text: [Themes: sci-fi, serious]
  
  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.
  
  > Explore
  There's no way you're going to not explore this place! It's your duty, and one you are going to fulfill! You order all your team to pick up their weapons, and that you're going to explore this place.
  
  "But sir! The Silver Sentinels are still wandering around, and they'll attack us if they perceive us as a threat!" Dobbs exclaims.
  "And what the fuck of it? We'll blow those archaic Xont automatons back to the junkheap if they attack us. Besides we'll be better prepared for them now, they'll likely be weakened by fighting with those abominations and as servants of the Empire our cause is just and our destiny is certain. Now no more of this cowardice soldier, we've got a job to do!"
  
  > explore this room more
  You order your team to start searching every inch of this room. They all comply except for Dobbs who for some reason is still questioning your orders.
  "Sir I really think we should leave. This place is having a strange affect on all of us and you in general."
  "Private, your lack of bravery sickens me! Everyone else is doing what they're supposed to except you! Perhaps it is YOU, who is under a strange influence!"
  "Let me kill this unbeliever Captain! Its obvious his heart is not with the Empire!" Salo adds.
  
  The rest of your team starts calling for Dobb's blood as well, sensing he's outnumbered and in immediate danger, he quickly changes his tune.
  
  "Forgive my weakness sir; I was just concerned about your welfare and the team."
  "Let ME worry about that Dobbs! Now figure out the rest of those controls on that fucking machine!" you snarl.
  
  Dobbs complies and begins pressing buttons; it looks like he's doing it randomly, but your heightened state of paranoia causes you to be suspicious again. He's up to something, you know he is!
  
  "Dobbs what the hell are you doing, over there?"
  "Oh just trying to figure out how to TURN THE PEST CONTROL SYSTEM ON! DIE IN THE NAME OF THE XONT! YOU LOWLY INSECTS!"
  "Oh shit!" you say as you see some sort of turret come out of the ceiling! It starts swiveling around and firing on all in its path! Some of your team members are killed in this cowardly sneak attack. You duck for cover along with many of your team, Private Dobbs runs for the exit laughing manically. You're all too busy shooting at the turret, to fire at him. After destroying it, you assess the situation. All the gunplay ended up destroying the machine Dobbs activated, so that's useless now.
  
  "The damn heretic must be brought to justice!" Salo exclaims.
  "He will." You say. "Alright we got a new mission, everyone pair up and hunt the bastard down, he's probably still in here somewhere. Don't forget though, we're still exploring this place, so make a note of what you find. Kill anything not human."
  
  You pair up with Salo and start searching. Most of the rooms you find seem to be normal quarters, presumably for whatever aliens slept here. Most the rooms are either in disarray or almost bare, you don't find anything of interest or Dobbs. You can still hear sounds of battle echoing though, the Sentinels are being very efficient of hunting those tentacle beasts, you know it won't be long before they start attacking you, but you're confident you'll be able to take them.
  
  Eventually you come to some sort of elevator; it looks like it only goes down. You doubt if Dobbs went down there seeing as the elevator would've still been on the lower level if he'd used it, but you've got others looking for him, perhaps you should attempt to check out the other level.
  
  > continue to hunt for Dobbs
  You shake the odd feelings you have and decide to continue looking for Dobbs. You and Salo continue to hunt down the heretic. You then start hearing gunfire, followed by the screams of your troops. The Silver Sentinels have finished their extermination of the tentacled beasts and have now started on your team. Scream after scream echo throughout the empty halls.
  
  "Weaklings! They dishonor the Empire by dying so easily!" you mutter to yourself. After this mission you vow to have all their names stricken from the records as they are unfit to have their names engraved in the Halls of the Honored Fallen.
  
  You don't see any sign of Dobbs, but the Sentinels finally track you and Salo down. Despite all your bravado earlier about blasting them back to the scrapheap, you don't fair any better than the rest of your team. Whatever they're made out of, your weapons just don't have any effect. As you attempt to take cover in a nearby room, Salo is blasted into cinders.
  
  After seeing this, your faith betrays you, you throw your gun away, survival is more important. You think they won't see you as a threat anymore if you don't have your gun.
  
  Your thinking is wrong. The Sentinels have already locked on you and perceived you as a hostile. They enter the room and see you cowering in the corner. They mercilessly finish you off, putting an end to your last remaining thoughts of how you dishonored the Empire.