<span style='color:blue'>"Be careful Bill, I have no data on the holo-room. Let me see what a scan can do." *Scans the holo-room unsuccusfuly.* "It's surrounded by some sort of enegry drain. No power is the sector at all." "Take it slowy and steady. Switch you flashlights on."</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<i>A packet of blue nanites run through the floor, lighting the room for a brief second with an eriee blue glow. Then they frizzle and died out as suddenly as they apeared as they are absorbed into the nanogrid.</i>
<span style='color:green'>[As the room is lit shadows play over the walls. All oddly shaped.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[You get the briefest of glipses at a table in the centre of the room. Before you can see whats on it the light from the scanner nanites dies.]</span>
<b>Wow, been gone for only about a day and look what’s happened already!</b>
<span style='color:orange'>*slings his LMG and whips out his welder, [proceeding to weld the bolts]* “Okay, Dea, hang on, I’ll just get this vent open and then I’ll be through in a tick.” *waits until the bolts pop open, and then creeps as softly as possible through the vent, LMG raised and pointing straight forward.*</span>
<span style='color:orange'>[The vent pops off and a wiff of warm air hits your face. Climing into the shaft you only have enough space to crawl. it goes forward for two metres then it decends downwards. There is a ladder that goes down for what looks like a long way.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[The doors silently slide shut, you look up at the last moment to see Wraith dissapearing down the vent. Then the lift starts to move. Going down to the third floor.]</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:green'>[You start to walk into the darkness when a light shines past you. Looking back you see it is Spacer's torch.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[The light hits the table and you see it has lots of buttons and levers on it.]</span>
<b>I’m assuming we all have torches, because of the flashlight in NS and Spacer’s flashlight (hey, why does the pilot get special treatment? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->) – feel free to correct if not right.</b>
<span style='color:orange'>*Sighing imperceptibly, he slings his LMG once again. Pulling his flashlight out, he shines it down, looking for any obstructions in the vent before putting it back in his belt and climbing down slowly, feeling with his feet in case he trips on something.*</span>
<span style='color:orange'>[You can just make out a large rotating fan at the bottom of the vent. Beside you on the other side of the vent you hear the lift moving.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[The lift is approaching the first floor (The CC). It shows no sign of slowing.]</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:green'>[The room is empty apart from the control table in the middle. The walls are black and criss-crossed with a grid of lines, the colour of the lines changes like oil in the sunlight.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[The light of you torch begins to dull.]</span>
<span style='color:pink'>*i draw my pistols, and duck low on the side of the door, getting ready to ambush whoevers at the bottom when this thing stops.*</span>
<span style='color:orange'>*peers down at the fan with disgust* "How the hell am I supposed to get down to the bottom with that bloody fan in the way?"</span>
these torches suck <span style='color:yellow'>"Yo, bill, what you reckon this panel is for?" *switches torch off* </span>
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<i>In the ventallion shaft above you is a mass of wires. A blue wire runs down the shaft to the fan.</i>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[The floor reaches the second floor and keeps going down.]</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:blue'>"Spacer those lamp packs last for 600 standard hours. And they were fresh of the shelf when we left base. Something...ab...ing...he energy."
<i>The comm link in your suits begin to lose their signal.</i>
<span style='color:yellow'>[The WayPoint is the table. Above it hanging from the celling is the holo-projector. It looks like a disco ball. About 1 metre in diameter.]</span>
<span style='color:orange'>*frowns again, this time more heavily* “If I get zapped again, Dea, I’m going to carry you into Concord when we get out of this hellhole by your combat boots.” *flicks his knife out expertly, and [sinks it into the blue wire]*</span>
<span style='color:green'>[The only reply you get is static.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[As you stand at the WP your pet rat slips out of your pocket onto the control table. It scurries along stepping on buttons and flicking switches as it darts across the board.]</span>
<i>The doors close behind you. And you are left in the dark. The holo-generator begins to spins. It sends light out, flooding the room with a rainbow out colours. You hear the room buzzing with power.</i>
<b>The Vent</b>
<span style='color:orange'>[The fan slows then comes to a complete stop.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[The lift keeps going down until it reaches the third floor (Science Labs). The door opens and there is a lone solder stand at the doors. He doesn't appear to notice you as he steps into the lift.]</span>
<span style='color:orange'>*closes his eyes as he cuts through the wire, then opens them and grins* “Hey, whaddaya know. On my way down now, Dea.” *continues to crawl down the shaft, avoiding the fan blades*</span>
<span style='color:orange'>[You hear screams coming from through the wall beside you. The vent ends and there is another grille infront of you that needs to be welded open.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<i>The soldier screams as you grab him. And shouts, his accent is thick with russian.</i>
<span style='color:Aquamarine '>"Don't shoot! Dont Shoot! This is the third floor!"</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:green'>[Your wounds have fully healed. You feel normal, no better then that. You feel invicible.]</span>
<i>The holo-generator spits out random shapes. The room starts to flash alternating colours that make your head spin.</i>
<span style='color:green'>[The battery of the torch is low drained by something in the room. Though the psychedelic colours flashing and pulsing on the walls light the room incessantly.]</span>
<span style='color:pink'>*disarms him* "you have a choice, soldier. you can start talking here, to me. or you can push '1' and start talking to my captin. or you can talk to my gun. in any case, your GOING to tell me everything thats happening here." *if the close door button isnt connected to that mine, i hit it.*</span>
<i>The incandescent light show stops and the holo-generator focuses beams around the room. The beams solidify making five skeletons, they are hunched over. Like they are deactivated. The bones are metalallic and angular. Their faces are skulls, their eyes are green lights, wreathed in flame. Looking into the they say only one thing, 'Here is death'. The metal skeletons stand to thier full height, over 2 metres. In their hands are assualt rifles. They make no sound as they fix their lifeless eyes on you.</i>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Your pet rat scurries of the controls and hides under the table.]</span>
<span style='color:Aquamarine'>"K, okay. I talk. Don't shoot. We work to make new weapon." "The weapon will defeat all Kharaa. We can protect our homelands with it." "It is almost complete. The first ones are being made this very moment, as we speak." "Within hours a cargo ship with collect the first ones of them. The pirates that attack us delay the deadline. But soon we shall be ready." "You can not stop us."</span>
<span style='color:pink'>"well, in case you didn't notice, its our job to fight khraa. so thanks for the wepon, we'll put it to good use." *voicecomm* "i have a prisoner, sarge. looks like theres a wepon being produced down here. expect a ship soon to pick it up. what do you want me to do with him?"</span>
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<span style='color:blue'>"Be careful Bill, I have no data on the holo-room. Let me see what a scan can do."
*Scans the holo-room unsuccusfuly.*
"It's surrounded by some sort of enegry drain. No power is the sector at all."
"Take it slowy and steady. Switch you flashlights on."</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<i>A packet of blue nanites run through the floor, lighting the room for a brief second with an eriee blue glow. Then they frizzle and died out as suddenly as they apeared as they are absorbed into the nanogrid.</i>
<span style='color:green'>[As the room is lit shadows play over the walls. All oddly shaped.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[You get the briefest of glipses at a table in the centre of the room. Before you can see whats on it the light from the scanner nanites dies.]</span>
*raises pistol, flicks on his torch and aims both at the table*</span>
<span style='color:orange'>*slings his LMG and whips out his welder, [proceeding to weld the bolts]*
“Okay, Dea, hang on, I’ll just get this vent open and then I’ll be through in a tick.”
*waits until the bolts pop open, and then creeps as softly as possible through the vent, LMG raised and pointing straight forward.*</span>
The Brig</b>
<span style='color:orange'>[The vent pops off and a wiff of warm air hits your face. Climing into the shaft you only have enough space to crawl. it goes forward for two metres then it decends downwards. There is a ladder that goes down for what looks like a long way.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[The doors silently slide shut, you look up at the last moment to see Wraith dissapearing down the vent. Then the lift starts to move. Going down to the third floor.]</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:green'>[You start to walk into the darkness when a light shines past you. Looking back you see it is Spacer's torch.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[The light hits the table and you see it has lots of buttons and levers on it.]</span>
<span style='color:orange'>*Sighing imperceptibly, he slings his LMG once again. Pulling his flashlight out, he shines it down, looking for any obstructions in the vent before putting it back in his belt and climbing down slowly, feeling with his feet in case he trips on something.*</span>
<u><b>The Space Station</b></u>
<b>The Vent</b>
<span style='color:orange'>[You can just make out a large rotating fan at the bottom of the vent. Beside you on the other side of the vent you hear the lift moving.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[The lift is approaching the first floor (The CC). It shows no sign of slowing.]</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:green'>[The room is empty apart from the control table in the middle. The walls are black and criss-crossed with a grid of lines, the colour of the lines changes like oil in the sunlight.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[The light of you torch begins to dull.]</span>
"Boss, what are we supposed to be doing here?"</span>
"How the hell am I supposed to get down to the bottom with that bloody fan in the way?"</span>
"cut the wires. fans dont turn without electricity."</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>"Yo, bill, what you reckon this panel is for?"
*switches torch off*
</span>
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"How should I know? We could go over there and press buttons... but I don't think thats a good idea."</span>
*carries on toward the centre of the room, the WP*</span>
<u><b>The Space Station</b></u>
<b>The Vent</b>
<i>In the ventallion shaft above you is a mass of wires. A blue wire runs down the shaft to the fan.</i>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[The floor reaches the second floor and keeps going down.]</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:blue'>"Spacer those lamp packs last for 600 standard hours. And they were fresh of the shelf when we left base. Something...ab...ing...he energy."
<i>The comm link in your suits begin to lose their signal.</i>
"Bill... You...wa..t..down...the...e. I...leave. If...hav..cold...et you...ship."
</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[The WayPoint is the table. Above it hanging from the celling is the holo-projector. It looks like a disco ball. About 1 metre in diameter.]</span>
"Say again? You broke up there."</span>
“If I get zapped again, Dea, I’m going to carry you into Concord when we get out of this hellhole by your combat boots.”
*flicks his knife out expertly, and [sinks it into the blue wire]*</span>
The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:green'>[The only reply you get is static.]</span>
<span style='color:yellow'>[As you stand at the WP your pet rat slips out of your pocket onto the control table. It scurries along stepping on buttons and flicking switches as it darts across the board.]</span>
<i>The doors close behind you. And you are left in the dark. The holo-generator begins to spins. It sends light out, flooding the room with a rainbow out colours.
You hear the room buzzing with power.</i>
<b>The Vent</b>
<span style='color:orange'>[The fan slows then comes to a complete stop.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[The lift keeps going down until it reaches the third floor (Science Labs). The door opens and there is a lone solder stand at the doors. He doesn't appear to notice you as he steps into the lift.]</span>
“Hey, whaddaya know. On my way down now, Dea.”
*continues to crawl down the shaft, avoiding the fan blades*</span>
"three please."</span>
The Vent</b>
<span style='color:orange'>[You hear screams coming from through the wall beside you. The vent ends and there is another grille infront of you that needs to be welded open.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<i>The soldier screams as you grab him. And shouts, his accent is thick with russian.</i>
<span style='color:Aquamarine '>"Don't shoot! Dont Shoot! This is the third floor!"</span>
<b>The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:green'>[Your wounds have fully healed. You feel normal, no better then that. You feel invicible.]</span>
<i>The holo-generator spits out random shapes. The room starts to flash alternating colours that make your head spin.</i>
*Checks if the torch battery is the same as the radio battery*</span>
<b>A clarification please; Am I still in the holoroom?</b>
<b><u>The Space Station</u>
The Holo-Room</b>
<span style='color:green'>[The battery of the torch is low drained by something in the room. Though the psychedelic colours flashing and pulsing on the walls light the room incessantly.]</span>
<b>Would the torch batteries be able to power the radio if they weren't drained? Are the batteries the same size and nominal output.</b>
"you have a choice, soldier. you can start talking here, to me. or you can push '1' and start talking to my captin. or you can talk to my gun. in any case, your GOING to tell me everything thats happening here."
*if the close door button isnt connected to that mine, i hit it.*</span>
The Holo-Room</b>
<i>The incandescent light show stops and the holo-generator focuses beams around the room. The beams solidify making five skeletons, they are hunched over. Like they are deactivated. The bones are metalallic and angular. Their faces are skulls, their eyes are green lights, wreathed in flame. Looking into the they say only one thing, 'Here is death'.
The metal skeletons stand to thier full height, over 2 metres. In their hands are assualt rifles. They make no sound as they fix their lifeless eyes on you.</i>
<span style='color:yellow'>[Your pet rat scurries of the controls and hides under the table.]</span>
<b>The Lift</b>
<span style='color:pink'>[Persuade success.]</span>
<span style='color:Aquamarine'>"K, okay. I talk. Don't shoot. We work to make new weapon."
"The weapon will defeat all Kharaa. We can protect our homelands with it."
"It is almost complete. The first ones are being made this very moment, as we speak."
"Within hours a cargo ship with collect the first ones of them. The pirates that attack us delay the deadline. But soon we shall be ready."
"You can not stop us."</span>
*voicecomm*
"i have a prisoner, sarge. looks like theres a wepon being produced down here. expect a ship soon to pick it up. what do you want me to do with him?"</span>
*Starts bashing on the door with my riflebutt*</span>