"This one's dead as well." Xanthiana had spent the better part of the day going from drop pod to drop pod finding the results of a mistimed night drop in an unfamiliar battlefield. Over half of the Ark Hunters never survived impact due to either being killed on the way down, or the drop pods failing in one way or another. Xanthiana mentally made note to never again fly.
"This is tragic Xan, there were original casualty estimates, but this far exceeds them."
"I don't really want to know why there were estimate casualties to begin with." The dead ark hunter looked to have made it out of their pod a few feet before something exploded them, possibly a rocket, possibly some other horror lurking in the area.
"Well the operation was listed as high risk, high reward, you should have had the odds explained to you before signing on."
"Was that in the orientation I skipped that would have also explained the AI companion?"
"Yes I do believe it was."
"Well now I feel even more sillier for skipping it." Xanthiana continued on, the search was getting a bit more desperate, other Ark Hunters were reporting the same findings. Lot of bodies, lots of destruction, no Karl Von Bach. Xanthiana started to wonder if Karl even made it off the ship, let alone died on the ground.
"You really should attend all necessary meetings Xan, Von Bach Industries strives to have the one hundred percent employee satisfaction."
"Well next time there is a company wide meeting Ellie I'll make sure to put it on my to do list."
"I'll keep you up to date on future correspondence should we connect with an official representative of Von Bach Industries." Xanthiana smiled, Ellie for all her weirdness still had a boundless optimism that was hard to ignore.
"Looking forward to it Ellie."
"Xan I'm getting a call for assistance from a group of Ark Hunters, they are claiming they have a strong signal on Von Bach coming from a bunker nearby, but mutants are swarming all over it." Xanthiana got back on the atv.
"Tell them we're on our way." Xanthiana was tired of sorting through bodies, it was time to start making new ones, hopefully more mutants than fellow Ark Hunters, but she could never tell which way the day was going to go.
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