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COREVALUES
Aliens want the colony's infinite-energy cores. Corporate would prefer they didn't.
R&D LAB
Dark Matter is earned from every mission, win or lose. Nobody knows what it is. Finance says it spends fine.
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COFFEE BREAK
The aliens are also on break. Union rules.
HOW IT WORKS
Aliens walk to the vault, grab a core, and head for the exit. Kill a carrier and it drops the core, which floats home. Towers are walls: make the route long. Lose every core and it's over.