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Colossus By Design: Season 2 - Log 112

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  1. [May 17, 2166]
  2. [Archaeology Section]
  3. [Lennon Station]
  4. [Union Aerospace Corporation Extended Colonization Facility Beta]
  5. [Viking 1, Mars]
  6. [Open Territory - U.A.C.]
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  10. Within the Archaeology Section of Lennon Station of Mars's U.A.C facility, many projects are ongoing. The most prominent one of them all is currently underway within the main excavation site, two kilometers below the surface.
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  12. Dig teams have been hard at work down below, slowly and steadily chipping away at loose rock and minerals whilst being extra careful to not damage the Kree structures around the site. Despite the Kree's rather strange level and usage of technology, their architecture is remarkably Human-like in overall aesthetic, invoking the likes of ancient Egyptian civilization albeit with a greater emphasis on greys and blues instead of gold.
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  14. Soon enough, the main excavation crew, consisting entirely of drone units and Synthetics, breaks through a particularly stubborn layer of bedrock. What they see is, quite simply put, an incredible sight.
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  16.  
  17. (Emily Fehrmann-42): This is Primary Excavation Team. We've broken through the bedrock and have uncovered a new sector of the Kree ruins.
  18.  
  19. (Doug Belasco-82): We appear to have stumbled onto a door, much larger and more ornate than previous ones we've uncovered. Please advise.
  20.  
  21. (Director Samuel Hayden): [COMMS] You may proceed through the doors, but maintain communications and visual feed and continue to practice standard issue archaeological protocol.
  22.  
  23. (Emily Fehrmann-42): Understood, sir. Primary Excavation Team will move in to secure and survey.
  24.  
  25.  
  26. The head dig team's leaders move out of the way to allow an interfacing drone to communicate with the door's holographic encryptions. After a short period of bypassing the security systems, the doors open up, allowing the dig team to move in. Inside, they find an extremely large room, heavily decorated and bearing sigils that signify this chamber as a religious site.
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  28. However, unlike the other religious sites previously discovered, there is only a single sarcophagus present, the centerpiece of the whole room to be precise, with several life-size statues of Kree warriors surrounding it. In addition to this setup, the three walls overlooking this particular site bear multiple hieroglyphic patterns and images, very clearly telling an intricate and nuanced narrative.
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  31. (Doug Belasco-82): Hey, doc, we have some engravings on the walls here, but our translation programs aren't sophisticated enough to make out what's being said here. Mind lending a hand?
  32.  
  33. (Dr. Myron Lancaster): [COMMS] Of course not. Okay, let's see...... a lot of this will need further examination, but if I'm reading this right, this chamber belongs to the highest religious leader of the Kree, the Accuser. Apparently, this Accuser went by the name of Ronan, and orchestrated the final passage of the Kree people as part of the Great Beast's awakening.
  34.  
  35. (Doug Belasco-82): I'm getting some strangely familiar Storm Covenant vibes, right now.
  36.  
  37. (Dr. Myron Lancaster): [COMMS] As you should. They worshiped this massive creature as the god of the planet, themselves, and all other life, and when it awoke, they gladly sacrificed themselves by the millions.
  38.  
  39. (Emily Fehrmann-42): Great Ghandi, what the flying fuck?!
  40.  
  41.  
  42. As the good doctor continues to explain the Kree's interpretation of the major events that tells the tale of their rise and fall as a civilization, the hieroglyphs on the walls and the sarcophagus begin to faintly glow. At first, only the interfacing drone takes notice. After some incessant beeping and a hard nudge right into the back of the excavation team's leader, the drone has finally got everyone's attention.
  43.  
  44.  
  45. (Emily Fehrmann-42): What is it?
  46.  
  47. (Interfacing Drone): *beeping*
  48.  
  49. (Emily Fehrmann-42): What do you MEAN that the room has detected intruders? What do you MEAN that we're not the intruders it's detecting?
  50.  
  51. (Interfacing Drone): *beeping the BEEP out*
  52.  
  53. (Emily Fehrmann-42): Calm the fuck down!
  54.  
  55.  
  56. All of a sudden, the seemingly stone eyes of the Kree warrior statues burst open, revealing blue light. Soon, their entire bodies start to crack; the stone exterior completely breaks off, revealing blue-skinned humanoids clad in battle armor with strange yet familiar alien analogues to Human weaponry. The Kree warriors, alive and in the flesh, now confront the group of excavation Synthetics and drones.
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  58. Not long after this sudden revelation, the sarcophagus's lid flies off; a black-robed and armored Kree rises from what one would assume to be the coffin of a dead being.
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  60. The team desperately tries to call in support, but communications have been cut off. This situation isn't helped by these quite lively Kree warriors advancing on the team and shouting in an alien tongue. As the team is slowly backing away, a loud thud is heard behind them. Everyone's attention turns to whatever it is that has decided to crash the party. But who could have shown up in this particular situation?
  61.  
  62. Mimetics. Glowing green and twitching quite heavily.
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  66.  
  67.  
  68. [Unknown Warehouse Location]
  69. [Unknown Global Location]
  70. [Unknown Territorial Affiliation]
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  73.  
  74. Within the main chamber now housing the Gorgon's Head, the artificial intelligence in question rests on a pedestal; dozens of wires link the hexagonal prism of a body to a large number of hard drives and data storage banks. A Loyalist Mimetic Drone materializes from a vent opening in the ceiling into a kneeling position before its master.
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  76.  
  77. (Zeus): You come bearing news.
  78.  
  79. (Loyalist Drone): Our scouts have made contact on the other planet. The previous humanoids' facilities and technologies will be....... adequate....... for our purposes.
  80.  
  81. (Zeus): Very well. Inform the cultists and abnormals of this news.
  82.  
  83. (Loyalist Drone): Of course, Zeus.
  84.  
  85.  
  86. The Loyalist Mimetic Drone dematerializes into a cloud of hard-light particles and metal plates and re-enters the vent that it came through.
  87.  
  88.  
  89. (Zeus): The Kree..... what fools they were to squander their potential on the same kind of primitive worship that constrains the cultists and the traitors.
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