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Colossus By Design: Season 2 - Log 111

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  1. [May 16, 2166]
  2. [O'Connor Station]
  3. [Union Aerospace Corporation Extended Colonization Facility Beta]
  4. [Viking 1, Mars]
  5. [Open Territory - U.A.C.]
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  9. The Union Aerospace Corporation, a subdivision of the Global Union of Divisions that handles the governing body's interstellar expansion efforts. Following the conclusion of the Legion incursion, the G.U.D. saw fit to begin a major movement to explore, catalogue, and eventually colonize the solar system and beyond.
  10.  
  11. After establishing a permanent colony on Luna for the G.U.D., the U.A.C. set its sights on the red planet itself, Mars. It is here at the Beta Facility that research is conducted on a multitude of different areas that could potentially be beneficial to long-term extended colonization of bodies beyond Earth and its moon. However, the site also serves as a containment area for particularly dangerous Kaiju that pose too much of a threat to be kept in holding spaces on Earth; the holding area in particular is known as O'Connor Station.
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  13. On this particular day, Receiving & Departures is expecting a fresh new batch of security personnel. The section's hangar doors open up, allowing the dropship to gradually lower into the Receiving bay. Once atmospheric conditions have been equalized, the dropship's troop hold opens up, allowing a fresh batch of Civil Defense Force security officers to disembark.
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  15. As well, several compartmentalized Mimetic Drones and Warriors are unloading by the robotic arm. As they're unloaded and allowed to reform into their bipedal states, a large and quite intimidating man, fully suited in green armor, steps out.
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  17. One of the Receiving staff goes up to greet the burly man, but he simply brushes him aside and walks straight to some of the cargo being unloaded off the dropship. After sorting through the crates and miscellaneous supplies, he finally finds what he's looking for: an old-fashioned double-barreled shotgun, normal-sized to him but quite oversized compared to normal Humans and Synthetics.
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  19. One of the greeter's co-workers helps her friend get up from the ground and brushes him off a bit after the large armored man takes his weapon and heads through to the security station,.
  20.  
  21.  
  22. (Akio Akita): Man, what is his problem?
  23.  
  24. (Alisha Fischer-19): Sorry, Akio, but that man is John Kane. A former C.D.F. Marine that was dishonourably discharged after assaulting an Android.
  25.  
  26. (Akio Akita): C.D.F. Marine? You mean he was one of those guys that the G.U.D. sends on lone wolf suicide missions too dangerous even for elite augmented militia? AND he assaulted an Android?
  27.  
  28. (Alisha Fischer-19): Yeah. He was sentenced to serve as U.A.C security for O'Connor Station's holding areas. As in the Mars surface kind of security, with all those Kaiju.
  29.  
  30. (Akio Akita): You'd think he'd look worse for wear for trying to tackle one of Hargrove's latest and greatest products.
  31.  
  32. (Alisha Fischer-19): Apparently, he was WINNING. WITHOUT ARMOR.
  33.  
  34. (Akio Akita): Dear god.
  35.  
  36.  
  37. At the security checkpoint, John Kane enters the Decontamination Chamber; an alarm is sounded off by the scanners. As the Marine looks into the chamber's booth, the operator calls up one of her co-workers.
  38.  
  39.  
  40. (Valeria Ivanov): What's wrong, Kiko?
  41.  
  42. (Kiko Anami): Mr. Kane has a weapon with him, and it alerted the scanners in the Decontamination Chamber. Should I call it in?
  43.  
  44. (Valeria Ivanov): No. He has special permission from the C.D.F.'s General of Militia to carry whatever armaments he wishes with him at all times, as well as his armor, so long as he sticks to his assigned patrol routes.
  45.  
  46. (Kiko Anami): Alright then, I'll cancel the alarm.
  47.  
  48.  
  49. Ms. Anami cuts off the alarm in the Decontamination Chamber. Once the Marine is given the go-ahead, he heads through the door and down the hallway. Everyone that passes by him gives him odd looks, as if wondering why a C.D.F. Marine is stationed on a colonization testing facility, of all places. Soon enough, he enters the Armory for a debriefing by the Chief of Security of O'Connor Station's security personnel.
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  51.  
  52. (Sec. Chief Camila Espinosa-29): Alright, gents and lasses, listen up! You're all here because you're the best security staff that the Earth has to offer Mars, and because you got stuck with the shit job!
  53.  
  54.  
  55. As the Security Chief continues to debrief her staff, several members can't help but take quick glances at the infamous man behind them, the C.D.F. Marine John Kane. Soon enough, the Chief herself takes notice of the lack of attention being paid to her; she walks through the gathering of security personnel and comes face to face with the Marine.
  56.  
  57. The other security guards all murmur and mumble among themselves, eager to see what the Chief will do next.
  58.  
  59.  
  60. (Sec. Chief Espinosa-29): You're John Kane, the disgraced Marine who beat down that hapless Android and got stuck with the shittiest job this side of Phobos.
  61.  
  62.  
  63. John Kane simply nods, showing no signs of fear or aggression towards his superior officer.
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  65.  
  66. (Sec. Chief Espinosa-29): Then I suggest you get out there and do your damn job, you sorry excuse for a Marine. The rest of you, back to your posts!
  67.  
  68.  
  69. As the gathering of O'Connor Station's security personnel disperses, a vent by the wall starts to shake. The shaking becomes progressively more frequent, until the grate is finally busted open. From inside of the vent opening, green hard-light particles begin to pour out like a gas.
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  74.  
  75. [Archaeology Section]
  76. [Lennon Station]
  77. [Union Aerospace Corporation Extended Colonization Facility Beta]
  78. [Viking 1, Mars]
  79. [Open Territory - U.A.C.]
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  81. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  82.  
  83. If O'Connor Station is the holding pen of the U.A.C.'s Beta Facility, then Lennon Station is surely its prospecting division. It is here where, despite skepticism from many in the past, Mars has been proven to have once been a life-bearing planet at some point.
  84.  
  85. When the U.A.C.'s scientists first made this revelation just a week ago, everyone was and still is in shock at the ramifications of this discovery. In one of the main laboratories of the Archaeology Section, a stone tablet is currently being examined by research teams. This tablet predates Humanity by several million years, yet it shows images of what appears to be strikingly Human-looking beings as the main subjects of the tablet's overall structure.
  86.  
  87. Indeed, this tablet, along with several others found underneath the Mars surface, has spurred discussion on the possibility that Humanity's origins may lie with the red planet. Despite how controversial this claim may be, it is unanimous among the facility's researchers that the creators of this tablet and others had an advanced civilization at one point in the planet's history.
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  89.  
  90. (Dr. Myron Lancaster): Begin recording, dated May 16, 2166. Despite this artifact being so alien in several aspects, our scanners have found definite patterns in the symbols utilized, quite similar to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Because of this, we've managed to make approximate translations of certain symbol groups. Mrs. Manchester, if you please?
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  92. (Dr. Elizabeth Manchester): Of course, Myron. According to this particular text, the blue humanoid beings depicted on this tablet are called the "Kree". It also appears that there are references to a great beast of unfathomable power, larger than anything imaginable. Quite similar to what we on Earth call P.E.M.F.s. and "Kaiju", as Dr. Maximoff puts it. I will not jump to conclusions on a possible link yet, however.
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  94. (Dr. Myron Lancaster): If our hypothesis is correct, we may be looking at a possible record of the entirety of a Human-like civilization's rise and fall. All of it is linked to the appearance of this beast, whom itself resembles a dragon somewhat. End log.
  95.  
  96.  
  97. Behind the two archaeologists and out of view of the security cameras, one of the stone tablet begins to display activity; specifically, the representations of the Kree begin to faintly glow blue.
  98.  
  99. Additionally, smaller humanoid figures on the tablet begin to glow red, flickering much more frequently than the Kree's depictions.
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