Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-29646689-20181012011537/@comment-29646689-20181025104816

The Battlegroup is not being directly attacked, and so the troops are relatively relaxed as they snipe other enemies from range.

But all that changed when a beast of a war robot appeared from the entry hallway.

The war robot was the epitome of efficiency and lethality. It was created based off of a template from the Horizon Zero Dawn universe, and has been upgraded so much that it has no right possessing some of its abilities.

For starters, it can:


 * Absorb biomass to generate energy


 * Mass-hack nearby battle droids


 * Create more of its own types using existing materials


 * A bunch more that I don't remember.

Let's call it the Reaper. And, for context, it's about 50m tall.

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The battle droids in the Battlegroup, lacking electronic counter-countermeasures, are instantly taken over by the AI of the Reaper. They quickly turn upon the Clones standing by them, leading to mass panic and rapid Clone losses.

The use of a backdoor shutdown code, deployed by the ARC Captain, causes the battle droids to power down. But the Reaper has just gotten started.

The Reaper launches an unholy amount of missiles streaking through the map, hitting literally everyone (every1 thats hostile), but especially the Clone Battlegroup. From that one assault, a good several hundred Clones are killed.

It then prepares its other conventional weaponry, as it slowly converts the dead Clones (via an esoteric method) into biofuel and materials to spawn more of its kind.

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The Self Propelled Heavy Artillery units blasted the Reaper with their heavy turbolasers, dealing minor damage against its deflector shields. The TIEs converge upon it, but are being taken out by superior point defense cannons.

The X-70K and the All Terrain Mechanical Commando, both controlled remotely by 404, launch combined attacks upon the Reaper. the Mech Commando jumps onto the Reaper and engages in close quarters combat, while the X-70K strafes it from various angles.

[404] It seems I have to finally use a Force Storm. cover me.

Even as the Reaper tears through the Battlegroup, the main battle tanks rain their cannon fire onto the Reaper in an attempt to break its deflector shield. Ion cannons are ineffective against its hardened and protected circuitry.

Seeing this, Otherspace deploys the Mini-Furnace. It (the MiniFurnace) fires a model Furnace blast at the Reaper, before flying around it at high speed and peppering it with heavy autocannon fire. Due to its construction by a Creator, it is resistant to the Reaper's hacking abilities.