Goddamn Balmarian clones!

[prismphantom]

[In an otherwise silent room, the sound of Ingram's voice can be heard.]

"Good. Hate me then. Cherish your hate. Grow stronger."

"Ze Balmary Empire - what you call Aerogators. It collects strong warriors to add to ranks of its own army. Earth picques our interest."

"Ze Balmary will make good use of warriors such as you."

[And if you were to look inside, you'd see Selena, playing audio files taken from the incident over and over again, with all those notes on Balmarian weapons of war found in La Gias in the other.   The notes get crumpled up and thrown in a bin.  They feel less like a cheatsheat and more a pity handout given while the doner was sporting a shit-eating grin.]

The Zentradi and Decepticons just want us dead.  The UE just want us guessing about everything that has to do with them.  The Wulgaru want our genetic material.  The Indalph and the Gebian AEP want us as a trophy of conquest.

... And now this.  He gave the documents to us.  He just did it so we'd be worthy enough footsoldiers for his Empire.

Comments

[tiger_ken]

But its also more trouble for their intended new forces to handle. How exactly are we meant to serve when we're being invaded by more bad guys than ever?

[prismphantom]

Because this territory is valuable to so many other races. We are or our technology or... just whatever you want to say.

Whoever can get it first could wind up becoming king of the mountain. And that's why the aliens are taking a swing at each other so often.

[tiger_ken]

I had meant more how the Balmary expect to benefit from it, if we're too busy to answer whatever calls they might make. Though I suppose they might just be playing the long game - as long as we're already loyal, then they just need to make sure we don't drift away, rather than solving any of our problems for us.

[prismphantom]

There's a lot of guessing on our end, no doubt about it. If we knew more about them that might help clarify things... though right now we don't have any real leads.

[tiger_ken]

Because one of the guys in charge of that sort of thing... was on their side.

How did he even get that far up if he's an alien? Did they really fake his records that well? Or were... exceptions made?

[prismphantom]

That'll certainly be something to try to look into, what with Albhard and myself losing contact with Shu and just sticking around until the intelligence division decides to send us somewhere else.