New Contract promises to revolutionize Tournament Gaming as we know it...
Assc Terran Press, May 22, 3044
In a press conference yesterday, Liandri announced that the Terran marine core
purchased a 2 year 18 billion contract to gain the use of Liandri facilities for the training of
it's elite assault teams. The marine's contract has been paritally funded by support from
Alpha and DRC Araments, who see the use of Liadri's facilities as a unique opportunity to
field test new weapons. "We believe the use of tournament arenas provide us with a
important real world testing area for the weapons of the future" says DRC spokesman
James Lowell. The contract binds Liandri to a 2 year agreement to allow marines from the
elite Alpha 7 squadron to be allowed to train with the latest in marine weaponary. Jerry
Liandri, CEO of Liandri Inc.,addressed concerns of potential weapon imbalance in the
arenas. "We feel that the current tournament weapons are fully capable of going up
against the newest in military firearms-when we started the tournament, all the weapons
were based of sucessful military designs and are easily equal to their military
counterparts." Liandri has stressed that the new additions will not change the tournament
gameplay significantly-"We understand the public demand for quality entertainment and
are here to fufill it". Liandri brushed off ethics concerns, reiterating that the tournament
has always been a violent buisness. General Marx Janning expressed his support of the
contract. "The military needs high quality training. If a few marines are killed now it
means many more will survive in the field. We feel that the tournament offers the highest
level of training available for our troops, and we expect that the marines of tomorrow will
be extremely ready for whatever new enemies we will encounter." The first match fought earlier
today at 9:00 AM GET, proved to be a stunning victory as the marines triumphed 30 to 14
for a virtual audience of over 900 million viewers over Liandri's Neura-Net.
