Paradise Violated
Having just shaken the strange feelings that have been plaguing you (And to a certain extent your team) you don't want to tempt fate and order everyone to grab their weapons and get the hell out of here before the Sentinels start hunting you.
You and your team hastily run back to the entrance, hoping not to run into anything on the way. As it turns out, you do run into something when you get outside, namely an Elojin ambush.
You get shot in the shoulder before taking one of them out. The rest of your team not far behind comes out firing; the Elojin team is small and wasn't expecting to meet such heavy resistance, when they see they don't have the advantage they thought they would they start to run. It doesn't help them though; they're cut down in flight.
"Fucking Elojin, I knew he was going to try to set us up somehow!" you mutter, clutching your arm.
Still eager to put as much distance as you can between you and the Xont structure, you order everyone to head back to the Lizard village you destroyed earlier.
After everyone is settled in and bandaged up, you decide to make a speech.
"Alright, what happened today was a major fuck up, and we did a bunch unnecessary reckless shit, but worst of all I ended up getting a lot of you killed for no good reason. I could blame it on a lot of factors, but I won't, I take full responsibility for it. All I can ask is that you forgive me somehow."
Your team looks a little bewildered by your speech.
"Sir, how was today any different than any other day? You're always ordering us to do dangerous shit. Today a lot of us just were unlucky. It happens. But you were still there along with us the entire way just like always, and you got the rest of us out alive." a trooper remarks.
The rest of your team agrees, with that remark. You're a little surprised, but then not really. You continue your speech.
"Well then I'm glad you're all behind me, because we're going to have to make up a story when the Empire comes here in a few months. Now this is what's going to happenÂ…"
Having experienced the temporary weird hold the Xont had on you, you decide that using anything that may lie inside the building won't do anyone any good. You tell your team that the Xont structure must be destroyed, and it'll be reported that the planet is useless and too hostile for humans to be of any long term use, it will also be reported that the Elojin are attempting to use the planet as a secret weapons developing base and should be bombarded into atoms. You feel slightly bad about LaFleur's needless death, so you propose that it be mentioned that he died valiantly against the Elojin who had ambushed him. Salo's death will also be attributed to the Elojin.
The rest of the time goes by without incident, you basically stay in the village until the Empire ship comes, at which point you tell your story. Considering you blame everything on the Elojin, your story really isn't questioned. The Empire never needs that much of an excuse to bombard entire planets with mass drivers, so the Xont structure along with everything else on the planet is destroyed. You and the rest of your team are sent on your next mission, where you'll also meet your replacements for the people you lost.
On your way, you think about what exactly made you break your temporary madness and it was Alyssa's words of how her loyalty was to you and not the Empire. These words struck home, making you realize that your own loyalty is to your team, not the Empire. Of course you "serve" the Empire, but the people under your commandÂ…that's who matter.
You and your team hastily run back to the entrance, hoping not to run into anything on the way. As it turns out, you do run into something when you get outside, namely an Elojin ambush.
You get shot in the shoulder before taking one of them out. The rest of your team not far behind comes out firing; the Elojin team is small and wasn't expecting to meet such heavy resistance, when they see they don't have the advantage they thought they would they start to run. It doesn't help them though; they're cut down in flight.
"Fucking Elojin, I knew he was going to try to set us up somehow!" you mutter, clutching your arm.
Still eager to put as much distance as you can between you and the Xont structure, you order everyone to head back to the Lizard village you destroyed earlier.
After everyone is settled in and bandaged up, you decide to make a speech.
"Alright, what happened today was a major fuck up, and we did a bunch unnecessary reckless shit, but worst of all I ended up getting a lot of you killed for no good reason. I could blame it on a lot of factors, but I won't, I take full responsibility for it. All I can ask is that you forgive me somehow."
Your team looks a little bewildered by your speech.
"Sir, how was today any different than any other day? You're always ordering us to do dangerous shit. Today a lot of us just were unlucky. It happens. But you were still there along with us the entire way just like always, and you got the rest of us out alive." a trooper remarks.
The rest of your team agrees, with that remark. You're a little surprised, but then not really. You continue your speech.
"Well then I'm glad you're all behind me, because we're going to have to make up a story when the Empire comes here in a few months. Now this is what's going to happenÂ…"
Having experienced the temporary weird hold the Xont had on you, you decide that using anything that may lie inside the building won't do anyone any good. You tell your team that the Xont structure must be destroyed, and it'll be reported that the planet is useless and too hostile for humans to be of any long term use, it will also be reported that the Elojin are attempting to use the planet as a secret weapons developing base and should be bombarded into atoms. You feel slightly bad about LaFleur's needless death, so you propose that it be mentioned that he died valiantly against the Elojin who had ambushed him. Salo's death will also be attributed to the Elojin.
The rest of the time goes by without incident, you basically stay in the village until the Empire ship comes, at which point you tell your story. Considering you blame everything on the Elojin, your story really isn't questioned. The Empire never needs that much of an excuse to bombard entire planets with mass drivers, so the Xont structure along with everything else on the planet is destroyed. You and the rest of your team are sent on your next mission, where you'll also meet your replacements for the people you lost.
On your way, you think about what exactly made you break your temporary madness and it was Alyssa's words of how her loyalty was to you and not the Empire. These words struck home, making you realize that your own loyalty is to your team, not the Empire. Of course you "serve" the Empire, but the people under your commandÂ…that's who matter.
