Deployments
More than simply sharing roots in deep lore, the stories of Vanguard and EVE have interacted directly in the games themselves, and this confluence will only grow as time goes on:
In December YC125 (2023), the First Strike deployment saw the Vanguard make their first appearance on the planet Hevrice III , launching from a Forward Operating Base cast into orbit and descending upon the crashed remains of a Mordu’s Legion Bowhead outfitted with an onboard clone fabrication chamber. This vessel and others like it were evidently designed to provide tactical deployment of an also-previously-unseen mass-production warclone type to the battlefields of Angel and Guristas Insurgencies.
A “second strike” several months later in March YC126 brought deeper investigations into the contents of these ships and Mordu’s new toys at the request of Lifegiver and Quartermaster . It quickly became clear that the Legion had found new uses for technology they had acquired more than a decade prior from partnered Guristas-Thukker covert research facilities host to Quartermaster’s involvements at the time.
The Solstice deployment—by far the largest to date—took place shortly after the Upwell Consortium’s launch of their Equinox product line in June YC126 on the planet Auviken VI , which had become the host of Upwell’s prototype Skyhook and a wealth of research infrastructure. Suspected by many to have burned a longstanding zero-day vulnerability in the system’s cynosural jamming network to bring assets into the system, the Deathless Circle provided low-atmosphere launchpoints from several vessels cloaked in low orbit. Vanguard at the target location—a crash site that, like the rumoured insertion, is broadly considered unrepeatable—observed the Skyhook prototype’s near-ground launch zone in the distance.
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