Starship Oblivion: Sanctuary Outpost by Mark Wayne McGinnis
Author:Mark Wayne McGinnis [McGinnis, Mark Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avenstar Productions
Published: 2021-09-30T22:00:00+00:00
Chapter 24
Gorvian Helix Collider Outpost
Captain Galvin Quintos
As I watched the MediBots move about the passageway, I wondered how such a spindly, unsteady design had ever been approved for production. They might be fine for surgery procedures, making delicate scalpel incisions, but the simple act of walking seemed to overtax the awkward robots.
Viv must have read my expression. âI know, in HealthBay we sometimes call them GeekBots behind their backs.â
Grip was the last of the injured marines being readied for quansporting. He was griping about leaving, saying he was fine to stay, but he was clearly in need of some serious medical attention.
Before Viv could turn away, I said, âThis is going to get worseâ¦a lot worse. Talk to LaSalle. He has SWM bots that can assist you with this sort of thing.â
She nodded, offered up a half smile, and quansported away.
While Hardy helped Max with his replacement combat suit, I did the same for Wanda. Her body had indeed taken a vicious beating, but there was no persuading her to return to the Oblivion. It was now the four of usâMax, Wanda, Hardy, and myself. We were now the on-call reinforcement team.
Hardy said, âI believe the Grish are using jamming tech to hide their own bio-signatures from your suitâs sensors.â
âCapâ¦we never found the Symbio team we were sent in to assist with,â Max said.
I looked back to Hardy with raised brows. âAny ideas on that?â
The ChronoBot, in an all-too-human pose, stood with hands on hips while looking about the passageway. âOnce deactivated, the Symbios are near impossible to detect. What you would call a cold-blooded organism, whereby infrared scans come up negative. Then againâ¦sometimes I can lock onto residual neurological activity, if there is any.â
âAnd?â Wanda said.
Instead of answering her, Hardy bent down, took hold of one of the four-foot-by-six-foot decking panels with both hands, yanked it up in the air, and tossed the thing aside as if it weighed nothing. We all looked down into the sublevel space. And there, stacked like cords of firewood, were several Symbio-Poth bodies.
I tried unsuccessfully to lift a decking panel myself. With Wandaâs help we were able to lift it up and topple it out of the way. More lifeless Symbios. âThey must be laid out all along this stretch of the passageway,â I said.
Hardy and the rest of us moved faster nowâremoving deck panels one after another. By the time we were done, thirty panels had been removed. Talking to Ensign Plorinne, he wanted them quansported onto the Oblivionâs Symbio deck, where heâd ensure theyâd be properly cared for and reanimated if possible.
I said, âFrom now on, any Symbio who wants to join back in the fight gets fitted with a combat suit first.â
âCopy that, sir.â
By now, all of the teams had been warned of one, the Grish jamming tech, and two, the possibility of overhead Grish assaults. At this point, fighting was breaking out all over the outpost. Currently, five Pylor teams were exchanging weapons fire with the enemy and not making much leeway against the piglets.
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