Filling the void/Transcript

Street Entrance
Cutscene

''An image of a VTOL flying into Rotterdam is shown. The caption "Rotterdam, Netherlands. 30 August 1951" appears.''


 * Rachel Parker: [voiceover] Grayson destroyed the Chimeran anti aircraft gun, opening a window for the Second Squadron. Within hours, we were able to pass through, bringing supplies and reinforcements. [the first image disappears, replaced by one of a makeshift military camp] At a makeshift command centre on the outskirts of Rotterdam, plans were drawn up and assignments made. [the second image disappears, revealing a map of Western Europe] Cartwright would lead a task force south to intercept a Chimeran Earth Mover that was heading towards Luxembourg. I would take the remainder of Second Squadron to Luxembourg, where plans for the attack on Paris were being finalized. Grayson would accompany Bouchard to Bonn- under the command of Maquis Colonel Roland Mallery. [an image of Mallery is shown, which is slowly replaced by one of the dried up River Rhine] Scouts investigating the dried up Rhine River discovered a massive Chimera facility at Bonn. Carriers were spotted outside the structure's dome. [an image of the Chimeran facility, surrounded by Carriers at Bonn is shown] Bouchard and her father had been studying the Chimera conversion process for months. The raw materials used to create new Menials- human bodies- had become scarce after the initial invasion. Hybrids, Menials and Gray Jacks had already begun to vanish by June 1951. [an image of the abandoned conversion centre in Grimsby, being disassembled is shown]. All over Europe, the original conversion centres were found abandoned, in the process of being dismantled by Drones. But this did not mean the Chimera were dying out. Maquis scouts were reporting intensified activity at new Chimera conversion facilities. How were they operating? Where were new raw materials coming from? Bouchard, with Grayson's help intended to find out.

''The images fade. When it returns, a Carrier is shown heading towards the Bonn facility, holding an unconcious human in its tentacles. Behind it, a VTOL heads towards Bonn to land''.


 * Raine Bouchard [Radio]: Look. We can get in through there.


 * Roland Mallery [Radio]: Got it. That's our landing zone. Everybody hold tight.

''The VTOL lands. Fade to black. When it returns, Mallery, Bouchard, Grayson and the soldiers with them have disembarked from the VTOL and are preparing for their mission. Orders are being shouted in French as the soldiers sift through crates, grabbing weapons and supplies. Grayson helps himself to liberal amounts of TNT from a crate''.


 * Raine Bouchard: Roland, grab my notebooks. [she notices what Grayson is doing] What are you going to do with that? What are those for? You think you're going to blow that up? [Grayson stands up and cocks his weapons]


 * James Grayson: Something like that.


 * Raine Bouchard': Look Grayson, you are here because of your field experience. I need you...but we are here to find out what they are doing here. You British, always wanting to blow things up.


 * James Grayson: Hey, I'm okay with that. Look around all you want. But when you're done...this place is going up.

Bouchard shakes her head, then looks to Mallery and nods.


 * Roland Mallery: En marche! Let's move out! [the group begin to head towards the centre] Come on, Tommy. I want you in front of me.

[Fade to black]

[While the level loads, the following text is shown:]

''Chimera Conversion Facility, Bonn, Germany. 1 September 1951''

''Maquis Command has ordered me to accompany Bouchard and Mallery to Bonn, Germany, to find out why the Rhine has dried up. Thousands of Carriers have been seen there, flying in and out of the Bonn dome like bees swarming a hive. Bouchard thinks this is some kind of new Chimera conversion facility. She needs to get inside it, but she won't tell me why. It doesn't matter. This is why I volunteered to come to Europe. I don't care how big their shit has gotten...I'm gonna blow it the hell up.- Pvt. James Grayson, Maquis Mercenary''.

Gameplay

Waterfall Chamber
Cutscene

[A map of Bonn, showing the Chimera facility is shown]


 * Rachel Parker: [voiceover] The Bonn facility was a massive structure that defied all knowledge of human engineering. Not because of the dome itself, which stretched out across fifteen square miles at the edge of the Chimera Construction Zone, but because of the complex the Chimera had built beneath the city. An entire river, one of the largest in Western Europe, passed beneath the dome and vanished, plummeting into a chasm over a mile in depth [an image of the internal facility is shown]. Bouchard's father thought the Chimera were using the water as part of their new conversion process, but without Grayson, she would never live to find out if her father was right. [fade to black]

[While the level loads, the following text is shown;]

''Chimera Conversion Facility, Bonn, Germany. 1 September 1951''.

''Before my arrest, I destroyed well over twenty-six conversion centres, which makes me the closest there is to an expert on these shitholes. But I've never seen anything quite like this one- a subterrranean world hidden below Bonn, and fed by waters diverted from the Rhine River. No way could even the Chimera have built a place like this. It feels more...carved, or excavated. Not knowing would scare most people, but it just makes me wonder if I brought enough explosives- Pvt. James Grayson, Maquis Mercenary''.

Gameplay

Underground Complex
Cutscene

[An image of the facility interior is shown]


 * Rachel Parker: [voiceover] Though the Maquis commanders had ordered Grayson not to destroy the Bonn facility, Grayson knew all along that he would not obey. His time in solitary confinement, the death of his brother, his weeks on death row, all of this had made him bitter towards any military authority, even the Maquis. [an image of Grayson planting explosives is seen] Destroying the Chimera was all that mattered to Grayson. [fade to black]

[While the level loads, the following text is shown:]

''Chimera Conversion Facility, Bonn, Germany. 1 September 1951''.

''I fought alongside Mallery back in Rotterdam- he's a hardened soldier. But Bouchard's capture scared the living hell out of him, and he high-tailed it to safety. I can relate to that kind of fear- the night I found my brother will haunt me the rest of my life. But what I can't understand is why Mallery just abandoned Raine- when I found Johnny, I stuck around and did what needed doing''.

Where Mallery chose flight, I chose fight.- Pvt. James Grayson, Maquis Mercenary.

Gameplay

Incubator Chamber
Cutscene


 * Rachel Parker: [voiceover] In the lower levels of the facility, Grayson had to endure crushing pressure and intense extremes of temperature as he searched for Raine Bouchard. To reach the lower depths, he had just to follow the network of structures that controlled the water flow- the millions of gallons per minute siphoned from the diverted Rhine- which poured through the maze of underground tubing like blood through a vast steel embryo. [fade to black]

[While the level loads, the following text is shown:]

''Chimera Conversion Facility, Bonn, Germany. 1 September 1951''.

''This complex is so deep I'm beginning to wonder if it even has a bottom...or if it's just the long descent into Hell...Finding the power core took longer than expected, and the lost time may cost Bouchard her life. If that's true, I don't regret my choice. Destroying this place was always my primary objective, helping the Maquis was a distant second. If Raine dies here- hell, even if I die- it will have been worth it just to kill some more Chimera.- Pvt. James Grayson, Maquis Mercenary''.

Gameplay