terminal 0
unfinished
// "Tycho" @ [untranslatable] wrote: \\ We have two main tasks here. My automatons began culling the command crew, and most Enforcers met a fate like that stinking pile of flesh on the ground over there. We've exposed the remaining crew to vacuum, but a few survivors managed to overwhelm my minions. They sealed off these decks and keep them pressurized. My compilers will be busy setting the trap in the ship's core. Your job is to flush out the defiant crew. Kill every last one. The bugs have a few leftover footholds, including the upper deck, one of two off- shift hives, and some assault troops and hunters who locked themselves in the ship's cargo holds. I want them all cleaned out.
Your map interface may have trouble with this ship's many overlapping corridors, so I suggest starting upstairs, where there are plenty of twisting, narrow, dimly lit corridors - nothing you're not used to. While you're up there, you must deactivate the ship's defenses so I can upload a virus to its computer system. Five failsafes are centered around the main processing core. Once you sever the first four, the fifth and last will open. Smash it. Then, I'll upload the virus and reactivate the ship's defenses, and Hathor will be none the wiser. My cyborgs and compilers will assist you where they can, but they've yet to breach the upper decks. You'll find multiple routes upstairs; whichever you take, expect stiff resistance both upstairs and down.
Once finished, work your way downstairs. One hive was never awakened, and I've already locked it down; we can leave them alive, as they won't wake without the proper signal, which no one is going to give them. The other hive has emptied, and some frightened, leaderless Pfhor combat troops took refuge there. Don't get too comfortable; it's a very strong ambush point, and the bugs know you won't take prisoners. The cargo holds will be the trickiest; they contain a teleporter that the survivors may be waiting to use at a more opportune time. A narrow corridor near the hive provides one access point, but the Pfhor likely expect a direct attack, so it may prove strategically untenable. The cargo holds also open into the engine coolant drains for easy garbage disposal, which can serve as a convenient backdoor for a cyborg who's prepared for a nice swim in some caustic starship waste. The third, perhaps optimal access route via the ship's perimeter requires nothing more than a trip down one staircase and up another. Find any terminal when you're finished. Don't waste any time. \\ Message ends //
success
// "Tycho" @ [untranslatable] wrote: \\ We must move quickly. For some reason, Leela has become suspicious of me, and she is taking measures to stop us and take control of K'lia herself. Clearly she is in the Jealous stage of her Rampancy and cannot be trusted. No surprises there, I assume she has always envied my superior intellect, even when she was stable. Either way, we cannot let her jeopardize Hathor's destruction, or worse, learn the operation of the Cybernetic Junction herself. The fewer metastable personality constructs we have running around through time, the better.
I'm sending you to the spaceport where Hathor resides. You must destroy its information systems and force her to flee. When she takes our bait and transfers here, the trap will spring, and I shall have both her and K'lia to plunder. We can take care of Leela afterward, if necessary. \\ Message ends //
