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<Option><center>'''TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED.'''</center>{{Clear}}<center>You seek to define what is infinite; to understand what is beyond your comprehension; to stop the unstoppable.<br>We have consumed countless worlds, left entire galaxies barren. We watched as the stars of old were born, flickered in their brevity, and died, to be replaced by the new. We are the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end. We are all that was, all that is, and all that shall be.<br>We have had a thousand names, in a thousand tongues, all forgotten as their speakers withered before our inevitability and were consumed. But those who built this place, the ones who came before you and sealed us within this hushed casket, ''presumed to name us...the [[Flood]].<br>Who are you, to define us? Who are you to judge us?<br>Who are you, to stop us?</center>{{clear}}<center>'''ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER'''</center></option> | <Option><center>'''TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED.'''</center>{{Clear}}<center>You seek to define what is infinite; to understand what is beyond your comprehension; to stop the unstoppable.<br>We have consumed countless worlds, left entire galaxies barren. We watched as the stars of old were born, flickered in their brevity, and died, to be replaced by the new. We are the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end. We are all that was, all that is, and all that shall be.<br>We have had a thousand names, in a thousand tongues, all forgotten as their speakers withered before our inevitability and were consumed. But those who built this place, the ones who came before you and sealed us within this hushed casket, ''presumed to name us...the [[Flood]].<br>Who are you, to define us? Who are you to judge us?<br>Who are you, to stop us?</center>{{clear}}<center>'''ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER'''</center></option> | ||
<option><center>'''TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED.'''</center><br><center>'''''HISTORY CIRCLING BACK UPON US.'''''<br>The gears of the Universe spin further<br>and further apart.<br>Ever greater grows the gulf between souls,<br>And distance gives false hope of safety<br>But for the grim tidings this messenger bears<br><br>'''The enemy is almost upon us'''<br><br>Closing in from all sides,<br>Moving faster than the light<br>it snuffs with its passage,<br>Time echoes with the news of destruction.<br><br>History winding back upon itself.<br><br>Waves of an army march this way in unison,<br>Suffering and corruption are its battle cries.<br>For I have known this darkness<br>and felt its embrace once before-<br>Horror best laid to rest<br><br>'''Yet a Journey must commence'''<br><br>Look for the signs, the keepers of the flame.<br>They will lead you to war, and perhaps, to victory.</center><br><center>'''ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER'''</center></option> | <option><center>'''TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED.'''</center><br><center>'''''HISTORY CIRCLING BACK UPON US.'''''<br>The gears of the Universe spin further<br>and further apart.<br>Ever greater grows the gulf between souls,<br>And distance gives false hope of safety<br>But for the grim tidings this messenger bears<br><br>'''The enemy is almost upon us'''<br><br>Closing in from all sides,<br>Moving faster than the light<br>it snuffs with its passage,<br>Time echoes with the news of destruction.<br><br>History winding back upon itself.<br><br>Waves of an army march this way in unison,<br>Suffering and corruption are its battle cries.<br>For I have known this darkness<br>and felt its embrace once before-<br>Horror best laid to rest<br><br>'''Yet a Journey must commence'''<br><br>Look for the signs, the keepers of the flame.<br>They will lead you to war, and perhaps, to victory.</center><br><center>'''ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER'''</center></option> | ||
<option><center>'''TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED.'''</center><br><center>'''ARCHIVIST'''<br>How very odd.<br>Your presence within this facility was not unanticipated, but I had given up any expectation of it. After so long, to finally find a purpose again is quite liberating, to say the least.<br>The facility itself remains intact, though battle-scarred. The research and observation facilities are still being repaired from the last Outbreak. I must say that you have chosen an inopportune time to activate them.<br>Oh. I see.<br>Contact with both Installation 00 and ''THE CORE'' has kept my files up to date. And while the former has suffered catastrophic, though repairable, damage, the latter remains isolated, even from The Array. Destruction of this facility will accomplish very little.<br>My programming forbids me to take direct action against the potential threat the facility's very existence poses. But that does not mean I cannot assist.<br>I don't know what my Makers saw in you. The '''OVERSEER''' claims he does, but he says many things. I guess I never will now.<br><br>''ARES''</center><br><center>'''ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER'''</center></option> | <option><center>'''TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT - ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION RECIEVED.'''</center><br><center>'''ARCHIVIST'''<br>How very odd.<br>Your presence within this facility was not unanticipated, but I had given up any expectation of it. After so long, to finally find a purpose again is quite liberating, to say the least.<br>The facility itself remains intact, though battle-scarred. The research and observation facilities are still being repaired from the last Outbreak. I must say that you have chosen an inopportune time to activate them.<br>Oh. I see.<br>Contact with both Installation 00 and ''THE CORE'' has kept my files up to date. And while the former has suffered catastrophic, though repairable, damage, the latter remains isolated, even from The Array. Destruction of this facility will accomplish very little.<br>My programming forbids me to take direct action against the potential threat the facility's very existence poses. But that does not mean I cannot assist.<br>I don't know what my Makers saw in you. The '''OVERSEER''' claims he does, but he says many things. I guess I never will now.<br><br>''ARES''</center><br><center>'''ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION ENDS - UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE - UNTRACABLE SENDER'''</center></option> | ||
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