Ukrazol Commander

## Tactical Information

* **Pitiless Alien Intellect**: The Ukrazol themselves rarely take to the field in large numbers, as semi-aquatic life forms they are more at home in the water, but when they do they never leave home without combat exoskeletons to fit their highly inflated opinions of themselves, with even the most basic of their kind making use of heavily tripedal warsuits that pack a hard-light repeater disc, electron disassociation grenades, and projectable flayer blades that can wreathe their tentacles in lethal destructive energies when the crushing force of their kinetic pincers aren't enough. And of course, Ukrazol are rather large and only get bigger in their suits.

* **Xenological Domination!**: Though Euphemistically called inspiration, the psychic prowess of the Ukrazol is more like a sort of puppeteering, eliminating the capacity for fear, hacking into biologies and machinery to force the body into greater performance while doing the inverse for hostile enemies; in essence bolstering their own forces while hampering their enemies with mentally inflicted sickness and despair. Though the effort to do such a complicated psychic motion usually prevents them from attacking at range.

* **A squid after all**: Ukrazol Commanders are vulnerable to heavy aircraft which can brush off their hard-light repeaters while rapid fire medium calibre or high precision anti-armour weapons are capable of overwhelming their shielding and armour in short order. As battlesuits they are also considered vehicles for the purposes of effects like EMP or magnetic weapons.

* **I find your lack of faith disturbing**: More decorated Ukrazol Field Commanders can spare the extra brainpower to crush at an opponent, immobilising and damaging their direct target while also dragging aircraft out of the skies to what can potentially be their doom, though heavy aircraft can resist this for quite a while.

## Unit History

**Legion Security, Spartan National Security co., Janus Solutions Ltd., Oedipus Committee productions, etc.**

**Official Report To: Board of Classics, selected senior executives**

**Subject: Transcript of Anomalous Diplomatic Contact**

Context: Following the anomalous incident in Africa in the midst of Operation Arx, our office in the Tethys War-Sprawl in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast received an abnormal transmission requesting a meeting with select high profile personnel of both military and corporate natures offering substantial payment. Tracing the transmission revealed that the source was coming from mid-earth-orbit roughly geosynchronous to the Tethys sprawl, but observation in the visible light spectrum revealed no satellite in the area.

While it would normally be against protocol to grant such a request, a follow-up transmission pinged a level-ultraviolet clearance code that attracted the notice of the board of classics representative on site and we were ordered to allow the contact to proceed. Within an hour, aerospacecraft had entered the Tethys War-Sprawl's airspace on a descent trajectory from orbit and unloaded a substantial number of extraterrestrial contacts. As per the board rep's orders we were not to engage what turned out to be a diplomatic mission.

8th, August, 1969

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": Humans of means, we have been tasked with a mission of apology and understanding.

REPR, "Kate": Hello, I'm Kate, I speak for the Board, got a term of address to start off with?

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": You may refer to me as Gylaxik. Those I speak for understand that there has been an incident between our forces in Africa, but continued conflict is not to our design.

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": Though I commanded forces in that conflict, I do not see barbarism in your people. I understand that yours is a society of commerce, correct?

REPR, "Kate": Business it is then? Those assets in the horn weren't exactly cheap.

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": We appreciate this, and offer recompense in exchange for understanding.

REPR, "Kate": Oh? Go on.

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": Your planet's curiosities are of value to our Ecumene spread throughout many galaxies. We would very much like to control it, it is our sacred task to bring civilisation's winds to desolate barbarians. but we understand the need for local allies in this endeavour.

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": I have partaken in the civilising of many societies in my time, and rarely have I seen one that understands the need for the proof of merit for leadership and power as yours does. My superiors agree, you are worthy.

REPR, "Kate": Is this just a flattery call?

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": Hardly, we have, should you show interest, a system for currency exchange to facilitate discrete transactions. Secret you must understand yes, but we also offer gifts to show our sincerity.

REPR, "Kate": I've noticed you're walking around in a pretty spiffy battlesuit there.

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": My kind are more oceanbound than yours, but do not mistake that for weakness on land. Call off your emasculated pet psychic, do not think me a target for such basic efforts at mind-reading.

REPR, "Kate": Well it was an idea at least...Johnson, stop it, they know.

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": Wise. Now, bring your attention to this container and feel free to use its contents.

REPR, "Kate": One of your human pattern battlesuits? I've seen footage of these, you don't seem to have many.

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": We have so far had few human auxiliaries created. Necessity breeds production, and our own forces suffice for the moment. Technology such as this and the riches of billions of stars can be yours, if you come to agreements with us. We will be pleased to compensate you for the losses in...Africa yes?

REPR, "Kate": Pardon me, but I know the business well enough to know nobody with mindsets like ours offers deals this generous without a hook.

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": Perceptive. You are mercenaries, yes? We wish to prepare a contract of service for when the time comes.

REPR, "Kate": What sort of service?

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": Every conquest requires auxiliaries and collaborators. This can be you, and your reward will be generous. Including access to our markets, places of power in you society, and substantial advance payments.

REPR, "Kate": Doesn't take a genius to figure that you're planning to invade at some point then?

CMDR(?), "Gylaxik": Look at the state of your world and tell me if it wouldn't be bettered by forcing it under the rule of those of us who understand that only those with something worth saying should speak?

REPR, "Kate": Now that is a point. I have the all-clear from the board. Gylaxik, I'm hoping that we'll have plenty of business in the future.