As soon as the devastating shot was fired and the drone was down Edmund stood up from cover and put three more bursts into the main body of the drone where the CPU was housed. Best to make sure that it didn't have any fight left in it. He signaled to the rest of the team to keep an eye on the hole in the hallway and kept his rifle at the ready, repeating the command over comms, "<span style="color: red">Watch for further boarders. I'll open the airlock.</span>" He moved up a bit by the time he was joined by Sandra by the airlock.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: red">We're still about four to six minutes away, depending on how much resistance we meet. Keep an eye on that breach, I'll try and get this airlock open quick.</span>" As he spoke he unscrewed the tip of his left forefinger to reveal a complex series of pins. He plugged the finger into the port next to the keypad for the door and began forcing the unlocking procedures for the emergency airlock. They'd already lost a few men but he was prepared for that, he tuned out the horror of their situation. He had been on the front lines before and seen the horrors that the Greys were capable of. He bore the scars of it himself, and had lost many friends to them. It was hard to imagine how humanity could keep up with such a foe, but with the aid of their allies and a heavy handed helping of cloning they had managed to keep this war going for over a century now, and had pushed back the Greys considerably. But he knew just how high the fatality rates were, most recruits never made it long it was the rare few who had a combination of luck and experience that carried this war. And even the best of the best was not impervious to the death dealing power of Grey weaponry. One wrong step and death was sudden and merciless. In a way he was glad that the drones were as merciless as they were, it rarely left soldiers to suffer their mistakes for very long.<br/><br/>As Edmund was busy doing this a group of two drone grunts stepped through the breach in the wall, standing at just over 7 feet tall and of considerably lesser diameter than the support drone that came before them. Both of them immediately opened fire on the first foes that came within their line of site, each firing from the single beam emitter mounted on their back with quick horizontal lancing motions.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>