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conversations.value: ##Other Tales from the Dropverse##
  Squad 72, Vipers: https://storium.com/game/drop-squad-72-vipers/chapter-1/scene-1
  Icarus Station: https://storium.com/game/drop-icarus-station/chapter-1/scene-1
  
  ##Background##
  
  History, some would say, is cyclical, that to neglect your past is to doom yourself to repetition. After the unsuccessful Terran Wars of Unification, however, the conglomerate business leaders of the Free Spaces decided to profit from history rather than suffer by its hands. Vast, planet-wide gladiatorial death-matches between Teams thousands strong are televised across space for the entertainment of the bloodthirsty masses, and the sport has transcended mere entertainment to engulf every aspect of life and pop culture. Mass murderers are now celebrities, and contractual slavery has been employed to fill the empty bunks that thousands of volunteers don’t. This is the world of DTV. This is the world of DROP.
  
  DTV is populated by 92 Teams, and the Doves count themselves among their ranks. An incredibly small Team, unlike their competitors, the Doves found their rating and popularity not through brute-force exploits but through technological advancement: the Doves are unanimously agreed upon to be the most high-tech Team on display in DTV. Lasers, force fields, anti-gravity technology, the Doves have developed things other Teams, and their corporate sponsors, could only dream of, technology ripped straight from the reaches of science fiction. Despite the interest in the team, little is known about the Doves; they remain as one of the great mysteries behind DTV, and no one has pierced their veil.
  
  The truth behind the Doves is that they are the shield and sword for a shadow organization known simply as Osprey, an organization dedicated to keeping humanity safe from itself. The Doves act as Osprey's secret templars and inquisitors, hunting down threats and tracking leads that Osprey, due to necessary discretion, cannot pursue. In return for their loyalty and their silence, Osprey rewards its soldiers with technological marvels the likes of which the universe has never seen, but such gifts come with a price: if the Free Spaces learned the secrets behind the Dove's technology, the Team would be besought by every facet of the galaxy, Free Spaces and United Terran Space alike. 
  
  ##The Story##
  
  Osprey recently recovered an experiment gone horrifyingly right from a supposedly derelict colony known as Icarus Station, a former platform for DTV’s space battle series which was dashed from DTV records and programs, then rigged to crash into the planet it orbited in one week, taking all its inhabitants down with it. Osprey caught on to the secret, however, and rushed out to the station to recover what they could. They found only three survivors: Pax, a power-armored DAC Titan, Margin, a Harrier, and Spartacus, a disturbing amalgamation of man and machine, half-dead and impossible to kill. The latter caught Osprey’s attention, and they discovered that Spartacus had been the work of their long-time adversaries, the Seven Seals, and that he was only the beginning: the Seven Seals were attempting to build an army of immortal soldiers who would take the galaxy by storm. 
  
  You are a Dropper in the Doves, inquisitor and templar to the wishes of Osprey, and today your charge is the elimination of Project: Valhalla from high orbit. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lineman: *"Beware your soldiers, General, for even the weakest carries a spear." - Unknown*
  
  Lightly armed and armored, Linemen make up in skill and versatility what they lack in equipment. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ranger: *"Fear the quiet on the wind, as there shall be no warning of your death." - Unknown*
  
  Equipped with a cloak that changes with its environment, Dove Rangers put other snipers to shame.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Warrior: *"You are never too young for the blade, nor too young to die on one." - Unknown* 
  
  Dove Warriors storm into battle with boost packs to close the distance and energy swords for when they do. 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Triarii: *"It is a cruel day, indeed, when even a shield is deadly." -Unknown*
  
  The Doves are the only Team in DTV to develop forcefields... And give them, as well as gunlances, to Droppers.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Titan: *"Woe to those who spur the Doves, for their Titans' wrath is swift." -Unknown*
  
  Enforcers, destroyers, brutes, Dove Titans bring punishment on swift wing in the form of nigh overwhelming power.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rixator: *"People forget that fist and foot were the first weapons." - Unknown*
  
  Dove Rixator storm headlong into battle with enhanced suits, lightning flying from their fists as they fly through the air. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Striker: *"Those screams in their air do not come from human throats." - Unknown*
  
  Though all Doves fly, Strikers fly on mounts, featuring advanced weapon and defense suites.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Valor: *Your strengths are your own.*
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Vice: *Your weaknesses belong to you.*
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: History: *Do not let your fate belittle your destiny.*
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Retiarius: *"Even the mightiest can be made weak." - Unknown*
  
  Retiarii specialize in disabling enemies, using electric nets, deployable grappling cables, and emps before moving in with electronic weapons.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gastraphetes: *"Tanks? We have no need of them." - Unknown*
  
  Gastraphetai are siege and anti-armor specialists, using robotically-enhanced strength to weird a variety massive two-handed weapons.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Baron Commander: Equipped with a high-frequency blade and a powerful hand cannon, Commanders typically lead from the rear.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Skyraker: Colossal, mobile artillery units deployed by the Barons in extended sieges, Skyrakers are heavily armored and have extreme range.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tarantula Linemen Squad: Tarantula Linemen are equipped with a powerful helmet-based sensor suite and excel at ambushing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Starlight Battalion : The Starlights are a fantastic team in DAC, but their DTV counterparts are weak in comparison. Teach them their place.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Behemoth Heavy: They don't know when to quit. Hold them off until the Warriors and Triarii arrive -- and do it in style.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Havoc Assault: Jane is one problem, but you still have more vehicles out there that want you dead. Deal with Jane, then move out to protect your squad.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: DROP Prep: The hour of the DROP is upon you, and you're still holding your holsters in your hands. Get prepped, get packed, and fall-in -- Your executives are coming.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unitas Heavy Anti-Air: Unitas specializes in powerful and durable artillery. They're very advanced, and their presence here may indicate why. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Deal with the Patrols: While not all of them need to go down, soldiers with heavy weapons are a threat to a successful DROP and must be killed.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Locate Cain: *Professor Cain is somewhere in this facility, figure out where. I don't care how.*
  
  *- Joel*
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Brutal Subtlty: A quiet approach, a deadly strike, and on to the next objective. You are precise in your actions, and it makes you dangerous.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Lost Moment: If you wait too long for the right moment, you might find that it has already past.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Carpe Diem: If there's one thing people cannot accuse you of, it is indecision. You know fortune favors only the bold, and all the prep in the galaxy is but fuel awaiting the white-hot flame of your will. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: I Am a Rock: In this broken world, there are no *friends.* Only *allies.* You keep others at a distance - for they are little more than pieces on a board that only you see. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Beyond Glory: All Doves know what they *really* fight for. There is something beyond - and far higher than - the killing and the dying. 
  
  You have but to find proof of it. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Combat Ingenuity: You are a crafty warrior, adept in the ways of deception. Your cunning intelligence is your tool of trade. With that skill and acumen, you only need a clever tactic to win a fight.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Striker: *“Those bellows in the air don't come from human throats.” - Unknown*
  
  Though all Doves fly, Strikers fly on mounts, featuring advanced weapon and defense suites.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Adaptable: Despite what's thrown in your way, you can always turn the situation in your favor.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Overeager: You often leap before you look.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: To Be a Big Shot: You won't be satisfied until everyone knows your name.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Striker: *“Those bellows in the air don't come from human throats.” - Unknown*
  
  Though all Doves fly, Strikers fly on mounts, featuring advanced weapon and defense suites.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lineman: *“Beware your soldiers, General, for even the weakest carries a spear.” - Unknown*
  
  Lightly armed and armored, Linemen make up in skill and versatility what they lack in stopping power. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lineman: *“Beware your soldiers, General, for even the weakest carries a spear.” - Unknown*
  
  Lightly armed and armored, Linemen make up in skill and versatility what they lack in stopping power.    
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Nihilist: For you, existence holds no objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. If the odds are dire, you would willingly render your flesh and blood unto a cause befitting your interest.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Bastion: Unshakeable in battle, the flawless shield that guards your allies from danger.
  
  Outside of battle, your emotional state is similarly solid, irrational emotions and previous traumas rarely interfering with your psyche.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Need: Go too long without your fix, and the hunger starts creeping into the edge of your mind. After that, your actions can become...unpredictable.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mirror unto the Soul: High emotional intelligence and a boundless curiosity drive you to truly and fully *understand* those around you, even if it means losing their trust or losing your mind.
  
  Beware, however, when this mirror is turned onto yourself.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sheer Brutality: Those who stand to face a Gastraphetes know the true meaning of horror. 
  
  Those who follow in the wake of a Gastraphetes know the true meaning of utter decimation. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Blood and Steel: Flesh is frail. Thankfully, you've very little of that anymore.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Iron Visions: You can't remember being out of your suit. The nightmares have spilled over into the waking world.
  
  Don't fall asleep.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tactical Eye : Planning, Timing, and Coordinating these tools are almost as useful as weapons. Almost.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No Mountain High Enough: You are capable of more than *this.* Whatever the cost, no matter the consequence, you will climb higher.
  
  After all, it isn't the fall that kills.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Shell: Though Osprey prides itself in the cutting edge technology of a military, it still has a ways to go on the humanitarian front. Besides the armor, there is nothing. You doubt you even have flesh and bone. 
  
  You're... Disconnected from others, leading you to do things most would consider inhumane. That, and you harbor quite the envy against others.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Problem with authority : "Now, I am willing to listen to your idea, but then doing what you say may not follow suit."
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Help the little guy.: Everything these days is going on on a galactic scale so it's easy to forget that the galaxy is filled with people. People whose lives matter and you will protect.   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Keeping Your Reputation: You're a monster the scientists at Opsrey created and turned into a warrior. You've earned your reputation as an unstoppable force, and with talk of immortals on the rise, you seek to show that not even those will stop you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Battleborn: When the heat of conflict spurs your senses, you dwell in your insatiable hunger for blood. For you, nothing else compares to the adrenaline rush of a thrilling confrontation.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Retiarius: Fancy
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Retiarii: *“Even the mightiest can be brought weak.” - Unknown*
  
  Retiarii specialize in disable enemies, using electric nets, deployable grappling cables, and emp devices, before going for the kill.    
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mission First: ...and second and third. To you there's nothing but the mission, and you'll do whatever is necessary to complete it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Snake in the Grass: You've a beguiling air about yourself. You can make light of any situation, and turn violent at the drop of a hat.
  
  Predictability be damned.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Eagel Eyed : You possess the finest in augmented ocular implants, giving you extraordinary range of vision. Coupled with your steady hands and a decent weapon and your ability to pick targets off at range is unparalleled.  
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Too Close for Comfort: You may be deadly at a thousand meters, but when thrown into close quarters combat you have a tendency to freeze. Maybe its a lack of experance, maybe its a demon from your past, whatever the reason your inability to act could prove deadly for you...and your team.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Blood on your Hands: You have a debt to repay. This is how. Like it or not.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Augmented Intelligence: You were born with mind. An experiment gave you another. Now you are somehow both and neither. No one can say for certain how an AI agent was installed in a human brain, but that is the closest description to what was done. 
  The only thing that anyone agrees on is that whatever you are, it is frighteningly smart and deadly effective.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Uncommunicative: You already have someone to talk to in your own head, and that is more than enough. Meaningful or even timely communication are not your strongest of skills. 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Never Enough: Satisfaction is a fleeting concept if it exists at all. The chase for the next level, the next  skill, the next kill...that is all that seems real. A wise man would know when to quit, but you are not wise enough yet.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Venator: *"They are unseen, unheard; You can run from them, but there is nowhere you can hide."-Unknown *
  A deadly combination between the Rangers and Rixator, the Venators are equipped with the best of both worlds; the cloak, stealth, and precision of a Ranger, and the brutal melee powers of a Rixator.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Intelligent : You are very smart and perceptive.  You observe and know many things...a lot of which others do not.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Communication Issues: Not only do you have a wound that prohibits you from communicating well, you have a bad habit of not telling others what you're up to.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Good Fight: You're in to fight the good fight, and to make sure the good fight is fought well.
  
  *"Exterminate with....extreme prejudice." -Unknown*
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: gravity master: flashy but effective, manipulating gravity is your specialty 
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: blatant disregard : you find fighting distasteful and have better things to do, why would you care about the outcome of just one battle anyway
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: stop the fighting: why do we always turn to violence... can't we just talk it out?
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Disconnected : You're here to do a job sure, but you're use to going solo, the idea of being a team is not something you're used to, or interested in.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sawdih: There exists a word known only to Rixator, passed between the ranks in times of battle preparation. With generally no weapons or gear to prep, a Rixator will Sit Around With Dick in Hand.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: MultiTasking: You can handle the hot water, your ability to accomplish multiple objectives at once has gotten you out of tight spots more than once. At this point it's just second nature.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Tactical Mind: You're not all suit... Okay, you're mostly suit, but there's a reason they picked you to wear it.  You're smart in the way that it counts, out here on the battlefield.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Never Miss a Beat: A veteran of many battles, the flow of combat is no stranger to you. You know when to move with it, and move against it
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Close and Personal: The bullet holes are doing nothing for the decor. Best wet the blade and paint the halls a new shade instead. 