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Carefully, you rise up, craning your head back and forth to take in the bay. It was surprisingly cramped and small, much smaller than you had expected. Something about it was also just... <span class="mu-i">off</span> in a way you couldn't quite place. Maybe it was simply a place infested by the voidborn, with walls that were both too bare and too cluttered. Also just the wrong color.
You gently push forward, then jerk back as a hydraulic line flies past your face, vapor trailing from the tip. Power lines pulled free with a brief snap of motive force between them and the socket, falling away in a curtain. You turn to look, and see one of the units carefully standing to ready within it's cradle, hydraulic and power lines releasing steam as they began flying free of their housings.
A klaxon blared in the ceiling, and a voice spoke over an intercom speaker in High Gothic. <span class="mu-i">"Crow-2 to launch deck."</span>
You brace against the wall for a moment, watching as the gleaming unit steps free of it's housing, thermal-absorbing paint reflecting a dull white with each step below the harsh halogen lights.
<span class="mu-i">"Raven-9 to launch deck."</span>
Ignoring the unit for a second, you lean out over the central corridor. Engineers and technicians floated past, grappling with ammo hoppers funneling cartridges into empty reserve bins, recharging solar conduits and grappling with weapons as large as several men were tall, ratcheting them into place with cable-spun cranes trailing from the ceiling.
With a slight hop, you float yourself out into the middle of the hangar, slowing to a stop in the middle of the hangar. An engineer floated past your head, barely paying you any mind except to gently push off your shoulder, sending you slightly spinning. “Looking good today.” He commented mildly, smiling at you for a brief second before turning his head back to his dataslate.
Before you could react, a dull klaxon sounded at the end of the hangar. Turning, you saw the unit that had just left it's cradle standing before the primary airlock doors, waiting for them to cycle and open before stepping through.
>Follow the unit.
>Turn the other way.
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