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You watch everyone's back. The crew—men you knew from Dr. Sabbatine's workshop—have rifles or revolvers, but they seem terrified beyond the capacity for organized resistance. One man rushes Vecla with a revolver, but as you move to intercept him, he puts the weapon to his temple and pulls the trigger. Others throw themselves over the railing to their deaths.

Somewhere, Kattan shouts, "The wives! Get to the wives before they do!"

Hunters run into a storage compartment, and for a moment you see local women from several nations. Then the hunters open fire, killing them with methodical precision. Control hurls herself at the hunters, but it's already too late. The gunmen turn their weapons on themselves.

"Savages!" Kattan screams. "All is lost. All is… You…you're one of the doctor's controllers!" he cries as Control turns toward him. "Oh, thank the Icons. We have been fighting the savages for so long, and—"

Before anyone can stop her, Control picks the scientist up and throws him over the railing.

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