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Spacecraft Docking Area
The lengthy access code provided by Aleksei effortlessly unlocks the Administrative Hall's main gate. Beyond its corridors awaits the spacecraft docking area.
Veronica likely selected this location to confine her human captives due to its ample space and convenient surveillance capabilities.
A spacecraft hangs high from the ceiling, its black and white thermal tiles glistening immaculately, making this behemoth look more like a meticulously preserved exhibit.
The calamity has left this vessel frozen in time. This space-faring vessel, designed to shuttle between Earth's orbit and Aerospace City, never had the opportunity to fulfill its destined mission.
And the acceleration track, intended by Veronica to function as an enormous cannon, stands ready to propel this hundred-ton dart at near-light speed.
In the adjacent docking bays, more vessels of the same model stand—each poised to unleash their devastating payload toward the metal flower blooming in the orbital dock.
This is it...
Through the dimly lit maintenance corridor, Hanying makes her way toward Hangar 3C.
The residents of this city—be they humans of flesh and blood or mechanical creations—should never be used as pawns in a bloody bargain.
As Gray Raven has fulfilled its duty as a mediator, now she can no longer remain a passive onlooker waiting for war to break out.
