Outside Engineering (Aphrodi & Fumetsu)
"It's.. over... there?..." Michuru spoke to themselves, looking into open space and making a confused noise. They were probably downloading a digital map from somewhere, directly into their head. Without turning the helmet, a finger pointed at the large pair of doors just around the corner, past the airlock... "Well that was...
easy?..."
The red striped paint markings, corresponding to Aphrodi's uniform, did indeed lead to the largest and most impressive sealed bulkheads they had seen yet. The computer being down meant that the holographic signs were all down, sputtering out pulses of seizure-inducing white light randomly. But the heavy metal doors would have been familiar to the engineer themselves; They only put that kind of inward armour on parts of the ship that might, say, randomly explode the vessel into two giant smouldering chunks.
Three options here; The keypad had a screwed-on panel for possible direct interface. The hyradullics being on this side of the door also made them pretty vulnerable to busting open. Thirdly, the emergency vent on the ceiling above them... Might
just be big enough for somebody to slip inside?...
Fumetsu had plenty of time to observe Michuru's strange tics, bundling their hands in order to disguise the fact they were shaking with fear and discomfort. Definitely not star army personnel. The black featureless dome of their helmet suggested they were definitely just waiting for things to get worse...
Corridor Between The Medbay And The Kitchen (Sacre)
The galley was not ablaze or really damaged in any way, past a few disarranged tablecloths and fallen utensils. It had pretty boring white tiles, with a slightly more odd turquoise upholstery for the counter and furniture. The smoke coming in from the other room, however, was very dense. It was rapidly building up in a caustic black fog along the ceiling, backlit by the still operational dinning room lights. Staff was entirely vacant, probably because the ventilation wasn't making a sound, and the hideous gas cloud wasn't going anywhere in such an enclosed space...
Upon the food counter there was a fine selection of (now smokey flavoured) sweet meats and celery. The command console visible behind that was just flickering out white lasers randomly, the sign of a holographic display with no input. Next to that, a smaller blue fire extinguisher, the kind used on pan fires. The entrance to the food storage area basically just looked like a very large fridge door, laid into the wall.
To their left, the two AMES suited engineers were actually inside the room now, suggesting they were slowly making progress. One of the yellow-shirted galley cooks actually turned up, ferrying two fresh fire extinguishers outside the door.
Cargo Bay (Jinako & Carthage)
The goods being transported weren't exactly locked up like a bank's vault or anything, it was actually highly disorganised and rather hodge-podge in arrangement... This was a small transport ship in protected space that was supposed to have supporting escort vessels, after all. Jinako came across a second registry dataslate hanging from a support girder rather quickly, and so felt the same annoyance and disappointment as Carthage each and every time.
'Container 016; Mobile Armour' contained a pair of
Type 30 Tankettes... with no way of getting them out of the container, which was on the third row up.
'Container 025; Armour Components' contained at least two dozen Mindy II and Daisy helmets, even one full suit... All marked defective, and being sent somewhere that could reconstitute Zesuaium.
'Container 36; Metallic Refuse' was not a code word for a secret project. It contained metal shavings and literal garbage.
The was not a war ship. Almost nothing was designed to be deployed right out of the box, and quite a lot was sloppily stored and recorded.
Future interesting container entries were marked;
-Container 42; Contraband Materials
-DO NOT OPEN-.
-Container 50; Combat Apparel.
-Container 63; Power Armour Components.
-Container 65; Non-humanoid portable Ordnance.
-Container 73; Power Armour Components B.
-Container 93; Personal Heavy Materials A.
-Container 102;
[Unnamed].
-Container 111; Heavy Medical Unit
-Storage Mode 04-.
-Container 121; Personal Heavy Materials B
-DO NOT UTILISE WITHOUT ENGINEERING ASSISTANCE-.
Corridor Outside Personnel Cabins (Kage)
The engineer jumped in shock upon being grabbed, not least because the one who was doing it seemed to be a ghost-haired apparition complete with old timey clothes.
"I-I-I'm just reporting back from the fire!" The man had a heavy nepleslian accent, and seemed to assume that the shorter dark-skinned neko was an officer for several seconds too long. "The third AMES suit from the damage control unit is missing, somebody already took it! I'm going to get my own!"
Quite visible with their abhuman eyesight, Kage could see the source of the orange flickering at the other end of the extremely long, straight corridor; There was indeed a rolling inferno somewhere near the medbay or computer room, but the automatic fire extinguishers were not going off... Heck, the
alarms still weren't... At least two crew members were trying to fight it with handheld apparatus.
"Erm, something hit us! We got a proximity d-ding right before hyperspace and now the m-m-m-Megami is fucked!" The man seemed to grasp the situation just a little better, finally figuring out she wasn't accusing him of anything. "No contact with the bridge! They locked down engineering in case of hostiles! N-nobody knows what is going on!... Do you think it's an attack!?...
Oh good turding shit it's not the squids, is it!?..."
"F-f-fire extinguishers! The air filtration system isn't working! We n-need f-f-fire extinguishers!"