Stab and Feltain, covered by the squad from further back, slunk over to a vantage point to watch. Like Stab herself, Feltain had some zero-G training - more than her, in fact, and so the lower gravity was less of a hinderance to them. Their visual scatter patterns were active - the aliens seemed like they might be primitive enough for it to work on, or at least they didn't have any visible scanners.

They both lay flat only a fifty metres of so away from the aliens, their scanners out. This close, they'd switched over to entirely internal communications in their helmets.

"Some sort of teleport portal?" Feltain murmured, as he directed his scanner towards it.

"Seems likely. Maybe the crystals are there to help locate something for point-to-point temeportation?" Stab mused. She was intent on scanning one of the canid-like aliens first. 

Feltain's plan was to get as much sensor data as they could from this group, before the squad moved past them. Shadowflight had made sure he'd set the co-ordinates of the Fallen Soul, so if they needed to, they could make a shapr Gate exfil to right inside the vehicle.

He was scanning the hoop structure. They were close enough now to be able to get a full detail scan: composition, surface features, thaumic readings, everything. At this range, it would take longer than the usual minute or so to get it all (ideal range for speed was ideally within a couple of metres of so), but caution was the watchword.

"Hazarding the wolf-dudes might be some sort of servitor race," she said.

"Mhhm," Feltain noncommittally concurred. "Odd mix of weapons though. Most powers with access to firearms or energy weapons tend to skip melee weapons unless they're quite long-lived, just 'cos it's not that easy to train with 'em."

Stab eyed Feltain's magical sabre in its sheathe. "Uhuh. Which suggests that these guys are long-lived and well-trained... Or are, like cannon-fodder with minimall training. Though it's strange if that's the case to give 'em grenade launchers."

"Yeah. Spears and shields, too, which is good if you're fighting in a shield wall, but against modern weapons... Way too exposed."

"And these guys don't exactly strike me as being Defilers-level," Stab mused. "I mean, if they were, and they wouldn't have let us get this close."

She completed her bio-scan, and switched over to do a full scan of their gear, starting with the shield - since first off, she wanted to know what that thing was made of, and pertinently whether it was going to stop a bullet or a cold beam. Though, she mused, in the latter case, even if it did, it was going to get very unpleasantly cold to hold VERY fast...

A quick glance showed Feltain now scanning the serpentine alien and it's... Familar? Pet, maybe? Could be some sort of crystalline construct or golem, which would suggest some sort of magical or psionic capability. Feltain's scan would show.

She focussed her attention back to the dog-dudes. Shield scanned; now onto her second-favourite topic after robots... Weapons. What was she going to get from those grenade launchers...?