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[X] Left, the corridor with the dead, and the signs of heavy combat. There had to be a reason for that.
 
[X] Left, the corridor with the dead, and the signs of heavy combat. There had to be a reason for that.

edit: misread, still going
 
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[X] Left, the corridor with the dead, and the signs of heavy combat. There had to be a reason for that.
 
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Escape from Lazarus Station - Part 6
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    • There had to be a reason why the left corridor was fought over so hard. Especially as most of the dead bodies looked like they were trying to get deeper into said corridor. Why? You weren't sure, but maybe there was some form of escape that was driving them. Something like a landing area, docking facility, or escape pods perhaps? Whatever it was, it seemed people had been willing to delay a relentless enemy like the mechs for it. The deeper you went into the corridor, the more bodies and destroyed mechs you found. The humans barely had anything worth mentioning, and it looked like they had grabbed whatever could be used as weapons to fight the mechs.

    This was evident when you saw a wild mixture of laboratory equipment, tools, and even trays from the mess you had your short break in. You only saw a few actual weapons lying here and there, none of them with a usable thermal clip. It seemed they were fired until it wasn't possible to use them anymore, and whenever someone was killed, the next took the gun. All of this painted an ugly image in your mind, they had died in a heroic last stand against machines.

    And no one would ever hear of them.

    That made you feel for them, even if they were Cerberus members. This hadn't been a fair fight; this had been a massacre. A massacre someone had ordered, because the more you thought about it, the more it became clear that this just might be a Corporal Toombs situation all over again. Whoever had hacked the mechs had done so with purpose, but to do so, they had to first infiltrate the facility and get access to the mech's central servers. Otherwise, they couldn't have overridden the safety protocols so thoroughly. So, the hacker had lived among these people for some time and met them, maybe even built some working relations with them. And one day, they just activated the kill switch.

    To do something like that meant that you had to be extraordinarily cool, or hate with a burning passion that was unknown to you. You had seen it in others but never felt it yourself if you were being honest. Not even Saren killing…

    [ ] Ashley
    [ ] Kaidan

    …had brought you to that level of hate. Something extreme had to happen for a person to hate on that level. Hopefully, you would never live through something that could make you hate someone or something that much. Because it did something to your soul and your mind. Something you didn't want to ever experience.

    The deeper you went into the corridor, the actual fighting signs faded away, as did the number of bodies you found. But the hints of the few survivors' desperation, those who had made it this far, became more apparent with each step. Until you reached the end of the corridor in the form of a massive blast door. At least, so it appeared at first glance, but as you went closer, you noticed that this wasn't true. The door stood slightly open and allowed you to look into the room behind it. One of the survivors had tried to use the same trick you had earlier and had opened up the emergency release for the door. Sadly, he only had managed to open the door a small bit before one of the mechs had gotten to him.

    You made sure that you were indeed alone before you peeked through the small gap between the two halves of the blast door. On the other side, you could see a wide open room that looked like a hangar to you. From your position, you couldn't see any shuttles or other spacecraft. Or another living soul.

    [ ] Open the door with the emergency release
    [ ] Go back and follow the other corridor
     
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    • Escape from Lazarus Station - Part 7
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    • [x] Kaidan
    [x] Open the door with the emergency release

    It was dark behind the door. Even the emergency lighting didn't help much when you squeezed yourself through the barely open door. Doing so was insufferably loud to your ears, but you knew that this was just a mind game your brain played on itself. Your training had prepared you for this kind of situation. The drill sergeants made sure that you experienced the infiltration and the position of a guard. You knew that you moved like a cat, but you couldn't help but feel as if any move you made as you squeezed yourself through the door was loud enough that anybody on that station could hear it.

    With your pistol ready and your biotics pumping in the back of your head, you slowly took in the room around you. Or actually, the hangar, because your way had to lead you to an actual hangar. Slowly and with great care, you walked deeper into the hangar, looking for any signs of mechs. Luck had it that you didn't encounter any of them, and the shuttles looked like they were in working condition. The only downside was that this part of the station didn't have any power other than the little being used for the emergency light. So, you would have to blow open the hangar doors if you wanted to fly one of the shuttles, and you lacked the explosives for that. You needed to find another way to open the doors if you wanted to use the shuttles to escape and not expose the interior to the vacuum of space.

    You searched the hangar and even the shuttles quickly but didn't find anything useful. It took some time, but you finally found the control room in all its dark beauty. None of the terminals reacted to your commands as it lacked the power to do so. For a moment, you were clueless about how to continue. But then an idea wormed its way into your head. You just needed to find a power cable, hook up one of the shuttles, and somehow connect it with the door. The rigged up shuttle would need to start and run on its own supplies of fuel. That would take a bit of work, but it should be doable. Tali had once told a story from her mother's pilgrimage that had included something like that. Hopefully, you could do it too.

    On the other hand, you could program one of the shuttles to simply ram the hangar doors and break them open. Less elegant, but it would be faster. You aren't a technical wizard like Tali was. Still, an autopilot to overpower the safety regulations wasn't that hard to program.

    What do you do?

    [ ] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    [ ] The fast way, use one of the shuttles as a battering ram and force the hangar doors open.
    -[ ] Seal the hangar before.
    -[ ] Don't seal the hangar before, most people on the station are dead anyway.

    Doing the preparation of your final escape in a shuttle, you could try and contact someone. With a connected shuttle comm-system as the backing, your signal should be strong enough to reach one of the comm-buoys out there. Or you could use the shuttle to contact someone close by.

    Choose one:
    [ ] Try to reach the Voice
    [ ] Try to reach the Alliance
    -[ ] Anderson
    -[ ] Hackett
    -[ ] Ashley
    [ ] Citadel Council
    -[ ] SPECTRE Command
    -[ ] Councilor Tevos
    -[ ] Councilor Valern
    -[ ] Councilor Sparatus
     
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    • [X] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    [X] Try to reach the Alliance
    -[X] Anderson
     
    [X] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    [X] Try to reach the Voice

    There is no reason anyone would believe Shepard unless they tell a fact that no one else knows about.
     
    [X] The fast way, use one of the shuttles as a battering ram and force the hangar doors open.
    -[X] Seal the hangar before.
    [X] Try to reach the Alliance
    -[X] Anderson
     
    X] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    [X] Try to reach the Alliance
    -[X] Anderson
     
    [X] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    -[X] Seal the hangar before.
    [X] Try to reach the Voice

    We're probably not anywhere in range of Council communications. Might as well get what info we can

    I would want to smash the hangar bay open but I don't want to let any poor survivor that follows us be stuck having to get a space suit before they could escape.

    Unless they got Star Trek style emergency forcefields.
     
    [X] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    -[X] Seal the hangar before.
    [X] Try to reach the Voice
     
    Right, at the moment we have a tie between these two plans:

    [] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    -[] Seal the hangar before.
    [] Try to reach the Voice
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    [] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    -[] Seal the hangar before.
    [] Try to reach the Alliance
    -[] Anderson
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    I need a tie-breaker!
     
    [X] The elegant way, use one of the shuttles as a generator to open the Hangar doors.
    -[X] Seal the hangar before.
    [X] Try to reach the Voice
     
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