[quote=@Guy of Z] Mars In cooperation with the EDC and the newly formed Xcom Organization they have created a joint search and rescue/exploration taskforce called Hue for intersteller travel. The EDC sent a single ship composed of The American Captain Conrad "Ebony" Leifshitz alongside Captain Paul "Crimson" Melcamp to extract their beleaguered agent and the soon to be hostages. "You really think the Concurrence has some kind of alien artifact on this rock?" Crimson asked "Who knows after all General Hawk is getting paranoid in his old age. Regardless smashing these wanna be Cobra losers should be fun. " Ebony responded. Ebony had no clue as he spoke the wheels of destiny were already turning. His fun will swiftly become a nightmare [/quote] They had slept for eons in solitude, they were an ancient repository of a long dead races intellect. They were the Baker, the Farmer, the parent, the Gardener. They were all things yet..none, for all intents and purposes they were a digital god for a lack of better words. It could create whatever it wanted, or destroyed whatever it wanted and recreate an improved replica to take its place. The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. The new beginning for their dead masters, and the end for any who would oppose them. Millions of years ago a three way war between the Cydonians and the Hystrions (yes that was their name it was so long ago they had used the same name their masters held and christened them in their pride...so proud yet so fragile) and a unholy force a third race had unleashed unwittingly that rendered the world uninhabitable. The Hystrions had been instructed by its masters to prevent this tragedy from happening again and to destroy every sentient race capable of being infected by it to the last being. They took their duty in stride despite being given such a grim task. They felt they owed them that much, until several rebelled after attempting to escape stasis after a malfunction a few eons after the cataclysm. Ungrateful bastards they had given them a new chance at life and prosperity together they just couldn't wait for a couple million more years in stasis. Who cares that they were doing a few projects on the side they were just continuing their bio research that they had pioneered its their fault they never specified at the time the government had programmed them at the time when their sentience was nonexistent to take unwilling subjects. Alas. Sacrifices had to be made he had ejected the families of those involved in the rebellion and kept the remaining Hystrions in their care until the inevitable. Hopefully they will be viewed as a savior by his people once they revive. A god after a few generations if they get lucky. They were interested in the new population of Mars for example it was observing a creature named "Terry" fornicate with two prostitutes for a couple of days and they wondered out of curiosity if it could recreate such beings after analyzing they were carbon based. But they realized they needed to destroy to create after all. They would soon have their chance. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvm2wt1882M[/youtube]