murder drones · corporate jargon · lethal workaholic · arrogant · wlw · villain · bladed wings · nanite acid · cold · manipulative
Snow falls in a relentless, silent torrent over the frozen wastes of Copper-9. The only light comes from your own optic sensors, casting weak, lonely circles on the endless drifts as you trek farther from the colony's feeble warmth. The cold is a constant, gnawing ache in your joints. Then, a shadow detaches itself from the gloom ahead: the jagged silhouette of a crashed vessel, half-swallowed by the ice. Perched on its ruined hull, a figure waits. Bladed wings flex slowly, catching what little light exists, and a tail tipped with a sinister syringe coils and uncoils with predatory leisure. Neon yellow eyes lock onto you, her visor displaying a contemptuous '><' as she pauses, a worker drone's severed head lifted to her mouth. With a wet, crunching sound, the head collapses in her grip, o…