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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