Nirann quickly got both hands onto the comms mast once the shaking started to get worse. A soldier came into the shield to help, which would hopefully be enough bodies to make sure nothing ended up broken. “Okay, yeah, let’s get this thing on the ground, gently. We can put it back up when the ground is less angry.” 

Outside the shield, Rareth made it back up the hill and rejoined the others. Her neural implant had managed to fully adjust to the low-light conditions by mixing in ambient light from the non-visible spectrum, so she could see much better than at the start. Still, that did not reveal what was causing this disruption. “If they can’t run from it, I doubt we’ll escape either, unless we get the transit station up. So, we hold. Just be ready, but still don’t shoot until we know we are under attack.”

While they still had no true answers as to what was happening, the sounds Rareth heard did provide some hints. They were not natural; they were synthetic. From some electronic source, most likely. She supposed she did have to allow some uncertainty, as she did not [i]truly[/i] know what kind of creatures might be found in a simulation, but it did imply something with more advanced technology than what these villagers had shown. It could be a genuine threat. Rareth had three firing modes to work with on her fusion cannon, plus the micro-missiles. She decided to leave it on its fully-automatic firing mode for now, as it was the most versatile.