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