PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
It was forged from gleaming white and gold Aether-steel, standing in stark, pristine contrast to the rotting garbage of the Under-Guts.
The drop-pod’s heavy blast doors were already hissing open.
The Goliath lunged into the wreckage, its mandibles snapping shut.
But it didn't hit flesh.
A blinding flash of localized, golden kinetic energy erupted from inside the drop-pod. The Trench-Goliath, a beast weighing over five tons, was violently launched backward out of the wreckage. It skipped across the surface of the Black Lake like a skipped stone, its massive chitinous chest completely caved in, dead before it even sank.