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Entry 5: Category B: Dark Inferno - 15/6/2012 6:26:56 AM

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In the deepest confines of the vaults of the Guylos Empire there lies a folder labeled Project Dante. If you’ve never heard of anything by the name it’s because the Empire did everything in its power to keep the contents of it a secret. Within it was information on the Empire’s greatest creation and conversely, its greatest failure. Within it were detailed reports on the Zoid classified as Dark Inferno and the chemical mixture known as Enfuego.

The first page of the report tells of a company of Imperial soldiers having issues with a miner and the seizing of his mine. The soldiers had been ordered to seize the mine to supply raw materials for the war. The miner was noted as being apprehensive at first mention of his mine. “Mine went dry long ago” he kept saying to the commanding officer. It was when the commanding officer insisted on surveying the mine himself that the miner became enraged. He yelled out “You can’t have it! I know what you’ll do with it; the war will never end if I let you get your hands on it”.

The miner went on to threaten violence against the soldiers if they tried to come anywhere near his mine. The soldiers were left with no choice but to board their Zoids and threaten brutal force of their own. The miner ran off to a massive barn that, unbeknownst to the soldiers, housed a discharged Imperial Killerdome, still bearing the damage of its last battle, likely years before.

Before the soldiers could prepare their weapons, the miner along with his Killerdome exploded out of the barn and rushed at one of the soldier’s Redhorns. The Killerdome took the head of the Redhorn in its claws and, as quoted by one of the soldiers present, “…completely crushed the cockpit, pilot and all”.

The commanding officer gave the order to fire on the Killerdome and his entire company of Zoids fired, aiming to take out the miner for good. Once the smoke from the blasts cleared the soldiers were astounded to find that the Killerdome has weathered the volley by simply raising its claws in front of itself. The Killerdome rushed once more and using only its crusher claws was able to take out two more Redhorns. It wasn’t until the commanding officer struck the Killerdome on its side and flipped it upside down that his company was able to destroy it with their entire payload.

Not much was left of the miner and his Killerdome, not much except for the claws which were not any normal Killerdome claws, they had been replaced with some sort of metal. Although slightly blackened from the smoke, the metal was completely undamaged by the soldiers attacks.

The commanding officer of the company contacted his superior immediately and informed him of what had happened. Within hours a team from the science division of the Empire had arrived at the mine and discovered the metal which they called Hieranium. After an arduous struggle in trying to excavate the rare metal the science team took a piece of it to a nearby research facility where they proceeded to test it.

What the scientists found was, when tested against every type of weaponry in the arsenal of the Empire, the Hieranium was 100% indestructible. Not only was the Hieranium impervious to any and all types of weaponry, it was also tolerable to extreme temperatures. This particular property of the Hieranium interested the Imperials moreso than its indestructibility, for it proved a solution to a problem on one of their other projects.
A facility was built over the mine and the Hieranium was mined and refined, out of it they built a Zoid from the specifications of an Imperial Dark Spiner. They outfitted the Hieranium armor onto the new Dark Spiner, they coated all of its components with it and shielded its cockpit with it was well. They were preparing the Dark Spiner to become the Dark Inferno. After all of the Hieranium had been mounted onto the Dark Spiner a shipment of massive tanks came to the facility.

The tanks were filled with a highly-flammable chemical mixture that the Empire had created as a weapon. The chemical mixture, Enfuego, burned hotter than anything on the planet. Once the mixture came upon a spark it burst ablaze and nothing, except time, could put it out. Attempting to douse it with water only aided in spreading it, covering it with dirt did nothing either.
Two long-barreled flamethrowers made from Hieranium were mounted on the shoulders of the Dark Spiner. Tubes coming from the back of the flamethrowers ran to two tanks containing Enfuego mounted on either side of the Dark Spiner. The Dark Spiner had completed its transformation into the Dark Inferno.

The Dark Inferno was meant to be the pinnacle of Zoid technology. It would be a one Zoid attack force that would single-handedly take on the Republic. The Dark Inferno would rage into the battlefield, using its electronic-jamming capabilities to disable enemy Zoids and then spread Enfuego all over the battlefield. It would melt the toughest-armored Zoids to a puddle of liquid, along with anything it came into contact with, be it stone or flesh. All the while, with its Hieranium hide, the Dark Inferno would walk through the flames, unscathed.
The Dark Inferno had been completed right on schedule and was set to begin testing with the Enfuego in just a few days. However, due to an unknown reason, some of the Enfuego in storage at the facility ignited; spreading to the entire facility in a matter of minutes. The facility went down in flames, no one was able to escape with their lives. The facility went down in the Enfuego, all that stood among the flames was the Dark Inferno, being able to withstand the heat.

The Enfuego spread past the borders of the facility nothing could stop it. The Imperial Army, desperate to save its own nation from its own weapon dug a massive moat-like structure around the facility, 20 miles in diameter. The Enfuego stopped spreading once it reached the moat and it kept burning hot day after day. The Empire’s entire supply of Enfuego had been at the facility, and now it was fueling the endless blaze, all the while the Dark Inferno sitting in the center of this ring of hell.
And so, in some cruel jest by some greater being the Empire’s ultimate weapon lay beyond their reach behind a wall of hellfire and above the only deposit of an indestructible metal. The Dark Inferno could be seen from the outer edges of the moat, standing tall in the Enfugo, a monument to the Empire’s failure, a monument to the fact that some forces in this world are better left alone.