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Lucca
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Date Posted: 01:01:07 06/05/01 Tue
Lucca started out cautiously at first, then moved more quickly as it became clear that the guards within the building were out for the count, a squad of engineers following. What little return fire there was came from outside the Psi-Bomb's radius of effect, and the perimiter teams were in place to deal with that. She quickly stepped through the shattered glass doors and windows that guarded the building's once ornate lobby. Now laser scorchmarks and shellholes pockmarked the once-pristine marble interior.
As the last dropship landed, a small, trucklike vehicle no bigger than a golf cart came rolling out, towing a small rectangular trailer behind. It's driver brought the thing into the lobby as Lucca headed towards the security desk. The two guards were still unconscious from the Psi-Bomb, but one of the soldiers who followed them in applied a set of metal restraints to each of them anyway.
"Looks like this floor's clear," he reported as he finished.
"Uh-huh." Lucca barely acknowledged him, already concentrating on the task ahead. She fished a small portable computer out of her bad and powered up, running a cable into one of the security desk's surviving dataports. Meanwhile the Engineers went to work on the little traile, which in fact was a Nuclear Power Unit powered by an ultracompact californium fission reactor. With the RFP devices having knocked out the building's generators, and the destruction of the city's main powerplants, they would have to generate their own juice for the remainder of the mission--and with the NPU they could restore power to those devices or sections of the building which needed it for the mission.
First, they started with the high-speed cargo elevator Lucca had identified earlier. With the security fields on the fire stairs locked, the shaft would be the only way to moove between floors, and it would only work with the blessing of Lucca, the Troubleshooters, or one of the engineers.
"OK, we'll have to split up into pairs to search the place. Edward--" she glanced darkly at the bard "--is coming with me. Now...let's see if we can't narrow the search down a bit..." She spoke into the Scanner: "Scanner,please--"her tendency to antropromorphize machines showing itself again, "--locater Victor Olansem>"
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