4952 Delcia

"Well, I could always give it a try."

Says Nero.

"Besides, I'm all out of ammo... Unless you want me to dazzle those crabs with my amazing dance moves next time we meet them..."

Nero chuckles.

"Sounds amazing actually, so how about we get out of here... Such a shame those floorplans wizzed past so quickly on screen earlier when Sam was poking around the terminal. I remember what... 5 or 6 floors? Usually power supplies are at the most secure location, right? So I'd say completely at the bottom of this place? Well, assuming those aliens respect Galactic standard, that is..."

How deep does this bunker go?

Nero grabs the device.

"Don't worry, I'll try to use it only when absolutely necessary. What do you suppose the range on that thing is?"

"Not a bat idea..."

Nero looks around the rooms for any metallic debris, and then , once he's found some, give the tool a try. It seems to have a range of about 5 meters or so, which would make sense since it's a tool and not a weapon. So that will require to get close and personal to those crabs, but if your group's theory is correct, that electromagnetic field should be a death sentence to any crab caught in it...

"Alright, I think we're ready to head down now."

Nero rolls his eyes...

"Okay, follow me..."

You all follow Nero back to the stairs and proceed to continue to long climb down. You pass by another level with bright red emergency lights, and then past that level, while you're in between levels, the lights come back with a loud "CHUNK".

You continue making your way down the stairs until you reach a very large room, the sight of which makes your collective jaw drop. The room is a tall cylindrical room, brightly lit, with a walkway about halfway down, which leads to a platform upon which sits a console console which seems to be tied to a sort of large manipulating arm mechanism. Lined along the walls of this room are countless pods which suspiciously look like stasis pods, though of a strange alien design. About half of those pods (maybe bit less) seems to be filled with naked and sleeping Erakai, Humans, Yar, and other races of the Frontier, including some you've never seen before... Strangely enough, there does not seem to be any Novims among the... what would you call all those suspended people? ...specimens? Wait, was that why that message called you specimens earlier? What was going on in this place?

The stairs keep going down if you feel like exploring this strange room later...

Nero seems to hesitate for a moment, his hippocratic oath pushing him ot help the people in stasis at first... Finally, he nods and turns to Mesec.

"Yeah, you're probably right. Who knows how long have those people been in suspended animation. They can probably afford to wait a few minutes more... Besides, we can't carry all of them aboard the ship. There must be a few thousand of them. We're going to have to relay the coordinates of this facility to the proper authorities so a rescue operation can be conducted later..."

With this, you continue down the stairs, and you keep going down and down and down. The descent seems interminable... Holes in the wall starts appearing. A few at first, then a lot more, as if you're descending in the heart of the crab infestation. There is a lot of debris on the stairs as well, necessitating you take your time to avoid falling, or even proceed one at a time... Eventually, you can see the bottom, and the lift seems to be there as well...

Trudy scans he surroundings for any threats against its mistress. Nothing seems to come out of the various crab holes, though Trudy will pick up some noises coming from the lift. It sounds too large to be a crab, plus, whatever is in there right now seems to be softly sobbing...