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Edited by Bertimus Magnus: 1/27/2015 2:16:26 PM
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What happened?

As many of you have probably noticed while conducting your business throughout the different areas of the Cosmodrome, there are many skeletons. The first mission has skeletons located in the bumper to bumper gridlock of cars; in fact you were one of these less than fortunate souls when you were reanimated by your ghost. There are skeletons sitting at control panels and on benches within the several Cosmodrome structures. I find this odd and it adds more mystery to a question that has been on my mind from the time I completed the story. What exactly happened here? Two points stand out in my mind when I observe these remains. First, they were in the process of conducting normal, or in this case emergency, daily functions when they died. They are manning their stations at the control panels. Please disregard the pun, but they might have been an emergency skeleton crew attempting to finish whatever mission that was being conducted at the moment. Possibly a mass off world evacuation was being attempted. Second, I believe they were aware of the imminent catastrophic event that was approaching. The rows of cars appear to be a massive traffic jam, the kind we see during the evacuation of large cities when a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, is eminent. In both cases it appears they were all killed instantly and in massive numbers. It is as if a switch was flipped ending their lives as fast as a light shuts off. What power does our enemy possess that is capable of causing death on this scale and in this level of epic totality? Was it a biological weapon, a weapon of pure destructive energy, or a massive military force executing mass genocide on earth’s population? Did this happen on a world wide scale simultaneously or was it regional? What do you think happened? Edit: Grammar correction.

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  • Someone fired the Halo rings. D'uh. But seriously that's one possibility: that the human population was a liability. A potential asset to the enemy. So Rasputin had to wipe out the population to halt the enemy's progress. Either way there would have to be an actual strategic reason for not just abandoning the population but actually hurting them, and that's the only one I can think of. Perhaps it's like our Ghosts - if they find enough remains they can re-animate a corpse and turn it into a devastating weapon (a Guardian). The Hive, perhaps, consist of legions of re-animated corpses. Whoever they kill, they resurrect as a soldier of darkness. Hence why have mainly stayed dormant on the moon - without a supply of fresh corpses, their army cannot grow. To launch an invasion would risk total defeat, as for every Guardian killed they would lose hundreds from their ranks. Incidentally, the three codewords Rigor, Apex, Skyshock, take the first letter of each and they spell RAS...

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    • Give me a 5 page paper, double spaced on the cause of the cosmodrome collapse.... Due by Friday class

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      • In the rasputin grimoire card number 3 I believe. It seems he puts in place a plan to stop the protection of earth and signs off. My guess is he knew we wouldn't win so he lived to see another day and hope we could hang on so he could make his return and finish off the darkness. Again just my guess please poke the holes in it.

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        • Walmart had a big sale and they were all trampled to death.

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          • Edited by ninemil: 1/26/2015 2:54:51 PM
            I'm guessing Rasputin happened. He lured his opposition into attempting a terrestrial landing, and then let off every dispersible warhead he had at his disposal. As he states in his grimoire card, 'I cast off the shield and I shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash.' The last thing an incoming invasion force expects is for their opponents to self-immolate their population centres with no disregard for civilian casualties. Having secured access to the Black Garden, (Traveller's center,) they likely cut their losses, expecting almost nothing to have survived. They weren't entirely wrong, if that was the case.

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