After checking the whole area and the boarding vessel to be sure that the one that escaped really was gone, we begun to investigate the rooms on this level. Locked inside an ancient looking cryo chamber that, after some meddling with it Calvin managed to open, we found yet another specimen of these Xenos beings that had clearly been examined, researched, scrutinized and experimented on. Stocked away in another room there was a crate with Inquisitorial and Adeptus Mechanicus symbols on it. The contents inside revealed to be some kind of strange dish. It appeared to be some sort of transmission device as the techpriest tried to explain to us. He deemed it to be heretic technology (here-tech) and thus it needed to be destroyed. Throwing a frag grenade in the crate as he closed it up again made sure that the device was annihilated.
In one quick sweep, the space marines entered this level, cleared it and rushed all the way to the elevator at the end of this deck. We could hear bolter rounds being fired as we did put on our rebreathers and boarded the Rubicon. The Space Marines, together with the inquisitors and Rafael's acolytes, made their way up to the bridge, leaving us behind to guard this area. Scattered around the corridors and rooms were charred remains of some kind of bipedal beings, no doubt Xenos, and there was the unmistakable smell of promethium lingering here.
The strange visions seemed to come less and less although still occuring. Perhaps it was all just the anxiety of going into the Warp again. The days were quiet and uneventful and nothing important, except for our care for the psykers, was taking up my time. I decided to divide my daily routine up into three major parts: checking on the prisoners, praying in the chapel and trying to improve my military tactics, strategy and art of war. I started to focus on the different skills and personalities within our little unit trying to figure out how they could all be deployed or used to the best of their abilities. Progress was slow and I really resented that access to the ships library hadn't been granted yet.
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