Iron Relay: Czech Corridor Leg 3

Leg 3 — LKTB → LKMT Brno, Czech Republic → Ostrava, Czech Republic

A northeastern courier run transporting reinforcement requests and emergency air defense coordination orders toward sectors nearing direct conflict zones.

Broken East

The skies changed the farther east you flew.

Military aircraft traffic intensified over Moravia while radar warnings appeared intermittently across emergency frequencies. Ground convoys stretched endlessly toward the Polish frontier beneath low clouds and cold rain.

The war was getting closer.

Ostrava’s industrial skyline appeared beneath columns of smoke rising from damaged communication towers and rail infrastructure. Whether sabotage or missile strikes caused the destruction remained unclear.

Inside the airport bunker, chaos ruled.

One commander demanded reinforcements.

Another ordered retreat.

A third insisted both reports were outdated already.

Then came the message that changed the relay network entirely:

A courier aircraft operating farther east had disappeared without transmitting a distress signal.

The skies themselves were no longer safe.