I remembered that we had a TAC cannon back in the armory in the area where Prophet's suit was being repaired. The Tactical Assualt Cannon (TAC) was developed only recently and had the ability to launch nuclear-like grenades at medium distance levels. The gun was still in development and had not been fully tested. They plan was to begin using the TAC in 2025 - five years from now.
From what the testers have determined, unless one was wearing a Nanosuit, they could be critically injured by using the gun incorrectly. I had no choice at this point. I was going to have to use the TAC if it came down to nothing else working.
I navigated through the broken doors on my way back to the armory. I entered a room just in time to see Admiral Morrison get mortally wounded by one of the machines. I made that machine pay for taking down the Admiral by using a couple rounds from the Gauss rifle. I checked Morrison's vitals. There was nothing I could do to save him and I still needed to acquire the TAC cannon.
I made it to the armory and the TAC cannon was still on the weapons rack. I feared that Prophet took it when he went AWOL, but that was not the case. I was glad.
I sprinted back to the flight deck and realized my suspicions were correct. A spider-machine was on deck and causing havoc. The original plan was to escape in a VTOL, but that wasn't happening while the spider-machine was blasting everything in sight.
I saw fellow soldiers fall in the line of duty as we tried to figure out how to take the spider-machine down. I knew the Gauss rifle would not cause enough damage and rockets didn't seem to phase the machine. So, I picked up a heavy machine gun, fully loaded and a spare 500 rounds of ammo. After the machine shot its blue laser at me and missed, I aimed and shot 500 rounds into the core of the machine.
The bullets seemed to be working, so I reloaded before the machine had a chance to aim that blue laser at me. I fired another 500 rounds into the machine and dropped the gun and switched to rockets. No rockets were needed as the spider-machine blew into a thousand pieces all over the flight deck.
I heard someone mention an Alien Exosuit. I am guessing the spider-machine was really called an Alien Exosuit. To me, it will always be known as a spider-machine. I just hope this machine is the last machine of it's type.
Destroying the spider-machine caused the bigger machines to crash onto the deck. It looked like we had finally defeated the machines.
We looked out across a calm sea and sky around the ship. But then, I heard a deep rumble from beneath the surface. Something was coming from under the sea now.
I need to grab some ammo and get ready. Because this could be the mothership coming now.
I will be back in touch soon!
Nomad ... signing out.
