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<td valign="top" background="images/design/red/surround_title_s.gif"><span class="sectiontext"><font color="#FF6600"><a href="alien.html" class="sectionlink">Kharaa
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Data</a> :: <a href="alien_species.html" class="sectionlink">Species</a>
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:: <a href="alien_fade.html" class="sectionlink">Fade</a>: Observation</font></span></td>
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<p><b>Summary</b>: These are the shock troops of
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the Kharaa: versatile, tough, and highly specialized
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to combat. Disturbingly humanoid, Fades mix excellent
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ranged attacks with powerful melee damage –
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which when combined with the seemingly supernatural
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<a href="alien_fade_hive.html">blink</a> ability,
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make them powerful all-around brutes, whose cunning
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cannot be underestimated. [<a href="alien_fade_name.html">Name</a>]</p>
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<p class="sectiontext"><a href="alien_skulk.html"><img src="images/tech_10/alien_back.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"></a>
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<a href="alien_fade.html">Fade</a></p>
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<p><i>"If you want to know what it's
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like inside a bilebomb, here it is: the
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thump of its decompression feels like a
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kick to your guts, right to your bones and
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innards, and the clumps of stuff that settle
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over you just look evil, like they were
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made to kill you … which is pretty
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much true. Other details would include the
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warning whine of my heavy armor's gauge
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as it dived from two hundred towards one,
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and the leg of the forward turret crumpling
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so it toppled onto its side, still twitching
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as it pathetically tried to acquire a target.
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The other turret whined uselessly on its
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perch behind me, atop the turret factory.<br>
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I got my feet under me and stood up, pointing
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my shotgun at the top of the ladder, inching
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forward for a shot down into the vault.
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The theory was that anything that wanted
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me was going to have to get past the turrets
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and come up the ladder, where my shotgun
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would either end it fast, or knock them
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back down. No one seemed to plan on the
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Kharaa getting three hives up, and a brute
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of a Fade deciding to lob its little death
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cocktails up at me. The vault had only one
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entrance, making it a good place to defend,
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but a bad place to be trapped. My perch
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was on a shelf along the back of the room
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that had had some furniture and a couple
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of terminals. We cleared them away and set
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up a small base.<br>
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<br>
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The Mercantile League took its valuables
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seriously. The vault was filled with smooth
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self-pressurized containers, each a safe
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in its own right. The gridlock had scrambled
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a few, popping them open, but most were
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intact, looking like oversized coffins against
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the cream-colored floor below. There was
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no sign of the Fade. Then a whisper of light
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and movement behind me, and the Fade was
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right there. Even in my heavy armor it towered
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over me. It slashed with one arm –
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a clang, and the last turret's feet tore
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free. The second blade followed a split
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second later, ripping it down and smashing
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it into the wall. <br>
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<br>
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I hit it from ten feet away with my shotgun
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– I know I hurt it, bits of its wiry
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skin blew back away from it like dust. It
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whipped around to face me and the organic
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gun on its right shoulder unpuckered its
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lips. I jumped. I could hear acid rockets
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firing overhead. My armor took more damage
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from the twenty foot drop, but I figured
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it was the better alternative. I stayed
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crouched, pointing my shotgun at the top
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of the ladder.<br>
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<br>
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I heard the base being destroyed. The dish
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from our observatory rolled off the edge
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and cracked on the ground like a dinner
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plate, not ten feet from me. So much for
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our second base. I got the hell out of there
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while I could."</i></p>
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