Chapter 4: Consequences of Human Laziness Pt.2
Six days, I've been taking fifteen to twenty people a night for six… days. They're only now getting their shit together to actually do something about it. I've transformed all of the drones I had previously into warriors. With the people I've taken every night since the ball got rolling on this plan going into the next generation of drones.
Ovomorph: 2160
Facehugger: 254
Tier-0: 5
Tier-1: 50/0/0
Tier-2: 173/0/0/0/0/0
Tier-3: 0/0/0
Queen: 1
Emperor: ½
That's not including the chestbursters that haven't finished growing yet. So… bout a few. But now we've got full armed patrols… they're only out at night but it's still around. I think I've been so insulted by their lack of a reaction up to this point that I'm actually rooting for them to some degree. Can't tell if that's good or not. Maybe the lack of communication capabilities on the part of my Xenomorphs is getting to me. Maybe I should give one of the other races a shot. Meh, I'll finish off this colony if not world first. Back to what I was doing, having so many warriors was making me feel great. They've got a twenty to one value to you average unarmed human. I just need to make sure everything's ready. It was the first day of preparation that I realized that I could change how fast Daisy can lay eggs. So for six days she's been laying them at a whopping fifteen eggs per hour. Hence having enough to wrap up the whole city. There are two limiting factors that will keep me from letting this run like that all the time, one it puts a lot of stress on the queen ticking down health very slowly (she's at about half right now), and two I am littoral out of space to actually keep the fucking things. I've had to store them under the city in the sewers, this leading to my drones expanding the hive down there now as well. It occurs to me at the end of that line of thought that Daisy's low rate of egg production might come from her status as a rushed growth. Additional note, Warriors can not spread hive material… that sucks but makes sense. But anyway, time to conquer this colony for it's stupidity.
On the seventh night right after the drones from the fourth night were born the facehuggers were hatched. As I watched two-thousand face huggers pour through the sewers and maintenance ducts. It's alright sleeping city… your fate is not your fault, blame only the idiot in charge for not bombing the refinery. With that everyone asleep or alone finds themselves assaulted by facehuggers. Then all hell breaks loose. Warriors and drones come bursting out from under ground and out of vents attacking the security teams simultaneously.
Ten minutes have past, I've lost twenty warriors to combined fire as the humans find defensive positions. These are acceptable casualties as infection percentage reaches ninety-two percent.
[New Carthage]
Population: 191
Development: ruined
Combat Readiness: high
Sixteen hours have passed and I've lost an additional thirty warriors; the remaining survivors have rapidly begun digging in and are highly organized and in constant contact with each other. Right now it's taking all of my strategic acumen to prevent them from regrouping and possibly breaking out of the valley. Currently, there are three large points of resistance. An open-air defense in the central park of the city they've built up basic earthworks in a location with open lines of sight for almost a mile at some points. They've got the lowest numbers of the big three at twenty. The second in an apartment complex with a large central atrium, this is where they've built up using scrap pulled from the surrounding apartments; they've also been sending teams up into the apartment to scavenge food. It looks like they're digging in for the long run; they number eighty. I'll leave them be for now deploying a small force of warriors and several facehuggers more or less just to keep them on their toes. The last large group is held up in the colony's hospital. They're the least organized being mostly made up of civilians visiting family/patients/medical staff; however, there are two squads of security forces keeping them together… for now putting them at around thirty strong. They'll definitely be the first to go. Sending token skirmishing forces to both other targets for now while roving groups of warriors and facehuggers clean up the ones and twos that haven't been caught in the opening attack.
Alright, battle plan for the hospital. First, make noise… constantly. The civilians are jumpy so the more they hear us the more scared and desperate they will get. Next, start to pick off the security forces; never the leader though as his stress levels rise as he feels helpless to the loss of their troops they become more likely to snap, possibly further lowering enemy cohesion even further, maybe even resulting in total cohesion loss depending on how bad it is.
Next to the park, I've been wondering about something. After checking under the park I find that it has a large central water system that just so happens to pass very close to the defensive position. I deploy all none busy drones with digging under their position. I intend to drop them into a large underground pit dug below their defenses dropping them into a littoral murder hole.
Finally, the apartment complex, first there will be no scavenging even if I have to put facehuggers in every room in that building. I've already given the order for the warriors and some drones to go through the building avoiding the active combatants to take the wrapped up humans and take them out of the line of fire. Anyway, after they learn that I don't intend to let them wait this out this will go one of three ways. One they try to break out with their numbers they might be able to manage it however they would have to retreat from the town on foot. It would be a field day for my xenomorphs. Two, they try to stick it out and I eventually assault their weakened position. Three, they try to do both as a division appears in the survivors leaving one group leaving and one staying. This would be both good and bad as those that leave will surely die while the supplies will take those that stay much farther by comparison.
({[Hey double drop only a couple of days apart. Is very nice yes! Anyway hope y'all like it Live long and prosper.]})
