GNN News

[Reaver Company Inc.]

Planet-wide Channel:
Frequency: Emergency
Source: Night Plateau Production/Research Facility

All citizens of Cambridge, safety is within reach! Night Plateau, at map coordinates 5 by 34, has room for many and the strength to shelter you! The East and North sections of our facility are completed, the South section is useable, and the West section is expected to be finished within the week. We offer food, water, housing, and safe transport for those who can make it.

If you can make it here, report to East Gate 2 to be accepted with open arms into a place of safety!

This message is set to repeat once every 5 minutes in effected areas, and once every half hour outside the immediate infected zones.

Transmission Ends:

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It was brilliant. The humans had advertised this one area so blatantly. Hundreds, nay, THOUSANDS of the filthy beings clustered around the entrance gate. Kalkrana was sure that he would go unnoticed in this crowd. That was why he almost despaired when he found out why the line was so slow; The hated Sirius Federation had constructed a scanner there and everyone went through one at a time.

Despite this, the Nomad pressed on. There was a chance they would miss him, or the scanner wouldn't work properly, and it was better then the certainty of them knowing should he walk away. Act human, hide, wait. That was the operation of the day. He just might make it through.

-

One SF sergeant was running a SiN Tech grunt through a crash course in operating the scanner. The operator had to know what to look for, had to be able to spot the small things that would give an injured person, a sick person, or most importantly an infected person away. The guy, at least the Sergeant thought it was a guy, seemed to pick up on how to operate it quickly. So when a scuffle broke out, the sergeant himself went to deal with it and left the grunt at the controls.

The line kept going, and at last the human host that carried Kalrana entered the looming tunnel. The grunt knew, Kalrana knew the grunt knew, and both knew there was an alarm that was supposed to go off.

Yet for some reason unfathomable to Kalrana, no sirens wailed, no lights flashed, and nobody stopped him save another grunt who jerked his thumb down the access way.

"Down the ramp until you get to the garage. Enter the lobby and follow the green stripe on the wall."

Kalrana did so, still pondering what had just happened. Why did the human let him go? What was the purpose? Did the human really not notice? Or did it simply not care?

The sergeant, after breaking up the little fistfight, walked back up to the operator.

"Anything."

"No sir." the grunt replied. "Nothing unexpected."

-

Kalrana was still pondering the humans actions when he turned down the corridor with the green stripe. He still pondered as the hallways became less and less crowded. At last the absence of people imposed itself upon the Nomads consciousness, and he looked about. It was still a hallway, and it was still empty. The stripe ran down the hall and ended at a door. If there had been a sign, Kalrana missed it.

Perhaps the other humans are told to go down different ways, to space them out. Yes, that seemed the likely reason. So, with no further qualms, Kalrana walked down the hall and entered the air-lock. It cycled, and the other door opened.

Time slowed down. Kalrana saw a human, one of the strange ones wearing an odd suit, staring right at him. In its hands was a weapon. A glowing, active, and deadly looking weapon. Milliseconds went by, and Kalrana saw the human had already triggered this weapon. Even if he were in his warrior form, Kalrana could do nothing but watch as the end of the weapon blossomed with blue-white energy, and a silvery stream of the same color crawled towards him.

It was pretty, Kalrana thought with a detached air. Maybe I won't feel anything and the weapon will be as merciful as it is pretty.

Nope. The weapon's beam finally hit him and pain blossomed throughout his hosts body, and thus him. So much pain, the host shut down, leaving Kalrana dazed with its remnants. That too was more then he could stand, and so both Nomad and host fell into the black of oblivion.

-

When Kalrana awoke next, he found himself looking into a very bright and harsh light. Next came the shock that he was no longer in his host, but strapped to a very cold metallic table. One of the oddly dressed humans appeared in his view.

"Well well, looks like you came around sooner then we thought."

The Nomad in question took a moment to give this human his equivalent of a glare before turning away to the other side. Only to be met with the dead face of his former host.

He was literally quite painfully dead. Red blood ran out of his mouth, and little red dots covered everything close-by, including the ceiling. The table was coated with it, and the blood that ran over dripped to the floor. A look around the dead host revealed the weapon used for this; a strange looking device, with a blocky end, a switch on top, and a serrated circular blade held between two prongs at one end. The whole thing was painted red, the blade especially so. A look at the previous host's face confirmed Kalrana's sinking suspicion that the human had been cut open, alive and awake.

An involuntary shudder ran through the bluish body. Kalrana could only imagine the fate these horrible humans had in reserve for him. One of the humans in question noticed that shiver.

"Dont worry, little Nomad. We arent going to cut you open... Yet." The grunts laughed and started to wheel the table out of the room. Kalrana could only speculate at what he was sure would be a fate worse then death.

***

Incomming Transmission:
Encryption: Angel O/O
To: SiN Tech Central Dogma
From: NP Facility

Project Wanderer successful so far.
3 subjects acquired.
Unecissary eliments lost in Nomad attack.
Will report significant events as needed.

Transmission Ends:

***OOC***
Should I continue to beat people over the head with "SiN Tech isn't very nice" ?
No?
To bad. Beatings will continue untill moral improves.

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