Paradise Violated
"Private Dobbs, calm the fuck down! Nothing is going to
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"You know he's displaying all signs of the sickness." The hologram states.
"What?" you ask.
"The sickness. I remember when the outbreak first occurred; some of the scientists here started acting like him. I've never analyzed your race before, but his temperature, brain waves and blood levels are severely different from yours."
"YOU'LL NEVER LEARN THE SECRETS HERE! DIE IN THE NAME OF THE XONT!" Dobbs screams and attacks you with his knife! You manage to react in time and dodge the blow. You follow up with a couple of stabs to his gut; Alyssa immediately grabs him and slits his throat. It takes awhile, but he finally dies. After this unexpected attack, the hologram speaks once again.
"Well I guess the Xont would've considered that a successful result of their experiment."
"Okay what the hell were Xont working on here and what do you mean by success?" you demand.
"Oh they were working on many things actually, but they were doing a lot of research on mind control, and how it could best be implemented. The germ weapon I referred to earlier was one of their experiments. It was designed to infect other races with the "Xont way of thinking." so they wouldn't have to worry about rebellions cropping up on the worlds they conquered. What a spectacular failure that was "
"My team came in here and some of us felt strange, myself especially, but we seemed to have shaken the feeling. And while I felt a lot more hostile, but I didn't feel like a servant of the Xont." You say.
"Well, I just said it was a spectacular failure! The problem with germs is they're unpredictable and always changing! One might affect one person one way, might affect another very differently! Now take hundreds of different races into the equation and you have a recipe for disaster! I told them they should stick with technology; little obedience chips in the currency. Everyone likes money, everyone uses it and Xont currency was wide spread throughout the galaxy."
"I think we came across some of those coins." You say.
"Oh really? Well I'm sure the effect on you was minimal. I never got the chance to perfect them considering the idea was shot down before I could really get the project started! I only made a few test prototypes, and those were distanced linked to a power source in this facility. So I imagine they only started affecting you until you started getting closer to this place. You wouldn't happen to have them still would you?"
"No I destroyed them."
"What?! Well I can see my work isn't appreciated today either! Ah it's just as well anyway, you said the Xont were gone, who's going to be using the currency anymore?"
The hologram seems friendly enough if a little odd, you could keep asking it questions, or you could attempt to destroy it, if you think it could still be dangerous.
"You know he's displaying all signs of the sickness." The hologram states.
"What?" you ask.
"The sickness. I remember when the outbreak first occurred; some of the scientists here started acting like him. I've never analyzed your race before, but his temperature, brain waves and blood levels are severely different from yours."
"YOU'LL NEVER LEARN THE SECRETS HERE! DIE IN THE NAME OF THE XONT!" Dobbs screams and attacks you with his knife! You manage to react in time and dodge the blow. You follow up with a couple of stabs to his gut; Alyssa immediately grabs him and slits his throat. It takes awhile, but he finally dies. After this unexpected attack, the hologram speaks once again.
"Well I guess the Xont would've considered that a successful result of their experiment."
"Okay what the hell were Xont working on here and what do you mean by success?" you demand.
"Oh they were working on many things actually, but they were doing a lot of research on mind control, and how it could best be implemented. The germ weapon I referred to earlier was one of their experiments. It was designed to infect other races with the "Xont way of thinking." so they wouldn't have to worry about rebellions cropping up on the worlds they conquered. What a spectacular failure that was "
"My team came in here and some of us felt strange, myself especially, but we seemed to have shaken the feeling. And while I felt a lot more hostile, but I didn't feel like a servant of the Xont." You say.
"Well, I just said it was a spectacular failure! The problem with germs is they're unpredictable and always changing! One might affect one person one way, might affect another very differently! Now take hundreds of different races into the equation and you have a recipe for disaster! I told them they should stick with technology; little obedience chips in the currency. Everyone likes money, everyone uses it and Xont currency was wide spread throughout the galaxy."
"I think we came across some of those coins." You say.
"Oh really? Well I'm sure the effect on you was minimal. I never got the chance to perfect them considering the idea was shot down before I could really get the project started! I only made a few test prototypes, and those were distanced linked to a power source in this facility. So I imagine they only started affecting you until you started getting closer to this place. You wouldn't happen to have them still would you?"
"No I destroyed them."
"What?! Well I can see my work isn't appreciated today either! Ah it's just as well anyway, you said the Xont were gone, who's going to be using the currency anymore?"
The hologram seems friendly enough if a little odd, you could keep asking it questions, or you could attempt to destroy it, if you think it could still be dangerous.