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Post by Red Queen on Oct 3, 2012 2:18:52 GMT -6
The bright burning rays of the dual suns touched down on the liberated sector of Isafaro for the first time in over century. A revelation so powerful it caused the rioters and looters to stop dead in their tracks, seeing this as a sign that it was truly the end of days for the dictator that had made their life a living hell. That the one known as “The Spokesman of Insanity” would be their deliverer. However this sunrise was going to be met with a nasty surprise.
Teargas.
The anti-riot brigade came in the form of PLAGUE Shock Troops in single file. Their visors scanning the area and examining every crack and vantage point by their position as they raised the fully-automatic assault rifles. Armor and shields at the ready as the rioters had their own weapons. Some burst forth from the teargas and started to open fire but the Shock Troops were one step ahead. Squeezing the trigger a couple of seconds before them, auto-targeting giving more time as there was no need to aim. 7.62x39mm armored piercing rounds ripping through their bodies and putting them to rest as the others began to flee, crying out in hopes that the Spokesman would hear their call and save them.
No one came.
You must conform.
Four streets over was another row of Shock Troops, shooting streams of water at the rioters who approached them and pushing them back into cars and walls, threatening to drown the people if they didn't stand down and convert back to Vulture's rule. They'd sooner die than do that. And so the Shock Troops granted them their wish, more bullets cutting through the air and making contact with the rioter bodies ending their lives.
Defiance will not be tolerated.
MBT-6 Predator Tanks joined the anti-rioters, occupying the entrances to the roads the Shock Troops have dropped in from above. Firing from their rail guns at the first signs of the stolen M1A1s and Goliaths. There was nobody manually operating the Predators but that didn't stop them from ripping holes through the Resistance tanks that came out into the opening, maneuvering through landmines and in-coming guided missiles by the M1s. Fear grew in the eyes of one man when they succeeded in destroying one of the Predators when they saw no body in the burning fire the destruction had left behind. There was only one thing in Isafaro that could controlled unmanned armored vehicles with such accuracy.
Conform.
A-15 Orcas flew through the air over the area, launching missiles towards the ground where more enemy tanks could be seen approaching the Predators. The pilots keeping track of any enemy VTOLs and any signs of the Spokesman himself as none of the primary targets Vulture spoke of had made an appearance. PLAGUE snipers infiltrated the surrounding buildings on one side of the area as the Militant Rocket squad infiltrated the other. Both acting as cover for the ground group while remaining unseen from within the building.
You must respect authority.
The surviving rioters started to pull back, using each other as mere meat-shields against the Shock Troops fire. As they reached an intersection they found themselves surrounded by Predators on the ground and A-15s in the air. The titantron overhead coming on and displaying the last thing on this planet that they wanted to see resurrected after word of its demise at the hand of Albert Wesker came just a few months ago.
 “You will comply!”
Screams echoed throughout the morning's air, soon followed by gunfire as the last thing each rioter saw before their early demise...
Were the emotionless eyes of the Red Queen staring down upon them. |
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Post by Cap'n Failz on Oct 3, 2012 4:09:36 GMT -6
Every last bit of it was memorized and stored away. The simple displays of tactis put on. The firepower. The weapons. Equipment. Armament. Vehicles. Leadership. Direction. All of it was witnessed, analyzed, memorized, broken down, and stored away. It was all coming together more and more. This was a sizable jump in his prime resource, expecially with the introduction of a new piece of knowledge he had been completely unaware of. And the image of it was on clear display for him to see.
"That would explain a great deal..." No human could have ever hoped to commaned such large numbers so seamlessly and efficiently.
Sweeping his gaze over the scene below, he could only laugh quietly to himself at the loss of life. That they had even bothered to resist was completely moronic. So clearly outmatched....their misplaced sense of pride and hope in a hero that never came led to only a mass butchering.
And just another cleanup operation.
This AI -- this 'Red Queen' -- would definitely be a bothersome obstacle to overcome. Not impossible, by any means. It would be the resources at her disposal -- at the disposal of the Vulture in its entirety -- that would be the real issue. But even so, it was a problem to be dealt with later. He turned to leave, but paused almost as soon as he had started the motion. A thought occurred to him in that moment.
"Perhaps something of a...test is in order."
With a blur of motion, DAVE launched himself from his hiding place, out of the shadows. He sailed through the air, and came down in a low crouch with a surprisingly heavy thud for his size, directly in the center of what was once a group of people....but was now little more than a mess of bullet-riddled corpses. Slowly he rose from his crouch, as if oblivious to all around him. He dusted off the labcoat he wore before he spoke up. "A most impressive display, if I may say."
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Post by Ayen on Oct 3, 2012 10:51:32 GMT -6
“It would seem my old enemy has returned.”
Mused Genius as she sat in front of her laptop back in the main Vulture's base on the other side of the sector. Seeing the massacre unfold Genius had already notified Imai, 201, Kragen and Garrus of the situation as well as sending their own VTOLs, Tanks and all nearby men to contain the situation and save what little lives they still could. Assistance came in the form of M1A1s and Rhinos opposing the Predator tanks as jets flew through the air unloading upon the A-15s with their miniguns while in the air. Already The Genius was fast at work hacking the Red Queen's signal to momentarily immobilize her forces allowing for her own people to push through them with ease.
“All right, Red Queen. May Round Two begin... now.” |
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Post by Kragen on Oct 4, 2012 1:03:00 GMT -6
Kragen led a team into one of the buildings being occupied by PLAGUE Shock Troops. These were nothing like the regular patrols that stalked the streets to keep Vulture's order in tact. Every move performed by this unit was so perfectly in-sync it's as if they were choreographed. There was no need for them to aim as the auto-target ensured Kragen and his men would be hit by armor-piercing rounds that made quick work of their own personshields and began to rip through their armor. Forcing them behind cover or be pummeled by bullets.
There didn't seem to be an obvious leader among the Shock Troops, they all moved like one entity. Like a collective. Kragen focused on finding a crack for the rest of his men to exploit. As the gunfire dived down and reloading was needed Kragen unloaded a single shot of his HK45 to the visor of one of the soldiers, aimed to rip through his eye and penetrate the brain to take him out. If one fell would the rest follow?
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Post by Garrus Vakarian on Oct 4, 2012 7:24:50 GMT -6
Garrus was among the tanks battling it out against the Predators on the road, opening up the cockpit and standing at the entrance to the tank with the M-29 Incisor in hand. As the tanks did battle his job was to scout out the snipers who were now armed with long-ranged rail guns powerful enough to take down the toughest armor available. But sadly the sniper team was one step ahead of him as the only warning that came of their fire was the red laser pointed at his chest. The Rebel Turian quickly retreated into the M1A1 he was in, activating the tank shields as the rail guns fired. The shields were taken offline and Garrus knew they couldn't survive another hit as he activated the turbo next. The boosters in the back coming alive as the tank sped down the road at a speed no one thought a tank was able to go, going up a ramp and flying through the air as the tank's cannon turned to continue fire at the surrounding Predators while not giving the sniper team a chance to fire. Garrus Vakarian
I'd love to meet the man who came up with the idea of installing turbo on these things... |
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Post by Red Queen on Oct 8, 2012 10:55:20 GMT -6
D. A. V. E would be greeted by the armor piercing rounds of the Shock Troops, rockets, the railguns and 120mm cannon of the MBT-6 Predator Tanks. Being surrounded by all sides gave the A. I little room to maneuver. While it may be able to avoid some of the armor piercing rounds it would then be in the trajectory of the rockets from the Rocket Squad, blasted by the Predators or at the mercy of the snipers' railguns. Red Queen could only conclude the A. I was suffering from faulty wiring for jumping out into the open and allowing itself to be surrounded.
Red Queen noticed the hacker straight away and already Genius ran into a firewall halting her efforts while the Artificial Intelligence continued to give commands to her unit. The unmanned A-15s now engaging in a dog fight with the Resistance jets while the Predators fired back at the M1A1s and Rhinos with its new railgun upgrade.
Kragen managed to expose a temporary crack in the Shock Troops defenses but a few simple commands from the Red Queen allowed the Shock Troops to adapt to the subtraction of their unit and continue to fire upon Kragen and his men pushing them back into cover while they made their advance. Unloading upon the walls Kragen was staying behind to take him down. |
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Post by Ayen on Oct 8, 2012 14:40:25 GMT -6
A smile graced The Genius' pale facial features as the firewall flashed across her monitor and she went quick to work to bypass it.
“Let's see if you learned anything since the last time.”
And indeed they have, although hacking an A. I was much different than hacking a space platform, Genius ran into many more difficult obstacles that put her intellect to the test. It was a battle of man versus machine or in this case; demonic immortal child versus a homicidal maniac in the form of an artificial intelligence. Either way Genius wasn't giving up without a fight. And neither was Imai.
A highly explosive shockwave of mass effect fields connected with the advancing Shock Troops, giving Kragen and his men enough time to retaliate as the group of five under the Red Queen command was knocked down into the ground. Imai joining the fight and standing next to Kragen, drawing a heavy pistol after taking cover.
201 led the tanks into battle, ordering the M1s to pull back as the Predators started using their railguns, the Rhinos getting the worse of it but countered with swarms of stinger missiles. The M1A1 201 was controlling turbo her way directly into the path of one of the Predators. Launching a grenade out of the barrel of the tank's cannon and into the cockpit before teleporting away to avoid the Predator's fire and five seconds later BOOM! The tank's auto-navigation was destroyed.
“Woohoo! Yeah!” |
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Post by Kragen on Oct 9, 2012 0:04:25 GMT -6
It wasn't a permanent solution but it did allow an opening as the Shock Troops had to adjust to the lost. Before the Ex-Soldier could try his luck again however, Imai Katayo entered the scene sending the unit back with a shockwave. Allowing him to draw the G3 and fire upon the other soldiers with his squad to take them out. Nodding in acknowledgement of Imai's presence as they looked to be one step closer to making it to the upper levels where the snipers were located.
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Post by Cap'n Failz on Oct 9, 2012 6:16:01 GMT -6
"Not one for words, are you? A pity."
He would immediately drop to the ground on all fours, torso nearly touching the ground, before launching himself to his rear. He skimmed back, less than an inch above the ground. He was running scans and projections of all sorts, and it was rapidly clear to him; h e wouldn't be able to dodge everything currently being thrown at him for very long. Thus it was perhaps a good thing he didn't plan on simply dodging the whole while.
His hands dug into the ground, bringing an immediate halt to his momentum and proceeding to launch him straight up, with such momentum as to crack the ground under him. A quick series of calculations in his mind and he was ready. He spun through the air, seemingly presenting himself as an easy target. And just before he was blasted into pieces by the plethora of weapons fire coming his way, the three lights on his faceplate all lit up brightly. His body was shrouded by a crackling field of electricity and he became a blur of movement.
Rockets were grabbed from the air and hurled back at the troops and tanks firing at him. Bolts of electricity lashed out from his arms and fingers at the other projectiles, detonatinc the cannon shells in midair. The only real threat to him -- aside from a miscalculation and mistake on his part -- were the railguns. He landed in a crouch from his first leap into the air, electricity still crackling about him.
And immediately he was off in a blur of movement again. This time his aim was much more simple and far less showy: he was going to eliminate the problem of the tanks and their railguns, with his bare hands if need be.
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Post by Garrus Vakarian on Oct 9, 2012 7:44:42 GMT -6
It seemed like everyone was using railguns these days. The Rebel Turian evasive maneuvers kept him from being ripped apart by the tank and snipers railguns, though he wished he had chosen the hover or motortank instead but the great thing about Vulture's tanks were how editable they all were. And Garrus had a surprise instore as he aimed the tank's main gun at the Predator and unleashed a powerful charge shot that would break right through the armor to destroy it if it hit. Garrus Vakarian
201, what's your status, over? |
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Post by Red Queen on Oct 15, 2012 7:22:48 GMT -6
Already the Red Queen was tracking down the source of the attack on her systems. Though the perpetrator was smart enough to change their I. P address every couple of seconds with a proxy leading to bogus locations so the Red Queen was unable to get a lock on them. Instead she performed an I. P range ban that immediately banned everything related to the first couple of numbers of the addresses being used to cut them off completely.
Smoke grenades dropped near Kragen and Imai's position, covering the path of the second wave of Shock Troops who came downstairs from the above level and firing through the smoke at the opposing Resistance soldiers. Making it harder to aim a well placed shot towards their visor as the thick smoke made it harder to spot their location while the Shock Troops didn't have to worry about aim due to the auto-targeting systems on their weapons.
Garrus communications with 201 would be cut short as a missile fired from the VTOLs in the air and towards his position. Another unleashing more missiles at 201 and the rest of the Resistance tank forces allowing further Predators to move in and pick up the pieces.
The moment D. A. V. E took to the air he would be accompanied by a little red dot that fired a powerful explosive blast that knocked him out of the air to free fall into the ground. Immediately afterwords would be the sound of chainsaws powerful enough to saw through just about anything it came in contact with headed for him as 13 armored super soldiers equipped with Lancers II emerged from the blast sight compliments of the Novalith Cannon and their deranged captain. |
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Post by Ayen on Oct 15, 2012 13:32:25 GMT -6
“An IP range ban? Is that all?”
Genius expressed her disappointment to no one in particular as she began using multiple dynamic IPs. Generating a completely new IP every few seconds making an IP range ban worthless as she slipped past the first firewall and found herself bombarded by the second.
“You're gonna have to try harder than that.”
Imai covered her mouth with her arm, wishing she had a gas mask like Kragen before using her gun hand to shoot out a nearby window and using a mass effect field to guide the smoke out of it quicker than it would have blew on its own clearing the room for the other Resistance soldiers who were forced back behind cover to open fire to take down the second wave of Shock Troops.
"201, what's your status, over?"
“I'm on top of the world, baby! Over?”
201 moved the tank to the side evading the air to ground missiles before pointing her main tank gun into the air.
“Two can play at that game.”
Firing a missile of her own to destroy the VTOL in the air that had attacked her. |
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Post by Kragen on Oct 16, 2012 12:46:04 GMT -6
Kragen aimed for the eyes and that all it took to take them down and press forward. The Ex-Soldier never staying out in the open for too long. He took behind cover, peered around behind it and then led his team to the next level. Scaling walls and slowly ascending up stairs to get the drop on the remaining Shock Troops.
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Post by Garrus Vakarian on Oct 18, 2012 6:54:21 GMT -6
Garrus Vakarian
Not what I meant... Garrus quickly moved the tank out of the way of the missiles that fell from the sky, and while 201 launched a counter-attack on them the Rebel Turian and the other resistance members in their tanks around his went to work fighting off the Predators moving in. |
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Post by Red Queen on Oct 18, 2012 16:10:47 GMT -6
Red Queen logged every single address being generated. The good news for the Resistance was the fact all of these led to random locations through the sector that didn't go to them. The bad news were... they led to random locations through the sector where people were. Ergo, Red Queen sent wave, after wave, after wave of Vertigo Bombers to destroy those parts of the city giving Genius little room to work with as she was limited to sector 4 from her location as Red Queen had computer access to the rest of the city. Sooner or later Genius would run out of addresses to generate and more lives would be lost as a result of her hacking. Olivia may not have cared but her bosses sure would.
When Kragen and Imai reached the next level they would find it covered in C4 explosives, the man holding the detonator standing in the building across from them and setting it off. Leveling the entire floor and sending the Resistance members straight back down to where they started through the rubble.
The A-15 Orcas managed to avoid 201's missile and unloaded their Hydra 70 rockets to the below tanks as cover fire for the Predators who withstood the onslaught of the Resistance tanks and unloaded their railgun towards them. |
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