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[beautifulspaceraptor]

This is Nihlus Kryik from Ingress Security. As you may have heard, we are currently fighting an invasion of small, robotic insectoids. They eat anything metal with live circuitry underneath it, so cut power to whatever nonessential systems you have on you and strip off metal armor if you can. They do not seem interested in the MIDs or small wearables.

If you have any further knowledge of what these things are, their weaknesses and origins, then sound off here. If you are currently trapped anywhere and in need of assistance, sound off here as well.

If there is anyone in the engines or tower, please report the current situation here and tell us if you need backup immediately.

As a general rule, do whatever you can to keep them out of our vital systems without further damaging them. If you are non-mechanical, they will ignore you even if you attack them: their only goal is to eat.

Please be safe.

Comments

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[knaval]

Wow, you look like Cyclonus.

Also, they don't like the cold. Or being crushed.

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[beautifulspaceraptor]

Really? He has no mandibles as far as I can see.

And thank you.

[He's too polite to say they already figured out the crushing part at least.]

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[knaval]

You gotta wonder with a face that weird...

[he shakes his head.]

How have you been handling them?

[beautifulspaceraptor]

[Nihlus is just going to resist rolling his eyes at the implication that his face is weird. Your face ain't any less weird to him, guy.]

I've been cutting them to pieces, mostly. It's tedious, but I've been more focused on trying to save the equipment they're gnawing on for the most part.

[knaval]

Try spraying them with water or one of those red cans humans usually have about. That sprays the white stuff? Usually at fires.

[that would be fire extinguishers.]

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Not quite feasible around sensitive electronics, but I will keep that in mind for open spaces.

[knaval]

Wait, it's for fires and they can't spray them at electronics? Have organics not figured that out yet?

[HAHA YA'LL SUCK]

Um. Well. Just run, I guess. Do you have any metal on you at all?