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| - The Guardian rides into the next area, where a Splicer battalion is defending the entrance to a bunker. A few Servitors dot the outside area, and a Splicer Vandal fires from a sniper tower.
* GHOST: Detecting a high concentration of SIVA shielding the gun emplacements.
* SALADIN: Even SIVA enhanced shields would require an energy source. But be careful. There's something familiar about all this.
* GHOST: (sarcastically) Right! Destroy the familiar generators, and then take down Shiro's... "zombie guns".
* GHOST: Shield power levels are dropping.
* GHOST: That's it! Shield is collapsing. You should be clear.
* SHIRO: Guns are upstairs. Take 'em out!
* SHIRO: If I didn't know better, I'd say the Splicers were creating a beachhead. Something of this scale could be used against the City.
* GHOST: So, those destroyed guns? SIVA un-destroyed them.
* SHIRO: "Undestroyed"?
* SALADIN: Look for a central SIVA node inside those emplacements! Destroy that and it will break the Fallen's hold on the gun.
* GHOST: Get ready! Fallen are sending reinforcements.
* SHIRO: Keep it going! Air support is standing by, but they can't do much while those guns are still up!
* SHIRO: Great job! Hawks are inbound! Just hold the area until they get here!
* GHOST: Uh, Shiro? I'm pretty sure that air support isn't going to get here in time.
* SHIRO: Saladin?!
* SALADIN: (urgently) It's directing the corruption to resurrect the guns!
* GHOST: It's working!
* SALADIN: Centuries passed and I have learned nothing. Shiro, can your forces secure that area?
* SHIRO: We'll do our best.
* SALADIN: Try. I need the Guardian to return to the Temple. If we are to avoid the mistakes which led us here, he/she and I must speak about the fall of the Iron Lords.
* LORD SALADIN: This may not make sense to you, but it took your fight to remind me that immortality is not the same as invincibility.
* GHOST: I don't understand.
* SALADIN: When the Ghosts first found us, those who were chosen were blessed with power, but not wisdom.
* SALADIN: The Iron Lords came together in search of a solution to mankind's struggles. Instead, we found SIVA.
* SALADIN: We dreamt of using SIVA to build starships, colonies... we would become what the Traveler always believed we could be.
* GHOST: But something happened.
* SALADIN: SIVA had been lost to time. When Timur tracked it to the Cosmodrome, we thought our quest was finally over. SIVA would be ours for the taking.
* SALADIN: Rasputin responded.
* SALADIN: More than a hundred Iron Lords entered the Plaguelands. In the end, only nine reached the replication chamber.
* SALADIN: But since we were chosen by the Traveler and our cause was just, we were certain the day would be ours. Until SIVA took control.
* SALADIN: It infected our weapons... our armor. The corruption puppeted us against one another.
* SALADIN: In the end, Jolder sealed the chamber with the Iron Lords inside, rather than let SIVA escape. A battle was won... heroes died... and our mistakes stayed here.
* GHOST: (confused) But Rasputin survived?
* SALADIN: This is not Rasputin. But neither is it something I know how to fight.
* SALADIN: They are using SIVA in ways we never even imagined.
* GHOST: How would the Fallen have learned more about SIVA than the Iron Lords? Or better yet, where did they learn?
* SALADIN: They haven't mastered SIVA yet... this is all still new to them! See Tyra. She's studied SIVA's origins. If there's a way to track the Fallen's discoveries, she will know where to look.
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