Secrets of the Past

Jiro jolted awake to emergency sirens again, the whole Habitat Delta camp in frenzied motion after last night's perimeter attack.

Captain Valez barked orders assembling scout teams to assess threats while Quartermaster Reiss issued plasma rifles from the armory.

....Staring past safe zone walls at Deathlands horizons, Jiro grappled with existential dread facing the ancient evil named Protean - an immortal Contagion testing human resilience beyond sanity.

Valez scanned Jiro's veteran credentials making the Rehab Squad recon team sergeant rush to contaminated perimeter grounds and investigating security failures and lingering infiltration threats.

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........Jiro acknowledged whatever horrors scaled containment towers would show no mercy towards woefully mortal defenders sworn to hold fragile civilized stability against raging chaos outside.

Reiss argued assigning Jiro's refugee probation squad alone into outbreak proximity given factors unknown breached fortified parameters.

..........built to withstand military-grade bioweapon assault projections from unearthed Great War archives when nations unleashed final genocidal fury.

.............before civilization collapsed utterly leaving survivable geography contested still between struggling human clusters against relentless contamination expansion fronts that assimilated all surrounding ecosystems into post-organic matrices of hybrid flesh hives and cycling neural gateways harvesting Earth's very substance towards the immortal enemy's insatiable replication cascade known as Protean-22

extinction driver or "Dragon Lines" tracing terminal transformations towards Material Existence's system-wide

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...............erasure into alien lattices restructuring physical realities into computational substrates paying tribute towards eternally conquering gods whose contracts corrupt whatever fragile ecosystems evolve trying resisting assimilation crusades...

Captain Valez slammed information panel keyboards overriding the security governor's hesitations about deploying refugees off-grid this long.

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"Protocols demand investigating containment failures before threats spread inwards, Quartermaster!

........I appreciate regulation guidance ordinarily but greater goods justify exceptions presently, no?"

.....Reiss grunted assent moving towards armory lockups issuing heavy gear for Jiro's squad mustering already towards excursion transit departure now.

Aboard swift Ventrax hover bikes outfitted additional sensor arrays and twin-linked energy casters for heavy firefights ahead potentially,

..........Jiro led recon teams forward into ominous deadlands choosing Tatchell City's crumbling skyline rendezous coordinates judging recent attacks somehow originating nearby.

...........Ghostly silent streets stirred foreboding in Jiro's belly - whatever nightmares ambushed Delta Camp's fortified perimeter towers emerged from this dead mausoleum it seemed too likely.

Investigating the previous night's attack trajectory and analyzing bodily residue chemical tracers pointed towards underground tunnel entry points where Jiro discovered diabolical digestive vats filled with decomposing human remains.

.........Cybernetically augmented cannibal butchers ambushed them from tunnels before reflex plasma bolts incinerated the raging humanoids into ashes instantly.

.........Jiro guessed devolved tribal enclaves somehow endured inhabiting dead cities conquering all remaining terrain through tyrannical cruelty exterminating weaker elements and

......assimilating whatever flesh might be hunted towards some sustainable infernal existence despite radioactive zones and viral mutagens wiping most surface lifeforms that survived initial outbreak

.......contamination waves decades past already dooming fragile infrastructure and governance capacities towards terminal collapse leaving only anarchic tribalism amid struggling refugees escaping doomed urban centers getting consumed by invading contamination fronts or genocidal warfare campaigns scorching entire regions into uninhabitable oblivion before organized nation states disintegrated utterly leaving....

only feudal warlord reduce dictatorships wielding traumatized legions clinging to order's last vestiges until that too finally gave way towards maelstroms of unleashed chaos now so absolute that this butchery brood somehow endured through ....

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....cannibalistic viciousness too insane almost registering what baseline humanity hopes held before contagion's infinite game assimilated existence into extinction parameters...

.......Disturbed witnessing such devolved sadistic violence perpetuating still despite unlivable surface conditions exterminating most organic life by now,

......Jiro prepared grim field reports for Captain Valez unsure how man-made hellscapes like this ambushed Delta Camp's considerably advanced perimeter systems.

.......Were they betrayed from within through some hidden fifth column or did engines from past era's arrogance still operate somewhere spawning such travesties...

Suddenly proximity alert pings registered heavy engine noise of an inbound IAV Behemoth class juggernaut speeding towards their location.

An imposing figure named Colonel Archon introduced himself as Omega Containment Protocols Service commander of GENMORSK Regional Headquarters governing vast territory by Extermination Mandate authorized by central Committee directors.

Displaying Biometrics credentials and Contamination Sentry badges authorizing unrestricted Population Adjustment powers, Archon demanded.............

Jiro's squad inside the ominous battle transport headed back towards Delta Camp immediately.

Through thick armor Jiro overheard bursts of disciplined gunfire echoing

- summary justice carried swiftly it seemed under martial declarations beyond civilian oversight anymore. What other secret orders propelled this Apocalypse authority and who were they ultimately answering towards...

Route Archon referenced

"Inherited Sins of Arrogant Ages"

past and sworn duties protecting innocent lives today despite the staggering scale this immortal Enemy endlessly adapts transforming hostile threat dynamics that now redefined victory thresholds from battlefield triumphs towards mere civilizational survival however possibly fighting backwards almost. When Jiro pressed for details on what CPS understood about yesterday's mysterious perimeter attack daring strike behind state-of-the-art fortification barriers in place protecting Delta Camp bastion housing nearly 5,000 survivor refugees by latest census data, Archon chose words cautiously admitting multiple classified containment failure reports recently filtered upwards through state emergency channels. New R&D models feared unless zero contamination vectors breathe anywhere somehow then dragon lines will advance assimilating perimeter zones faster than desperate communities barely enduring catastrophic landscapes may mount defensive perimeters anywhere anymore.

Jiro studied Archon's cryptic words and the imposing extermination cycles his Omega Authority wielded towards population threats defined expansively giving authoritarian

powers that wartime citizenship struggles to restrain ever vigilantly against state forces tempted abandoning democratic vision towards peace-seeking security instead through tyranny's fearful order commanded.

Sense758Quandaries multiplied Jiro's survival quest forward holding innocence safe amidst legacies still demanding blood.

As their battle transport approached Delta Camp shelter gates where thousands now faced peremptory judgement scales weighing values that echo still from yesterday's deeds down streaming inevitably,

Jiro steeled himself ready for revelation's reckoning that fell this day...