The Security Office

Mission Time: 0930, March 12th, 2154

Location: Lucy's Lament Colonial Operations Management Center

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She remembered running. That's all she knew for sure. Running and being scared out of her mind. The had fled the dormatory area, down a hall, away... So far away. The hall between the barracks and operations was long, several hundred feet, but it may as well have been thirty miles. She went as fast as her kegs could cry her until she slammed headlong into the airlock leading into the complex, punched in her codes, and slipped through, sealing the door behind her. She was tired, afraid, wanted nothing more than to slump back against the door and catch her breath, but something in her, something deep down that she could only regard later as instinct, pushed her forward. She didn't stop until she encountered the security office and rushed inside for help.

No one was there.

Julie sealed the door. This time she slumped down to catch her breath, but fell asleep instead. She was relieved when she awoke to find that she had gone unmolested through her nap.

The security office was one of the few rooms in the whole colony that could be locked down so tight that even the ventilation system could be shut down. Monitors on the far side of the room switched between shots in the colony. There were several shots that didn't show much of anything, but there were some, too, that were very telling. The medical center was quickly becoming a defacto base of operations for the creatures she could see, and she watched Dr. Wyandotte move between the operations center and the medical center seemingly unperturbed.

Then there was Jessica.

Julie could see that Jessica was just up the hall from her in the Operations center where she typically spent her time following incoming/outgoing interstellar traffic and monitoring conditions around Lucy's Lament. She was naked and obviously in distress. She had created some sort of barricade around the door of the office and was hiding behind the main desk.

Julie found a gun and a security officers shirt hanging in a wall locker in the far end of the office. She checked the monitors in the hall, making sure everything was clear, and, satisfied that it was, went to help Jessica...