>>5416922You take a moment to sweet all the apartments, ensuring they're actually empty before you go around looting.
It's the usual fare. You take their holopad, use their own fingerprint or iris scan to open it and then transfer all the funds out. This time you also shake out their pockets for any latinum, which you do find.
You also take a moment to inspect the injuries of your opponents while doing so. Most of them don't seem in bad condition, although the ones hit by your phaser rifle do seem to be developing second degree burns, they'll survive.
The frog-man is unconscious, apparently having been particularly weak to phaser fire, since Cylia's pop-gun of a phaser pistol is what took him out. His bleeding seems to have stopped, with the tip of his tongue being coated in a thick layer of white slime.
The guy who put the shield down is in worse shape than the others, it seems like. You broke both him arms and legs on impact, and probably bruised his organs as well. He's alive, but in a lot of pain.
You draw on his forehead, writing a note for others to see that he needs immediate medical attention. Cylia on the other hand, takes an single-use stim out of the inside of her jacket and injects the man with it.
"What was that?" You ask, curious.
"Painkillers. I don't want him to die from the shock before he can get help."
Ah, right. You forgot, pain is literally fatal in some species.
Moving on, you pile up all the weapons everyone had. A few had some shitty phaser pistols as sidearms, but many of them had some kind of plasma rifle.
It looks more refined than whatever cobbled together bullshit you saw with Treg's crew or at the Dark Star base. Not fancy by any means, but more of a finished product and less of a prototype, or just a straight up brazil-tier homemade weapon.
They look like they're full of electronics, and are actually pretty heavy for their size. There's a ton of superconducting wire along the barrel, and a huge supercapacitor in the stock.
The rest of it, you're not really sure what you're looking at. There's a gas bottle, some metallic prongs... who knows how this thing works. What you care more about is how effective it is.
Raising one up, you aim it at the concrete wall in front of you and fire.
A ball of purple plasma launches out of the end with a small amount of recoil, impacting the concrete and causing it to explode on contact. What you recognize as spalling due to heat.
So it's hot, you figured that much. These things need a little more testing though, so next you aim for some poor bastard's doorknob.
One shot causes half the doorknob to melt into a puddle of aluminum on the floor, while the rest of it quickly deforms and wrinkles from the heat.
"Wow, these things have some actual penetrating power. Glad i didn't get hit by one."
"I'll be glad if we don't get caught smuggling them. Plasma weapons are super, super illegal."
"I think that ship sailed when we took out those AI ships, Cyl."
