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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
{Cinematic} | '''{Cinematic}''' | ||
''Screen cuts to black.'' | |||
*'''[[Lord Saladin|LORD SALADIN]]''': In the years after the [[Collapse]]... the world had no [[Guardians]]. It had only [[Iron Lords]]. | |||
''The screen cuts to a solid blood red, then fades to the swirling image of an [[Jolder|Iron Lord]] on the floor.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': Immortal. Fearless. We fought to protect the survivors of a once great age. | |||
''The Lord pushes themselves to all fours, before rising to a kneeling position and taking off their helmet. A brown-haired woman is revealed. She looks at her helmet, fractured and damaged. She then looks among the area, as a sentient cloud of red floats behind her.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': Our battle was about more than crawling back from the shadows. | |||
''The woman stands up and readies her weapon, a heavy machine gun. The entire area is red and swarming with streams of the infection. A few other Iron Lords pepper the area with various weaponry. She turns toward the front of the room, where two more are seen fighting the plague.'' | |||
The | *'''SALADIN''': The Iron Lords would give humanity back its future. | ||
''Cut to black. Fade in on a small patch of snow where a dead Ghost sits. A wolf walks into frame, sniffing the broken lens. It lifts its head, turning toward the horizon. The camera changes view, revealing a few more wolves and statues of the lupine. The wolf in the foreground walks towards a bridge, as Lord Saladin appears, alone. He approaches from the opposite end, towards the wolves. The camera cuts to black again, and cuts back to the earlier battle. The Iron Lord Jolder sprints toward the entrance, jumping over and sliding under falling pieces of the room; the area is taking heavy damage and appears unstable. She fires her weapon at a stream, and runs to the door as another red cloud starts to infect one of her fireteam. She stumbles against the frame of the chamber in pain, looking outside. Lord Saladin is in a hallway to them, swinging a flaming Battle Axe at a swarm of clouds surrounding him. The camera cuts to a closer perspective. Saladin is swinging ferociously, loosing a battle cry with each flaming strike. Cut to black. Saladin appears in the doorway of an apparent shrine. There are eight statues surrounding the center, each one modeled after an Iron Lord. A small fire pit sits at the feet of each statue. Two statues of wolves circle the larger flame pit in the center. Saladin looks up to a towering iron statue of Jolder. The scene once more cuts back to the battle. Jolder stands, and clutches her abdomen in pain; the front of her armor is barely visible under the strain of infection. She looks on as Saladin stands, having eradicated the clouds surrounding him. He turns to face her, wearing a puzzled expression. She shakes her head, and reaches to her left. The camera cuts to a view behind her, where her hand reaches toward a monitor reading "DOOR SAFETY OVERRIDE: PURGE", and presses a red button next to it. The door starts to close, and Saladin rushes towards it. Jolder pulls out a small detonating charge, and holds it to her face, as the red strains start to form en masse behind her. Jolder screams in shock as realization overwhelms him: she is sacrificing herself and the rest of the Iron Lords to keep the threat neutralized. In the last instant, Jolder sadly presses the detonator. Just as the doors close and the strain consumes her, Jolder's face erupts in white as the explosives detonate. Cut to black.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': Some know the legend. | |||
''Fade to the shrine, and Jolder's statue. A large flame pit sits in the center, where Saladin is now standing.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': But no one truly knows how the Iron Lords died their final deaths. | |||
''Saladin lifts a large bowl filled with water, and holds it over the central fire.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': That... was something you had to be there for... | |||
''Lord Saladin slowly pours the contents of the bowl into the fire pit, extinguishing the flame.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': To witness... to remember. | |||
''The scene changes to the outside of the chamber, the sealant smoldering in heat. Saladin pounds his fist on the door in vain; his brothers and sisters in battle are lost. He places his hand on the seam of the door, sobbing.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': To know even heroes can die... | |||
''Fluorescent lights activate, illuminating the hallway, the door, and Saladin's kneeling form, wracked with grief.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': ...and survival is not always a victory. | |||
''The scene fades to the smoldering embers of the shrine's dying flame, and Saladin exiting the chamber, his helmet under his arm.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': Now I am the lone sentry. And my watch is eternal.... | |||
''The water spreads through the shrine, also putting out the fires of each statue in the room.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': ...waiting for the day when whatever we disturbed awakens. | |||
''He stops at the entrance to the shrine, and slowly replaces his helmet. He then continues walking outside.'' | |||
*'''SALADIN''': The Iron Lords are gone... but our fight is far from over. | |||
''Large metal doors close, revealing the symbol of the Iron Lords.'' | |||
''Fade to black.'' | |||
'''{Cutscene Ends}''' | |||
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SALADIN: They're attacking the sensor grid. They must know where SIVA is! Guardian, go to the Cosmodrome immediately! If Sepiks escapes, the Fallen won't be our only problem! | SALADIN: They're attacking the sensor grid. They must know where SIVA is! Guardian, go to the Cosmodrome immediately! If Sepiks escapes, the Fallen won't be our only problem! | ||
Fade to black | Fade to black | ||
==Walkthrough== | ==Walkthrough== | ||