To make sure I understand...

We are in a building inside the dome having crawled in through a hole blasted in the side of said building.  We've seen two robots, one of which fired at us and the other moved off to one side.

Is that right?

Correct. :-)

So is it dark and we are just seeing with our night vision equipment?

Does the heat source I'm seeing look human or like it would be one of the robots?

It's pretty dark inside, so your low light vision is working. The heat sources are way too hot to be human, and they're moving in fast. Brent and Gareth have a few seconds to react.

A dent in Brent's armor?

More like a shallow gouge in the composite armor's surface...

That's scary!

Combat armor will turn a direct rifle hit, but the impact is still damaging. This was a ricochet, of course.

Thank goodness for storm trooper armor :)

Hiya everybody. :)  Sorry that I've been away for so long.  I'm catching up now and I'll try to get something posted tomorrow.

--
Bob K.

A bit of metagaming but let's get Niamh back with the rest of us.

The massacre scene was very Hard Times.  GDW put out a supplement of that name that detailed the devolution and destruction of the Imperium under the pressure of the Civil War.

War is ugly, and the aftermath can be ugly, too. Hopefully, there will be better scenes as the crew explores further up the main.

I personally thought Hard Times was one of the best setting books that GDW did but it was brutal. You could also be a hero.  It was a good setting for a Clint Eastwood style of hero.

Who knows - maybe you can all be heroes, too...

At least in a small way.

Is the missile vehicle armored with hatches and such or are their missiles hanging out in the open on launchers that we can sabotage?

The missiles are in tubular cells. It's a four-cell launch system, with only one cell still sealed. The vehicle itself appears to be armored, and all of the hatches are closed.

So no obvious easy wrenches in a vulnerable spot?  At least there is only one missile left!

Brent will continue working on his pilot skill.

Execute seems like a nice place.

According to the ship's library, the main industry is, or was, agriculture.

Very much a water world tho

Execute's surface is 40% covered in water, and is about halfway between Earth and Mars in size.

I must have missed the digits.  I thought hydro was a '9'