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You feel your metal eyelids click open, and the piston-machinery of your ancient chassis roars awake. A prompt flashes on your HUD. The usual maintenance commands are cut off and garbled. Only one word is clear; CLEANSE.
There is something hammering on the outside of your storage chamber, which has shifted to emergency power. You run a diagnostic on yourself. You resemble a scorpion with a headless humanoid torso rearing from its front. You are missing two of your four manipulator limbs, but all six legs remain. Your heart is not beating. One arm bears a mining drill, the other a manual-interface H.A.N.D. with attachments to interface with local systems. You are not currently wearing any skin, exposing gears, circuits and brass plating to the air. The piston-engine in your abdomen is low on fuel.
The hammering outside grows louder. The irreplacable metal of the chamber begins to warp.
>Exit the Chamber carefully, and commence cleansing.
>Burst from the chamber and CLEANSE
>Rev your mining drill to dissuade the interloper, then open the chamber slowly to minimise damage to the machinery.
There is something hammering on the outside of your storage chamber, which has shifted to emergency power. You run a diagnostic on yourself. You resemble a scorpion with a headless humanoid torso rearing from its front. You are missing two of your four manipulator limbs, but all six legs remain. Your heart is not beating. One arm bears a mining drill, the other a manual-interface H.A.N.D. with attachments to interface with local systems. You are not currently wearing any skin, exposing gears, circuits and brass plating to the air. The piston-engine in your abdomen is low on fuel.
The hammering outside grows louder. The irreplacable metal of the chamber begins to warp.
>Exit the Chamber carefully, and commence cleansing.
>Burst from the chamber and CLEANSE
>Rev your mining drill to dissuade the interloper, then open the chamber slowly to minimise damage to the machinery.
