<strong>-- Explorator Thraxius --</strong>(http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=103946.msg4515299#msg4515299)<br/><hr/><br/>Thraxius made a symbol of warding against his breast as he entered the craft.  Something was stirring beneath that crimson exterior, a dormant beast with baleful eyes hooded with sleep.  The very idea of waking such a thing and confronting it head on would have stricken an ordinary man to the marrow.  Yet Thraxius had never been an ordinary man, even before he eschewed the weakness of the flesh.<br/><br/>He knelt before the panel and slid it aside, revealing the mechanical guts and access port beneath it.  With a solemn air he pressed his right palm against the unyielding surface, linking to the vast entity around them and chanting simultaneously in Gothic and Binary.<br/><br/><div align="center"><em>"Initiating activation sequence, aktiva cons sequentia. <br/>Librius machina auroris dei. <br/>Contact established with machine spirit of “drop pod” <strong>[Dreadclaw]</strong>, designate <strong>[MAW-632]</strong>. <br/>Praise to the Machine God."</em></div><br/><div align="center"><strong>[Tech Use to Commune with Machine Spirit] 43/64 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=27120)</strong></div>