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Number5Alive, Golddigger, BurtBacharach, CrazyCelt, Blaze,
DoYouEvenLyft?, MarcoPolo, MightMakesRight, l33tpally, Bennie, SEA-TAC_Sweetie,
Requiesce-in-Pace, MacD, HaveGunsWillTravel, Guardian, GunKitty, Chummer,
Inquisitor, Lizard, RedFox, SemiSolidSnake, ElfMama, Not_the_Face!, Anonymous3,
Anonymous4, Anonymous7, Anonymous9, AggregatorOfSorrows, M.Mollen,
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot, Dolcett, Backlog, DarkAvariel, Knocker, Hullu_Kapteeni,
GrimDark, BloodForTheBloodGod, Queen’s_Bitch, BackDat@55Up, DoYouEvenDPS?,
MajorTom, Parca, and DarkAngel are in the chat.
Knocker: So, the Dungeon
at Hadarada Prime is looking like it has become some kind of buglike aliens
involved. Everything’s covered with this weird goo, too.
l33tpally: But where
did the AI get Zerg from?
MarcoPolo: Zerg? What
are these ‘Zerg’?
DoYouEvenLyft?: From RTS
genre. Old game called Starcraft had them as one of the factions. Nasty things,
good at sending waves of weak enemies to wear you down before their big troops
came and annihilated you.
MajorTom: Damn, they
must have had off-site backups.
DoYouEvenDPS?: Off-site
backups? You mean you’ve seen shit like this before in game?
MajorTom: Boss, you
want to take this one?
M.Mollen: The facility
is gone, and anyone involved already knows what we got from it, get your brag
on, Marine.
MajorTom: All right,
then. This was our first major op as the Black Star Marines. All of us were
Nomads at the time, and all former USMC, some for injuries or age, and some for
other reasons. Black Star had just hooked up with Merida’s faction in the Civil
War, and her people gave us targets to hit that would hurt Travis’s people the
most while we got ready for the big push back.
BackDat@55Up: So this
was just after Edena?
MajorTom: Correct. Our
target was a Blacker than Black research site working on bioweapons and with
links to other sites in the sector. We come in on our ‘liberated’ Marine Assault
ship, and we time it so that Thunderfury
announced herself by destroying the comm array the same instance our drop ships
broke stealth and hit the doors to their landing bay.
MajorTom: Brought the
whole company, even though we were only expecting light resistance. You don’t
give someone a fair fight in their own house, after all. Good thing we brought
them, because we quickly ran into trouble when one of the VIPs decided it would
be a great idea to unleash the test subjects. I think the idiot thought she
could control them.
Knocker: So these were
the Zerg?
MajorTom: Ooh, yeah.
Nasty fuckers, and if they hadn’t been trying to get through choke points that
were designed to prevent escapes, they might have been able to overrun us. But
that facility got blown to hell. The Self-Destruct was to let the antimatter
containment drop in the reactor. Big boom, and a new crater on that moon.
Parca: You know, they
might have had the originals of whatever they used for those test subjects at a
different site.
M.Mollen: Either way,
the AI had access to it, and other horrible things. Frigging lovely.
CrazyCelt: Hey, anyone
know what’s going on in the border sector around Tietera? First, my favorite
steakhouse on Zanchul Station closes down, and my ‘completely legitimate trade
agent’ goes missing…
MightMakesRight: You
mean your fence.
CrazyCelt: Potato,
Potahto. Anyways. My trade agent goes missing, and now all the completely
legitimate suppliers of sundry surplus items I go to have been disappearing
left and right, even the big names!
M.Mollen: Sounds like
you’re a smuggler who deals with pirates, CC. Unfortunately for you, the pirates
in that sector have met with some unfortunate reverses in fortune, and are
either enslaved, dead, or on the run.
CrazyCelt: What the
hell? No way they were all taken out so quickly. You’d need a whole damn fleet
to take out their base! There’s a reason the Navy never went after them!
M.Mollen: You own your
ship, CC?
CrazyCelt: Yeah, the Cyfreithiwr
Diog. Why?
M.Mollen: I bet you
your ship against a brand new one from the Black Star shipyards that their base
has fallen.
Backlog: Do yourself a
favor, CC, and stop while you’re not too far behind.
CrazyCelt: *sighs* No
bet.
M.Mollen: Backlog,
would you kindly not ruin my fun?
MightMakesRight: So,
what proof were you going to show him to win the bet?
M.Mollen: Screenshot
of me, right now, sitting in the Administrator’s Suite, drinking his liquor as my
people sort through all the slaves we took.
CrazyCelt: What? How did
you take it?
M.Mollen: Trade
secret. But Homer would approve.
RedFox: So, you did
manage to slip someone in and take it from the inside. We’d been wondering.
M.Mollen: Oh, and who
is we, Red?
RedFox: A newly formed
‘mercenary’ group that just got a contract on the other side of the Alliance
border to keep the piracy issue under control. Formerly of Lark’s Clan.
M.Mollen: Ah, figured that
message pulse was warning more than just the people on the station. Made us start
before we were ready, so more people ended up dying instead of being captured.
RedFox: Hah. Glad to
see my idea paid off, then.
M.Mollen: Oh, so you’re
the one who got them to put repeaters around? Nicely done. Your ships, and some
from the Duskspine clan, and a couple independents like CC here, are the only
ones who survived with your ships and freedom intact.
l33tpally: Why didn’t
you just blast it, like the other installations you’ve hit?
M.Mollen: Well, having
a well-protected shipyard and fleet base has some benefits. Plus, there are a
lot of slaves with skills I can use who are now under my control, ready to help
fill out positions in the fleet. Of course, I might sell off the station, since
it is pretty isolated.
Dolcett: So, back to
the Zerg, any tips on fighting them?
M.Mollen: Shoot them.
A lot. And then nuke the place from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Dolcett: That… isn’t
as helpful as you might think.
MajorTom: No real help
for you. The Zerg are like fighting the tide. You have to withstand their initial
rush, but then they got one coming after that, and another after that. You have
to kill as many as you can and then prepare to strike back, HARD. Otherwise,
they’ll destroy you.
Knocker: So, in
context of the dungeon?
MajorTom: Pack plenty
of grenades and explosives, pray you don’t run out of ammunition, fire is your
friend, and shoot anything that moves. Platoon full of Marines in power armor using
a choke point and automated defenses could only just hold them back, not push
through and wipe them out, because of their numbers. Would not recommend unless
you have uber high level skills and gear.
Knocker: Well, fuck.
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