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- [May 19, 2166]
- [Holding Cells - O'Connor Station]
- [U.A.C. Extended Colonization Facility Beta]
- [Viking 1, Mars]
- [Open Territory - U.A.C.]
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- Within the cell walls of Ronan the Accuser, the Kree's highest-ranked religious figure is currently engaged in deep meditation. However, this trance is soon broken by the activation of a holographic projection in front of him, showing a communicative link to one of the main archaeologists in the Archaeology Section at Lennon Station, Dr. Elizabeth Manchester.
- (Dr. Manchester): I'm sorry to bother you, Ronan, but the Director has obtained authorization from the Governance Council for us to conduct an interrogative study on you and your people.
- (Ronan): It is quite alright. I have resigned myself to aiding the new caretakers in this solar system in any way I can.
- (Dr. Manchester): Very well, then. One of the security staff will escort you to Hayden Station for this purpose. You may also be accompanied by your guards, if you wish.
- (Ronan): Thank you.
- The cell doors open up for all five of the remaining Kree individuals. As they step out, a large man in bulky custom C.D.F. Marine power armor greets them; he merely gestures them to follow. The simplicity and silence of their escort seems to garner quite a bit of interest from the warrior guards in particular, whom haven't shown much emotion since they awoke a few days ago.
- As the group follows their security escort, the last Kree warrior in the line, the largest and most well built one of the bunch, briefly stops at one of the Holding Cells' security guards.
- (Tarvac the Merciless): Who is our escort?
- (Sgt. Diana Laur-79): That's John Kane, a former C.D.F. Marine who was dishonourably discharged and sentenced to security duty on Mars.
- (Tarvac the Merciless): He is an impressive warrior.
- The large and athletic Kree warrior guard jogs a bit to catch up to his brethren, leaving the security guard behind him quite confused about this little interaction.
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- [Conference Hall C]
- [Director's Section - Hayden Station]
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- In one of the conference halls within the esteemed Director's Section of Hayden Station, John Kane opens the doors for Ronan and his Kree warriors and shows them in. After they take a good look around, the big man himself, Director Samuel Hayden, steps in. Before closing the doors, the former C.D.F. Marine's helmet visor lingers on the director for a good few more seconds; he eventually exits the conference room, leaving the Kree and the director all alone.
- (Director Hayden): I'm glad you made it, Ronan.
- (Ronan): Our escort was a warrior, powerful yet simplistic.
- (Director Hayden): Oh, him? He's just hired muscle. Why don't we get down to the REAL meat of things, hmm?
- Director Hayden snaps his fingers, activating several chairs that unfold for the Kree to reluctantly sit down; they're now sitting across on one side of the long table spanning the length of the room, with the director on the other.
- (Director Hayden): I've taken the precaution of cutting off all outgoing and incoming communicative details so that we have some true privacy.
- (Ronan): Then what will you report to your superiors?
- (Director Hayden): Simple. You and I will have infrequent meetings on particularly busy days, so as to not attract attention, to discuss our real plans. Other than that, you will give out non-sensitive information to our interrogators to be reported back to the G.U.D.'s archivists. Do I make myself clear?
- (Ronan): Of course, Samuel.
- (Director Hayden): Good. Then we can begin.
- The director pushes a few buttons on the table's integrated console before him, activating a holographic projector in the center of the table. The hologram shows several strange stone tablets, somewhat similar to those of the Kree, but somehow even older looking and more alien. These stone tablets depict an indecipherable set of linguistic hieroglyphics, as well as strange humanoid beings.
- These beings have very long, slender legs and arms with long thumbs and three fingers on each hand. As well, they appear to possess no mouths, and small, beady black eyes. Overall, the creatures have no hair to speak of, and they appear to be quite tall.
- (Director Hayden): These entities, what are they?
- (Ronan): Unfortunately, we know only rudimentary details, not much more than the stone tablets your own archaeologists have discovered. We call them "Dark Ones", for we knew that they were both physically and spiritually very ominous beings.
- (Director Hayden): Spiritually?
- (Ronan): What little the Kree could discern from their relics was that these beings possessed immense psychic powers, rivaling even the unfathomable telepathic prowess of this "Mothra" you spoke of a few days ago.
- (Director Hayden): Intriguing. Your two species' architecture is somewhat similar. Did your people base any technology of of theirs?
- (Ronan): They left no technology for us to work with, only nearly unintelligible records. However, we managed to derive certain mechanical techniques from what we could translate, including technologies that may aid that mutual goal you said we possess.
- (Director Hayden): Is that so? Tell me.
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