Originally Posted by
flashbackflip
Ok guys I tell ya this tale then... Sit down and listen..
As usual it all began in a galaxy far away - as in time, so in space..
Earth was left behind blossoming and cured from industrial pollution as most of corporations migrated into deep space
Some corps started to deplete new planets and asteroid belts - such as Delta7 and Numa. Others started to create their own installments aimed for different tasks - even as weird as movie production (Slouch-O)
To keep vast territories at peace humanity didn't invented anything new apart from controlled war (ironic, isn't it?) waged by mercs. So - huge UCSs (United Colonies SpaceShips) started to roam Universe, carrying platoons of hired guns - us..
Our UCS is called BlackStar or, in slang - B*
Our mission is to go where we are needed...and PAID
Usually we were assigned to deal with mundane tasks: cleansing vular activity in mining caves of Delta7, clearing pirate threat, suppressing robots uprising and punishing vular supporters - all what was needed and paid by UC government..
But once....
Distress call was received from convoy transporting new governor of planet Voleria. When B* arrived at the crash site we discovered that our colony was attacked by New and vicious enemy - the Scorn
Scorn is the race divided into two branches - scorns and immortals (i forgot their name) and is known to worship Chaos Gods or smth like that.. yet little is known about them..
From metaphysical point of view - humanity represents force or creation and scorn - force of destruction.. though this is much more complicated (i hope) as we, mercs, are not popping bubbles from the barrels of our guns..
Back to the story
When we defended Voleria everything was quiet for some time.. and suddenly - one of our UCS decks got infested by nasty vular-like alien eggs - some think it was an accident, others - hidden sabotage..
Anyway - eggs were cleared - burned and stomped in millions (2.396.477 to be precise) and we followed the trace of infestation
This trace led us to he Hive - well known zone with the queen producing those vular eggs and also - very scorn-like creatures - all mixed, what makes our scientists think that vulars might have some scorn ancestors as well.. It's still unclear how eggs from the Hive got on the ship... We gotta learn that..
Of course, after defeating scorn on Voleria, lots of artifacts have fallen to our hands and tech-hungry scientists became restless and anxious.. one of them took an artifact from the cave of Thyra Nael (final Voleria boss) and flew away to the sci-station on the Savant corvette-class ship..
As usual - his curiosity costed UC gov more credits than planned and for us, his curiosity costs our lives and lives of our friends ..
He started the research without proper precautions and got confused and overrun by scorn artifact ant its powers... Interesting thing is that this New tech can affect humans as well as droids - what makes us wonder even more - who or what are scorns......
I hope the answers to some of these questions we will find in the upcoming Scorn Act II...
thanx for listening, folks! The tale is over for now..
See ya in game