rawkhawk64 As things got less hectic she was already planning for their escape. The elevator was the first suggestion. With the creatures cleaver like appendiges though... once they got in all the creatures had to do was cleave the cables and they would plummet to their death. She listened to McGregor's words and she sighed. "I apologize,.. anger is the best motivation right now and it worked for the best." She then looked to the dead man he was referring to. "No I was correct,.. they are your men. Yes at one time they where his, but not that he is dead they are your men now correct?. Anyhow that doesn't matter right now." She looked back towards the windows where she had come from and then looked back to what remained. No that idea was not going to work either. Some of them were wounded to the point such a way would be impossible. What they needed was for the gunship to get close enough so they could just hop in which wasn't going to happen either. Perhaps the roof was a better choice. "Let's make way to the roof,.. via the stairs. These things are clever and will cut us off if we take the elevators."
She figured she would explain now what was going on. "William,.. unfortunatly your team got caught up in a war that section 8 and the USD have been fighting for the past year. Turns out we are not the only race that exists in the vast universe. Even better that those things had made home already on the planet of Saturn. Any rumors you heard about equipment malfunction or the like being the cause of Saturn's failed colonization is false. They where there... our planet would have been next eventually. Studies proved that these things have been moving from planet to planet taking anything they want. Anyhow,... long story short we tried to negotiate with them and become allies. Well it is pretty damn obvious how those went. The fighting started shortly after and escalated into space itself. The USD has been trying it's best to fight them back and keep them from Mars. What your seeing is those that broke through. The USD has been mostly covering it up, blaming it on terrorism or uprisings. Trying to keep it out of the eyes of the public to not start a panic... Pretty soon even that will stop because we won't be able to hide it anymore. The USD is losing this war and soon Mars will be the battlefield."
That was all she could tell him. That was all she knew and if there was more to be told the USD kept her out of the loop with it. It was people like William who suffered for it. She did not like it at all. "If I had my way the whole planet would know already. If they had told the public we could have prepared for such events and created defenses. Section 8 isn't as all powerful as some believe. We are just has much tied at the hands as any other organization that the USD controls." She said. She looked to the dead around her and sighed. All of them... they could have been used against the enemy instead of dead here. Well soon she wont have to worry and the USD will have to address the public about the threat.
She figured she would explain now what was going on. "William,.. unfortunatly your team got caught up in a war that section 8 and the USD have been fighting for the past year. Turns out we are not the only race that exists in the vast universe. Even better that those things had made home already on the planet of Saturn. Any rumors you heard about equipment malfunction or the like being the cause of Saturn's failed colonization is false. They where there... our planet would have been next eventually. Studies proved that these things have been moving from planet to planet taking anything they want. Anyhow,... long story short we tried to negotiate with them and become allies. Well it is pretty damn obvious how those went. The fighting started shortly after and escalated into space itself. The USD has been trying it's best to fight them back and keep them from Mars. What your seeing is those that broke through. The USD has been mostly covering it up, blaming it on terrorism or uprisings. Trying to keep it out of the eyes of the public to not start a panic... Pretty soon even that will stop because we won't be able to hide it anymore. The USD is losing this war and soon Mars will be the battlefield."
That was all she could tell him. That was all she knew and if there was more to be told the USD kept her out of the loop with it. It was people like William who suffered for it. She did not like it at all. "If I had my way the whole planet would know already. If they had told the public we could have prepared for such events and created defenses. Section 8 isn't as all powerful as some believe. We are just has much tied at the hands as any other organization that the USD controls." She said. She looked to the dead around her and sighed. All of them... they could have been used against the enemy instead of dead here. Well soon she wont have to worry and the USD will have to address the public about the threat.