Mokèlé-mbèmbé

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### Tactical Analysis

* **River flow*ed* in you:** Meaning "one who blocks the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language, the Mokèlé-mbèmbé may perhaps the most dangerous fighter from the ranks of the APO. A chimeric hybrid of multiple ferocious dinosaurs, the Mokèlé-mbèmbé's industrial-strength bone plating allows it to literally block streams of enemy attacks while dishing out damage equal to that it withstands at land or sea.

* **Against the dying light:** When pressed, the Mokèlé-mbèmbé can be injected with a special serum that puts the creature on a frenzied state, making it immune to crowd control (slows, stuns, etc.) and multiplying its attack power and health to extremes previously thought unreachable by standards for Pangaean creatures. The fact that APO commanders find themselves unable to control the Mokèlé-mbèmbé's rage speaks volumes to the efficacy of the serum.

* **Eventual extinction:** The *innumerable* resources it takes to create a Mokèlé-mbèmbé combined with the short supply of dinosaur DNA in APO's hands allows for a very exorbitant investment in the creature, and can only be sent out to the field one at a time. While it is debated in Soviet circles whether it is an intentional flaw or not, Mokèlé-mbèmbé is still less powerful than the Pangaeans' crown sauropod, Sally; it is theorized that a duel between the two dinosaurs will leave fresh meat from the blocker of rivers.

### Background

*"Is this what the result of the gods' night out looks like?"*

- Fjalarr Reinar Finnbjoernsson, encountering Mokèlé during its first test run.
#### Dr. Wazekwa's Account

**---Recorded from a remote, forested place somewhere in Congo Orientale---**

**Doc. Fernand Wazekwa:** Identify yourselves, prisoners.

**Unidentified female voice #1:** My name's Grace Slick, you Gaia-damned pollutards!

**Unidentified male voice #1:** Pete Townshend, smoghead!

**Sgt. Aymeric Bababaswe:** Spit out more of those nonsensical slurs and Banzai won't be sleeping with any empty stomach tonight, you brats!

**Unidentified male voice #2:** Go on, bring him here and he'll feast on your animal-murdering asses!

**Doc. Anne-Laure Yakoko:** Gentlemen, these tree-kissers have perfected means of enthralling animals. I strongly recommend that we do not release carnivores for interrogation.

**Sgt. Aymeric Bababaswe:** I've read their bourgeois magazines, those names they say are just jester names!

 **'Pete Townshend':**  You call the likes of The Who jesters-

**Doc. Fernand Wazekwa:** Shut your mouth this instant! We know better than feed you to our hyenas, that knowledge you possess in your brains would be worthless once they get eaten.

 **'Grace Slick':**  Do your worst! You won't get a single drop of smarts from us!

**Doc. Fernand Wazekwa:** We don't need to. Epanza, our guests seem to have their throats parched with thirst. Would you mind giving them something to drink?:

**Janitor Nathanaël Epanza:** Yes, Doctor.

--*10 minutes later*--

**Doc. Anne-Laure Yakoko:** Pete Townshend, if that's your real name, you and your research team are aware of the Pangaean invasion of Monrovia, correct?

 **'Pete Townshend':**  Well, we came up with the idea- say, what did your janitor put in our drinks again?

**Doc. Fernand Wazekwa:** My people have a word for it; "Uaminifu", honesty, if you will. Nobody can tell any lies after they drink it.

 **'Pete Townshend':**  Alright... well, the plan was to send a few dinos to munch on you smogheads, you know to protest the all-pervasive huffing from your factories in Yamus... wherever that is...

 **'Grace Slick':**  Fight it, Monty! It isn't you speaking! Come on!

**Sgt. Aymeric Bababaswe:** There's a sawmill outside, child. Do you want to be put there?

 **'Pete Townshend':**  Ivy, I'm saying this out of my own volition. There's a lot of dino bones in Africa, right? Tanzania, South Africa...

**Doc. Anne-Laure Yakoko:** How... were you able to reanimate them?

**Unidentified male voice #2:** Don't cooperate with the enemy, Monty! You swore on your green thumb, man!

 **'Grace Slick':**  Jonas, cover his mouth!

 **'Pete Townshend':**  Well, we build this Tau harmonizer in Buchanan. Had help from the biology nerds in the U of M, though. How it works? Well, you play LEGGIO blocks with DNA, then Jenga after it's done... That's all I can say right now.

**Doc. Anne-Laure Yakoko:** Will you disclose anything else?

 **'Pete Townshend':**  That drink you guys gave me made me unable to lie... but that don't make me say everything.

### Known Activity

* Downed the prototypical Amadioha Demolition Derrick by sweeping the legs with its tail on Cross River State, Nigeria, setting back League technology by years.
* Messily ate a whole team of big game hunters contracted by Superb Solutions in the Congo Rainforest.
* Sunk *MSS Wisteria* and' *MSS Philodendron* when the two Syndicate battleships encountered the Mokèlé-mbèmbé off the coast of Sierra Leone.
* Withstood a full-on Proton Collider barrage while rampaging across the Caprivi Strip.
* Fought Sally to a stand-still before retreating after the Mokèlé-mbèmbé a PLO hatchery on Libreville, Gabon. Sally herself was forced to two weeks for a month before re-deployment.