Time: 01:42, September 19
Location: Warehouse Unit 55
Glad you could make it.
This is the warehouse unit, such as it is, for this district. It holds boxes full of stuff, as most warehouses do, but it also holds a wealth of information on quite a lot of stuff. Whatever this stuff is, we want it, so you should get on it promptly.
Speaking of, did you find that one virus upload card? It was sent in with your initial re-armarment, so if you missed it, you might want to grab it. I have no idea where you'll be able to upload the card, but it's an easy process: push it in, and it goes.
The warehouse unit stores information like it stores actual objects, as I said, so with that virus card that you had better make sure you have, you should look around for some kind of computer mainframe and insert the card as if it were a regular infotab. When that's complete, look for a teleport-capable terminal and we'll head on to our next location.
You may have noticed that there's a fair amount of resistance; if you haven't noticed, you will soon. The renegades are very protective of what's theirs, so you will undoubtedly have to fight your way through a legion to get to where some suitable access point is.
Oh, yeah, and we have a new weapon for you. For more on that, let's turn to our senior scientist, Dr. Johann.
We've been told to send down the weapon we've been working on to you. It's still a prototype, but you should be able to put it to good use. It's a shoulder-mounted EMP Cannon; it weighs more or less as much as your rocket launcher does, but it fires long-range grenades that deliver an electromagnetic pulse upon explosion. The pulse is powerful and has a fairly large area of effect, so it should deal severe damage to any mechanical targets within range.
The weapon is strictly the EMP, though, so any creatures that are more-or-less purely biological, such as Pfhor Troopers, will be completely unharmed by the effect. However, anything wearing power armor -- such as our vacuum-enabled soldiers -- or anything cybernetic -- like yourself -- will take full effects from the shock, as well as anything purely mechanical, such as Juggernauts. Or the Renegades themselves.
Just be careful; the weapon is not yet battle-ready, as we haven't had an opportunity to do any field testing.
So that's that. We'll be sending down the gun as soon as we have it primed and ready for combat, which should be shortly. You won't be missing out on any fights.
They're telling me that the shot itself has a larger explosion radius than your SPNKR, but against a single target, it's less effective shot-for-shot. Whatever. I'm sure you won't miss the SPNKR, since we don't have any. Or maybe you will. Too bad.
In the meantime, here's some more exciting news for you. Remember the attack on the Acheron in which you participated yesterday? Yeah. We're not having any success in holding the ship down. There appear to be more Pfhor lurking about than we anticipated, and our boys are being beleagured at every step.
It's a shame we can't really call you back to the ship for some more fighting, but we believe that your presence there is a one-shot-only type of thing, so you're staying. We'll send down more help as it becomes available, but high command wants more energy devoted into the Acheron than the renegades. Oh well.
Time to go.
