The smell was overwhelming. It was a rancid odor of burnt metals and plastics, combined with something organic burning. It was enough to almost have Xanthiana retch. Elly offered to turn off her olfactory senses, but she knew that would put her at a disadvantage versus whatever remained in the arkfall. The interior looked like a lab of sorts, or it was before it crashed, there were all kind of tools and tables scattered around, the smell appeared to come from whatever they had been experimenting on.
"Elly scan the equipment in this room, give me your best guess on whatever it was they were doing in here."
"That's going to be difficult to determine with my data on file Xan, the Earth Republic only has rumors of Votanis experiments, no actual proof, you might know more about this than I do."
"I rather doubt that Elly, I was a foot soldier, a good one in my own estimation, but I just used the weapons, I didn't design them." Xanthiana didn't want to take another step in the room, if what was being developed in there was biological weapons she didn't want to get infected by whatever they were testing, even if most of the votan's biological weaponry seemed to target humans to the exclusion of Votans, there could be other horrible shit in there like hell bugs.
"This appears to be a morgue of sorts, most of the instruments are used in autopsies, I don't believe you have anything to be afraid of for biogenic weapons."
"Unless what they were investigating was the cause of death in a bio weapon."
"There is always that." Xanthiana smiled to herself, making Elly question herself with regards to her analytic analysis was always funny to her, even if it was frustrating to the EGO device. For the most part there didn't look to be anything to salvage, other than the bags of waste that Xanthiana was not in anyway going to root through. She was just about to leave when a blooping sound went off in her head.
"What in the hell is that noise?"
"I was alerting you to the presence of an intruder approaching the arkfall." The ego device seemed cheerful, Xanthiana was less so.
"Couldn't have just told me?"
"You have your way of doing things I have mine." Xanthiana shrugged knowing that much like she enjoyed frustrating the EGO it did the same to her. She exited the arkfall and took up her rifle, she could see the runner in the distance it looked military, possibly earth republic.
"Looks like we're about to have a visitor." Xanthiana racked the rifles slide and readied herself, even if the arkfall had nothing inside of it, she wasn't just going to turn it over, not without someone paying for the privilege of course.
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