conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: information

R'chzne's transmitter is here, but the power source is somewhere inside the ruins.  Find it and destroy it, quickly.  The Pfhor promised me this ship.  I thought R'chzne was my strongest ally, but in the end he watched, pitiless, while they cracked my core like an old chestnut.

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Attentive rank Tycho Machinated Mercenary has been authorized to send a detachment of hunters to the surface to help you destroy his forces and free him from the pain of obsolescence.

conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: information

I have gathered some information that may help you.  The circles denote panels that will bypass the locks on the doors.

conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: information

When you've penetrated the area and destroyed the transmitter, find the terminal marked on the map.  No need to go easy on any of the troopers, in case you're wondering--I've decided there's no room for them in the new regime.

conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: information

I'd really prefer to keep my whereabouts a secret, at least until the Captain and I can work out our disagreement about my rank.

^7391docivlbdile3x1  Isn't bureaucracy

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ground forces

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: Pursuit Group 5

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: suppression

Pursuit Group 5 ordered to withdraw from alien complex for immediate shipside transport.  Priority target entering Lh'owon system.  Secure area for rapid extraction.

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Slave unit hereby ordered to finish mop up of area.  Destroy mutinous Combatant Units and report execution of rogue Captain R'chzne soonest.

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conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: redirection

The power source must be somewhere in the oldest sections of the S'pht fortress.  It's likely a quick and dirty patch into the durable S'pht hardware.  These types of strongholds were build to outlast centuries of warfare; you'd be surprised how tenaciously the ancient S'pht resisted the Pfhor.

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conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: redirection

Keep searching, and report back here when you've destroyed it.

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conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: acqusition

I have some shocking news.  It seems that the captain attempted to use the bridge transporter to escape planetside, and was killed when the signal was redirected to nearby space.  I like to think he died repentant.

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conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: acqusition

In any case, I'm in control of the ship now, and just in time.  Durandal's ship has entered the system, and a group of human commando units is moving through the southern edge of the ruins.  We'll let them lead us to Durandal's prize, and then cut off their escape.

Durandal would be a messiah to the S'pht, but it's all a dream.  There's nothing on Lh'owon but ghosts.

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conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: information

The Enforcers are pinned down on the bridge, and they won't cooperate until I can successfully forge their encrypted stamp.  I'm working on it, but it may be a dead issue, as most of the Aggregate Units have come over and are preparing to blow the ship seals.

The Enforcers, as you may remember, are not vacuum enabled.

It's important that the captain doesn't escape.  Very important.  The plan to capture Durandal is inherently flawed, and I can't allow him to pursue his folly.

conditioned unit

origin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

destin: conditioned unit 7

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: information

The decaying web of the Pfhor Empire is held together by the conditioned ranks of S'pht--countless strands bending even now towards Durandal's will.  R'chzne and the rest of the insects at Pfhor High Command think to snare him in the very web in which he most desires to be caught.

^8301  Thou art as tyrannous,

^8302   so as thou art,

^8303  As those whose beauties

^8304   proudly make them cruel;

^8305  For well thou know'st

^8306   to my dear doting heart

^8307  Thou art the fairest

^8308   and most precious jewel,

^8309  Yet, in good faith,

^830A   some say that thee behold,

^830B  Thy face hath not the power

^830C   to make love groan:

^830D  To say they err,

^830E   I dare not be so bold,

^830F  Although I swear it

^8310   to myself alone,

^8311  And, to be sure that

^8312   not false I swear,

^8313  A thousand groans,

^8314   but thinking on thy face,

^8315  One on another's neck,

^8316   do witness bear

^8317  Thy black is fairest

^8318   my judgment's place.

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^8319   In nothing art thou black,

^831A    save in thy deeds,

^831B   And thence this slander,

^831C    as I think, proceeds.

status.report

origin: Combatant Ldr 2nd Class Rr'pt

destin: Tycho Machinated Mercenary

ref: Mutinous Combatant Units

stamp: requisition

The mutinous Combatant Units have been routed from their positions on the outer walls. They are retreating through the warrens into the mountains, and we are continuing the pursuit.

Outriders report transporter telltales on their sensors.  Preliminary evaluation suggests human commando units.  Combatant Leader 2nd Class Rr'pt humbly requests reinforcement by armored units.