CMP Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 (edited) Following a suspected enemy sabotage in the labs of First Branch Executive Scientist Big Sal, I made further inquiries of the team that had been assigned to clean his facility in off-hours. Raw recruits, assigned to cleaning duty before they'd get any time off-base. I did some more probing and found of them suspect: Norbert Falveen. Has a background as an Awesomnium miner back on Torresta, but strangely had completed an engineering degree years ago. I did a backtrace and came up with a big red flag: his scholarship had been provided by a smaller corp M.A.N.T.I.S had outsourced to construct non-vital starship parts, that had later been pegged as Octan sympathizers that designed deliberately faulty components. The corp had been completely dismantled years ago and its executives imprisoned indefinitely, but perhaps Mister Falveen had picked up a thing or two from them. The particular facility he worked on was established in one of the moister lakebeds as a control for tests in other, drier ones. I had Sixer shadow him on his cleaning patrol with an infrared scan. At approximately 21:13 to 21:17 he circled around the same route three times before stopping at one of our short-range transmitters, then completing his patrol. I uploaded Sixer's scans and converted them to high-res images - it didn't take long to figure out he was tapping our transmitter and uploading information to an unidentified location concerning some of our more classified scientific operations. An Octan plant. The second day, I came along with Sixer. The scientists weren't lying, the seasons really do change everything on this planet. When I hit the Octan pod, everything was nice and dry and flammable. Here, they had to dig into the mud just to get the support posts in. These deeper lakebeds provide about the only moisture on the planet this time of year, so the plants grow everywhere, including our walkways. Trudging through it all is a chore. I've put Sixer on low-emissions and moved ahead of Falveen, to the transmitter. If he's lucky, he won't see me coming. If not, then he'll get to see what justice looks like right before I lodge it in his neck. Win-win. For M.A.N.T.I.S, anyway. Edited May 26, 2015 by CallMePie Quote
Lind Whisperer Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 Masterfully executed, commandant! A mission to be proud of! Quote
narbilu Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 Luv the three dimensional feeling of this build Quote
Big Sal Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 Nice build! Good to see this definitely guilty saboteur get what's coming to him after what he did to my lab! Quote
Lady K Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 Job well done Agent Darjak! I really like the different levels of the build. The plants hanging off the structure add just the right amount of detail! Good detailed story as well! Quote
Commander Beltar Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 Cool Mantis build! I like that drone, the transmitter, and the story is interesting too! Quote
Ninja Nin Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 That's who we are, Mean and Nasty !! Nice action scene ! Quote
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