[Kiwi: Took one out, coming from Zurich.]
[Kiwi: Hmm. He disconnected from their Combat Network before I could get in. I can't find any trace.]
It was a little disappointing. That meant there was no way to find the enemy through the network once and for all.
So they still had to see how things went on the actual battlefield.
The first firefight was followed by a second, then a third.
With the right Cyberware and the right user, the range of a Ramjet Sniper Rifle depended only on the amount of solid fuel packed into its bullets.
Normally, its effective range was around 2,000 to 3,000 meters, while the longest recorded sniper shot exceeded 10,000 meters.
That was why General Lord Lier had set the main venue on Woodhaven Street, below Petrochem Dam, cutting the area that needed defending in half.
The target in that astonishing sniper record had been an armored unit, and neither the gun nor its user had been ordinary. Lier didn't think the enemy could pull off anything quite that outrageous, but they still needed to maintain a defensive radius of around 6,000 to 7,000 meters.
Maine's team had caught one, but there was no such good news at the other firefights. The Sixth Street gang couldn't manage such clean, decisive kills.
Within a 7,000-meter radius of Woodhaven Street, nine battles broke out one after another. Seven turned into high-speed car chases. Maine had ended one, and the enemy had ended another.
Besides that, information devices had been destroyed in several places, but no one had managed to catch the intruders.
Several red sniper positions had appeared on the holographic city map in Lier's head, indicating places the enemy might have reached without a sound to take their shots.
All these locations were still within