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OmegaLul

Pods:
The Hangar is a mess
a STE ship seemingly docked earlier
but is now smashing around the hangar, with the docking clamp detached.

This would be bad, but is predictable enough to avoid.
however having passed the ship the reason behind the ship's clamps detonating becomes clear.
a croud of Tau's lay dead or dying on the ground, while a few Biohazard units walk over the corpses.
shooting any that move.
the Tau's seem to be right next to the landing pad the ship was docked to, indicated by the scorch mark on the floor where it detonated.
Within a moment, one Troop notices the pods, and begins firing at it.
from the fact their helmets have no Tau-Fitting mods, they are clearly human.
and no Humans exist in the STE...

the pod of course takes little damage, and would be able to land sucessfully, albeit with resistance.

Corvette and Transport:
the pods have no antenna but flying close enough reveals they have live inhabitants.
although they are almost certainly going to die without help,
however they could spread the parasite to anything alive (for all anyone knows)
the escape pods are small enough to fit inside even small ships. (the equivilant size of a 2x2 crew quarter)
there are 12 in total, 3 are empty though, leaving 9 inhabited

Research Ship:
Scanning the ship reveals quite a bit.
It is a MK1-921 Star port

scaled down interior revealed by scans. although is unable to view personell locations
due to the high number of inteferances, there is no way of pinpointing the Scientist who sent the message's location.
Although they are likeley in the Research Wing. (left)
sadly, some kind of electronic interferance is blocking scans.
it origionates from the transmitter array
Importantly, the oxygen supply is low, cutting straight into the research wing would kill everything.
and likely cause the container housing the old strain to rupture, "failing" immidiately.

(also nice use of Hex!)

Jenwuf The Akira docks in the station, a group of soldiers leave the ship and enters through the docking tubes.

DarkPearl

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Question: Identifier.
Question: Target.
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Jenwuf

Pods:

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Research pods land. Defense and research units leave the research pods with their shields active. One of the units says "Question: Identifier" to the Troops. they do not act agressive.

Corvette and Transport ship:

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Transport ship starts collecting life pods. they seem to fit well inside it. The Alpha Corvette points it's weapons at the Zankaran Empire Ship, awaiting for the answers.

Research ship

Research ship is not performing any actions.

(I'm from phone now and It is late night so I think I will not be doing anything until tomorrow)

OmegaLul
Defence and Research units:
the station is littered with dead and dying STE personell.
scanning reveals heavy internal bleeding of the heart and lungs.
the parasite is able to disquise itself very well.
and appears as little more than nothing on scans.
scans show death in 1-2 days.
many of them cry for help, or simply to be killed.
some react agressively, but most are in no state to get up and fight.

it appears the ISC biohazard squad have fled.
the main corridor down to the central hub is relatively clean.
down at the end of the corridor,
a blast door slams shut.
all rooms to the left and right are locked shut.
some however are open,
revealing small holdouts of Tau's.
mainly engineers.

it is likeley they too are searching for the scientist.
and could be responsible for the destruction of the defence turret.

Transport Ship
the pods hiss as they open.
leaving the inhabitants to gasp for somewhat less recycled air.

they are bleeding from their mouths, as the scientist said they would.
some seem to be dead already.
suggesting they where out there for quite some time.

none are in any state to talk.
talking would likeley cause the blood to drown them quicker.
and so most stay quiet.
although some plead for their lives.

without a cure or reversal, there is no way of saving them.

however this presents a perfect opportunity to scan for how the parasite spreads
due to it being classified in the database

(late here aswell, so im going to hold off on posting more until tommorow)