Cheshire, England (level)/Transcript

Lights Out at Northern Command

An image of VTOLs leaving Nottingham is shown


 * Rachel Parker: [voiceover] The Nottingham operation was a success. I sent the troops back to Southern Command for a well-earned rest. I was taking Hale to the Intelligence Division at Northern Command for debriefing. [A map showing the route from Nottingham to Cheshire is shown] I radioed Northern Command on our approach. No response. [An image of Parker, Hale and a squad of soldiers disembarking from a VTOL is shown] As we landed, I could already sense the worst; the whole place was deathly silent.

''Hale, Parker and the soldiers enter Northern Command. As they approach the atrium, Hale notices something on the ground; the body of a British soldier. Suddenly, the walls and ceilings begin to shake, dust falling all around. Hale looks up, and then shoves Parker aside''.


 * Nathan Hale: Look out!

Hale shoves Parker to safety, then leaps aside as part of the ceiling collapses.

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Gameplay

An Imminent Threat

A map of Northern Command, showing the location of the specimen tank is shown


 * Rachel Parker: [voiceover] I'd been trying to radio Hale since the cave-in. I knew how the Chimera had found Northern Command, and more importantly, I knew why. They were after what the convoy had been carrying in Manchester. [A series of images showing schematics of the specimen tank are shown] It had been carefully sealed in a specimen tank inside our research lab. We thought it would be unable to call the Chimera from within the tank. We were badly mistaken. There was no way to warn Hale of the danger he was in. If he opened that tank, the result could be disastrous. What was inside would either kill him...or control him.

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Gameplay

The Map Room

''Hale bursts into an abandoned room; he is inside the headquarters of the British Intelligence Division. Files, papers, reports and other intel is scattered everywhere. Hale begins to leaf through the information''.


 * Rachel Parker: [voiceover] I knew Hale would eventually find the map room. Everything we had learned about the Chimera in the past two decades was in there. We had maps of the Chimeran invasion spreading through Russia, autopsy records of Chimeran creatures, charts of the death tolls across Europe. These were numbers we didn't even disclose to our own soldiers. There were files that showed the progression of the Chimeran virus in humans; in over 6000 cases, there were no records of any form of human resistance. There were also detailed schematics of our specimen tank and what was in it. We call them "Angels". They're the most powerful of all the Chimera. We believe the Angels control other forms of Chimera via some form of telepathy. For all I knew...this one was already controlling Hale...

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