A small pub near Fludoscarr.

I went to the ophthalmologist a couple of times as a child, and they used eye drops to dilate my pupils during the vision test. After that, I practically walked to school blind – it was winter, and the bright, glaring light reflected off the snow and shone directly into my unprotected eyes. I was walking, wiping away tears, squinting my eyes to a millimeter, barely seeing anything except the blinding light... It was like snow blindness. Awful. Maybe that's why I came to love the evening and night, when there's no more of that irritating light and daytime heat. ...That's it. I'm done with the alien threat. I built the Avenger, interrogated the alien commander captured from the enemy base, distributed psi-amplifiers to the operatives, and flew to Mars, straight to Cydonia. I took 10 people and 4 hover tanks, 2 with plasma cannons, 2 with blaster launchers. Unfortunately, I had to leave Ara, Koshu, Viha, Ala, and Sivera at home because they were easily susceptible to mind control. Outside, among the sand and pyramids, I had a great time, discovering Sectoids with the hover tanks and mind-controlling them. Several Cyberdiscs were destroyed by the tanks and by me, from the BFG, without even leaving the cockpit – after all, its projectile is guided to checkpoints, and you can fire from anywhere on the map. But in the second phase, inside the underground complex... I was greeted by Ethereals, all of them nasty psionicists, Chrysalids, brain-sucking soldiers, robot Sectopods with rocket launchers and plasma cannons, able to withstand two or even three blaster blasts, and flying "kidneys" together with their buddies – chunks of biomass. The last two are not very dangerous, but the others... In general, the battle was fierce. I destroyed half of the base. There were fires and debris everywhere. Part of the soldiers, mainly the Psi-Corps team, were hidden and actively used psionics. Only I, from the Psi-Corps, and a few simple Catherine Stevens were causing destruction with primitive weapons, due to their not-so-great psionic skills. And the tanks. I lost two tanks, one of the remaining ones ran out of ammunition. Somehow, all the "field" soldiers died. Except for me. The Emperor must have blessed my armor. First, I annihilated everything, standing in a corner, using the homing blaster charges, and then they ran out :-( Then I took off my laser pistol, my last hope and bulwark in my inventory, and went through the corpses of the aliens. It turned out to be really spontaneous – I suddenly found myself alone on the second floor, in the brain room, wounded but alive, and full of righteous anger. I killed the Ethereal standing next to me, the last one. I shot him with the laser pistol. And I took the heavy plasma cannon from his cold corpse. The final shot!... And that's it. Goodbye, you cursed source of Heresy and suffering. I started the second UFO mission. For now, it's going so-so. I'm still using primitive harpoon guns because I haven't really researched Gauss technology, and the alien sonic-stick-shooters require cartridges, of which I still have very few. I bought a torpedo tank, but you can only fire it underwater. It's useless for fighting Terror Units or defending the base. Just a disappointment