Paddy was working on it even as the LT and his team came back out of the bioship. He paused his work and scurried out of the room, then, hearing the LT's order sat down against the bulkhead and muttered "Working on it, boss!" He glanced up. "You... and you... Give me your comm packs."<br/><br/>The two grunts looked from the Specialist to the LT, and, receiving a nod, stripped off their comm packs and handed them to O'Graugh. The SFC quickly stripped the sets down, ripped out the power packs, along with his own personal comm pack, and wired the three packs in parallel. He Wired this up to the platoon transmitter, to which he'd made a few hasty modifications. He pressed a button, flicked a switch and turned a dial. "Got it!" He flipped the transmitter off again. "This will transmit for about thirty seconds then fry all it's circuits, LT". He was bright enough to figure out that the officer didn't want to get a message through to anyone, but rather wanted to send a signal to the demo charges he'd set.<br/><br/>Pat picked up the remote detonator, ripped the back off it stripped off a couple of wires, then twisted them onto a couple of bare ends he'd deliberately left sticking out of the Platoon comms pack. Thank the gods for copper wires, he thought. Solid state circuitry was more compact but a lot less reliable. If a connection burned out you had to replace the entire board. But with good old wire, you re-soldered the joint. And you could jury rig shit like this...<br/><br/>With a smirk, less than sixty seconds after getting the order, he handed the trigger part of the new "super-remote" back to the LT. "Fire in the hole, sir!"<br/><br/><hr/><br/>A short way forward, Kerry Paige was in the fight of her life.  Again. The Kalashnikov was a great weapon for this sort of close-quarter's fighting, and Kerry was utilising it to it's fullest. Her squad had retaken the corridor and the cabins on the left side, but the right side crew quarters room was swarming with orcs. They seemed to be using some sort of tendril from the bioship that squirted an acidic foam to cut through the bulkheads between the rooms.<br/><br/>Paige had seen this stuff before and instructed Deville to take out the crew using it and the try and sever the dam tentacle as far up as he could.<br/><br/>In the mean time, she and the others concentrated on killing orcs.