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The base ‘Hut’ had been carefully prepared for their discussions. 
Sienzu with Yie had been more than aware of how the Mermui appeared to them but agreed, they were all odd..
Odd in the sense that their physiology, anatomy, biology was not only visibly different but at least communication was not problematic.
The outcome was fairly inconclusive. The Arcan would restore the energy to allow the Portei Semperu to function again.
The races here, there were TWO variants.. would depart for the new world..
A separate part, of that would be given to those from Solus 3.
Unlike this polluted trashed world.. theirs was kept free of that in the oceans. Also a lot more of them than on Solus 3 (Earth)
The remaining rigs, would be left alone. Aegis the owners of the rigs had been furious at their destruction. They had wanted this race to replace them or pay compensation.
Hostility was growing, a refusal and it was not easily resolved.
The Ai entity had power to respond, if, it deemed, any activity was hostile and the destruction of the rigs was deemed by it to be just that.
The Orians had made it clear they would not interfere. They accepted the arrangement where the Arcan would re energise the Portei Semperu sounded acceptable. Yie had made Nodu of the arrangements.
The sooner the Portei was restored the better. She too had not like the sense of some hostility on the part
of the Ai?? Those iClones had that peculiar glassy eye stare, which IF and I say IF Yie had been in any way empathic would have given her some deeper concerns.
Siensu guaranteed there would be no interference from those here re the Arcan and his work. At the moment he appeared to be taking care of another issue that was deemed on his part to be relevant.
No one, was aware of the arrival of the Matsupa.. well bar Nodu, Symp and ? Yie had been told but it was not in her remit to take any notice of what she had limited knowledge of.
The craft Ai system ‘entity’ had given Nodu the warning and advised about the Matsupa.. Origin stories and more.. Solus 3 (Earth) was hated by them and for as he would soon be privy to .. for good reason.
Symp, had progressed, into the underground labyrinth to discover how vast it was. Deep scans that Nodu was aware of re the data returns included a layout which was proving to be extremely beneficial to her.
Avoiding traps ? The Zealot horde had not been so lucky.
The floor had given way to send over half of them plunging into a deep subterranean cavern. NO way out.. might be a truth.
The gas in the cavern, was highly toxic. Hallucinations with them, seeing things and monsters? Their own, were the monsters, they were now busy killing.
In the end the gas would kill them IF of course, they had not already killed each other. Torn limbs, heads littered the bottom of the cavern. Weird snail like creatures, were nibbling a the flesh; the corpses.
Symp had had to use, a special mask for breathing. The methane concentrate that fuelled or so it seemed, the lighting that flickered in the half light, was something in her explorations she had become aware of.
Luckily it would seem, only a fraction of the route she had taken was fully enclosed some had partial illumination from daylight. A hole above her.. partially obstructed by a ledge.
One she had to climb up using the gear she had to hand.. The irons hammered in had had her concerns re the noise they made.
As. she, finally reached,. where the ledge was. she could see. it was in front of a passageway that led?
Into a small open area. In the middle of that, was a statue.. a three headed one. 
God like and one she recognised as PAGAN. Ancient; very ANCIENT.
It had the look of having gathered dust, a lot of it. Not the type you inhaled, would probably, burn, the back of your throat.. well if you had one of course.
Some thin dust on the floor that was thinner in the middle...
The kind of trace that indicated the centre had had ‘foot’ traffic to the statue..
Of course, it could have been, away from it.. to ? Nodu had seen all that she had seen. “We need to ensure that cannot be activated.” IT could not be destroyed. That he had made her aware of according to the data he had.
Above her, was an inverted v shape granite wedge. IF it fell the weight of those granite blocks would make it almost impossible to use that.
The plasma neutron charges, would have to be carefully placed and, he now showed her WHERE to put them.. NOT that Symp was vague re that.. she had an extensive knowledge of the use of them gained over decades of experience..
A while later she had left to head out.. below her she could see the outline of ? Zealots.. So she could NOT go down as she glance up at the opening.. that was going to be her way out..
The noise of a plasma weapon being fired..
Stepping out and attempting to climb, would be suicidal.. She stepped back, those beings some of them were crawlers.. more than able to climb at some pace to where she was..
Seinzu and Yie with the Mermui, were about to leave the base hut.. As they stepped outside Sienzu noticed the iClones had gone.. a sight of some relief.. Then she shifted.. her stance had changed as her hands dropped to raise a weapon..
Coming out of the water was a robotic and it was not there as anything but a hostile.
Aegis corporation, working for the Ai entity. had sent it and it was programmed to ?
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