Aren't they dead yet?

I should have known the calm wouldn't last. With recent reports of more Reaver activity coming in from half a dozen worlds across the Rim and Border worlds, it was only a matter of time before they hit us again. You'd think we wouldn't be that inviting a target. We've got a low population, which doesn't give them a lot to snack on. And we've got a well armed, well drilled, militia, which makes us a hard snack to chew on.

Of course, no one ever said Reavers were, as a group, especially bright. But you'd think they'd learn by now that attacking Hale's Moon was usually more trouble that it was worth. Though, on the other hand, Hale's Moon had ties to Mindo and Mindo had ties to the Reavers. Maybe it wasn't such a surprise they kept coming back here. Like those little fish that always come back to the same bay to spawn generation after generation. It was what they did.

I was on the Orbital when we caught the tell tale signs of a Reaver boat on a hot final. With the ongoing upgrades to the Navtrak systems, it had gotten pretty hard for them to approach undetected. Unless they started deploying ELINT equipment on par with an Alliance recon ship, their chances of sneaking up on us had reached close to nil. Not that they were ever very sneaky. They were more of an "in your face" sort of antagonist. But they did tend to come in hot and, on some approaches, it didn't give us a lot of warning.

All I could really do was put the word out and get Genni to start assembling the Militia. Fortunately, some of our more experienced locals, like Nack and General, were already awake and ready to lay down some fire. Fortunate, really. They were two of our best.

It was hard to tell whether this attack was related to the last incursion. That last one was very uncharacteristic of them. Coming in and recovering Mindo's body, rather than going on a screaming rampage through town. This was more to their usual style. Come screaming in, try and eat people, then fall back only when the Militia managed to bring enough firepower to bare to drive them off.

We were fortunate. Fortunate, not lucky. The men and women on the ground fought back like they've trained to and kept the casualty count low. And, if nothing else, we got another vector to work from. Given some more attacks and some decent Navtrak data, we might be able to find where they're basing from now.

Another nut to crack.

Children of the Black
Reason has long escaped you
Victims, one and all