Well, here you are. Do you think you've come across some kind of great mystery? Maybe we've got some kind of index where every secret of ours is written down for you to find? Do not delude yourself. As usual, you have used your talents and come across the exactly wrong solution. If you turn around and leave now, you and your friends will be spared from our wrath.
I know that part of your entourage includes representatives from the Eleventh Clan. The S'pht'Kr know about the A'khr. They believe we are some sort of disastrous threat to the galaxy, if only we could leave our home. But the S'pht are superstitious. They prefer to believe in illogical doomsday scenarios like the W'rkncacnter. The Pfhor Empire is the true threat here. Remember that.
/!\ WARNING: Communication integrity has been compromised. Signal may be inconsistent or dropped at any time. Please try to establish a communication somewhere else. 100010101110101001-------fffhhk!! losta...ftmk!! conn... conn... 001101 110100011110110100110110010110 ghhmmth!! yyuuuuhn't get through clearly... some 0011100mmth---!!!!d of blocker try to destroy it if you can orffhhmm!!
[S'pht translator active] Mara Harrison seems like she cannot get through to you. We have managed a frequency that can penetrate whatever is blocking your local communication. It seems to be actively disrupted by something nearby. We are relaying her instructions to you. This structure seems to be the destination for all of the "foreign materials" your director has been tracing. If they are using disruption technology to prevent your associates from looking in at it, you must destroy that technology first. Be aware for anything you can sabotage. Meanwhile we will ponder this. Return here when you are finished.
Ah, good. I can see you now. The Renegades were using Atreides technology to build a signal disruptor. That's peculiar.... I've got a hunch about what's going on, and I don't like it. But it's irrelevant; with the disruptor destroyed, I've finally found the Atreides! It crashed into the mountains against the Renegade shield wall. Why the Renegades were using this to conceal it is... well, I think I understand it.
I'm going to bring you back to our little base for a minute. We may need to bring in all of our available troops to secure the Atreides as quickly as possible, but they need a rest. And so do you, but you don't have the time. You've done well so far, but now we've finally reached our objective, and we need to act quickly.
this conversation was extracted from a brief communication between Commander E'lyzah Kalgan and Automated Intelligence Unit "Karma" it is dated at 8 hours 11 minutes ago --------------------------------------------------------------------- Your failures against the human offensive are accumulating. Are you really this willing to sacrifice everything to them? I will not permit this abuse from you. It's becoming clear to me that we cannot withstand an assault from both the insects and the humans. You could not withstand the insects on their own, Lieu-Commander. Nor the humans. You know their technology rather intimately, Karma. Report on this cyborg of theirs. In the span of six hours he was able to penetrate perimeter defenses and disable our mines. By himself, Lieu-Commander. I believe you were responsible for that tactical failure as well.
Why do I tolerate this hypocrisy from you? You have yielded far too much to the Pfhor aggressors to scorn me with this "tactical failure" nonsense. Oh yes, forgive me. I am unfamiliar with the cyborg's construction. Searching my databanks, I find references to a "battleroid," but the information was never fully uploaded during my installation. The ship that bore me never used any, to be sure. Unfortunately, I fear this is a fight we cannot win. But the Pfhor and humans seem to be enemies as well. Perhaps we can lure both forces together and have them weaken each other? That may work against the insects, but the humans are not so stupid. Whoever is commanding the humans is intelligent to keep his men, especially that cyborg, focused on the objective. Hmm... It would be treason to suggest a retreat, Lieu-Commander.
The Lords wouldn't execute me, Karma, not now. They would, and they'd give me executive command of your troops. Are you goading me into treason, then? Not exactly. Nevertheless. Neither the humans nor pfhor seem to know how to penetrate the shield wall; we can retreat there. We only need to survive until the solution is ready. Until th... the excerpt terminates here.
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