Welcome to S-23 Sierpinski. Or, what's left of it anyway. On this desolate mining camp that the Nation calls a 'planet', a sickness began spreading out. Nothing too big; the facility has quarantined outbreaks of typhus and such before.

But...it kept spreading. Soon, many Eule units -- so important to the day-to-day functions of the complex as they are -- also began getting infected and missing as well. Then, by the dozens, many Gestalts began contracting it too. Though...having much worse symptoms than the Replikas. Often expiring within hours to days.

Once it got bad enough, the Protektor units began herding you and the rest of the remaining Gestalt units into the mine where you usually work. But you're not content to let yourself die here.

Soon, even those Protektor units disappeared. So, you now find yourself ascending floor-by-floor to the surface, via the elevator.

Then, at one floor...the elevator stops. That's...bad. With whatever you armed yourself with, you prepare it, as the elevator doors loosen, the rusted walls then sliding to the sides.

It's...an Elster unit. That's...odd. Elster units are combat engineers. Aren't they supposed to be military-only?