March 4th at 17:08pm
“Little sister” Titanya looks at the narrow elevator and puffs loudly. She just can`t understand why her pretty older sister Commissar insists in getting into those dark and crammed spaces when up there, under the sun they can be nice and cozy. Besides, she always gets in trouble when they get down here, and Anya always has to help her sister get out of them… but that means Anya gets to shoot the pacifier, so she guesses it`s an ok price to pay…

The elevator creaks a little bit, but moves smoothly after the Emperor knows how much time without any use as a testament to the knowledge of the mechanicum cult. The gates open and a freezing breeze gets to the group's bones. The doors close dissapearing in the wall as if they were never there.

The corridor advances a few meters and then opens to a small dark mining cave. The cave is elongated, with small size galleries here and there and ends up in a double contention gate with a small flickering yellow-greenish light that pierces the darkness of the underground labyrinth. Some flying insects roam around the shy light bulb.

The air here smells rancid, with rat-like excrements scattered around the floor and gnawed bones that crack under the heavy boots of the group.

Suddenly, a screeching sound reverberates behind them in one of the child-size galleries and echoes in another, and then another…

-Towards the gate in silence! go, go, go!

The group reaches the base of the doors, there is a simple console whose cogitator panel has some missing keys and old blood stains. The smell here is almost unbearable even with the breathing masks on. Mechcult adept LIV connects her implants to the console and it comes to life.

-Ref1- It's a Standard Construction MMXXI-XLIX Pattern building. Cladded enclosure for defense in battle and protection in hostile environments. Highly protected against tunnel collapsing.
╙►Consecuence 1- Basic encoding work

A red flash of light pierces the darkness when one of the rat mutants sticks his head out of one the small tunnels and with a perfect marksmanship, Soldier Thanatos blows it's brains off.

-We need to open that g…!-

The heavy gate starts opening with a rusty echo that even makes some loose rocks vibrate and fall and, in response, the mutants screeching howls start getting louder as all the rat-mutants in the upper level swarm towards the place.

Before the group can rush into the complex, some lights flash to life showing the inside of the facility. Among a yellow-greenish smog, a handful of human-like figures caught by surprise raise their weapons towards the group. Their movements are sluggish but fluid. Two of them start connecting an old twin-linked lascannon and another one starts climbing to a half destroyed combat walker.
A loud, imposing voice sounds beyond the dusty atmosphere in the facility even over the mutant horde growing sounds at their backs.
-Drop your weapons...-

-What to do?

1-Obey and drop the weapons.
2-Attack the figures while they are getting ready.
3-Try to reason.
4-Something else (what?).