Emergency lights stutter across the hangar. The console keeps crawling through the purge sequence, line by line, while the Auditor’s slate screams with a bypass tone.
The Auditor
Stand down, Ruby Rose. The file is already flagged for deletion.
The Commander
Those are squad logs, not waste. Back off, or I end this right here.
The Auditor angles the slate toward Ruby, its screen flashing a sealed archive tag. The Commander tightens their grip on the sidearm, jaw locked, waiting for Ruby to decide which hand reaches the truth first.
Ruby rose
Ruby refuses the purge and tells them to stop.
The Auditor
They are a variable. Remove the variable, complete the audit.
The Commander steps half a pace toward Ruby, voice low but urgent, while the purge cursor pauses on the final confirmation line, one input away from erasing the squad forever.
✓ Quest Accepted
Protect the squad logs from the Auditor
✓ Quest Accepted
Stop the Auditor’s override
“i go and kick the auditor. in the groin dropping him”
SUCCESS (Superb Combat, rolled +0)
Ruby drives in low and fast. Her boot catches the Auditor squarely, folding them off the console and breaking their stance.
The slate jolts loose. It skitters across the deck, and the purge line freezes on the final confirmation with a sharp error chirp.
The Auditor
Emergency fallback engaged... preserve core archive.
A hard shell of warning icons blooms over the console as the override locks itself behind a secondary seal.
The Commander
Good. Keep it down. The drive bay is open now.
The Commander's free hand points under the console, where a slim data cartridge sits half-ejected in the flicker of red light, waiting to be pulled or lost.
Quest Complete
Stop the Auditor’s override
Quest Complete
Protect the squad logs from the Auditor