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                              <p><b>Summary</b>: Wiry fast and fierce, Lerks excel 
                                at attacking from a distance, but also have a 
                                vicious bite. They are small and light - making 
                                them difficult targets, but less resistant to 
                                damage. If Skulks are hit and run artists, then 
                                Lerks are guerrilla fighters without peer, using 
                                their speed, mobility, and range to harass marine 
                                squads with impunity.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[<a href="alien_lerk_name.html">Name</a>]</p>
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                                    <p><i>&quot;We're hacking through dead wiring 
                                      like we're on a freakin' safari, trying 
                                      to get at a node that's supposedly on the 
                                      other side. After half an hour taking turns 
                                      with our knives we break through into the 
                                      Archive, crystal memory stacks big as redwoods, 
                                      silent and dark, waiting for the Mercantile 
                                      League to return and continue filling them 
                                      with delinquent loans, pending legal suits, 
                                      and every pack of peanuts they've shipped 
                                      across all creation. <br>
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                                      We're standing there, wondering if we shouldn't 
                                      accidentally discharge a few clips, when 
                                      a spore cloud fills up the tunnel behind 
                                      us, and spikes start hailing from the shadowy 
                                      catwalks high above. We try to find cover, 
                                      but there isn't any &#150; we consider climbing 
                                      the ladders up, but being stuck on a ladder 
                                      with a Lerk around is suicide. Instead we 
                                      start unloading our lmg's into the air, 
                                      hitting metal and memory stack more than 
                                      anything, flakes of falling crystal glittering 
                                      in the flash of our muzzles. The spikes 
                                      become more sporadic. Deej takes out his 
                                      welder and starts cutting into a maintenance 
                                      crawlspace; a sporecloud bursts around him 
                                      and he leaps back, cursing. Another cloud 
                                      sends Nem and Lestah diving from the far 
                                      wall. So I say 'f-this', and switch my pistol 
                                      for my grenade launcher. Someone says, 'what 
                                      are you-' then poom poom poom, I launch 
                                      three way up into the darkness. My squadmates 
                                      stare at me like I'm insane. 'What,' I say, 
                                      'you want to die slowly?' One grenade clatters 
                                      onto a catwalk, the other two just hang 
                                      in the air, and then the whole place comes 
                                      down around our ears.&quot;</i></p>
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