Frontiers and Pioneers (sci-fi, NSFW(violence,possible teases), robots)

_{Breaking the pipes, the foglet-cloud lifts out of the pit, while a steady low buzz that’d been emanating from the pinecones ceases.}

_{Able to communicate across EM signals again, the shark transmits on short-ranged T-rays, while also using that same wavelength to bathe the room, scanning into the stone.}

_{”…I guess I cut the hive’s feedstock supply, just now. There’s a big vertical seam of tungsten right-below us… I think this is the impact sight for a kinetic penetrator, right here. Crazy… there’s also a door, over there-” Pointing, he walks out of view as Imos descends. Reaching the bottom, he sees the shark tear a gate off the hinges, revealing a long tunnel. A dim-blue light glows far down it.}

_{“It looks cramped… and I’m too big to let you slip past me. should you go first, or I?”}

%“much as i appreciate having you in harm’s way when it comes for me, i have a much shorter adjustment period to new bodies, besides, having someone that can move freely is probably better in the front.”

he takes point, an ionizer gun pointing ahead. %

 
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They eventually come to a turn where the blue light reflects around.
 

 
 
Rounding this corner, they see dozens of reptiloid synth-bodies; some partially or fully encased in ice, others sitting leaned against the walls or sprawled throughout the place, with quite a few of them hugging one another…
 

 
The whole scene is illuminated by a glowing stone monolith centerpiecing the large room.
 
Within an alcove recessed into that monolith, the discernable lobes of a fractured synthbrain can be seen.