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Indeed, the beasts seemed to survive for no other purpose, except for the complete annihilation of the settlement population, and ultimately, the entirety of the human infestation of the starways, with its associated rape, pillage and plunder of the beauties created by the Infinite One. Humanity had never before encountered an alien race so fearsome, so vicious, so unrelentingly vindictive. They were entirely wiped out, except for Ked.

Very few of them had ever even seen, let alone used, powerful squad assault weapons like the chaingun or the pulse rifle, modified tools like the mass driver, or strange, controversial and quasi-magickal devices like the Lucifer Cannon, said to steal the souls of its victims to power its inexplicable metaphysical functionings, rumored to possibly harness apergic or levitric forces.

The force thus assembled amounted to a mere regiment, numbering only a few thousand men, of which only a handful had seen any actual combat against any alien lifeforms and most of these had only seen action in humanity's original solar system, eradicating such menaces as the face-hugging lamprey-tongued spider-bats of the Titanian caves, and the mind-numbing ghost vampire manatees of the Tritonian Untersee.īecause of this, many of the members of the Fractal Zion Expeditionary Forces were equipped with the most rudimentary weapons: shotguns and blasters issued for police actions against human populations in the Settlement Zone, the venerable painsaw from the Interglobal Fighting Conference's SpaceArena series of tightcasts, rifles and lasguns of the Regular Corporate Settlement Reserves, flamethrowers from the Spider-Bat Eradication Wars. In other words, has-beens, never-weres, and do-what-nows. He was the only one to survive, out of a hastily-organized Space Marine Mercenary Militia force chiefly made up of locally available veterans, transfers from the segment garrisons, and impressed "recruits" or conscripted "volunteers" from among the settlement population.

Indeed the entire force was wiped out, except for one man. When Ked Ambrit was sent with a militia force of mercenaries to clear the shipping lanes of viral alien life forms in the Fractal Zion and (by extension) Brindus systems, the initial insertion team was too small. The Fractal Zion Incident, OR How One Man Singlehandedly Saved the Brindus System