Zero2t

HEART OF THE WORLD MACKENZIE COUNTY, AB 11 NOV 2011, 01:37 MST Six towers rose from the tundra, bristling with weapons. Most of them were various calibers of flechette launchers. Plasma launchers had been considered, but the recoil would cause vibrations that would throw off the accuracy of the other weapons. Nestled in among the launchers were some new toys – each tower had an ion accelerator running up its middle, with a magnetic deflector at the top to aim it. Duncan hoped that relativistic beams of cobalt-60 ions would do nasty things to their foes. The drone factories were still growing in size, and running full tilt to produce hundreds of the new Type-XIV drones. Each had multiple short-range cobalt pellet turrets arranged with full coverage around them. The fragmentation warhead was clad in a thin layer of cobalt-60 to ensure it maximized the damage to the demons. They were fast and maneuverable, and had a limited AI to hunt for clusters of mites without oversaturating