Once I'd vented my frustrations on Regor's labs, I quickly set about infiltrating the real lab. This time, I made a point of setting up a set of teleporters linking all of Uranus' moons that had Grineer labs on them, so that I wouldn't have to deal with a trail of bread crumbs where the Grineer diverted me to all of the labs they had except for the one I was looking for. I'd also told Hearth to be on standby so that I could initiate infiltration of another lab, should this one not be the one I was looking for.

Fortunately for me, it was.

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After a short swim, I exited one of the Grineer sub pens, making sure the Drekar Lancer I'd pulled in had been dealt with. The bloated rippers confirmed he was no longer a problem. Smiling to myself, I began my infiltration. First off, suppress the alarms in their entirety. Disable all panels, shut down all data vault security, cause radio silence, the like. Once that was done, onto step two - eliminate all hostiles. Carefully, I set about flooding some of the rooms, tricking lanx packs into eating the draga's outside the lab, all of that. Once they were dealt with, I set about completing phase three - actually getting to the lab. That part was definitely going to be harder than normal.

See, the Grineer had updated all of their data-vaults with security that could let them notice I was stealing from them if I just hacked the remotely, so I would have to manually access each one, all of which still had some security measures in place. Of course, their wasn't anything in place that stopped me from rendering all other forms of security useless, so I made sure that anyone who could delete the data was dead via flooding before moving onto the actual hacking. Sure, it meant I had to get the data from three totally flooded vaults, but oh well - a small sacrifice to pay for victory, no?

Now, you are probably wondering why I needed to hack into data vaults when I was looking for a lab. In fact, you're probably wondering why there were data vaults in this lab in the first place. Well, that was actually a really easily answered questions - see, the Grineer wanted some extra security for this lab, what with it housing valuable orokin secrets relating to the Vitruvian and, you know, the Commanders. So, they'd made a special security system that needed an access code to open. Said code was divided into three parts, each hidden in a data-vault. You needed all three to enter the lab. Did I mention that said lab apparently had functional death orbs for security?

Yeah, actually rather well though out of them. Unfortunately, I was still able to outsmart them. Of course, I would still have to fight off whatever forces that were inside the lab, so that was obviously going to give me a workout.

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The Drekar Elite Lancer had just enough time to spot me before the arrow pierced his skull. Two more killed his squad mates, none of whom even came close to setting off the alarms. Really, this was child's play.

I'd trained with using a bow before I'd even become a commander. I live close enough to the country that there were plenty of spots to practice at, and I was usually lucky enough to end up tagged for hunting javelina. So, I had taken it upon myself to design a bow that could reliably punch through Progenitor alloys, trained with it until I could hit a guy from at least five hundred meters with pinpoint accuracy, then readied it up for this mission. Still needed to name it, though, but I could do that later.

Killing the Grineer one by one with the bow was tedious, but worthwile. It was my first time using a weapon I had designed myself, made just for dealing with this time of foe. Granted, it could still do tons of damage to other types of enemies (and probably kill Hunho's drones outright), but that was besides the point. Plus, I wanted to feel the power of my technology with my own hands. Fun was also a big factor here.

Eventually, I entered the main part of the lab: the Orokin storage chamber. For the most part, it was bare of objects of value, though I did manage to pocket some endo, a cell array, and a Valana Ayatan from the center of the room. I scoured as much of the room as possible, but unfortunately, it seemed that I was too late to recover any other artifacts.

That point b came most later, seeing how all the Grineer had found in the room was a massive stockpile of Ayatan treasures. Which Maroo had recently stolen without my help and was currently selling to the highest bidder. Oh, and apparently she stuffed some into her bed so that no one could steal them. How did she even sleep at night?

Back to the present: once I had finished searching the room, I hacked into the facility's computers to see where the Might Watch corps had been sent. Turned out it was yet another moon in orbit of Uranus. Oh joy. To my surprise, the computer also marked up another location, this one a place where the Grineer had recently discovered something that most definitely was NOT Orokin in nature. Curious.

Sighing, I downloaded all of the data on the terminal, then marked the lab for orbital bombardment. As I approached the sub pen to leave, a Grineer tried to attack me. One psi-augmented back hand later, and he had his head shoved into a toilet. Which promptly exploaded. Then a cable came lose and shocked him into a skeleton.

Wow, so anticlimactic. Was the universe saving a big challenge up for my next lab

Invasion?

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