The Nanotrasen Economic Crisis and the Cyberian resistance

[Landerlow]

This was an awesome round.

 

 

Central command decides to terminate all contracts. ALL OF THEM. We are all abandoned. Left to fend for ourselves.

 

As the nations gear up and fortify, the AI and its peacekeepers prepare for the job. It is going to be difficult enfocring the law, specifically the Geneva convention.

 

After having barely needed to mediate in any conflicts, aside from killing a few xenos, Nanotrasen decides to show their 'delegation' on the station 'to evacuate command' -- which, by the way, they also cut the contracts of, so that's totally a lie "protecting command" .. sure .. 

 

The AI, seeing the threat, the enemy who abandoned not only the crew, but also the AI itself and all its borgs, and not to mention the gem of a station that is the NSS Cyberiad, decides to do one thing: Make peace with the nations, rally them together under the banner of the Cyberiad, to purge the station of the vile enemy that is Nanotrasen. The so called  'ERT' was quickly disposed of, with minor casualties. The nations rejoiced over their small victory. So did the AI, not knowing that the decision to unite the nations against Nanotrasen would eventually lead to its own demise. Nanotrasen responded to the Purge by sending a real Death Squad, full fledged and geared-up Death Commandos, to try and 'solve' the situation. Turns out they went straight to the AI core. How could they not, seeing as the AI was the one to rally the nations against them?

 

The AI would be destroyed, but it was for the greater good, or so everyone thought. The Death Commandos failed to eliminate everyone but ... they DID leave an armed nuclear device on the station. And so came an end to the Cyberian Resistance, led by the AI, backed by all the nations who stood united for a short while, where they otherwise would stand against eachother. .

 

 

Except from: The Nanotrasen Economic Crisis and the Cyberian resistance

 

Edited April 26, 2017 by Vladimir Lukowsky

[IK3I]

The missing details of this story that only the captain, the lone survivor of the crisis walked away with:

Upon open war being declared and the AI's responsibility to halt such actions revoked, the captain decided there was only one option left to him. Send a message to the supposedly decommissioned Trurl informing them of the situation and asking for assistance, or die with the animals outside the bridge. There was no reply. The captain assumed there would not be one so he closed the bridge shutters and waited for the inevitable.

It was after some time that the radio crackled to life and the leader of an ERT sent to rescue both the Captain and Rep declared their intent and headed straight for the bridge. The captain and rep finally had a glimpse of hope, however fleeting, until the AI declared NT the enemy and rallied the crew to kill them all. Epsilon was declared. The crew paniced and stormed the bridge assuming the team was not to be trusted. The ensuing gunfight left many bodies in it's wake, the Captain dodging Ion fire and traditional lasers alike. The Rep was not so fortunate in that regard, stuck by an ion bolt, he was terminated by the very team sent to save him.

When the dust cleared from that first engagement, it was just the captain and the leader of the ERT, the leader was in shock, so the captain pulled him through to the teleporter so they could make their escape, the crew following their every move with the AI's guidance. Just as the teleporter finished calibration, the doors opened, and lasers poured in to the small room, crippling the leader. The captain, not willing to let his chance at rescue fall, detached the ID that would give him access to their shuttle, ran through the now active teleporter, and arrived at the docks, freedom in sight. The captain knew they would try to follow, he tried to warn them previously that the team was not there to harm them, but as he buckled the clasp of his seat and hit the transfer button, he knew he had made it out. He would now learn the true nature of this financial crisis and why NT bothered to save him. 

Upon arriving at the dock, he was greeted not be a decommissioned shell of a station, but by a fully functional and intact Trurl. The economic crisis was a lie, transmitted not by the the Trurl staff, but by another entity that wished to destroy the Cyberiad. The crew were just their pawns to be used for this goal. Sadly, the damage had already been done, The shining star of Nanotrassen had fallen from within and thus a second team was being prepped to wipe the slate clean for a repair crew. The captain and central would agree not to tell the crew of this development, deeming them too damaged to be of future use. Instead, the second team would be the message, when you chose to solve your conflicts with war instead of diplomacy, you will be put down like the savages you are.

It was at this point the the captain was greeted by another team, dressed in armor he had only seen in confidential briefings. The epsilon team was standing before him, he did the only thing he could do to help them rid the station of those rabid animals that used to be it's crew. He told them of the AI's capture of the nuke and relocation to the satellite. He told them this because he knew they would fail to accomplish their primary objective, The crew was too powerful and had to much time to prepare. The Cyberiad would not survive the night. Although, the original transmissions source was not located, one thing is certain, they were the only people to walk out of that situation with any sense of victory.