Your men immediately begin to open fire into the shadowy darkness firing at the enemy. [5] Your men quickly retreat towards the neares piece of cover near the Hallway from whence you came.
[12 vs 4 = 8] completely surprised by your attacks 8 of the enemies go down in the bullet hail, however your grenades seem to have no effect as they just walk on...burning. These walking torches at least illuminate the massive hall a bit better and you notice that it propably wasn't such a good idea to blindly attack. There are hundreds of them. Even worse while they look human enough at first something is mightily off. Their skind is dessicated and stretched taught. Their empty eye sockets stare at you sightlessly. They lack any and all flesh, all that seem to keep these rotted carcasses together are numerous cybernetic implants and their sinews. Realizing that you have no chance you retreat while continuing to fire.
[15 vs. 16] However one of you men is too slow as one of the enemies ,despite his advanced decay, dashes to him lightning fast and bludgeons him to death with its weapon. His agonized screams fill the room and you helplessly watch as the butt of the gun finally smashes his head in. [10 vs. 18] You manage to retreat into the hallway, your enemies not firing once. Suddenly some of your men start screaming horribly, and then you can feel sharp throbbing pain and picture start to flood your head...horrible pictures, with terrible speed, faster than you can comprehend. You s tart screaming in agony and blood starts to squirt out of your nose. Several of your men fall on their knees clawing at their eyes, bleeding from every orifice on their head. [1 vs. 16] The Pain intensifies and most of your men are now screaming in pain unable to lift their weapons. Finally almost to your relief the enemy starts firing. Greenish light illuminates the hallways as superheated plasma melts away more than a dozen of your men. Others being close to the door get bludgeoned to death.
Panicking you order a full retreat. [18][5] But your enemy doesn't relent, when you finally reach the shuttle only 8 of you are left. You get inside and make off back to your mothership.
The Argonains recieve the recordings from the Away-Mission and a mere hour later you continue onwards. with 42 Men Less and 10 Credits more. All in all a good trade...