Mission:Anton Sampson - Stop Nemesis' Macro Assembler
Stop Nemesis' Macro Assembler
Briefing
Nemesis just deployed one of his Macro Assemblers in the Yellow Rose Cosmetics office building. Have you ever seen one of those machines? It starts out about the size of a dump truck, but once it's deployed, it breaks itself up into all sorts of smaller machines. Then it proceeds to eat the building from the inside out! It breaks down any materials it finds and uses them to construct a new building, one to Nemesis' specifications. It will even break down people if it encounters them! You've got to stop Nemesis' Macro Assembler. You only have 90 minutes to stop it. What's more, the machines are interconnected and can only be deactivated simultaneously. So you'll need at least three teammates.
Mission Acceptance
There may still be people in that building. You've go to get them out of there before they're rendered into glue!
Unnecessary Solicitation
If you don't get over there soon, that building will be beyond repair.
Mission Objective(s)
You hear the rapid clicks and whirrs of the Macro Assembler units in action.
- Defeat Nemesis troops, machines
- 4 devices to stop simultaneously, 4 office workers to rescue
Success: You disabled the Macro Assembler.
Failure:You failed to dismantle to prevent devastating structural damage to the building.
Despite what the mission objective text says, the requirement to activate objectives simultaneously was removed in Issue 25 allowing this task to be completed solo.
Enemies
Debriefing: Success
You did a great job getting rid of that Macro Assembler. If we had let it work much longer, it would have developed even smaller machines that could hide in the interiors of walls, or in air ducts. The whole building would have been demolished! Or worse, turned into a Nemesis fortress.
The original Nemesis advocated a highly mechanized society where all labor was done by robots and every person had a place in a perfect society. He called it utopia, but if you believe in free will it would have been closer to hell. It doesn't surprise me that to see the tradition carried on by Nemesis now, whether or not it's the original Prussian Prince.
Debriefing: Failure
Well, Yellow Rose Cosmetics will have to find a new home office. At least the people got out alive. The city is sending a re-construction team over there now to try and reclaim it before Nemesis' machines turn the place into a fortress or worse. It will likely take years before it's safe again.
The original Nemesis advocated a highly mechanized society where all labor was done by robots and every person had a place in a perfect society. He called it utopia, but if you believe in free will it would have been closer to hell. It doesn't surprise me that to see the tradition carried on by Nemesis now, whether or not it's the original Prussian Prince.