Not too soon after leaving Sapporo, the reason for relatively silent times became clear. Aliens had been playing cat and mouse with us and as we hadn't been able to elect more electric spies into the orbit, news started to pop when it was too late. Choosing between Canada, Argentina and Japan, we chose Japan. It was time to return to Sapporo to a construction site to stop the abductions. Veterans had healed up, and as upon tragedies it's someone else's turn to step up, Finnish marksman Harmony Lad had done exactly so. On the previous Sapporo mission he killed two aliens and showed remarkable battle grit and it was very obvious choice to make him the sniper, hoping his sniper career would last longer than Mad Marl's. He killed another two on this simple mission that threw "only four sectoids" against us. Here is a picture of Harmony Lad connecting the dots once again.
The end of the month saw many advancements on the research side, with biologists starting to understand a bit, what sectoids and thin men were about. On the equipment side, body armor should see dramatic improvement very soon to up the odds of survival; the forthcoming months can't be anything else but much harder. Satellites for better coverage are a must.
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