The Kalis must have been waiting for us, when we ran into the hanger we thought it was clear, didn’t see them hanging upside down from the roofing beams.

There were six of us, two of them. They had about three seconds of advantage before Milo’s motion tracker node picked them up. By the time the barrel of his HGG had swung to bare, the first of the mechanoids had leapt the ten metres down onto him. Now Milo’s got more carbotanium in him than a aeropanzer but when one of those beasts smells your blood you better be somewhere far away.

Seeing these things move, they’re like liquid metal. The mechs we were trained to deal with were like tanks on legs, If you had the tools and kept your cool you could wax them out, no problem. These were different. they are like Cobra’s, hypnotic, graceful and at the last moment deadly fast.