- Good. - Shepard looked at the wall screens, careful reading of the texts. - Take plenty of reserves for Avtodoktor. We'll have to go under medication, providing psihozaschitu.
- Not when I had to actually use them, commander. As with the majority.
- It is - in case of emergency.
- It is clear, Commander. Will be done. Waiting for you. - Lieutenant switched channels.
Leviathan. Miners settlement on Magavide. A decade-long second
Strange, but not when approaching frigate, cruiser to an asteroid, or the organization of the ship's drift around the metal fragments are no special feelings have been noted. No physical condition or in the psychic. Although Shepard and Chakwas and urged normandovtsam very carefully monitor their condition, knowing that it can cause dangerous bouts of paranoia. It is better to be alive and relatively healthy parnoikom than dead and alive nihilists - so now considered not only Shepard.
Shuttle slow down on the asteroid, taking aim at a small landing area.
- The light from the windows of the station - the home straight. On external sites - one. - Alenko said. But inside ... is unclear. All stand motionless like a statue. There is no internal movement, or rather ... - Lieutenant peered. - It is, but it is too weak, insignificant.
- Be careful not to touch the bottom of the site. - Shepard said. - Shuttle to hold the position in the immediate start. - We are looking for this Garneau. We talk to them, if necessary - evacuate.
- Damn, what is that thing ?! - One of the policemen raised his rifle and landed in the doorway opened the side door of the standard trёhzaryadnuyu place. - Broke the fog broke up!
Shepard and all members of the landing party saw this creature - like a normal dog, the size of a good calf, which was close to the shuttle hovering and preparing to leap on board.
- The first time I see that mental daze respond to purely physical effects. - Said the policeman, frantically reloading rifle. - I is read only fiction. And now he saw firsthand. And it's no pressure on the psyche - appeared from around the corner, quite naturally. One. The other seems to be no. - Marine-policeman cautiously peered into the opposite doorway.
- Nope here one of these creatures. - Said another policeman who was standing there in the top five, which still took on board the shuttle Alenko. - Although ... saliva falling tufts of oskalёnnoy gaping jaws of this tvaryuki superreality and looks very natural. I looked for a moment - and then I ... enough.
- I've noticed that if you stand still and do not move too much, even if you do not move your head - this thing ... disappears. - Said a third policeman. It seems to be there, and like it does not exist. Once dvineshsya - it already appears in a new place, strictly in the direction in which it moved previously. And strictly on the distance from the previous place that any of us would consider regulations by taking into account its previous speed and direction.
Although the shuttle hung over the area for several minutes, no member of the landing party is not in a hurry to jump on the metal tiles. What I saw and felt it was too new.
- Hmm. Were such analogs in our country. - Interrupted by a short silence Saren. - But exactly such I personally have never seen. If there are troubles occur only when people start to really move very much ... Stillness of people becomes clear. It is quite justified. I have no doubt that they are starting to move, run the risk to see these creatures in the set. And it makes to freeze in place the best teams and shouts. We're only a few minutes - and then immediately determined that if we retain almost complete immobility - these creatures do not appear and will not threaten us. What, then, feel those who here spent the days, months and years?
- It is unlikely that they feel as well as surrounds us. - Nihlus said. - For some reason it seems that the more we move, the more different these creatures are going to see and feel. It is difficult to come to terms with - usually we believe that the spirits of fire useless. And here...
- A good way to deprive us of the opportunity to fight back. Shoot very real charges on the ghosts, whom from our shots - neither cold nor hot, and then we will seek a peaceful colony in anything like the ammunition. No doubt, such creatures contact - is extremely dangerous. - Saren first jumped onto the landing pad, looked around with the help of the sight of his sniper rifle. - Confirm. People remain on the basis of almost complete immobility, moving very little. For Chakwas and Michelle is still the same processing, to determine how well they can almost be statues and it does not harm their own state. In medfaylah probably reigns a complete nightmare.
- Maybe there is - a full order. - Said Alenka, jumping and becoming close to turian.
- Once this thing should be baptized. And that in fact there is such a lot. - Said one of the troopers-policemen.
- Let and be sobakotvar. - Said the lieutenant. - So far, anyway. And there - we'll see. There is clearly not only these creatures are. But other. So we will address the issues of classification as candidates for admission to this classification.
- Would be better if the candidates have time to shoot from a distance. - Saren did not hide his irritation. - It all started so ...
- Captain. - In speaker in the helmet Shepard heard the voice of Olivia. - I do not know how this could be, but, to my knowledge, none of the residents did not know at the miner's base Magavide that since the last regulatory data exchange with the servers of the company T-Gees took ten years.
- And the company itself?
- One-day captain. - Kiborgessa clearly consulted with some other data. - To collect the State, abandoned equipment on the asteroid - work. Grantor direct selling, well, temporary contractors procurement - are still the originals.
As soon as the detachment moved to the entrance portal leading into the base of the aperture vymetnulis just ten sobakotvarey. Shturmvintovok slammed shots. Normandovtsy tried to shoot single and Shepard have imagined how silly looks from the outside, firing in white light like a lot of money. Even those on the frigate Morokova tvaryuk one could not see, but all normandovtsev weapons seen perfectly. Olivia probably tried all the kerf specialized sensors to action landing party did not look too full of madness.
- Captain, I do. - Kiborgessa again came out on bond. - Is the level of change in the density of matter surrounding the asteroid. This is the only thing that gives us a clue - it increases the density of matter in the direction in which you were just a fire. Wraith?
- Yes, Olivia. That's a wraith. size dog with Telkov. We call them sobakotvaryami, although there may be other instances of other types and kinds. Shoot, as I understand it, you still have to. So do not be surprised. And when we try to skontaktirovat people - generally it will be interesting. They are paralyzed or blocked on the ability to make a minimum of movement.
- Noted commander. - Kiborgessa was clearly satisfied with the information received. - Confirm. Sensors show - motion base personnel - are minimal and are not natural for the normal level of physical activity of people. Especially - civil.
While the group reveals the gateway locks normandovtsy to get used to the idea that they would have to shoot on intangible creatures.
- Damn, but it's still like that. - Alenko looked out of the casement and saw standing by the stairs Morochno another thing - now it has been quite a biped figure resembling plump sharply Turian, but fortunately, it is not a hike on the Archangel. - Looks like a Turian, but too huge.
The creature turned and, apparently, feeling alien, lumbered toward the gateway.
- Shoot to kill. Do not let it close! - Ordered Alenko.
The harmonious volley forced a creature scatter sequins.
- Hmm. It's unpleasant to see almost kinsman ... ... is transformed into creation. - Nihlus said, reloading his rifle. - Dubbed tvaryuku, colleagues?
- Well, he tried to descend upon us its carcass. So let it be raider. - Said one of the paratroopers, infantrymen.
- There are other suggestions? - Asked Alenko. - If not, claim this name for this creature.
- We continue to look for Garneau,
colleagues. - Shepard looked at the Legion, quietly rechargeable pistols and even shoot with your sniper rifle stops. - We continue to look for.
- It is not clear, Captain. - Het said. - The behavior of this sample, one can say that he did not carry out security functions and security of the complex. He seemed to be trying to break into.
- And there the profit miners. - Said one of the troopers-policemen. - Sobakotvari with interest looked at the inner doors, the captain, who, as I see it, is also closed.
- We reveal. - Ordered Shepard, occupying a comfortable position to shoot emerging sobakotvarey. - It seems that these dogs - consumables for Leviathan. But the raider - more serious because - costly sample.
- May be. - Het conjured over the castle, nodded Alenko. - Done, we can go inside, Captain.
- Inputs. - Shepard ordered, knew perfectly well that his teammate is not yet accustomed to his commander's status and therefore continue to call him on the military rank, not by post. However, now the little things he and Shepard was not going to pay so very much attention. So, at the edges of consciousness ...
- One raider, nearly two dozen sobakotvarey. - Legion calculated by considering the interior of the first available view space miner base. - We need to move inward, until they came reinforcements.
- Just in case. - Shepard paused briefly returned to the gateway. - Leg Lock gateway. Though these tvaryuki pray thee outside and will not be able to come here. If this is a wraith from the "fragment" is inside ... It is unlikely that we will be able to do without meeting with such creatures in here.
- Achieved, Commander Shepard. - Het closed the shutters and turned on the security complex. - Uncover not work. - It departed from the gateway, reloading guns. - Ready.
- Clean and empty. Critters no, here they have nothing to profit. - Nihlus said. - And where they have no money to make money, they even do not appear as Morochno. The only working door - this. - Turian rifle barrel pointed leaf. - The base mess schemes seems they repeatedly changed the designation of premises in the ten years of being a hassle. And the company has not reviewed the state of affairs in the jurisdiction of her ... based economy, is called.
- The door opened. - I reported to the Legion, pushing aside the leaf and skipping past him teammate. - Hydraulic disabled, probably those inside did not want to further penetrate the creature. Maybe they do not penetrate. Although - not sure.
- It is difficult to be sure that after what had been witnessed. - Said one of the policemen paratroopers. Shepard noted that teammate with the view expressed in the conference mode, many agreed.
- Well, finally at least VI ochuhalsya from hibernation. - He said Alenko to hear the standard greeting on the speakerphone from speakers hidden in the walls of a kind of waiting room. Register will be?
- Probably have to try. - Shepard with interest and increasing misunderstanding eyed people, the first people he saw on this base that's so close to each other. People who have spent at the base of long ten years and, apparently, did not have a clue about how much time they spent in the arms of darkness. - To welcome and invited to join.
- Strongly resembles a concentration camp. Soft such, but the absolute concentration camp. - Said one of the troopers-policemen. - After the base Collectors ... such unpleasant associations.
- Move slowed, speak slowly, monotonously, standard phrases, a lot of repetition, almost no facial expressions. - Noted Nihlus, watching the few earthlings who were in the "lobby". - We are interested in a very small degree, because, looking at us all. It seems that we do not look at some local board for its local, and they look at us as if we're sitting here already ten years.
- They do not know about these ten years. This we know. - Shepard said, realizing the phantasmagoric situation. On arriving local staff really paid too little attention - by normandovtsev just looking, no one so far not tried to approach them, to speak, to ask a question. Noting in the memory location of security posts, Shepard went to him, to try to clarify the situation - it is hoped that the trained security guards were more resistant to the wraith, though ...
Posing as captain FSI Systems Alliance, Shepard said the two guards that want to break into the generation of darkness. If the captain on something positive and hoped that after a verbal answer the first guard that hope for a positive outcome of the case has dissipated. Ton machine, apparently in slow motion, seated at a table instrumentronom guard asked:
- They still here?
- I take care of them. - Shepard said, somehow hoping that this short form response will cause the guards to try to get as much information about the incident. The second guard, who was standing next to the first and to touch the stack of readers said the same colorless "automatic" tone:
- Then - no problem. - The guard said, losing interest in people who stood behind the glass and Turian with geth. Shepard drew attention to the fact that even the presence of geta has not forced the guards to wake up. The assumption of a deep and comprehensive indoctrination shahtopredpriyatiya employees gains more and more evidence.
- No problems?! - To showcase glass separated the room from the rest of the guard post "lobby" came Alenko. - As it has no problems? Hey, you there! - Lieutenant knocked the rifle barrel on the glass. Reaction standing guard finally convinced normandovtsev the apparent inadequacy of the inhabitants of the base:
- Yes. Welcome to the company - a security guard called the company, on which was written a mining village on Magavide - register if you want to get on a tour.
Normandovtsy even exchange glances with each other did not - they became much clearer. Visually clear.
The guard, meanwhile, has apparently decided that he had - the guide:
- We present a small company supplying tungsten at an affordable price to any customers throughout the galaxy.
- We're not on this issue. - Nihlus came and knocked the rifle barrel on the glass showcases. - We - by another problem really.
- Do you know how to use tungsten? - Continued the guard staring unclear look in Turian spectrum.
- A little more, Commander. - Saren said. - And I start to shoot those guards. Although ... I understand that they are not to blame and we should remove the wraith ...
- It is unlikely that it can be removed otherwise than find the shard. And it should be the size of a lot more than what we have seen in the laboratory and in any case more than what we saw on the cruiser Bryson. - Shepard said. - Hey, we're looking for Dr. Garneau. He had to come to you a few weeks ago. Tell us where he is and we are quite satisfied.
Pausing and something instrumentrona typing on keyboard sitting guard he said:
- Dr. Garneau among us there. You need to pass medkontrol, if you want to stay at our station. We have a problem - the lift that leads to the sickbay, broken. And we have no way to fix it. Please, go away and do not interfere with our work.
- It is unlikely that we are shaken out of the semi-automatic anything else. - Alenko said. - I propose is to take a walk here and see if we can do something with this lift.
- I looked at the car, Commander Shepard. - I reported to the Legion, returning from the lift doors. - There must be a maintenance drone. He - all possibilities for the repair of such equipment. I can fix the lift itself, but it will take a lot of time. Dron specialized, they can do it faster and better.
- Do not be shared and not disperse. - I ordered Shepard. - Look around, look for this drone, then - repair linkage if no drone, or - waiting until he repair the lift itself. In sickbay should be more information about what happened and about the health of the local workers. - Looking at the guards, he added. - While looking at these zombies, I'm already in it and not really believe it.
- Repair the terminal is found. - I reported to the Legion, who had bypass "lobby". - Configuration management requires drone to someone of organic was constantly by his side. I suppose that it will be safe - hardly drone is programmed to allow a reasonable organic harm in the course of repair work.
- Compared with the local inhabitants, we
just incredibly talkative. - Said one of the troopers-policemen. - I just walked past a few of the local miners and they are all as one, looking at me askance, spoke only one sentence: "You - not from here." I myself know that I - not from here, but it seems to me that it is said they did not, and said Leviathan. That is now my feeling is.
- It's not just you. - Shepard with the Legion came to the repair terminal. - We will not hurt local sufferers. We need to move in the base depth, and here, for obvious reasons, only one pass inside. Otherwise, the protection of such a small, there would be no need to - it would simply not cope with the task. - Captain conjured on the terminal panel. Hung motionless on a small platform translucent, glowing blue-white contours intensified drone and flew toward the lifts. A minute later, he was already working. Shepard looked at the drone, then lift, then in the lobby. disembarkation group tried to stay close - everyone knew that even with the lift repaired can occur all.
- Shepard Commander, I got access to the lift to access the registration system. - I reported to the Legion. The first and the earliest of the last three cabins visitors listed Garneau Alex. The rest - the usual staff. IDs of all three, I took off, we are now able to track their movement.
- If all three are alive. - Shepard looked at the rays that the drone was associated with the lift control panel. - And if not?!
- Strangely, I'm still not sure I understand it correctly, that the mean base guards, claiming that the doctor is not here Garneau. - Alenko said.
- If he entered the elevator and did not come out of it here - it is possible that they had in mind, that in the lobby among these lunatics Dr. Garneau did not.
- The documents that I took from the drive guard post commander. - To communicate out Olivia. - Clearly indicates that Dr. Garneau down in the "lobby" not later than the last week. So the guards could speak more precisely. And complete.
Finally the door opened and a group of landing ascended the platform lift.
- Technical. - Dissatisfied handed Nihlus. - And a little. Hardly Utility, most likely - a passenger. And there are no signs that this trunk there is any lifts. On passshahtu it seems too little.
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