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- The endless pages of numbers here represents a goldmine of information to someone trained in the intricacies of interdimensional travel.
- It's funny, isn't it? Well, maybe not to you, but it is to me. The way I see it, all of you villain scum are just a pack of fakes anyway. You go around like schoolyard bullies and never deal with any real responsibility. Trying to conquer or blow up the world because it doesn't fit you, or you've had some hard knocks. Pathetic.
Well, you're all fakes. And now you, you're just faker than the rest.'
- The Longbow Commander had some strange things to say after you defeated him:
'Have you found it? We did, but we couldn't get the warning out in time to our own people. We know how to fight Nemesis Automatons.
- This computer virus was designed specifically with Portal Corp's systems in mind. Loading it onto one of their computers should interfere with their network for some time.
- Captain Rick Deckard was more than willing to talk when you caught up with him:
'Easy, easy! No need for all that. Look, I know you don't want to believe any of this, but I swear it's all true. You shouldn't be fighting us, you're one of us. I know, I was there. It wasn't easy, believe me. Everyone said that you weren't ready, but the original was in too good a position, we had to do it. What you need is, you need to see it. They kept the original, you see. Since you weren't quite done, they needed to so they could tune your impersonation. So I'll tell you where to go. Once you see the real you languishing in our prison, you'll know the truth, and you should reboot.
You won't have anything to worry about after that.'
- Despite the books title, it seems to be all about how the Circle makes their portals. It's written in their own language, but copiously illustrated. On further perusal, it looks like the book isn't so much about portals in general, but that it's summing up how certain aspects of portal creation pertain to a much larger project.
- What first looked like the real Prussian Prince of Automatons proved to be just a hollow shell driven by gears. You'd heard rumors that Nemesis had built robotic duplicates of himself to help out his soldiers, but this is something else.
- The information on this computer is some sort of telemetry data from a Nemesis Army automaton. There are records of its actions and interactions over the course of several interdimensional trips. Then you realize that the adventures and exploits recorded here don't just parallel your own journeys, they match them exactly. Everything you've said, every enemy you fought, it's all right here. It's as if something recorded every minute of your life for some time, and then had a Nemesis Automaton report it.
- These are the blueprints for an incredibly complicated machine, a Nemesis Automaton capable of passing as a super-powered individual. The technology used to disguise it is incredible, and there are pages of sub-plans linked just to replicating the target's powers. Then you realize that the powers they're talking about replicating mechanically are the same as your own. Looking back at the rest of the machine again, you can see it: It's dimensions, it's features, the notes on personality quirks and associations, it's all about you. These are plans for a duplicate of you.
Most chilling of all are some notes at the end. They talk about how they had to move up the time table. About how they had to deploy it before final programming was complete. About how the duplicate will think it's the target, and will even violently deny its true nature to the point of making itself hallucinate if it has to. And about how the duplicate's deployment has already been successfully implemented.
- This is a sample of the spores of the strange slime-creatures called the Hydra. The Rikti seem to use these things as biological weapons. It's no wonder Arachnos is interested in them as well.
- These orders are in code, but probably detail some of Longbow's interdimensional deployment.
- Nemesis's computer technology is wholly unique, but you've seen enough of it by now so that you can navigate it. This machine is linked to one where Nemesis Army disinformation specialists had been hard at work creating fake evidence to hid your planned kidnapping. Older files document the careful work they did to falsify your capture and even fake telemetry from your supposedly robotic self. Lies, all of them, but expertly done.
- This after action report details the Nemesis Army's successful capture of a villain. The report lists assets, personnel, and equipment utilized and lost. It also has several commentaries from Nemesis Army personnel on scene. As you're paging through them, you realize that the preparations they made and the containment facility they prepared for the target, all of it's meant to handle powers just like yours. Then you see the photographic record of the capture. It's you. All of them, all the surveillance pictures, it's all you. Not an alternate you, not you from another world. You remember the seconds of time caught in the first few photos. But that can't be right, because the next set of photos show the Nemesis Army capturing you in a fierce battle. A battle you don't remember. And the report talks as if they'd already successfully captured you. The final page talks about how the 'Duplicate's programming was still incomplete, but that the opportunity was just too good to pass up.' A final picture shows Nemesis Army soldiers activating a Nemesis Automaton with your exact features.
- These reports from the Nemesis Army Exploration corps cites dozens of different parallel dimensions and list the coordinates for many of them.
- These captured pieces of Rikti technology are made to find ways to signal the aliens. Hook them into the right equipment, and they'll even do it across dimensions.
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