The Engineer carefully connected the freed data chip to his large terminal. Text scrolled rapidly as Naia was still catching her private thoughts from the effort of breaking the stasis field. Seeing the man's fingers fly across the interface, the woman massaged her throat and tapped a command on her own.
A spherical lozenge was dispensed from within her helmet and she let it sooth her voice. She hated that she was using one so quickly into the mission, but it was only now that she realized just how hard she had been humming here and there to better direct the energies.
"Most of this matches their last transmission. Structural analysis of the facility and energy readings, all in standard field report formatting."
"Skip to final entries."
Evander's visor flashed as he processed the tiny differences in the data being shared to what he had gotten from Command. The text gave way to a final audio file within a series. The timestamp placed it just minutes before Squad 218 went dark.
