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Volcanic Sands

NOTE: Designed before the inclusion of the Robots as a player faction. How the map plays as anything but Human is not accounted for.

A map similar to Elysium Mons in that there are groupings of hive structures which act as spawners for the horde. This map is designed to be quite challenging and there's a few things done to discourage rushing/sniping the bases. Pits were added in various locations and bridging them may bring you great wealth but it also opens new avenues for the Goo to attack you from. Beware of hives built upon stone since while the goo cannot unburrow, rock can support much heavier creatures than a pile of sand and dwelling underground is simply not their style.

+RFI Cruiser Support
+2x Plasmoids
+1x RFI Ranger
+1 Support Drone
+3x Detonation Drone
1.33x Faster Ability Cooldown

The loose lore of this map is that you have teamed up with the RFI to clear this area of the particularly dense nests in order to help general colonization efforts. This area is itself relatively valuable due to the various minerals and geologic research opportunities and thus has actually had multiple previous colonization attempts. Obviously, those all failed and have left some potentially useful remains scattered around. One of those failures was not, primarily, from the Goo, but because they happened to settle on geologically unstable ground and half of the colony fell into an abyss. Fortunately, with the RFI's assistance, that fate will be avoided as the location chosen for your HQ was very well analyzed to ensure it was stable.

The cooldown reduction is a result of the RFI lending their expertise as well as physical support and enhancing your commander's equipment/reactor.