The lights flickered on, Marick’s weapon snapped to his shoulder , watching for danger.
“ Was that you?” Sara shook her head, her own weapon snapping to the doorway as well.
“ Somewhere else on the station, hold on let me check for any other access points that are currently active.” Sorting through the code that flooded her vision, she quickly found a few live terminals, only one had been near a docking point however. She logged the terminal location on her H.U.D and disconnected from the server. She would now have a visual marker placed on the approximate location of the connection that she and her partner could see.
Thought we were supposed to be the only ones here.” Survivors? Renev sending a back up team? scavengers? Probably the latter, Lets proceed with caution and stick to the primary focus, I’ll play the audio logs as we move. Take point under thermoptic camouflage and keep soft contact. Should we need to we can remove any threats. “ Sara said.
Roger, staying soft. With that the two cyborgs flashed bright white, then melted as if made out of thin air. Standing still it was almost as if they were never there. Only when they moved did a very faint shimmer appear from their combat suits.
Mavrick took point , and pushed the hallway. The faint warm light sputtered and flickered , a short no doubt that gave the hallway a shifting feeling. Sara followed watching their backs, keeping track of Mavericks movements with the H.U.D.
The audio logs started playing softly , as if in the background of the cyborgs minds.
Captain Nimmara Log:1 '< report>
Test, test, one two three, Ah there we go. As upon the request of Admiral Hume, I am logging the events around Eros 4 and the Penta alliance. The treaty was signed today by the five ambassadors of the surrounding territories; The Renev, Macluan, Scry, Adnormen, and us ; Burdokians.
I actually have high hopes for this endeavor, The Renev are leading in the scientific area as normal, Macluan are providing security, the Scry labor and mining equipment, and the Andormen transportation , communications equipment, and we have the easy job of bank rolling it all, Thankfully our nation has such a high trade profit, even more so now Jarrako Downs is completed, This will likely be a new age of prosperity for all involved. Finally a lasting peace brought on by a common goal, profit.
“ Pushing right, marker is 700 M to our 245 azm, “ “ So this was a tradeport? I wonder what went sideways here… Judging by the decor I would assume some sort of riot.” Mavrick ignored Sara’s musing as he picked his way through the hallway. It looked like someone had barricaded some of the living quarters and set up a checkpoint to prevent traffic from getting to one side of the station. This hadn't been a riot.
“ two dead bodies up front, long dead…watch your step” He said stepping over the decayed corpse that still clutched a weapon, and some sort of crystal charm.
The next audio log clicked on.
Captain Nimmara Log: 2 <report>
It's been 8 common cycles since we've signed the treaty, I'm surprised how quickly we've managed to set up this mining operation, the Renev's scouting equipment must be much more significant that we ever understood as they seem to have gathered a large amount of information in a short time. They have narrowed down the area proving to be abundant in high density crystals and ore to a 3 km grid square. The Andormen have set up a ring gate from the station to the main mining site allow for easy transport, not gonna lie, It was really strange being torn apart and put back together... Anyhow, there are reports of some dwellings on the moon, which seems odd all things considered ,we thought this sector was dead space.
Hopefully things keep going well.
Sara frowned, Teleportation tech, that old? Now that was interesting, she would have to find this thing and get to the surface, it might lead to some more information about all this.
They had closed the distance greatly , only 250 meters away from the last active terminal now.