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The Eclipse as a whole where getting increasingly agitated, and had engaged in intense monitoring of all the planets communications printed the picture of a place ready to blow and the fact that there was an “biological anomaly” at the dig site was frankly rather terrifying. Yet they couldn’t leave, their FTL had been reliant on the gates and it was difficult to get parts to upgrade a it on a tiny colony like this. So short of trying to steal the Scythian they were stuck here with the threat of whatever was in the dig site. In response, they had begun to crack open the various hiding places in the ship where they kept the weapons. 

Some of these where as legal as the ones they had on their ship, but most were the result of nerves tinkering driven by the danger of the times and one was all the armaments that had been striped off the crab lifter. Affixing the crab and ghosts was going to take a while, but the 3.5 m tall Liandry’s mechs were kitted out and ready to rumble and the Apis had gotten out their stingers. Stingers in this case being 6 cm long laser rifles or 3 cm laser pistols. Utterly useless on their own, each Apis could hold 2 rifles or 4 pistols and with 20+ Apis all focusing fire on a single target they could actually be pretty nasty. There were a few pistol versions being carried by the odd Apis ‘guard’ already, but each able bodied Apis was now making sure they had a bandolier with their 2/4 firearms strapped to it.