Songdragon
Explorer
"That's a good thing I suppose." Mir says and then asks, "How are we supposed to contact our own ship, when we have completed the mission at hand? Anyway to set up a remote or such so we can access it and send our own messages?"
After some initial slicing, Mack exclaims, "Woo hoo, check this out. I can increase the effectiveness of the fungi's interference. That will be effectively jamming their comms without arousing suspicions perhaps."
"Surgery is a bit of an overstatement, I think." TB waits for permission from Keyton before setting about dishing out some soft-wired first aid to the wounded man."Perhaps TB can do some surgery and patch up Keyton while I work."
"Thawght you liked it awt here, Sra," teases Sloor. "Nature haw it's intended taw be marbling 'enjawed' and all that...""Well... plans do not always go as planned. Would be a nice option. Rather than trekking all the way back to the dropsite." She says with some hope it can be done.
"What about these troopers' gear and armor. Perhaps we can strip some and attach it to the rybucks to carry taking some with us. We might be in a hurry running away from the facility later to do any salvage."