“Already on it!” Nirann shouted back as he closed up the panel on his chest. For him, it was trivial to connect to each of the cargo drones and run their startup sequences simultaneously. It barely took a small subroutine for him to control each of them remotely, moving them in position to be loaded up with their equipment. More time consuming would be the process of actually disassembling the mast and transit station. The Humans were taking care of the comms mast, so Nirann went ahead on getting transit station disassembled and loaded up. Their deployable cover was hooked into their new power source and still active. For obvious reasons, he felt it best to take it down [i]last[/i]. 

Rareth had her neural implant run a few calculations on the kinetic forces Memnon’s shields had been exposed to. She knew exactly how much her own shields could handle before being depleted,  within a small margin of error. While a few of the other soldiers were dealing with a creature that made it over the ridge, Rareth tried to make sure no more could follow it quickly. She peered over the edge of the ridge only quickly enough to fire a single, explosive plasma burst at a time before backing up, changing positions, and doing the same elsewhere. Under such circumstances, even she could not land a kill with every shot, but the large plasma explosions could still injure from near-misses and slow their approach. However, what she really needed to do was to take care of the priority targets keeping them pinned. 

Once the hostile behind them was dealt with and the soldiers could return their attention to the front, Rareth set her sights on a ballista being set up. These strange creatures were truly otherworldly to be able to take on such forms, but she could not deny that they were effective. Instead of peeking out quickly, Rareth leaned over the ridge long enough to take solid aim on one of their ranged threats. She was certainly quick on the trigger, as she was able to fire her shot before the creature could shift its aim. The explosive energy blast his square in the center of its body to essentially incinerate nearly every part of it. A second ballista, however, did have plenty of time to send a projectile towards her. It struck her shields and shattered, causing the energized bubble around her to flare up bright white, far more than at any point before. There was a great deal of kinetic force for the barrier to handle, but it [i]did[/i] hold. The delay before the ballista’s next shot was more than enough for her to fire another well-aimed shot to blast it apart. 

Rareth ducked back into cover, intent on allowing her shields to regenerate before engaging again. However, the creatures seemed as clever as they were quick. Some of the dust and debris kicked up by the battle so far obscured the approach of one of the creatures enough to put it in striking range of the ridge. Just as Rareth was retreating back, the creature leaped over the top and pounced on her from above. Its many appendages whipped against her shields and depleted them entirely, then it wrapped itself around her in an attempt to crush her armor.