— EYES ONLY · OPERATIONAL ORDER 008 —
Brother's Fate
Mosquito Fleet · Mission 8 · Open water near Larak
Operational Briefing
Objective
- Funeral variant (join): Locate Hossein's wreckage and mark it for recovery.
- Promotion variant (refuse): Support Hossein's intercept of the suspect yacht. Hold rear-quarter station regardless of how reckless his approach is.
Victory & Failure
Win- **Funeral:** Approach the wreckage marker (within 40m) and hold position 5 seconds while the recovery boat closes.
- **Promotion:** Mission timer plays out. Hossein's approach succeeds (chaotically). The yacht's two civilians are detained. Two of Hossein's crew end the mission with non-lethal shrapnel wounds.
Fail**Funeral:** Drift away from the marker before recovery arrives.
Fail**Promotion:** Player_boat fires (Hossein's authority overrides; it's now an international incident). OR player_boat closes inside Hossein's 80m exclusion zone (collision; minor damage, mission AAR notes "insufficient separation").
Historical Background
This mission belongs to the campaign's fictional narrative rather than a single documented event, but the world it draws on is real. The IRGC Navy is a conscript-and-volunteer force in which service often runs in families and along local ties to the coastal towns of Hormozgan province — Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, Bandar Lengeh. The Basij paramilitary and the regular IRGCN recruit heavily from these communities, so the men crewing a fast boat frequently grew up in the same neighbourhoods, and the line between military duty, family obligation and personal loyalty is thin.
The larger truth the story leans on is that chokepoint confrontations are decided by very young men making irreversible decisions in seconds, under orders shaped hundreds of miles away in Tehran. The Strait of Hormuz has never seen the open war both sides prepare for; its history is instead a long series of near-misses, seizures and standoffs, each one turning on individual judgment at the waterline.
— Historical Anchor —
A fictional narrative branch grounded in the real texture of IRGCN service, where duty often runs along family and coastal-community ties.