Operation Aurora
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Game	Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Location	Somewhere near the Sea of Japan
Date	6 October 1944
Objective(s)	Rendezvous with Japanese Defector: Secure Safe Passage to Rendezvous Point Reach Trenches Follow McKee Locate the Defector Find a Transport: Follow Unit to Airfield Capture Enemy Vehicle Defend Vehicle Escape the Island: Find Subpen Location Breach Subpen Interior Escape to Captured Enemy Sub
Character	Thomas Wyatt
Team	United States Marine Corps
Default Weapons	Thompson Submachine Gun (unusable), Combat Knife, Hand Grenades
Enemies	Imperial Japanese Navy
Enemy Weapons	Type 100 Submachine Gun, Type 5 Rifle
Vehicles	Raft, F4U Corsair, A6M Zero, Type 97 Chi-Ha, Type 95 Kurogane, Type B1 Submarine

Operation Aurora is the first level in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The player takes part in a raid on Japanese soil to find a defecting scientist who claims to have valuable information on a Japanese super weapon, later revealed as the Black Weapon. The operation was said to have been erased from USMC records to cover up the fact that they sent Marines on a suicide mission to investigate the "Black Weapon."

Synopsis Edit

The mission begins with Thomas Wyatt on a boat along with his squad members and Able squad moving through the Japanese shore defenses and bunkers. After avoiding sentries, Able squad is fired upon by a machine gun nest, and the crew is killed. The nest soon discovers Wyatt's boat and shoots at them, forcing the four man squad to dive in the water, and forcing Wyatt to lose his Thompson SMG. As a joint US Army Air Corps/US Navy air raid begins, Wyatt surfaces, and moves to the shoreline adjacent to the trenches. He uses his knife to take out a guard while Faraday drowns another. Sarge passes Wyatt the second guard's Type 100 once they get to the other side of the small wooden bridge. Wyatt then moves up into some trenches with McKee, clearing out Japanese AA gun emplacements, and then regroups with Sarge and Faraday who took the path above the trenches. They proceed to find the defecting Japanese scientist. Upon reaching the scientist, the squad hears a strange sound. The scientist says, "The Black Weapon - it's starting. We're dead men." The Japanese cut off the squad's original escape route, and they are forced to get to a sub on the other side of the island. They find two Type 95 Kuroganes and fight their way to the submarine base, with Wyatt defending them with mounted .30 caliber machine gun on the Kurogane he was in. They clear the base and board the sub. When they leave port they once again hear the strange sound, except this time it is much louder. As they look back to the island, they see a huge explosion that unleashes a massive tidal wave which engulfs the sub and kills the entire crew.

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Related Achievements and TrophiesEdit

The following achievements/trophies can be completed on this mission.

Image	Name	Criteria	Gamerscore	Trophy type
	I knew we'd make it	Campaign: finish Operation Aurora	15 G	Bronze

Trivia Edit

• The operation occurs in October 1944, but the atomic bomb which is mentioned in the mission would not be tested for another nine months.
• Throughout the level, the player has infinite ammo for all weapons.
• During the ride to the submarine base, on at least three occasions, Japanese soldiers will fire what seems to be an M2 Carl Gustav at your vehicle. This may actually be meant to represent the Type 18 Recoilless Rifle, but the developers may have not wanted to create a new model/weapon just for that level.
• It is strange why the Japanese would fix an M1919 .30 cal machine gun to their vehicles, as the M1919 is an American weapon and the Japanese never used a weapon that fired a .30 cal round during World War II, so ammunition would be scarce. This may have been an oversight by the developers, or didn't want to program a new weapon just for this level.
• During the jeep ride, if the player looks to the right of the jeep and down, they can see Wyatt has no visible shadow.
• During this level there are only six usable weapons the Hand Grenade, the Combat Knife, the Type 5, the Type 100, the M1919 and the TNT.
• After the Black weapon detonates, it triggers a huge explosion and a tsunami that engulfs the escaping commandos and the defector, suggesting that it has a payload equivalent to a nuclear bomb. However, later in the game in the mission Zero Dark Thirty, the weapon detonates but does not produce a similar explosion.
• In all difficulties, this is the only mission to lack a HUD without playing on Hard.
• This is the only mission where most weapons are not unlockable and only available in this mission.