The first week goes by uneventfully,
The majority of the squad spends the week relaxing, enjoying their new found privacy and a slight increase in food quantity and quality. It really helps taking the edge off after missions.
Zander spent the week getting to know and getting used to the squad, and Maximus was more than willing to practice CQC with him. The man-bear proving to be a good challenge, and the two men finds themselves often tangled, hot and sweaty.
And while his chances to do herbology is limited, he did manage to grow a marijuana plant in the squad room's plant pot.
Tal's week is reasonably more eventful than the others, having attached himself to the research of specimens brought back. Tests were done on the Knight's armor to determine it's strength, and was concluded that it's about as effective as a lightly armored transport car, impervious to small arms fire but an Anti-Tank Gauss round just destroys it.
Denizen 01 have also been dissected and researched on, it's scales and claws were put to the test, and some interesting discoveries were made about the difference between it and a rusher as to why the Denizen 01 does not start to rot right away.
While unable to turn the bio-materiel gained from dissecting it into a cape in a timely fashion, the Engineering team were able to shape a few scales into the shape of Trauma plates that could easily replace your own. In the week they made enough scale-plates for 3 ballistic vests. They also manage to cut half of a claw using a mixture of Thermites and plasma cutter and shape it into a vague sword-shape and put a handle on it as requested. Tests shows good promises and the thing still retain the sharpness of the claw still.
The head, after being turned into a skull and thoroughly cleaned, were given to the squad to hang in their room with a plate and everything!
Still no words from who Keith may have been working for yet, though. And the Artifact is still a mystery.