Britton knocked the scientist over as he took over the console. The man gave a slight "Oof!" as he landed. Fortunately, the code cylinder was still in the scomp link, and though the scientist might have thought about trying to remove it to prevent Britton from utilizing it, Kelko still had his blaster trained on the man.
The screen showed that all files were done uploading to an Imperial database and all local file copies were being deleted. Britton was able to stop the deletion just in time to save one recently transmitted message. It read:
quote:
Test on herd mammals successful. Request increase in production from Raxus Prime facility. Also request permission to expand experiments to other animal types.
Then a pop-up message appeared in front of the transmission. It was a red box with white characters, currently counting down from 60.