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“all the carbon dioxide in the holding tanks for the recycler and the generator as well as the carbon monoxide and hydrogen oxides into the outpost''s atmosphere. The valves will be locked open. It doesn''t take much carbon dioxide to suffocate a human or zene, and it takes even less monoxide to kill one. With the outpost''s air poisoned, your men will meet with little to no resistance when they launch their assault. The Union will blame the Republic and thus begins the Third Line War. With the Union''s frontlines weakened, a stalemate is less likely to develop like it did last time, giving the Republic the opportunity to finally capture Ragnarok for good.”
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“Hello!” Scoria greeted them at the door of his shop, “I wasn''t expecting you all to be zene!”
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“This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.
“our command, and at our command they dug through thousands of tons of dirt and rock to get at the precious minerals on which our noble society depends.” The picture then switched to showing humans hard at work in a tunnel using hand tools (large earth-movers still existed of course, albeit not nearly as many as before: that didn''t fit with the ad though). “With the Human-Zene Great War on, parts were no longer available and we lost what our forefathers once had—mighty machines capable of driving themselves and doing the work for us.” Finally, the picture switched to a smiling zene female in an office. “Here at Labyrintelligence, our vision is to return to the old ways, to restore the technology our forefathers had. To build a better future for our children, we at Labyrintelligence are hard at work rebuilding the computers and the manufacturing tools necessary to once again have at our command the mighty machines—”
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“all there is to know about a corporation called Amber Ravine Military Hardware.”
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“all of them, not just those of the Collective Union, in spite of efforts made to re-program me—which means that peace must be kept. So, in a way, I do care, even if I lack what you would consider to be emotion. As for you...” She tilted her head slightly, “you have emotion, but don''t seem to be too concerned with anything beyond your own well-being. Why is that?”
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“want with us?! I''ve never been kidnapped in my life and today I''ve been kidnapped three times! Isn''t enough enough already?”
“you anymore. We just want to teach the motherfuckers who dared ambush us a lesson in why wildmen are the masters of the dark and they are just a bunch of larping station rats.”
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