"You heard the doctor, boys!  Lock and load, then take defensive positions near the entrance.  I'll go with the doc.  Send us a message if something happens."<br/><br/>Sergeant Ramirez raised her Gauss rifle up to ready position, and took a position behind Daniel.  They made it to the control room just behind Anya, and saw that the place was something of a mess as well.  There were only four operators out of the usual twelve, and no commanding officer, which probably made Officer Sommers the commander-in-charge of the base for the time being.  There were signs of electromagnetic damage here as well, over half of the consoles were dark or sputtering with sparks.<br/><br/>One of the four operators, the same one who'd spoken on the intercom earlier, turned when they came in.<br/><br/>"There you are!  Is that mass of moving bio-signatures Zerg?  They are closing in from the direction of the ruins.  Spreading out to surround us, most likely.  The closest forward units will make it to the compound within minutes.  There aren't any marines left alive in the bunkers by the entrance, but the automatic defences are still mostly operational.  We've lost about 20% of our camouflaged perimeter turrets when the walls came down, but the rest seem to be working.  That should give us some time, at least."<br/><br/>The operator gave Daniel and Sergeant Ramirez a perfunctory glance, then motioned for Anya to get closer.<br/><br/>"This is what we picked up moments ago, soon after the bio-signs began showing up en masse.  It seems like some kind of high-energy mass is slowly descending toward the compound's location from decaying orbit.  We estimate it will impact here in less than an hour.  We aren't sure, but from the amount of energy, we think it's some kind of protoss ship that was cloaked and in close orbit to us.  I can't even begin to estimate how much energy would be released in the crash.  Simply put, we need to vacate the compound, in something of a hurry unless we want to be around when something likely packing several megaton's yield comes down on us."