Operation Pioneer Arc

The Operation Pioneer Arc is the second arc in T. Malfetano and S. Blümel's Iron Nations: Legacy. It follows the lives of the cast of Call it Fate, Call it Karma four years later and the crisis caused by of the emergence of the Pioneers near and around Base Tranquility on Novaterra.

Events
Terran Defence Organization vs. Laikana, the Five Pioneers and Scotus.

Outcome: Thanks to Director Otto Laake and Henry Davis' interventions during the battles with the pioneers and Scotus, the Organization is able to stop the galactic crisis before it is unleashed.

Battles
Colonel Kingsbury's Team vs. Laikana

Outcome: Laikana kills Kingsbury, Bilerman and the rest of the TDO recon team, cutting their mission short.

Oskar Laake, Clara Wolf and Angelo Blanca vs. Veskon and Laikana

Outcome: The squad of soldiers is able to subdue Laikana with Veskon's aid, also recovering the Gate to the Abyss found by Kingsbury.

Henry Davis vs. First Pioneer

Outcome: Henry is able to kill the First Pioneer after using the Mocán Prototype to destroy it's core.

Veskon and Angelo Blanca vs. Second Pioneer

Outcome: Angelo is narrowly saved from death by Veskon, who uses his high yield of Essence to destroy the core of the creature.

Henry Davis vs. Third Pioneer

Outcome: The Pioneer is annihilated after Henry pulls it out of the water and destroys it's head.

Angelo Blanca and Veskon vs. Fourth Pioneer

Outcome: Angelo and Veskon are able to destroy the core with Essence, but the Ranger's left eye is infected by the parasite of the Fourth, the pioneer is binded permanently to his eye by Luigi Fox's Seal of Eternal Control.

Otto Laake and Henry Davis vs. Fifth Pioneer

Outcome: Henry and the pilot of the Darkwater landship are incapacitated by the sheer power of the last Pioneer, however it is killed by Otto Laake's heliocrystal ability, sacrificing himself in the process by impaling his stomach.

Clara Wolf, Oskar Laake, Angelo Blanca, Henry Davis and Veskon vs. Laikana, Kondo, Scotus and Vortex Soldiers

Outcome: Oskar is able to kill Kondo while Clara and the 505 eliminate his Vortex death squad. Veskon is mortally wounded by Laikana, who is in turn defeated by Angelo and his aegis blade. Henry Davis uses the compass and sacrifices his soul to destroy the Abyss and kill Scotus.

Chapters
Prologue: If you see a shadow

Chapter 1: Decide my Past, Define my Life

Chapter 2: Something is There

Chapter 3: I don't know why

Chapter 4: My finger's on the pulse

Chapter 5: Wait, what's that sound?

Chapter 6: But where's the beat?

Chapter 7: Won't you take a walk outside?

Chapter 8: Inland from Vancouver's shore

Chapter 9: We're living in the shadows of

Chapter 10: The Shadow of the Puppet

Chapter 11: Entre le royaume des vivants et des morts

Chapter 12: We weren't welcome, the sea made that clear

Chapter 13: And if the snow

Chapter 14: And I can see that it's a lie

Chapter 15: Here comes the sun

Chapter 16: For Reasons Unknown

Chapter 17: Deus per Humanum

Chapter 18: And nothing ever ends

Chapter 19: And nothing ever ends

Chapter 20: Into the Abyss

Chapter 21: And nothing ever ends

Chapter 22: And nothing ever ends.

Characters Introduced
Colonel Tim Kingsbury

Howard Bilerman

Marka

Laikana

Veskon

Captain Fize

General An'ari

Captain Nolan Ferrand

Lieutenant Maribel Bigelow

Sub-director Simo Tripp

Inspector R. Inwood

Lieutenant Kondo

Lieutenant Maximillien Duvallier

Senator Valere Larcher

Senator N. Razak

Senator C. Armas

Bruno Gensoul

Carl Feynman

Scotus, Lord of the Darkness

Francesco & Monica

Lieutenant Felix Sarvar (cameo)

Erin

Setting
Vassallo, Outer Belt: A rocky planet and the ancestral homeworld of the Sicariii race. With their cities laid to waste, very little structures remain on the windswept and misty planet. Colonel Tim Kingsbury and his unit were sent to investigate the planet due to strange energy that was emitted from The Gate to the Abyss relic. Afterwards, it served as the battlefield between the Sicarii Veskon and Laikana against Colonel Oskar Laake, Corporal Angelo Blanca and Captain Clara Wolf.

Novaterra, Southwest Space: An earth-esque planet with vast oceans and plantlife-ridden continents, also a major human colony planet. Location where most of the events unfolded and the location of the Lassen Valley, Base Tranquility, Bay of Burrard and New Vancouver.

Lassen Valley, Novaterra: A lush and green valley with endless mountains, the location of the TDO's Base Tranquility. It later served as the battlefield where the Mocán Prototype and Unit 505 would face off against three of the five Pioneers.

Base Tranquility, Novaterra: A military installation hidden in the mountains of the Lassen Valley off the coast of the Sea of Monsters where Project Specialist was developed. It became the base housing the TDO Exploration Force's Unit 505 "Blue Wasps" and later Otto Laake's Darkwater unit during Operation Pioneer.

New Vancouver, Novaterra: A decently-sized city located in the western continent of Novaterra, where it is bordered to the West by the Lassen Valley and by the Sea of Monsters (more specifically, the Bay of Burrard) to the East. The military officers stationed at Base Tranquility would often visit during their free time to shop, tour and eat.

Bay of Burrard, Novaterra: The bay that borders with the shoreline of New Vancouver, location of the battle between Henry Davis' Mocán Prototype, the RSS Glorious and the Third Pioneer.

Squalor, Mid Rim: A snowy planet in the Milky Way, a former Sicarii world where an abandoned temple is located. Angelo Blanca and Veskon uncovered documents about the prophecy of Scotus in the library of the temple, where they also fought and subdued the Fourth Pioneer.

Sea of Dreams: A type-C pocket dimension where a vast and calm ocean resides with an eternally pinkish cloudy sky. This location served as a fast travel wormhole employed by Veskon and his Celestial Compass.

The Abyss: A type-C pocket dimension composed of a singular large and dark cave system littered with Sicarii ruins, where the dark god Scotus is entombed inside a tree-like statue.