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. Water was a highly valuable resource in space, second only to air. The air exchangers were located here. too, along with the myriad other machines all designed tO keep the living inside the space station alive.
The Marine returned, accompanied by a short, stocky, muscular man wearing regulation coverails with commander's tabs on the collar. He smiled broadly, shook hands all around.
"Greetings, gentlemen. I'm Bradley Drake, chief plant engineeL"
"Aaron Schwartz. We're here to perform the routine maintenance on the exterminator drones and to restock their chemical supply."
"Sure, same as usual," said the commander. "You guys are new here. Do you know where to find everything?"
"Actually, no. The regular team was stranded on Clinius, no way to brief us. If you could show us where the 'bot control station is located and, uh, this man here" he indicated Harry--"needs to be escorted to the central security station."
Xris could almost see everyone in the team tense up. This was the crucial part of the entire operation. If the commander balked, they were in trouble.
As it was, Drake did appear startled by the request. "Why do you need a man at security? That's not normally part of your routine."
Xris nodded. "We're installing a new software maintenance release in the exterminator 'bots. If they stray during testing, they're liable to set off your alarms, and we don't want some trigger-happy Marine to vaporize them
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