<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=315225.msg15280018#msg15280018">Quote from: Erich Norden on 17-02-2020, 07:24:09</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Engineering to determine what caused the structural damage: 1d20a14 Result: 17 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=144331)<br/>Medicine to determine the alien's cause of death: 1d20a12 Result: 31 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=144332)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">There were numerous sections of exposed internals, several jagged rents and slagged holes.  There was a vertical rip in the side of the ship about halfway along the hull that was visible from their vantage point, and a large crater on its top that might be accessible from the ridge.<br/><br/>series of dents and rips on the far side of the ship. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The rips she is unsure about, they could be stress fractures from the crash, or the result of projectile weapons.  The slagged holes were probably energy weapons that melted through the hole.  The large crater looked like something, maybe a projectile but more likely something larger such as an asteroid, had ripped off the bridge in one piece.  The dents, many of which had small holes in the center, looked like impact points, potentially even of boarding pods.<br/><br/>The Swarm died of a combination of shrapnel wounds and an intense pressure wave.  The latter implied that there had been an atmosphere present when he was killed.  Her best guess is that whatever force bent the second airlock door into the airlock* was probably what killed the Swarm.<br/><br/>*I don't think I properly stated which direction it was bent in my post, my apologies