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Data</a> :: <a href="alien_species.html" class="sectionlink">Species</a>
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:: <a href="alien_gorge.html" class="sectionlink">Gorge</a>: Observation</font></span></td>
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<p><b>Summary</b>: Belligerent and obese, Gorges
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serve as a kind of mobile hive and support unit.
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Their most important role is triggering <a href="alien_newhives.html">new
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hives</a> and creating <a href="alien_chambers.html">chambers</a>
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from lumps of raw matter<br>
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they … un-digest. Without them the aliens
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cannot keep pace with <a href="front_commander.html">marine
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research</a> and <a href="front_upgrades.html">upgrades</a>.
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To this end, they receive resources much faster
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than other species, and can tap a larger amount.
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They can also spray <a href="alien_gorge_primary.html">healing</a>
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bacteria from their mouths, restoring chambers
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and other aliens to full effectiveness. Though
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their role is not as aggressive as the other species,
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they consistently find ways to cause mischief
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and support attacks on enemy positions. And with
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their <a href="alien_gorge_inherent.html">spit</a>,
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<a href="alien_gorge_hive.html">web</a> and <a href="alien_gorge_hive.html">babbler</a>
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abilities, underestimating them in combat is a
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dangerous mistake. [<a href="alien_gorge_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_gorge.html">Gorge</a></p>
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<p><i>"[Deej: Andre, crawl over here.
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Stay down!]<br>
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[Andre: on my way.]<br>
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I dropped down between the stainless steel
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laboratory tables, and ran, hunched over,
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to Deej's forward position. At the doorway
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to the room he was in I paused, and slowly
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poked my head around. It was the observation
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area for the testing room beyond –
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designed to protect the viewers from whatever
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dangerous (and probably illegal) experiments
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the Mercantile League was conducting. The
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viewing window ran the entire length of
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the wall. The airlock into the test room
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was not registering on my HUD – it
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must have gone into lock-down mode after
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the gridlock kicked in.<br>
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Deej was crouched beneath the window, motioning
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me over. I got onto my stomach and scooted
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across the floor. When I got alongside,
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he pointed at his eye, then at the window.
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I nodded, and slowly lifted my head to get
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a view.<br>
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The experiment room had a resource node
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in it. A Gorge was building on top of it
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– or more accurately, was ejecting
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from its mouth a thick mass of purplish-orange
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organic goop, that its mucous-dripping oral
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organ was working feverishly to shape, mold,
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and coat with enzymes. <br>
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[Deej: Can we please please kill that thing?]
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I smirked at the text on my HUD, and pulled
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my HMG off my back. He gripped his shotgun.
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We both stood up. The Gorge was facing sideways,
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too occupied to notice us. I glanced at
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Deej, he nodded, and we both opened fire.
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The glass buckled into a mass of pockmarks
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and fissures, but amazingly, held. Deej
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cursed and shouldered his shotgun, pulling
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a trip mine from his belt. I shoved the
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barrel of my heavy into a pock mark and
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the tip just poked through. I held the stock
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up above my head to angle it down into the
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room, and let loose another half a clip
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as the Gorge ran for the back airlock to
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the experiment room. This one was working
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– it began to cycle open. Deej slapped
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the trip mine onto the bottom sill of the
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window so only two of its legs were gripping.
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"Back off!" he yelled, and we
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ran back into the lab room. Mines self-detonate
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if placed "incorrectly". It beeped
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a few times in warning. We expected shards
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to come with the explosion – but there
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was only the mine's concussion, and then
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a ripping sound. <br>
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We ran back to find the window peeled up
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from the sill into a strange curved white
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form, like a frozen curtain. The back door
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had cycled open, the Gorge must have just
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gone through. I covered Deej as he slipped
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through the gap, then pushed my heavy through
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and followed. The HMG is a bitch to run
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with – I shouted for Deej to hold up,
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but he was already through the lock, shoving
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another shell into his gun as he ran. As
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I was approaching the corridor beyond, I
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heard a "schlitch" – the
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telltale sound of a web constricting –
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and the rapid wet sound of alien weapons.
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I came around the corner to find Deej covered
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in glistening strands, frantically shuffling
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backwards as three offensive chambers and
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the Gorge nailed him over and over. From
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behind I heard the glug-glug of at least
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one defensive chamber healing everything
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nearby. I stood in front of Deej and unloaded
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onto everything in sight. The Gorge dropped
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behind the chambers, I took a few hits,
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and Deej and I fell back around the corner.
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His armor was around as thin as cardboard,
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and he wasn't doing much better. Meanwhile
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I heard more movement. Great, reinforcements.
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We'd never take them with the mini-base
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they had going. I shoved him back through
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the airlock and sent a command-request for
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medkits, while the doors began to close.
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I took out my frustrations on the resource
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