There’s gonna be maximum effort tomorrow. I can feel it.
They didn’t check any other doors until they reached another airlock, three rooms in and one flight of stairs down. This one showed signs of recent use, starting with the portable battery plugged into its emergency power system. Tobias frowned: it was standard practice to maintain secure and efficient connections for everything, but the battery had been almost slapped into place, and left to hang off the cord. Under Earth gravity it would have popped off by now.
That is not standard procedure, Commander.
Yup, thought Tobias. Now tell me something I don’t know, Asenath.
There is an excellent chance that both of the sergeants are dead?
Tobias winced. No, I worked that one out already. Anything else?
The airlock console here looked to be plugged into this subsection’s computer systems. I should be able to link into it, if you have a suitable relay.