2: Interlude 1

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Finally, we have you. Something terrible has happened... I am General Hoikhon. Commander of the foreign legion in this sector. We intercepted you off the teleport signal of a certain Durandal. Durandal is an AI gone rampant. We have learned that he has invited the enemy to this sector and has promised to deliver it to them. As you know the foreign legion is the only force between us and those barbarians this far outside our galaxy. You were being used to knock us off.

We have examined you and found that you were modified only at the electronic level. The cellular level of your brain, your humanity if you will, is intact. Your programming is about to be restored. You must go to the defence centre and destroy Durandal. The centre is being guarded by a small guard of compilers, enforcers and the savage, armoured juggernauts. To prevent detection we are irradiating the moon with Z ray. We cannot survive in such an environment so you will be on your own. Defeat Durandal and you will be pardoned.