The flamethrower array was reduced to a flaming acidic ruin in Gonathi and Shadir's wake, literally nothing more than smoldering gashes on the wall where they once hid and spitting out thin smoke and blue sparks. Bits and pieces of machinery and wiring sprawled around in the destruction. What seemed like a putrid liquid began to pour of it, what was left of the fuel that was within the tanks behind the panelling, catching to turn into a tiny bonfire, not large enough to block their way but enough to make sure that the array would be beyond repair after it burns out.<br/><br/>Beyond the death trap were more corridors that seemed to twist and turn, the lit signs indicating various areas and districts that make up the inner parts of the base. The console room where Pyre was in happened to be closeby, pass security stations, barracks, lab rooms and hangars that seem to be all but empty and unmanned. There was a change in the atmosphere in this part of the base. Hurried footsteps and faint whispering could be heard from some places, indicating that the personal were still around, and the continous chatter and slither of chitinous legs and slimy bodies echoed down certain halls. Every now and then, there were shouts, inhuman cries and gunfire, followed by deadly silence, repeated at random from many directions and behind many locked doors. It seemed like whatever Terrans were present were fighting for their lives against monstrous enemies, which were no doubt to be Zerg of origin, as the damage, blood and slime that was now visible on the walls, floor and ceiling contained signs of them irrefutably being there. Oddly enough, there were no bodies, neither Terran nor Zerg.<br/><br/>Strange alcoves littered various wall sections, each of them open and empty, and from the construction, one could tell that there was another door on the other side that had been permanently closed and the front door designed so much to appear hidden to the human eye. The massive scratches and ripples of metal that ranged throughout the panels did not indicate much except the fact that no normal Zerg strain could have been responsible.<br/><br/><div align="center">===========================</div><br/>Up in orbit, news of the accident had reached every ship within range of the spaceport's comms center, tiny engineering trawlers, medical dropships and wraiths all scattered about the accident zone. Within moments, they had the situation under control within the debris field and other ships were all keeping clear as ordered. The surviving freighter hovered in space, the devastation of the hydroxian gas clearly showing that they had effectively disabling it as its engines had been torn apart. The other that slammed into the boey was being held by powerful gravity beams from several trawler craft, tilted downwards and at a 60 degree angle, the huge chunk of metal embedded on its port side and the boey on its starboard side. Its lights were flickering and from the distance, one can see the emergancy crews fighting bravely against the vacuum, chemical fires and electrical discharges. Each moment that passed gave birth to an invisible drama unfold, the high profile scene serious enough to attract much attention from other passing civilian craft.<br/><br/>There were others that were not so lucky. Two smaller freighters were caught by the debris. Even the science vessel in the distance was assaulted by stray bits of metal. Emergancy orders were being sent out for all vessels within the debris field to stay put and not move around, and all those outside to stay clear. The waves of comms messages also reached the Churchill in text. No one seemed to have spotted the Black Scantid as they were too busy dealing with the dire situation at hand.<br/><br/><div align="center">===========================</div><br/>Upon the approach of the Grizzly within half a click, somewhere in the middle of the Badlands, a small canister cleverly hidden in between two rocks twisted open. A red light at the top began to blink, accompanied by a dull repeated beeping sound, an encrypted Dominion signal masked as interference became visible on any closeby comms arrays.