Operation: Ambulas Reborn/Quotes

Inbox messages and dialogue during the event.

Introduction

OPERATION: AMBULAS REBORN

Tenno,

I have intercepted this disturbing communication from Corpus Board Chairman Frohd Bek. Watch carefully. We cannot allow his project to reach fruition.

—Ergo Glast

• Frohd Bek: "Actualise... synergy... SYNERGISE. Growth... profit... GROFIT?! Fellow profiteers, this is a once-in-a-lifetime strategic investment opportunity. A game-changer in robotic combat solutions. We're taking big data from our Animo Project and doing a full-stack integration into our most lethal combat proxies. This is: AMBULAS, REBORN! But we need you. Your investment will push us past the pre-revenue stage and move Ambulas into full production. We are so close to our goal! Thought leaders, are you ready to pivot downturns into rising Grofit?! Act quickly before— [bell sounds] wait... I'm being told— Yes, this is it! The Ambulas Reborn project has reached its funding goal!"

• Ergo Glast: "The Sequence has raised funds necessary to back this project. Of course, we do not seek to complete it, but to destroy it. Because of our small backing, we're entitled to information regarding the Ambulas production details. Will you help us stop Frohd's project, Tenno?"

Phase One: Collecting Amino Beacons

When dropship arrives

• Frohd Bek: "Here comes the dropship with a special delivery! Ah, I haven't felt this good since they rebuilt my larynx."
• "Our dropship response times are second to none, ensuring prompt delivery in mission-critical roles."

When dropship deploys an Ambulas

• Frohd Bek: "Crewmen, today my reborn Ambulas takes her first steps in the field. You must be thinking, ‘If I work hard and sacrifice as much as Frohd Bek has done, may I someday share in this inestimable profit?' The answer is yes."
• "Corpus investors, ready for a surprise demonstration? I give you my reborn Ambulas. Allow me to show you what she can do to these Tenno, uh, 'volunteers'."

• Ergo Glast: "Men like Frohd Bek are the reason the Perrin Sequence exists. Show him you won't allow suffering to be profitable."
• "Ambulas is only the beginning. If Animo reaches a critical mass of understanding... well, this was the mistake the Orokin made. Things did not turn out so well for them."
• "Animo learns from every Ambulas encounter. Under its command, no two proxies will repeat the same mistake. We can't allow this machine mind to mature."
• "The wealth generated by this new Ambulas will flow entirely to the Corpus Board. Meanwhile, the rest of the System is going to pay for it, some with their lives. Tenno, shut this program down now."

When an Ambulas uses "Fusion Thrower" weapon

• Frohd Bek: "Powerful. Precise. Pitiless. There has never been a fusion thrower like this."
• "One of our engineers commented that Ambulas' fusion thrower is precise enough to shave the back hairs off a Phobian desert flea. Delightful."

When an Ambulas performs ground slam

• Frohd Bek: "Ground-burst technology ensures effortless target suppression."
• "X-axis gravity-driven assaults yield a 200% improvement in kinetic force."
• "Ground bursts register 0.3% survivability for unarmoured personnel."

When an Ambulas uses mortars

• Frohd Bek: "Wonderful."
• "That never gets boring."
• "It's a thing of beauty, isn't it?"

When an Ambulas kills a Tenno

• Frohd Bek: "Is there anything this proxy can't do?"
• "This is the future: Power. Precision. Prestige. The pinnacle of the war-smith's art."
• "Beautiful, is she not? And available. Merely open your accounts, dear investors, and introduce yourselves."

Upon disabling an Ambulas

• Frohd Bek: "Don't just stand there; fix my Ambulas!"
• "My Ambulas! What have they done to her? Fix this!"

• Ergo Glast: "The Ambulas is down. Hack into its systems."
• "This is your chance; hack into that disabled Ambulas."

Upon hacking an Ambulas

• Frohd Bek: "That's all for today. (whispers) Cut the feed."
• "Oh! Uh... have I mentioned our round-the-clock support program?"
• "Wait... wait, what are they doing? [pause] And— and that concludes our demonstration."
• "Obviously, new technology always has its kinks. Wise investors, you understand this!"

Collecting Amino Nav Beacons

• Ergo Glast: "An Animo nav beacon! With enough of those, we'll be able to find where Bek is hiding Animo."
• "That hack blocked the upload of critical tactical data to Animo, while simultaneously giving us a clue to its location. Well done."

Visiting Event Store at a Relay

Displaying wares

• Ergo Glast: "Taken down a few Ambulas in the wild, I see? Very impressive. Those beacons have much value for us. They hold clues to some of Bek's most secretive intellectual property. Information too valuable to be hoarded by one man. Allow me to copy them, and I will reward your generosity with a selection of fine items."

Exiting after purchasing

• Ergo Glast: "The information you have given me today will help the whole System tomorrow."
• "A mutually beneficial exchange – how all business should be done."

Exiting without purchasing

• Ergo Glast: "Good fortune, Tenno."

Phase Two: Showdown

Time to Take Our Fight to Bek

Tenno,

We have located Bek's Animo processor. Now we attack.

—Ergo Glast

• Ergo Glast: "It seems my faith in you was well founded. You've reached the critical mass of Animo nav beacons needed to reveal the processor's location. Analyzing... hmm, I should've known. He's not hiding it at all. It's in his capital ship. The ship is stationed directly over the Ambulas factory. Unbelievable. The most advanced superweapon of our time, and he couldn't resist showing it off like a new toy. When you're ready, we attack."

During Ambulas Assassination Mission

• Ergo Glast: "Frohd Bek, you're nothing if not predictable. I bet your advisors begged you to hide Animo somewhere defensible and undetectable? But you had to show it off, didn't you. As an investor, I must say, I don't approve."

• Frohd Bek: "Glast? You're the shadow investor? You ingrate! You could have had everything. And now you seek to ruin your mentor's hard work?"

• Ergo Glast: "Your hard work? I didn't design Animo to be a weapon. And I would have never disabled its governor."

• Frohd Bek: "You always were clever, but you never did have vision."

• Ergo Glast: "On the contrary, I envision this whole venture will come crashing down around you."

• Frohd Bek: "Each Tenno attack on my Ambulas has been logged, analyzed and refactored from our Animo Project. You've brought these Tenno to their deaths. A terrible miscalculation. You've learned nothing from me."

• Ergo Glast: "Oh, I learned one thing, Bek: never underestimate the competition."

Upon disabling an Ambulas

• Ergo Glast: "Quick, hack that disabled Ambulas and upload this protocol."
• "Opportunity! Hack into that Ambulas and deploy this protocol."

After hacking an Ambulas

• Frohd Bek: "Get a team down there to pick that Ambulas up. Don't let her go to waste."
• "Someone retrieve that Ambulas model before autodestruction kicks in. She can be refurbished."
• "Thanks to your investment, I can keep throwing Ambulas at the Tenno all day."

• Ergo Glast: "They're going to try and fix the hacked Ambulas. Don't let them. It's crucial that Bek takes it back onto his ship as is."
• "Whatever you do, don't let them fix that Ambulas."

After the dropship retrieves a hacked Ambulas

• Frohd Bek: "You fools should have finished the job while you had the chance. That Ambulas will live to fight another day."
• "Glast, how are these Tenno going to finish me when they can't even end what they have begun?"

If dropship retrieves an untampered Ambulas

• Ergo Glast: "No, no! You need to hack the Ambulas before Bek recovers them. This is crucial to my plan's success."
• "Don't let Bek recover un-hacked Ambulas. This is the only way we can defeat him."

When firing ship artillery

• Frohd Bek: "Fire the artillery!"
• "Fire artillery. Scatter those stainless-steel rats!"

After retrieving the second wave of Ambulas proxies

• Frohd Bek: "Everything I own I built. Worked my way to the top of the Board from nothing. You? You create nothing! You earned nothing! You deserve nothing!"

After retrieving the third wave of Ambulas proxies

• Ergo Glast: "You made your fortune on the backs of others, Frohd. Your hard work is their hard work. You let the burdens rain down, while the credits trickle up."

After retrieving the fourth wave of Ambulas proxies

• Ergo Glast: "You could have rebuilt the system, Frohd; instead you've made death machines. What have they done for you?"

Upon delivering the fifth hacked Ambulas

• Ergo Glast: "All we need is one more Ambulas to be returned to the dropship."

Upon delivering the sixth hacked Ambulas

• Ergo Glast: "You're done, Frohd. This ends now."

If the dropship retrieves a third untampered Ambulas (mission failure)

• Frohd Bek: "We could do this dance all day long, Tenno, but you'll never defeat my Ambulas army. Now you're just wasting my time. Give my regards to Glast."

Fight ends

• Frohd Bek: "Throw everything at them. They will not take this away from me. They will not win. They've not earned it."

• Ergo Glast: "I know this for certain, Frohd: you've earned this. I'm sorry, Animo. Execute the protocol!"

• Frohd Bek: "What was that? My ship? Ahh... eject the bridge module. Eject it now!!!"

• Ergo Glast: "Animo... once my pride and joy, has been destroyed. I abandoned the project when I fled the Corpus. I should have known it was too powerful to leave in their hands. The Ambulas proxies still exist, and they are no doubt formidable, but the threat of their super-intelligence is now gone. Thank you, Tenno."

Aftermath

Animo Has Been Destroyed

Tenno,

Frohd Bek bastardized my work. The Animo system was explicitly designed to resolve conflict, not initiate it. In weaponizing the system, he forced my hand. The Animo processor had to be destroyed.

You put yourself at great risk to stop that threat. The Perrin Sequence thanks you and hopes you find this weapon to be just compensation.

Until our next venture,

Ergo Glast

(Attachment:  Supra Vandal)

Recognition for <CLANNAME

<CLANNAME,

Owing to your overwhelming effort in taking down Frohd Bek's Ambulas and its Animo processor, the Perrin Sequence and I would like to present <CLANNAME with this trophy.

We could not have won without your tireless fight.

Thank you,

Ergo Glast

(Attachment: Ambulas Reborn Trophy)