I am a Professor of Xenobiology. I happen to be an android. I have a pet Swooping Bear.

Saturday, March 14

Armor Two

We are fighting with armor Deep in the bowels of Rescoyta Colony. Even with the massive corridors built for heavy machinery, it felt cramped compared to space or even open terrain.

I am scouting down tunnels that I probably have no business being in, with no nearby cover. I go through something like two hundred cumulative kilometers of clear running, no more than three friendlies even.

So I'm matching antispinward, and there on my scope is a full heavy gun battery coming around the corner.

I pull full spinward and start grinding on the floor, but it's already on top of me.

It hit me with, well it must have been half of its array, becuase I'm knocked down to 30% on AD. As soon as I hit an interchange I go up two levels and head south. He/she doesn't want to tear up his/her station, so as long as I keep out of LoS I'm fine.

But it's following me now. I hit some small corridors, but it knows all the big passages so it just tracks me down and fires from the intersections.

I dodge for a while until I finally find a hatch. I pop it and hold on. It comes for me quick then, probably mad that I'm wasting air. I crawl to the outside and stick to the underside of the hull. He could close the hatch. He could risk blasting me through the hull. I am daring him to follow me.

He does.

And I aim a chaos charge at his back.

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