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[Glass]

Check the definitions of each setting, and choose the one that seems best suited to practicing my ability to shoot at targets from a long distance under the least-optimal conditions. If I can do well with that, I should be able to do well with everything.

[Rautherdir]

"The history of such items."

After being given/finding the location of the book, take it to someplace suitable within the library and read it.

[DolosusDoleus]

"Kinda. What would happen, theoretically, if I killed this 'Death'?"

Wiggle my legs. Make sure they work fine.

"I do not know. I am only doctor, put I'm zure zomeone vorking in xenology does. Anyvay, how are new legs feeling? You are lucky, ve had chust enough of your lover pody left to affoid creazion of brosthedic legs."

Your legs feel fine. In fact, they feel better than fine! They react cleanly and smoothly to all your thoughts.

combat simulation is probably the best option, since merely shooting will not cover all the ins and outs of our weapon's handling. Hopefully it supports laser rifles?

Check the definitions of each setting, and choose the one that seems best suited to practicing my ability to shoot at targets from a long distance under the least-optimal conditions. If I can do well with that, I should be able to do well with everything.

The combat simulation does seem to adhere to your desires, so you choose that.

You are greeted with a prompt:
Please select your weapon and armor type. Then select a simulation. Simulation options are ice planet Vonn, fire planet Hoss, ocean planet Wer, and corruption planet Voight-Kampf.

"The history of such items."

After being given/finding the location of the book, take it to someplace suitable within the library and read it.

"Yes, yes, let me grab that for you."

He presses a few buttons on a panel embedded in his desk, and after a few seconds a book falls out of the ceiling to his side.

"This is a good one for starters, 'A Brief History of Alien Tech' by Dr. Jones Solo."

You take the book to a table in the library and skim through the table of contents:
1. Foreword
2. Alien Projectile Weapons
3. Alien Metals
4. Mental Amplifiers
5. Symbiotic Life Forms
6. Afterword

[Glass]

Laser sniper rifle, baseline rifle, and Spider Suit. Set simulation to random.

[Dustan Hache]

laser rifle, TA armor, corruption world. That seems like it will yield the best results.

[Coolrune206]

"They feel pretty much normal. I think that means that everything went perfectly.

Back onto the other topic, may I please have authorization to enter the Xeno-Biology sector? I would definitely like to investigate this whole 'Death' thing a bit more."

[Rautherdir]

Read the section on Alien Metals

[DolosusDoleus]

Laser sniper rifle, baseline rifle, and Spider Suit. Set simulation to random.

laser rifle, TA armor, corruption world. That seems like it will yield the best results.

Enter Co-Op Mode?

"They feel pretty much normal. I think that means that everything went perfectly.

Back onto the other topic, may I please have authorization to enter the Xeno-Biology sector? I would definitely like to investigate this whole 'Death' thing a bit more."

"Vell, um, let me zee if Dr. Rans is fine vith zat."

He shuffles over to a communicator on the wall, and holds hit up to his ear.

"Hello? It is me, Lenffal. I haffe new crevman, asking to talk to zomeone in xeno.

Ja, zey haffe chip imblanded in head.

You sdill haffe to ask cabdain apout zat.

Nein, I don't zink he'll zay nein. He doesn't care. Okay. Zank you."

He hangs up the communicator.

"He zays ja, put if you touch anything he zays he vill 'Echect your ass into sbace zo fast you von't effen nodice zat you can't preathe anymore.' Zo bleaze rememper zat."

Read the section on Alien Metals

Spoiler: Book Stuff (click to show/hide)

Like most alien technology, we do not know either how most alien alloys work or how they are produced. Most alien metals consist mostly of gallium, which is a liquid at just under 30 degrees Celsius. It is well known to scientists that applying an electrical current to a gallium alloy can allow it to drastically alter its shape, but it is yet unknown how the alien metal picks up the will of its owner, or how it is able to react to human neural frequencies and turn such them into the precise electrical charges necessary to make the gallium alloy transform.

The first alien alloys were discovered in the Cerberus system, though oddly enough without any other alien artifacts.

[Glass]

Sure, why not. We'll be working as a team, may as well practice as one.

[Dustan Hache]

yeah, let's go for it.

[Coolrune206]

Head over to Xenobiology. Don't. Touch. Anything. Except the floor.

[Rautherdir]

Read the part on Mental Amplifiers

[DolosusDoleus]

Sure, why not. We'll be working as a team, may as well practice as one.

yeah, let's go for it.

Please wait as the simulation is loaded.

The reality around you flickers out of existence as you find yourselves in what appears to be a ruined building. Reddish-purple fog drifts through the broken windows and doors, so thick you can't see more than a dozen feet outside.

At your feet is a box full of HE grenades and spare ammo, as well as a small pile of boards, a box of nails, and a single hammer.

An overlay appears in the lower left corner of your vision.

Mission Objective: Defend Current Position
Enemy Units Incoming In: 4 Minutes and 47 Seconds

Head over to Xenobiology. Don't. Touch. Anything. Except the floor.

You walk over to the research wing, and knock on the door. Almost immediately, a tall, burly man slams it open from the opposite side.

"Follow me. Don't. Touch. Anything."

He storms off towards the far side of the room, where he almost punches a key code into a panel on the wall, opening up a sealed door.

"You will be talking to Dr. Voss. You will step where he tells you to step. You will breathe where he tells you to breathe. You will touch what he tells you to touch and nothing else or I will personally throw you into the singularity engine. Okay?"

He huffs off before you can formulate a response, and the sealed door hisses shut behind you, leaving you with a handsome 20-something wearing a labcoat with purple lapels and sitting in a revolving chair. Scattered around the room are various glass holding containers holding small alien creatures.

The man spins around in his chair to face you, lounging somewhat. "Sup, I'm Dr. Voss. Dr. Rans said you wanted to ask me some questions about aliens or something like that, right?"

Read the part on Mental Amplifiers

Spoiler: Book Stuff FOR NEEEEEEEERDS (click to show/hide)

Mental Amplifiers are perhaps the most complicated pieces of technology ever found by man. They range from the more basic psychic manipulators, which impose upon reality the wishes of a wielder, to more complex devices which allow for mind control or with a formidable intellect can spontaneously create matter from nothing. Of these more complex devices, only a few exist in the whole universe and are only available to the larges of governments or mega-corporations.

Needless to say, mankind has absolutely no idea how such devices work.

[FallacyofUrist]

How about... some more booze? And when that's done, start thinking. About something, I don't care what.

[Dustan Hache]

grab a couple of spare rifle batteries and practice reloading a bit. Proceed to partially barricade the doorways to force enemies to crawl or jump through.