Its been a bad last couple days.
First, there was the dust storm. Dust storms, they aint nothing new here on Mars, but this one was a nasty one. So thick it clogs engines, gets inside your suit, can't see, can't hear, can't step outside. Communications are dead while the storm rages outside, and when these things happen you just hunker down and wait it out - after all, its the only option you have.
Of course, the new Overseer... he wasn't exactly one to let a day go to waste. So we continued mining as normal, like we had in previous dust storms, safe underground. But safe... safe was mostly an approximation. And that day, well, it was approximately untrue.
I still don't know what caused it, but we had an explosion in Corridor 12, the walls ruptured, the corridor lost pressurization and the dust clogged everything. Five good men we lost, in a heartbeat. We sealed 'er off, cleaned everything up best we could - Accidents happen, its a dangerous business, we all know the risks. But then, its not exactly like most of us choose to be here.
But I still haven't gotten to the worst part - it turns out we didn't lose five good men in that accident... we lost four. One had already been lost to us sometime before that - because the autopsy revealed he had a god damn cybrid brain!
Now, we'd all heard of Trojan Horses of course, but it was a fairy tale. A rumour. And here we were, trapped in hell, and we had evidence of one right before us. Well, we searched his room right quick, and then we got to the worst news of all - all evidence pointed to there being more than one! It was a god damned invasion!
So we gathered around, looked out at the dust storm, and realized we were in trouble. We weren't getting any help any time soon... and besides, the only help we were liable to be offered was an artillery strike anyway. So we resolved to solve the problem as best we could ourselves.
And that... that is where my story starts. Eleven of us left, trapped in a dark mine in the middle of a dust storm on an inhospitable planet, and one of us wanting to kill all the rest, or worse. Who knows what those damned glitches want. Anyways, as I was saying, there we were...
It is now the start of day 1!
Day ends in (at least) 48 hours.