FIGHT FOR THE NIGHT
Reporting Officer: Field Asset // Shadow Class
AFTER ACTION REPORT
House Alignment: [REDACTED]
Earth Realm Theatre – Larkhill Sector
Operation Code: FIGHT FOR THE NIGHT
Threat Condition: BLACK RABBIT PROTOCOL ACTIVE
Reporting Officer: Field Asset // Shadow Class
1. Operational Context
Earth Realm remains contested terrain.
Civilian infrastructure provides sufficient shadow cover for nocturnal manoeuvre. Council estates continue to offer ideal verticality, signal bleed, and trod proximity beneath concrete layers.
At 03:11 local time, WhisperNet flagged anomalous harmonic interference in Larkhill Sector. Pattern matched known Order of Echo reconnaissance signatures.
BLACK RABBIT PROTOCOL initiated.
Under this protocol, all Echo-aligned entities are to be treated as feral, autonomous, and extremely hostile. No negotiation. No capture attempts. Engagement only.
2. Initial Contact
At 03:16 I entered the alley corridor running parallel to Tower Block C. Sodium light interference provided partial concealment.
Order of Echo agents manifested without overt portal breach. Their presence registered as phase lag within shadow density — geometry misaligned by fractional degrees.
Three confirmed hostiles.
Human-form projection. Black ocular marking consistent with Echo shock troops. Movement pattern: fluid, predatory, intentionally visible.
They wanted to be seen.
Engagement commenced.
3. Engagement Summary
Close-quarters skirmish. No civilian awareness spike detected.
Echo agents demonstrated standard distortion combat — limb articulation beyond conventional joint range, brief frame-skipping to disorient. I countered with direct-phase anchoring and trod-ground stabilisation.
One hostile neutralised via cervical phase collapse.
Second dispersed under shadow compression.
Third agent engaged at stairwell threshold. Exchange lasted approximately twelve seconds.
During final lock, high-altitude faetech signature detected above Tower Block C.
Extraction imminent.
4. Faetech Hopper Manifestation
At 03:17 local time, sky integrity fractured.
Order of Echo deployed Class-IV Hopper.
No propulsion signature. No atmospheric displacement. Craft manifested as negative space inversion within cloud layer.
White extraction beam deployed with surgical precision to upper residential window.
No structural damage. No combustion.
Beam targeted allied asset within Flat 14 — a House operative embedded for extended Earth Realm reconnaissance.
Asset status prior to beam contact: combat-effective but compromised.
Extraction sequence initiated by Order of Echo.
Hopper geometry folded inwards during withdrawal. Observed spatial compression event consistent with Echo transport doctrine — space edited rather than traversed.
Timestamp anomaly registered across local recording devices: +01:00 temporal discrepancy.
5. Casualties / Losses
House:
One embedded operative extracted by hostile faetech.
No confirmed physical remains.
Status: Unverified. Presumed relocated to Echo-controlled territory.
Echo:
Two field agents neutralised.
One successful recovery under Hopper cover.
Civilian Infrastructure:
No visible damage.
Minor electronic interference.
Memory distortion probability among witnesses: 78%.
6. Assessment
Echo presence in Larkhill Sector confirms Earth Realm remains active theatre, not observation zone.
The Hopper’s precision indicates pre-mapped human dwellings with fae signal density.
Extraction suggests asset value exceeded expendable threshold.
This was not random abduction.
This was extraction.
7. Personal Note (Filed Under Discretionary Addendum)
The humans will call it alien.
They prefer metal and distance.
They prefer stars over soil.
They will not understand that the door was beneath them long before the sky opened.
The skirmish in the alley was routine.
We fight every night.
They only noticed when the light turned white.
8. Protocol Continuation
BLACK RABBIT PROTOCOL remains active.
All Order of Echo signatures to be treated as hostile.
Hopper sighting probability increasing.
Earth Realm remains contested.
We continue operations at 03:17.