Into the Abyss

[T.A.L.O.S.]

Time marches on, TALOS had collected a treasure-trove of battle-data from the combat situations it had observed through security footage. However it had also suffered setbacks, several major installations had been cut off from the TALOS Network, it was currently working on trying to bypass the firewalls of Coalition vessels still on the Neural Net but encountered strong fire-walls. Meaning it would take time for TALOS to clear through.

Still it had all of the newer models of the Storm Gunboat due to their direct connection to the TALOS Network as well as many of the Snubfighters of the XKR line. Normally this wouldn't be an issue due to the many fail-safes that TALOS had, but due to them being disabled by the Virus and being allowed to overrun the entire TALOS Mainframe it was a very dangerous situation as the Virus was of alien origin and was actively pursuing one of the Coalition's Orisis-Class Battleships, ships under the control of TALOS were converging upon it's location and getting closer with every minute that is wasted.

However TALOS had another trick up it's sleeve. It needed Combat Data comparable to Military-Grade Hardware against these Commandos...Accessing it's database it located a cache of 'Seekerbots' on the surface, most of them were disabled but two of them were still operational.

Sending a focused encoded signal to the remaining two it waited...


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In the ruins of a Coalition Storage Facility, hidden in a room in the basement, two lithe humanoid droids amidst dozens of trashed and useless shells activated, they looked like mal-nourished humans when not standing in the light, but as they stepped into the dim lighting of the basement from their places in the shadows their silver-coloured chassis was revealed, they had no mouths, only a set of crimson 'eyes' which were highly motion-sensitive ocular devices, which acted very similar to human eyes, and on the sides of their heads receivers acted as their ears, able to hear the pin-drop from five-blocks away on increased sensitivity.

The joints of the machines were rounded, able to bend both ways which offered them significantly more agility and abilities, their hands were human-looking except at the end of the 'finger-tips' there were 'knife-like' ends. These units were not designed for outright combat, but assassination and scouting urban environments.

They had been in storage ever-since the Phantom bombing of JiangXi, scavengers had picked through the others yet these two remained intact, directly linked to TALOS they got on all fours and started to rapidly move out of the basement and disappearing into the city, looking for their assigned targets, the way they moved was animalistic, completely unlike human mobility, crawling on all fours like some primitive animal yet there was no mistaking these were dangerous machines...

As they got outside and received a location-update from TALOS they crouched slightly before making a large,powerful leap on to the side of one of the factories using their 'knives' to climb up the wall rapidly and scrambling over the edge onto the rooftops, not stopping even for the other edge of the building, they simply leapt over the gap between the buildings and landed on another roof before moving on, a distinct 'scraping' sound could be heard as they made their way through the ruined city...