Dronen carries ten spheres in a bag.
You go to the different locations.
You are able to find or have the factories make the parts you would need to vacuum out the "atmosphere" within the ovoid thing in the side of the station.
You then gather the equipment and carry it back to where it is.
After about an hour of the machine running you are fairly certain it has been cleaned out well enough for you to go inside.
"Alright," Kit remarks, "Who wants to go into the Pod-of-Certain-Death first? I'm tired of getting clobbered."
Kit wanders over to the ovoid pod, but waits for someone else to go inside first this time.
Vagoru raises his hand.
"Yeah, they say 'never volunteer.' But what do I know?"
Vagoru hefts his weapons and enters the strange ship. He keeps his armor sealed against atmosphere.
Snorri goes next keeping his reaction cannon to hand.
Bronen grunts and follows Snorri. Dronen follows Bronen.
The interior of the vessel is revealed as one huge chamber, filled with the black, misty fog. The interior components appear to be made from some dark crystalline material, but you recognize none of the equipment or machinery. The hazy black air is almost stifling. An iris, much like the one you have just opened, is barely visible at the back of this compartment, some 90 yards away.
You turn the machine on and the it is flushed away.
Your group goes back inside the vessel and note that the inside is a huge cavern with a black crystal engine at one end and a set of black crystal controls at the other end. The characters will also note three piles of extremely smelly fungi.
"Pee-yoo, that stinks!" Kit remarks from the back of the group. "What is that?"
"Maybe something we should get a sample of... maybe." Snorri sneers at it from inside his armour.
"Close your helmet if you don't want to smell it," says Vagoru.
He looks at the crystal controls with confusion.
"Can any of you make out anything here? I got no idea how this works."
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Kit scampers forward and cracks her tiny knuckles.
"Hmmm... What have we got here...."
"OH! I see! These are the controls here, and this goes... Yup! I got it! This was definitely a ship of some kind. Weird as heck, but functional. I could pilot it from here if the thing was fight worthy. Not that I'd want to, mind. But, I don't think it would work anymore."
Kit leaves the controls and looks around to see if there's anything else in here.
Noticing the other iris she wanders over to it and thinks really hard...
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Kit walks out of the ship.
Kit takes a few steps back from the stone ship, she looks at it and sighs. "Well, that's not going anywhere."
Then she turns and looks at the others.
"Well, we might as well go find Gil's pals. I mean, how bad could it be, right? It's not like they'll be monster cyborgs or anything..."
The AI says, "Just a reminder, there is also a foreign substance in Gamma Sector and in Epsilon sector in the Aquarium is where Sergeant Phillip Getchel and Private Bob Spangler were last heard from."
Snorri shuffles along with Kit only half listening to what the AI is nattering on about. "Maybe we'll find some weaponised cheese."
You make your way out of Beta sector, back into Alpha sector and then you enter Gamma Sector.
You see gleaming three-story apartment buildings standing silently along the roadside. Even in the moonlight, the Spartan but forward-thinking design of these apartments bespeaks of their utility and functionality. They tower to three stories, just over 40 feet in height, and convenient walkways, elevators and ramps connect the floors to one another. Molded transparent windows beckon from all floors, but there is no movement to be seen. Although the apartments are attractive, the dim lighting and lack of occupants (and the sounds that would accompany them) gives this place the feeling of a massive tomb.
Vag
"Hey, what's this tube for? Some kind of pipe? Is this part of the station's equipment?"
Snorri squints "Which tube?"
The AI says, "What pipe? There should not be a pipe there, where does it go?"
Kit moves over to find this pipe Vagoru mentioned.
"Man, I thought for a second you'd had too much of your own brew, but now that you mention it, there IS a pipe here..."
Kit
It leads back towards Alpha Sector and an apartment building nearby.
"Yeeeeeah, I'm not checking that out. It's like... a spore tube or something. Gil?"
Kit steps back and urges Gil forward.
"I'm just saying if we can't figure it out using some of those explosives on it might not be the worst move."
"Well? You blowing it up, or what?" Kit asks the others.
Bronen just nods and Dronen begins placing the small explosives.
"Wait... if we blow the pipe, won't whatever's going through it just spew everywhere?"
"I could probably just cut the pipe if we want. Using this," Vagoru pats his laser cannon.
Vag tries to cut the pipe with his ray gun abut the flow of whatever it is just maneuvers around the shot and then mending fully, in a quick manner.
"Uh-oh." Kit remarks. "What do you think, Gil?"
Kit shrugs. "Well, let's dump a bunch of bombs in there and see if that hurts it."