On the early morning of 4th April 2026, five Government raiders warped from their village on RustGalaxy Montreal to RustGalaxy Chicago. Their raid objective was to “capture the Pookie“, which was stored in a cave base. They laid sleeping bags over the course of the long journey to the target base.

They carried atleast 42 rockets, 20 C4, 22 satchels, 3 high velocity rockets, and 347 explosive rifle ammunition to use against what they knew would be strong cave base. Entering the cave unopposed, they reached a “T junction” with cave bases on either side. One raider seemed to be killed by an automatic turret from the base on the right that had somehow detected the raid.

The Government destroyed the turret, and spent much of their boom breaking through the armoured triangle sections of the base on the right. The defender had built the armored walls from High Quality Metal gathered at an Excavator, and added multiple turrets to the bases. Another raider was killed, this time by the defender himself, before the defender was killed in return. At one point, the defender managed to place an additional door, which the raiders destroyed.

The defender then briefly joined the Government’s voice channel to explain that they were “going the wrong way“, implying that the Pookie was actually in the left base. The Government weren’t sure if they could trust information from an opponent, but after securing the base on the right, they didn’t find the Pookie, so it had seemed to be the truth. They now spent their remaining boom partially cutting into the base on the left.

The defender was killed again, this time when trying to approach the raiders from behind, and then a peace agreement was reached. The agreement was that the Government raiders would stop the raid and hand back control of the right base if they were allowed to keep whatever loot they had grabbed, and importantly – hold the Pookie for a couple of seconds each which would get them onto the “Capture the Pookie” leaderboard.

The Government, represented in the negotiation by their founder, were happy with this agreement, as they had more or less run out of explosives. The exchange went smoothly – each raider held the Pookie for a moment, and then handed back control of the right base (and the Pookie Bear) before they exited the cave. The defender could have harassed the raiders from his surface bases as they left the cave, but he honored the peace agreement.

The journey home was troublesome for the raiders, as they crossed paths with a Patrol Heli in a snow biome, so with full inventories, they decided to shoot down the helicopter rather than juggle their items to avoid aggro. Two raiders were killed by the chopper, so their sleeping bags still proved helpful as they respawned to recover their items and loot the wreck.

Just as the raiders reached the Outpost monument’s phone and were about to warp back to Montreal, the defender arrived in a Minicopter to wish them goodbye.

An update to the game meant that the raiders had to close and update Rust to be able to transfer to Montreal, leaving them scattered as some took awhile to get back in the game – they each made their own way home, most fighting their way through a jungle back to their village around an hour since they first left.

Categories: Raids