text: [Themes: sci-fi, war]
  
  "Alyssa you and the rest keep an eye on that doorway, if those things try to get in again, you know what to do. Dobbs, don't touch anything else in here." You say and inspect the robots closer.
  "Yes sir, but I should tell you, that we're running out of ammo." Alyssa remarks.
  "Dammit, you heard the Captain! He didn't ask you for your opinion you alien bitch! You should be lucky you're even allowed to serve the Empire, and not destroyed like the non-human trash you are!" Salo rants.
  "Salo, I serve the Captain, I'm loyal to him, not the Empire, and I've had just about all the abuse I'm going to take from you!" Alyssa says and points her weapon at Salo, catching him off guard. There's no way he'll be able to react in time, the rest of the team stands frozen, they're trying to watch the doorway and this new situation at the same time.
  You've never seen Alyssa lose her "cool" like this before. Granted this whole expedition has made everyone extremely irritable, but even under worse conditions than this, Alyssa has always been very calm.
  
  > shoot Alyssa
  You don't hesitate, you shoot Alyssa. She falls, grabbing on to a nearby table and looks at you once in disbelief with a hurt expression, one you've never seen her display before.
  "I...never...thought that you'd..."
  
  A second shot is fired by Salo killing her and ending whatever last words she was going to say.
  
  "Captain, my apologies for questioning your loyalty to humanity before. I see I was wrong, I thank you for saving my life." Salo remarks.
  
  You immediately shake the strange feelings that have been invading your mind again. Something was attempting to make you weak. Alyssa was the last alien influence holding you back from achieving complete confidence in human superiority. By getting rid of her, you no longer have any impediments of your goal. The Xont technology WILL be taken for the Empire!
  
  There's still the matter of getting out of here though, fortunately Dobbs may have found a way to do that.
  
  "Um, sir? I think I remembered what some of these symbols were supposed to mean, I think I can figured out how we can turn them on without them attacking us. I remember a Xont legend about "Silver Sentinels", and that's what these things look like. I guess they were created by the Xont primarily to act as guards for scientists, if we don't look like a threat then they shouldn't attack us. In fact they'll probably start attacking those things lurking outside."
  "Then DO IT!"
  "We have to look harmless, if they detect us holding guns, we'll be perceived as a threat as well."
  "So what do we do to look harmless?"
  "Drop all our guns."
  
  You aren't enthusiastic about that idea, but Salo displaying a slightly different side of himself, says as long as the will of the Emperor is guiding you all, you have nothing to fear. The destiny of humanity is inevitable. You acknowledge that indeed humanity is going to succeed this day.
  
  "Let's do it, drop your weapons everyone, and the Emperor's Will, will protect us."
  
  Your team reluctantly drops their weapons as Dobbs presses a few buttons on the computer. Red lights flicker on in the Sentinels' eye sockets.
  
  "SCANNING...SCANNING...ALERT! GENETIC EXPERIMENTS FROM LAB 4 HAVE ESCAPED! THREAT LEVEL 10! TERMINATE HOSTILES!" their metallic voices say in unison.
  
  The Sentinels move quickly to the doorway and begin to open fire on the feeding creatures. You can see the creatures fight back, but whatever the Sentinels are made out of must be strong indeed. Soon the battle moves far enough from the doorway, and you can hear the Sentinels hunting down the rest of the abominations. You climb over the dead creature in the doorway and take a quick look only to see more dead monsters. The Sentinels do their jobs very efficiently.
  
  You could take this opportunity to try to escape or explore a bit more.
  
  > Escape
  You decide that this place would be better explored with a better equipped team. You'll secure it from anyone else attempting to go inside, but you don't have the manpower or firepower to best serve the Empire's interests. When the pick up ship comes you'll report your findings.
  
  In the mean time you tell your team to pick up their weapons, head for the exit as quickly as possible and spend the rest of your time here back at the Lizard village nearby. When you get outside you're ambushed by a small Elojin team, but they aren't any match for you, the cowards run as soon as they realize they're outnumbered. Their running doesn't help them, Salo takes special care to shoot crippling shots, rather than outright killing them, he then takes special delight of dragging them back to the Lizard village to extract more information out of them. He doesn't get too much as they don't know too much, you don't think that matters to him though.
  
  After all the Elojin have finally died of their wounds, the rest of your stay here passes without incident, you order patrols around the structure, but nothing ever tries to enter it and nothing ever comes out.
  
  When the Empire ship comes, you report your findings. Your superiors are pleased and say they will take it from here. You're a little disappointed, you thought maybe they'd let you lead another team in seeing as you found it, but they say you're needed elsewhere, and the Empire always knows best. They give you a medal and some accolades, but that's about it.
  
  The Xont technology that's extracted from the building is eventually applied in fantastic ways. The Empire easily begins to turn the balance to their favor. A gripping xenophobia runs rampant throughout the Empire as it becomes even less tolerant of alien species, seeing them as being unfit to even exist. This eventually leads to the unprecedented alliance between the Krik, Mazatt and Elojin who attempt to fight back, other aliens start rallying to their banner as well. The Human Empire becomes the most feared and hated galactic superpower since...well the Xont.
  
  As for you, after your tour on Paradise, the rest of your career was unspectacular. You remained a glorified Empire scout, until the some worlds started revolting against the Empire's policy of exterminating aliens. At that time you're relegated to a counter-terrorist command. It's on one of these worlds where you meet a suitable fate.
  
  While storming a terrorist hideout, you're shot in the back by one of its leaders by surprise; you look up and see a blue girl that looks similar to Alyssa. You almost think it is her, but then again they all look alike to you.
  
  "You can't win...the Empire will survive..." you say and then she fires another shot ensuring that you won't.