Boundary Formation Alpha

“I’m so happy to see my parents and my brother again but there’s not a lot to do in New St Louis right now besides taking long walks together along the riverside. Even the gym is full of people so we can’t even use that. There’s a soccer field but no equipment to use, no balls, not cleats, nada. There’s no snow here so we can’t even have snowball fights. I hope we can go back to New Cancun soon, it’s warmer there and maybe we can have a picnic on the beach. My dad wants to know why we still carry our guns wherever we go. It’s probably safe here but the Gunny says that you never know when the aliens might show up without calling ahead first.”
Vika Magnuson, age 16, squad 8, Jacks Company, Norway
The Colonial Rangers have taken back New Cancun and Rocky Point to go along with New St Louis, and now the Vitus Bering is in orbit and has begun sending down personnel and material. The question now before the Regiment’s command staff is what to do next? The Rangers on the Vitus Bering still don’t have access to their weapons and other gear and the Antarctica with the Advance Relief Expeditionary Force, the AREF, is still a month away.
The Rift general captured at New Cancun’s landing field by Jacks Company has answered some of the questions that have been nagging the Rangers since the beginning of the war – Who are they? Why did they attack? Why didn’t they even try to talk to the humans first? The answers to these questions and others has been illuminating and it’s now clear that the aliens, the Rift, know that they have lost but they can’t quit without their army of giant mercenaries, the Andoval, turning on them.