Operation Glass Shroud

Operation Glass Shroud was a ranger mission conducted by members of the Eleytheros Pteros Episke, ostensibly to restrict USC research efforts in The Tomb.

To cross enemy lines, seraph squad traveled to the Senate's Freedom Line under a pilgrim's visa from their previous journey to Artheniapolis. There they met , a Pteros member of the Senate . He escorted the unit through tunnels under the trench lines to link up with Senate intel assets in the USC membership guard.

After exiting the tunnels and a brief glimpse of large-scale USC battle preparations seraph squad met and . They were hidden in a supply truck and smuggled overland to a ruined outpost outside old Yu'ian.

Upon linking up with Lion and Tomb seraph squad donned hazmat suits to protect against chaos anomolies, and entered the ruins of the city. While the mission was officially to fight the USC, Lion intended to use the mission to search for a journal of Illyian, the leader of the previous Eleytheros Pteros and it's parent organization, the Akris Anistemi. Yu'ian was situated on a series of canals, and Lion had evidence that the old Pteros had used them as a secret base. The crater caused by the Chaos Bomb should have exposed entry ways into these canals.

After moving through the ruined outskirts seraph squad entered the outer tomb, a completely leveled cityscape and chaos pollution that ring the titanic crater that makes up the inner tomb. Here they found and ambushed a group enganged in a three-way battle - the USC, the Kingslayer ranger Panther, and a stone-age, ash-painted group known as “The Dead Men.” With the element of surprise on their side Panther was rescued and the other groups routed.

Upon continuing to the center of the Tomb seraph squad stumbled upon Scipio Polian and a platoon-sized element of elite USC troops.