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The available soldiers crisis has now escalated. With over a day yet remaining before anybody returns, there are only 12 ready-for-duty with the majority of those untested privates! Another five need to be recruited in addition to the 11 already incoming, and even with the reward from this last mission that means yet another artifact sale, with nearly five million to be raised.
1 Sectoid Corpse
1 Floater Corpse
2 Thin Man Corpses
3 kg Elerium
2 kg Alien Alloys
2 oz. MOG
1 Seeker Wreck
XCOM is now down to about a third of the available stockpile for such emergencies.
April 29, 0015
Workshop finished early in the morning. An hour later, the satellite uplink was completed. The spare satellite was launched over the UK. Anywhere outside of Europe made no sense as we don't have enough to interceptors to manage that. All three European countries are at the peaceful Green Alert Level and the UK's funding is much higher than France or Russia's so it was a no-brainer where to put it. A pair of engineers are provided as reward.
Egypt requested 8 kg of Elerium in exchange for a pair of scientists. We have enough to swing the deal, and it was approved.
1215 -- Dr. Vahlen again, reporting that UFO Analysis: Scout has been completed, aka Project Foxhound.
Analysis of the scout class indicates they have low durability and no exterior armor. The aliens appear to use them for recon, resource-gathering, and research missions so it's definitely a multi-use craft despite the name we've given it. Pilot training and weapons systems have seen minor changes to take advantage of what we've learned. With no armor, the higher-yield Avalanche missile is our best current weapon system against them, and improved targeting information based on this project will allow us to have slightly more effective salvos against it.
UFO Analysis: Raider will be up next, which is expected to garner similar information on this more advanced class of alien ship. It's another quick one, expected to take just four days.
April 30, 2317 -- Literally in the final hour of the month, Japan pipes in with a request for another elerium-for-scientists trade. We do not have enough to spare now, and have to say 'no for now'.
With that, XCOM has survived a second month! Nearly a dozen soldiers have returned from recovery these last couple of days, so the roster is looking much better. FOFC representatives Ivan Drago and Mac Roguru were among them. It's time now to step back and take a look at how we are doing in the war for humanity's survival as a whole, including what the council thinks of our performance in April.
(mostly) Brave soldiers of FOFC, your Commander thanks you for your service to your species and to XCOM. There are certainly many trying times ahead, but collectively we will continue to resist however, wherever, whenever we can.
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