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| Court Martial of a Terran Lieutenant | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 12/08/99 07:12 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for IceShadow: 8.2381 |  | (The following was based on a three-way FFA between ^cOiDkIlLa^, Headless_Clown, and _CraZy_ on December 7th, 1999. If you're looking for a report on the game itself, sorry...but this is more of a piece of fiction based on the game than an analysis of tactics and strategies used in the game.)
RED KIRKPATRICK, TDR No. 1023
TARSONIS
23.10.31
GENERAL WENTWORTH: Good afternoon, gentlemen. We are here today to hear and judge the trial of one Lieutenant James R. Goelman, Second Echelon Yellow. Lieutenant Goelman here has been accused of leaving his post recently during a sortie with the Zerg. We're going to listen to his story, ask him some questions, and decide if he's guilty of desertion. Lieutenant, if you would be so kind?
LIEUTENANT GOELMAN: Thank you, General, and I'd like to say that it's nice to be able to state my case, even after such a long time since...since, that day...
GEN. WENTWORTH: Lieutenant, you look shaken. Are you certain that you can continue with this?
LT. GOELMAN: Yes, General. It's much better than sitting in that cell...
GEN. WENTWORTH: Then procede.
LT. GOELMAN: Well...I was stationed on this backwoods planet, one everyone thought held only non-intelligent indigeonous life. It probably did, at one point...anyway. We were setting up camp, putting up the barracks, and all that, when one of our SCV's spotted something. It was large, huge, almost...like some creature from the deep ocean...and, it just, swam through the air, with no visible means of keeping it up there...
GEN. WENTWORTH: You mean, an overlord.
LT. GOELMAN: Yeah, I guess. You say that word, General, like it's straight out of some dictionary. Those...those things...aren't three-inch holograms. They must be at least twelve feet tall, and the way they just float, like they're full of hot air, or something...
Anyhow, we saw that sucker, and we knew there were Zerg around. None of us had any real combat experience with the Zerg. I guess, from what I hear, not many men do...most that go up against them don't live to tell about it. We knew what to expect from the manuals, though, and started getting men suited up to handle the little ones.
GEN. WENTWORTH: Zerglings.
LT. GOELMAN: Yeah. Little guys, really...only come up to about your waist. But they move like there's no tomorrow, hop around like little insects or frogs or something...and then one moves right into you, their claws pushing past your suit...
GEN. WENTWORTH: Lieutenant, I'm sure we can continue this another day, if--
LT. GOELMAN: No! No...I can handle it. Anyway, the first wave of zerglings hit us..but we were prepared by then. We only lost a few men to that initial strike, a couple of SCV suits...but thanks to those fusion cutters on them things, we made short work of those critters. After those men were lost, though, the General wanted some medics to back our men up...so we threw up an academy, and started to train some firebats and medics.
The General wanted to make sure we could handle what we saw...so he sent out us out in a squad to explore. We walked right into an ambush...and suddenly, spines were shooting from the ground, ripping right through men all around me...
GEN. WENTWORTH: So, you ran.
LT. GOELMAN: No, we retreated. There's a difference...we were ordered back until a sattelite could find where the beasts were hiding, and we could attack them.
GEN. WENTWORTH: As opposed to later, when you left your post without orders to do so.
LT. GOELMAN: Please, General, I'm not to that point, yet.
GEN. WENTWORTH: Of course. Continue, please.
LT. GOELMAN: Thanks...at this point, the only Zerg we'd seen were a greenish-blue color. Then, these flying beasts with white wings descended on our SCV line, at the same time as a frontal assault by the green ones...men and SCV's were just exploding, everywhere, as hydralisks, zerglings, and underground spines ripping through us, one one end, and little things bouncing around our SCV's on the other...
Luckily for us, we had six barracks up and running, spitting out marines and medics...some upgrades to our armor, and weapons...and an expansion up and running. We were able to handle all the threats, no problem...and the General ordered a counter-strike.
GEN. WENTWORTH: And who was in charge of that counter-strike?
LT. GOELMAN: I..I was, sir.
GEN. WENTWORTH: Tell us about it.
LT. GOELMAN: We..we...the men, and the medics and I, that is...headed off to the west. We knew the white zerg were based there, and we had to do some damage if we were going to stay alive for much longer.
GEN. WENTWORTH: Describe what you saw, please.
LT. GOELMAN: Y-yes, s-sir. There were large, crab-like things, that shot out acid spores...more of your zerglings...some large tentacles that...that come up through the ground, and attacked us...more of the white-winged fliers...
GEN. WENTWORTH: So, there were zerglings, sunken colonies, guardians, and mutalisks.
LT. GOELMAN: Huh?
GEN. WENTWORTH: The things you just described.
LT. GOELMAN: I don't think so. Those are just mundane words, Sir. Things like, "guardians," "sunken colonies..." no. These were horrifying.
GEN. WENTWORTH: So, what did you do?
LT. GOELMAN: I...I ran.
GEN. WENTWORTH: You left your assigned command, and left those men and women to die.
LT. GOELMAN: I don't know nothing about that. If we had some tanks, or something, they might've had a chance...
GEN. WENTWORTH: The battle was eventually won by our General without the use of any factory unit. However, without a commander, those troops were slaughtered by the zerg.
LT. GOELMAN: Have you ever fought the zerg, commander?
GEN. WENTWORTH: Of course. I oversaw operations on Bligroth II.
LT. GOELMAN: I'm not talking about some window seat in a command center, General. Have you ever stood on that grey shit that surrounds their base?
GEN. WENTWORTH: The creep...and I'd advise you to watch your language, Lieutenant.
LT. GOELMAN: Again, with your words...have you ever been on that..that stuff, General?
GEN. WENTWORTH: No, my stint didn't include any active combat.
LT. GOELMAN: Then you have no idea what it's like! It's alive, General. It moves. You step on it, and hear that sickening *slurp*. You see the acid spores descending from the sky, the tentacles rising from the ground...You have *no* idea what it's like to be unable to see, because of the blood of the man in front of you splattered on your suit visor...you try to step forward, but that shit...that "creep..." is growing up your legs, making it so you can't walk, can't move more than a half a foot a step...smoke from the guns pouring out, blood, only half of it alien, all around...so, yeah, I ran! I got the hell out of there! Maybe if we would've had some goliaths behind us, to take out the ones shooting acid spores--
GEN. WENTWORTH: I'd appreciate it if you lowered your tone, Lieutenant.
LT. GOELMAN: Lowered my tone? You've never even fired a gun outside the training range! What right do you have, to decide what's going to happen to me--
GEN. WENTWORTH: I think I've heard enough. Clerk, please remove this man.
LT. GOELMAN: I left because of pure terror, General! You can't control a thing like that. These Zerg, they're straight from hell itself...
GEN. WENTWORTH: No, Lieutenant, that's where you're going back to. I think that after this outburst, this council will have no problem stripping you of your rank, and setting up a public execution to warn the others who would leave their posts.
Reporter, you can stop recording now.
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