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though, sound does not travel well in near vacuum
Sorry, I missed a part of the drawing. The docks aren't supposed to be open to space.))
265 can't reach the other side of the doorway in one spin due to his armor encumbrance, so you move across instead, allowing him to take your place. Raising your rifle, you center the sights on the warped, buckling airlock. Unit 147 moves down to the other entrance to the docking area, ready to open it as soon as he is ordered.
Before the airlock can fail completely, you reach out with your psychic powers to attempt diplomacy with the aliens. You successfully manage to contact their minds, but find that it is just a swirl of instinctive drives to eat anything it can and to survive at any cost. Simplifying your prepared speech to something they can understand, you tell them,
"Don't kill! We feed you! But talk first!" One of them replies,
"Yes, you feed us! No, no talking! Kill!"With a
SCREECH of shearing metal, the door gives way and the spider-creatures begin to crawl through.
The first two through fall dead with high-pitched squeals as your laser blasts lance straight through their abdomens. Sighting and firing takes all your concentration, though, leaving you none left to try and attack psychically as well.
The next one scrambles over the bodies of his fallen siblings, but he doesn't move quite far enough to get a proper attack in. His off-balance strike at Unit 265 from around the corner fails to even scratch the armor. Another spider scrambles through the broken doorway behind him, and past them, you can see two more crawling out of the egg sac.