SENJO<br/><br/>As Kilo shook out and formed a loose column behind Corporal Morden, each marine using the opposite side of the stair case from the one ahead of them, maximising fire lanes, minimising risk of a burst of fire taking two down at once, we climbed away from the Hab Block. Near the rear of the column with the Leftenant in front and Lance Corporal Beneke covering the rear I cast a look back and down into the large room we were leaving. I had wanted to run a more thorough check of the carcasses and I had wanted to examine the second storey walkway where that other alien had been mysteriously killed but the military requirements of our mission over rode others and we advanced.<br/><br/>(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/KiloPlatoon_33.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/KiloPlatoon_34.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/KiloPlatoon_35.jpg)<br/><br/>As Morden stepped out into a junction of doorways on the upper level we moved through one of them towards a large space marked on the colony plans as 'Town Hall'. Several motion trackers, scanning in front, behind and to the flanks sent out their calm<em>tup-tup-tup-tup</em>search pulses. Everything came back green. Nothing was in motion except Kilo.<br/><br/>The door to the Town Hall was not locked and with a flurry of motion the soldiers at the head of the column activated the sliding panel and entered, sweeping the room beyond with their weapons. Within a few tense minutes of leaving the Hab Block we were all inside the next vast space, even bigger than the room below. At the rear, Beneke covered the doorway we had entered.<br/><br/>I scanned the huge room. There ought to be an office area here, a computer terminal.