Thursday, March 08, 2007

Portal Corporation Shutdown

Work for Black Scorpion, despite having took a short hiatus doing some consultation work with a Doctor Brainstorm, continued today. This time, I visited one of my old employers (back in its startup days) - the Portal Corporation.

Their facility in Peregrine Island is a far cry from the old warehouse back in Kings Row that I used to labour in, over robotic servitors for them. Back before portal technology was stable enough to be profitable.

The task? Assault the facility, extract data and destroy the portals in preparation for a project Lord Recluse is calling Operation DESTINY while simultaneously some of Ghost Bimbo's lackeys assaulted another building. Simple enough but alas I first underestimated the number of Longbow reinforcements that were in on the other side of the first dimensional rift. A Longbow Commander slipped inside my defenses and dropped me.

After an emergency medical transport back to the ARAD Facility in the Rogue Isles, I flew back out and carried out a more surgical strike.

A full squad of ZR Automated Combat Units made short work of the portals, while I used a Force Bubble from the ZR Aegis Transponder to keep the Longbow forces at bay. My escort of Arachnos Troops then proceeded to escort me out of Paragon airspace before the Freedom Phalanx and the "heroes" of the city responded to my incursion.

I just wonder what Operation DESTINY is...