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Interviewer: [REDACTED]

Interviewee: [REDACTED], Head of Disassembly Drone Retrieval Team

Subject: The retrieval of VNM-16 after said unit supposedly went rogue

Date: 11/15/XXXX

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"It always sucks to be on one of the retrieval teams, you may know what they can do to Worker Drones, but you have no idea what they can do to humans, I honestly don't know why they don't just install a deactivation switch or a bomb in them. They told us to "retrieve the unit", didn't say a single damn thing about how violent it had become."

"Could you describe the mission please?"

"Yeah, sorry. We had just landed on Copper 9, heading towards the factory where it was last spotted. We noticed that it was hunched over the remains of one of the Disassembly Drones, probably feeding off of it. I don't think it noticed us at first, or else it would have taken us out right then and there. We were about to ambush it when I got a call from one of the engineers onboard the Morningstar station, and that must have been when it looked behind itself, and it saw my whole squad, weapons pointed at it, ready to fire, it must have enraged it."

"What happened after it saw you?"

"It started letting out this, terrible screeching sound. It was both metallic and distorted, really creepy. I never saw it, but the survivors of my squad told me that its jaw widen while it was screeching, it then started attacking us."

"It attacked you despite you being humans and not Drones?"

"Attacked us? The damn thing nearly tore us apart, it picked up Sterling, threw him on the ground, and ripped off his arm. God, he was SCREAMING for our help, I almost lost it when the thing started EAT him. We fired all the rounds we had at it, didn't do a single thing to the target."

"This is when you used a Thermobaric Explosive Launcher?"

"A TEL-5 yeah, brought it with us just in case, the blast from the thing is so intense, it vaporizes anything it hits and burns whatever is around it. We fired it at the target after it killed Sterling."

"Was there damage to VNM-16?"

"IT DIDN'T EVEN FLINCH, it just kept tearing my squad apart, even after getting hit with a weapon capable of leveling a structure! The thing was firing lasers and missiles everywhere, almost like we @#$%ed it off by using the Thermobaric weapon on him. I saw the laser slice through several of my men, cutting them in half, staining the snow with blood. I was so shaken by the whole thing, that I didn't even move, honestly, I don't know how I survived."

"And it was after this that the second team arrived."

"Yeah, they just opened the side door of their ship and aimed at the Drone with a weapon I've never seen before, they called it a S.T.A.K.E. Stands for Staggering Targeted Artificial Killswitch Electronic, it charged up before firing a beam of electricity at the target. According to the squad, it was designed by the same engineer that made VNM, and apparently, the beam was a focused EMP that was, as they put it, "10x stronger than what Disassembly Drones used." It was supposed to shut them down without killing them, actually managed to bring down the target."

"So VNM was disabled, what happened afterwards?"

"The other team helped me and what was left of my squad with securing the subject and bringing him back to the Morningstar, I still can't believe I survived the encounter. Though honestly, I think I would prefer death to this."

The interviewer pulls out a folder from his suit and slides it across the table to the interviewee

"We managed to obtain an artistic depiction of VNM-16, would you like to view it?"

Interviewee is silent for a moment

"You know, after hearing the screams of that thing, and the screams of my men, seeing what was left of them afterwards, I don't want to put a face on what did this. No thank you."

"Very well, you may leave."

Interviewee leaves the room before the interviewer starts speaking to the mic in his suit

"Let it be known that I am requesting VNM-16 to be terminated at the earliest possible date."

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