The Old Followers...

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gearshift48 (Well yes, but no.)
Still though you have started a potential interaction, the others still looking either downwards or towards a wall.

The small female arott though begins to nuge herself in a weak atempt to get further away from you...

gearshift48

"........ so quick question they seemed to know what thier.... "past" was, like that one benjamin said his was war crimes or somthing, do any of you know yours?"

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Fort_Master_Gustav
The first thing you see when you come down is a statue, one probably running away, frozen in place, you look for what hes running from and you see another statue in the middle of the room, the thing most pre-alive things were running from. The statue is of the same creature you see everywhere, but its face is warped and scarred, its got major slashing holes in its stomac area, and the most noteworthy being the weird tentacle-like arms grown out of its back, the arms grabbing onto any victim in its near vicinity.

Fort_Master_Gustav

They get closer to the being with the tentacles, remove one of the cannisters from the hips of one of the troopers, and glue it to the surface of the monster. They carry onwards.

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gearshift48
Silence, as the most ignore you exept the female whos just sitting there terrified by you...

gearshift48

looks over at the one terrified “are you ok?”

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gearshift48
The female now begins to calm down, its still not answering but its just looking downwards at the ground...

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Fort_Master_Gustav (Whats in the cannister?)

You look around the destroyed room, past all the bodies, till you find another stair downwards, the problem though is that downwards you hear buzzing noises, probably from a large ammount of bugs.

gearshift48

"...... ok i guess nobody can talk..." (they are chained up correct?)
if yes: spear reappears

Fort_Master_Gustav

The suits are all very well enclosed and armored with multiple layers, quite complex though simple-looking, though easily produced. And as such, they shouldn't have many problems with bugs, even if they did, they have quite the weapon against such lifeforms, including the flamethrower of one of the golems.
They descend in the same formation as beforehand.

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Fort_Master_Gustav (i totally expected a flamenwerfer)
You look downwards of the stairs, and you come down to a prayer-looking room, probably a past church. You see a gigantic bug, with its thousands of servants, buzzing around, they all spot you and the noise of buzzing gets x11 as the smaller bugs begins zooming towards you...

(PS: The room and most of the things around you are wood or semi-wood meaning a flamethrower would be a bad choice :/)

(PPS: The smaller bugs look kinda like bees, but instead of stripes theyre just orang, theyre also about the size of a human head.)

(The biggest bug looks like this: )
image https://forum.cosmoteer.net/assets/images/5995-XDBZnimnKTr0kJo3.jpeg

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gearshift48
Now, multiple of them finally notice you, but they notice the spear first and they now are cowering in fear, some talking in an unknown language, but one of them speaks intergalatic language.
The female one who noticed you first you hear say:
"No, no, no... i beg, i dont want to die."

Fort_Master_Gustav

The solution to this particular conumdrum is a rather simple one. One of the troopers pulls one cannister from its hip, and with it, the pin holding it to its hip goes flying off. It drops the cannister on the ground and surely, a few seconds later, a green and thick gas starts emanating from inside.
The bugs try to fly through the haze, and sure enough, they don't come out the other end. Instead, they can be found as small puddles of a green goop on the floor, completely melted away by the extremely harsh corrosion caused by the gas.

gearshift48

the spear tip glows before blasting..... the chains away, destroying them and freeing the arrots, also if it actually does manage to a cidentaly hurt the arrotts it’s the equivalent of a taser to them

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gearshift48
The arotts now look at the chains, but not doing anything, they just sit there and look at the broken chains questioned...

(If youre confused its cause the curse draws the victim to the claw empire, now they have the option of freedom theyre conflicted between their own intrests and the infections effect, leaving them kinda deactivated.)

gearshift48

leaves the area, though watching cloaked again, just kinda waiting for Iether them to do somthing or The black arrots to return

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gearshift48
After you hid away for like half an hour you see poofs of black feathers come and the normal arotts revealing themself, and they begin to do work as normal, putting the released slaves back into shackles and taking them to the digging site.

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Fort_Master_Gustav
The bee-like being notice the threat and buzz in a weird way, suddenlty the queen begins to shreick in a deafaning noice and flies charging towards your troops even making it through the smoke unscaved.

Fort_Master_Gustav

The whole squad doesn't seem threatened by the screech, or at least affected by it. They stand a bit far away from the plume of green smoke. When the queen makes its way through it, one of the golems wacks it over the head into the ground, and keeps one of the feet atop it, immobilizing its movement. The sole of the feet of the golems seems to be quite a hard metal, and does not buckle due to the small size of the being, comparatively.
One of the troopers pulls another grenade out of its belt, this time one with a pink label, and puts it close to the queen on the ground. It appears to be some kind of extremely potent knock-out gas, capable of putting into coma a being the size of a polar bear.

gearshift48

watches along the digging site, returns to orbit and looks around the nearby planets/systems, how spread out even are they...

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Fort_Master_Gustav
The gas goes perfecly, but the smoke is fading, and the bugs are fullon ready to strike. It does not seem safe to be at this level any more as theyre to angerd.

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gearshift48
You see two gass-giants more outwards to the planet you were just at, and two earthly planets closer to the sun.