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[securityconsultant]

Murderbot hates planets. But its humans love them, and so, here the lot of them are - chasing after the ever-present 'hope' of alien remnants. The thing is?

Murderbot thinks they've actually found one, this time.

It's a strange cavern - clearly not natural. The walls are too smooth for that - by hand, not by creature. Still, as the humans chatter amongst themselves excitedly, their SecUnit keeps its eyes open and drones circling, the tiny spheres buzzing about the area and feeding it data as they press deeper. Normally this would be far, far more controlled, and far smarter of an exploration - but bad weather drove them underground in the first place, and coupled with a local quake...

They don't have much of an option but to press forward for the moment. (They do, actually. To stay put. But. Humans.)

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[securityconsultant]

"Xira's a geologist. They'd be able to tell." And compared to some teams, these weren't that bad - but bad enough that they'd be intensely curious about the area. "But that's tempting to do, anyway." They'd listen to it if it said there were reasons not to touch, but...it wasn't their leader, not by any means.

Their leader wasn't here. She was back at base camp. Murderbot made a frustrated sound, stepping forwards.

"...help me make sure there's nothing alive around here?"

[trentequatre]

"If you're certain."

Humans and their life-risking curiosity. How very exasperating.

"Lead the way, clearing the area seems a simple enough task. If we find anything, I am confident I can hold my own easily."

[securityconsultant]

Nice as it was to have someone who agreed with it, for once, it hardly made things any simpler. It wasn't just living things that they had to worry about, after all; the structure could have been weakened by quakes, whether the most recent one or not. Other pitfalls, deliberate or not. Murderbot was already planning on sending out its drones once it'd finished its initial recon and was back with the humans, but for now? This would have to do.

The fact that it was finding nothing at first didn't deter it. If anything, it made it more determined to find somethong wrong. But the place seemed strangely tranquil, even as it slowly made its way towards the center altar.