Attached are two files, an audio recording salvaged from a comms unit recovered from a mutilated body at the initial breach point, and a video recording from a security terminal in the command room.
ATTACHMENT 001
***WARNING***It is recommended that this file not be accessed or played without proper safety equipment and prior authorization. Failure to heed this recommendation will result in penalization.
***WARNING***Footnote: The above file has been classified and restricted by myself, Doctor D. Nothing can be extrapolated from the data without the proper equipment regardless. In layman's terms the recording only suggests usage of some sort of high powered sonic resonance at the breaching point. It’s impossible to predict how this might have been used in the attack without further data and accessing the file itself is likely to just lead to irreversible auditory damage. Access at your own risk. ~Doctor D.
ATTACHMENT 002
A blurry soundless image barely depicts the final moments of the command center, clearly the file was damaged before recovery. The recording starts out in a flurry of movement, half dressed staff rush too and fro whilst a trio of engineers works on securing the bulkhead. Behind them stand two security personnel geared up in basic run of the mill power armor. The armor is sleek, providing an extra layer of defense as well as assisted mobility and an enhanced available arsenal. Panic ensues as one of the engineers is knocked from the door, a basketball sized dent having formed in the metal where he once stood.
Quickly the security personnel train their guns on the door as staff begin scattering as best they can from the breach point. More dents from as the camera shakes, and then everything is still. The room's occupants seem frozen and one might almost assume that the playback was paused. The only giveaway is the occasional shifting in weight from the two armored soldiers.
Suddenly the doors buck once more, twice, and finally with a third heave the left side busts free from the wall and careens across the room, quickly extinguishing three lives. Smoke pours through the opening and security doesn’t hesitate as automatic guns go off and bright flashes of light burst forth from the muzzles. Security empties both weapons, pausing a moment as they reload. One man hesitantly steps forward, easing closer to the opening as he attempts to shine a light through the doorway. The thick smoke obscures the man's vision and after a moment's hesitation he creeps another step further.
In a sudden rush of motion an arm lashes forth from the smoke and wraps its fingers around the faceplate of the man. It’s hard to tell for sure but from the angle of the camera it almost looks as if it’s a human hand grasping the man’s face. The man struggles in futility for a moment and his partner panics unsure of how to react. In a momentary lapse of judgment he fires his gun in the general direction of the door. The armored suit of his partner and the assailant both deflect the bullets which ricochet around the room resulting in further casualties. As the situation devolves the man finally decides to take decisive action and makes a step forward to assist his partner. It becomes clear though that his hesitation cost him as suddenly the off balance man is pulled from the room and into the smoky corridor.
The remaining soldier stands seemingly paralyzed. Nothing happens for what feels like a painfully long time, though in reality merely moments pass as indicated by the recording’s timestamp. And then suddenly movement towards the bottom of the door. A spherical object bounces its way into the room towards the remaining man. At first he takes a step back as if expecting an explosive but as the object comes to a stop it quickly becomes obvious that no explosives have been tossed into the room. Rather the severed head of the first man who’d been pulled from the room.
The last man falls to his knees, gun slack at his side, hands shaking uncontrollably as he stares at the head sitting on the floor. Moments later a twisted figure marches through the door. It was a man, once. He wears a suit of power armor of his own, armed with two electro swords dangling from each arm. As he slowly steps into the room it becomes obvious that whatever just walked in was certainly no longer human. Stretching from an unknown source behind the man are a number of gray pulsating feelers that seem to have wormed their way into the power armor through a variety of cracks and service ports. The faceplate reveals nothing but a swollen mass of flesh making it clear that whatever controls the man's body is orchestrating him like a puppet rather than controlling his actions.
For moments nothing happens. The marionette stands completely still as more gray feelers enter the room from beyond, stretching and unfurling across the floor as if searching for further occupants. The true intentions are quickly revealed though as any that come into contact with the dead start to wrap and envelop the bodies, their purpose unknown. Suddenly the last soldier lunges forward, arms outstretched as if attempting one final desperate move. The marionette barely seems to register before it’s arm twitches and, with a quickness that the human body can’t naturally endure, beheads the man, shearing through the armor as if butter. The man's head flies through the air growing in size until the last image on the screen is the man’s last face of horror before the feed cuts out.
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