Nothing is as it Seems
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Nothing is as it Seems: A Story of Ares and Horizon
By FirstOnTheScene
I'm sure by now that all of you have heard about the Blake Island Firewatch Memorial explosion. According to Horizon, 'Criminal Agitators', suspected to be manipulated by the 'Bug Spirit Menace' bombed the memorial in insult to the men and women who died in the conflict with the bugs. They then slapped a great big D-notice on anyone who said otherwise, and backed it up with defamation, bankrupting tactics and even assassinations. Knight Errant itself went and published an Internal Memo after this incident, and a few other targeted strikes against Project Pyro and Firewatch installations.
However. As is so often the case with Horizon, this was not the truth.
The truth is that the Ares Macrotechnology we knew, the Ares we bought our guns and armor from, is gone. Infected.
The Blake Island Firewatch Memorial was a joke. The Bug Spirits spitting in the eye of everyone who knew the truth. The truth that Firewatch lost.
So, let me tell you the true story.