That was what Brooke and her team had decided, anyway. Surely time and the elements would have rendered useless any of the booby traps left behind by the Rim Worlders who originally scuttled their secret prize for later retrieval. It was all supposed to be so easy, she reminded herself again.Īfter all, the Annie M had rested on the bottom of Rocky’s Obsidian Sea for the better part of three hundred years, survived a nuclear war, shifted shoreward by gross changes in local currents, and undergone a deep freeze as the planet’s ice age plunged the average surface temperatures to -20 centigrade and below. Still clutching the satchel, Brooke moved again, breathing heavily into her faceplate with each laborious, pain-wracked step… Burned away barely half an hour ago, the heavy door lay flat before the opening, an awkward step to the chamber beyond. Just ahead, barely illuminated by the (remaining) headlamps of her envirosuit helmet, the topside hatch was an oblong pool of blackness against the mottled gray and streaking shadows of the aft bulkhead. Brooke pulled herself upright, sucking in a lungful of filtered air through grinding teeth as her leg screamed back in pain. "I heard you, Marie!" Brooke spat back, then bit her lip as she forced her left leg back underneath her.Īnother explosion shook the derelict vessel, and icy debris peppered her thick suit. She coughed as much from the odor as from the pain.īrooke? Though robbed of emotion through the transmission, Marissa Boerefijn’s voice nevertheless betrayed her worry. The shock of pain forced a short yelp from Brooke’s lips that momentarily fogged the polarized faceplate of her heavy helmet and reflected back the stale stench of the mystery meat hash she’d had for breakfast this morning. Instinctively, she tightened her grip on its carrying strap, holding on for dear life even as her other hand let go of the useless rail fragment. The heavy satchel, still clutched in her right hand, bounced against the grates with a muted clatter of metal on metal. Flailing, she fell back and knew an exquisite pain that shot along her left leg when it twisted almost completely out of joint. Not unexpectedly, the rail snapped free, denying any support-real or imagined-and leaving Brooke to fight a losing battle with gravity. More powerful than the first explosion, this one shook the bowed, age-worn deck grates so violently that she had to reach out with her free hand, grasping at a corroded rail along the starboard bulkhead. Shuddering the length of the ancient cargo ship, the explosion set free a brief cascade of long-dead barnacles, centuries-old stalactites of ice, and decayed minerals from the ceiling and walls around her. Its sound muffled only slightly through the insulation of her sealed helmet, a powerful blast emphasized the words that barked in Brooke Stevens’s ears. I’ll bundle up nice and warm in the heavy envirosuit, just for you.īrooke, you better get your ass out of there! So it looks like everything on this job is working out right (for a change!). I won’t even need full arctic diving gear or the DrillerMech to get at the target. Radiation levels now are fairly tolerable, of course-survivable, even without protection.īetter still, we think all that environmental damage played havoc with ocean currents after all these years the Annie M is now beached on the Obsidian Coast. Trouble says the scans he’s getting so far reveal that the planet slid back into an ice age, probably thanks to the nuclear winter from that last battle down there between the Davions and Steiners. From orbit, Rocky seems quite fascinating. It’s a shame you couldn’t come, by the way. What can I say but the usual assurances that I’m fine, I still love you, I miss you very, very much, and I hope to be home in a just another few months? it would feel like a Ballskick.Well, we’re here at last! I’m sure by now you’ve been getting bored with the usual in-transit messages, but I also know how much you worry during these field missions. would be a bit problematic I guess, for example I bought the Season Pass just recently, if they now announce another DLC outside of it for 20+ bucks. So Heavy Metal is the last DLC part of the Season Pass.Īnother DLC Drop outside of the Pass for more money. All Season Passes I had already and I remember (XCom EU / XCom 2, Hoi 4 and Battletech) got in 3 or 4 small to medium DLC‘s and 1 big one to the End of the Season Pass or as an big End for the Main-Development.īut if I recall correctly it was announced that way from the beginning, or was it not?įor the BT Season Pass it is said - 3 DLCs, with relase dates given (not at dates but timeframes when to expect them) and their Names. Originally posted by kingarthur772:They are working with Paradox.
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