplomatic representative from President Smith), and other select individuals away on the few helicopters they could muster. They flew to the remaining iphonium mine at Tanga and then turned around to shuttle more. The mine was held by the remaining
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