<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Staff Sergeant Mark "T-Rex" Bollan <strong>(NPC)</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>The Main Airlock</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>Julie Franklin, Other civilian PCs and NPCs assigned to his group.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Going inside</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Bollan entered the garage from the Martian surface (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148806.msg6745266#msg6745266) and looked around. a very thin layer of red dust blanketed everything - presumably it had been in here when the third mission pulled out in such a hurry after the accident. That would be cleaned up. One thing he did notice was the total absence of cobwebs. He hated spiders. On Mars there were no spiders! Hallelujah!<br/><br/>The various machines loomed in the darkness, the only light coming through the transparent pressure panels in the vast hangar door that still stood closed. Wheeled Mars rovers,dune bikes and dune buggies, their solar panels glinting slickly in the darkness, stood beside the two microlight aircraft. The two heavy tracked vehicles, one with its front and left side crushed, stood on the far side of the space for the shuttle. Nearby stood the "tow truck", the vehicle normally used to bring the shuttle in and out and also used to collect the wreck. The marscrete machines stood there too, strange spiderlike machines with resin hoppers on their backs, two of them. A single cherry picker, and the two cylindrical tunnel boring machines, together with the "slab-grab" - a four wheeled robot shaped like a small version of a dockyard gantry crane. All the vehicles were plugged in to sockets on the wall, the power cables presenting a considerable trip hazard. They would begin charging once the power came back on.<br/><br/>"Watch your step folks, there's cables all over the place." His suit lights had come on automatically in the gloom, and he made his way to the back of the garage and dropped his crates in a moderately sized clearing. "leave everything here for now, we can sort it out once the power is on..."