Re: 02.06: Smuggler's Cache 14
The MIRU unit chirruped and whirred away, leading them to an area aft of the impulse engines but forward of the drive exhaust converters.
Okay, yeah, I'm channeling the DRDs from Farscape, here
The MIRU stopped and circled an area of the floor. They had to go into the ship's sub-systems, the space beneath the walkways, that was filled with pipes and conduits. The slight pulsing sine-wave of the ship's engines and support systems were louder here, more obvious. And it seemed filled with a light and irregular click-clack sound, of a bunch of hard-switches being turned off and on.
A small blue LED light had illuminated an area underneath the metal floor grating in this area of the ship, and it was clear that a section of the bulkhead had come apart, come off, or had otherwise been removed from the bulkhead proper.
Once the grating had been removed, it was obvious that the section removed was a clean cut and was not, in fact, damaged. It appeared to have been a smuggler's cache, worked into the bulkhead itself and shielded from detection. The blue-light illuminates the section underneath the grating but not the contents of the smuggler's cache. Underneath the grating, it all looked slick and greasy, or sweaty. possibly a result of humidity.
It reeked badly, though. The sort of smell of rotten fruit and decayed and moldy cardboard.
Viper' there. Gothique and Gilina? Your call where you want em.