As Daniel and Anya size each other up, there is clatter from another airlock of the science vessel, and Anya detects the disciplined minds of Dominion marines before the four-person security squad kicks the jammed airlock door open.  It seems they'd suited up in their CMCs before the vessel took a hit from the flare, and thus they were more or less in one piece, since their hardskin faceplates would have automatically sealed in the event of a breach.  Only one of them bore signs of overt damage, the marine's left arm was missing below the elbow.  The suit had already sealed and sterilized the wound, so it wasn't an immediate concern.  They could always grow him a new one later, assuming there was a later.<br/><br/>The marine with sergeant's stripes made her way to Daniel and Anya, looked them both over before addressing her words to Daniel as her faceplate unsealed with a hiss to reveal a mid-forties woman, whose lean and severe face looked like it had already been through several wars.  Daniel remembered that her name was Ramirez, and she was the only one of the security team who wasn't neurally resocialized.  For operational security reasons, the rest of the security outfit were resocs.<br/><br/>"You're lucky to be alive, Dr. Catseye.  Don't know how you did it, but we passed the mess hall while making out way out, and it's turned into a<em>real</em>mess.  According to the head count, you're the only one from the science team who made it out."<br/><br/>The sergeant scans the situation at the compound, as well as the surrounding areas while trying her radio, without much success.  Then she turned back to Daniel.<br/><br/>"I guess you count as the leader of the expedition now that everyone else is dead ...sir.  My advice would be to change positions, and fast.  That sounds like an awful lot of Zerg coming this way, and open ground is not exactly a good defensive position, now that the walls are breached."<br/><br/>Just on cue, Anya spotted a bulbuous Zerg flying organism crest the horizon... one of their overseers, an aerial scouting unit.