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Blake watched as a large rapid fire style gun dropped from the ceiling, and pointed at him. Sovereign spoke to everyone now. "Do as I say, or you all die".

Blake learned a lot more then Sov had probably expected or wanted from that one sentence. One, Sovereign could not immediately kill them all, which meant Life Support was isolated. Outgoing comms must have been too, because he could not contact them until they reached the station. Two, he needed something from them, which meant he wasn't going to kill all of them. Hopefully. Three, Sovereign could not, at least currently, indoctrinate people.

He got on comms. "Its okay, I am fine. Clearly he needs something, so he won't kill all of us. Nor can he. Otherwise, he would have already made his point by starting to drain oxygen. Life support systems must be isolated, with no ability to link to it. I think outgoing comms must be too, which means Sovereign is trapped here just like I am in this room".

Unfortunately, it appears Sovereign had a contingency for that. "Do as I say, or I start killing off the survivors one by one. How many friends do you want to lose?"

And now Blake knew Sovereign wanted him to do something. Which meant it was everyone else he was threatening. As he realized that, a monitor showed a security camera showing Gemli and Val, as four YMIR mechs came out of the various hallways surrounding them. As worried as Blake was, disbelief came over him. "Are you serious? The life support systems are isolated, but not the damn mech controls?!"

Gemli took cover behind a doorway as another rocket got fired. The YMIR mechs were making their usual annoying comments like "Unauthorized Lifeform Detected" and "Initiating Extermination Protocal. This one, Gemli understood. Unless Sovereign was playing them, which was actually highly likely. Still, he had hope.

"No, he just has access to the User Database. We don't have clearance for the station, so the entire security system wants us dead reguardless of what he wants. It also means he can add us to the list...or remove others" Gemli mentioned. "That said, the door between you and us is shut down tight. He clearly has access to the door controls, there is no way we can blast through it!"

Blake decided to at least find out Sovereign's intentions. "What do you want?"

"Re-enable the Hardlink connections".

Meanwhile, at Roran, as a drone approached them weapons primed, one of the doors shut close at such a velocity that the drone was completely destroyed, and emergency lighting showed up on the ceiling, where the cameras could not see. Roran then got a secret message on a secure channel to his Omni-Tool. "To the hanger. Hurry".

(Revelation of Sovereign deserved a long post)