{"id":16779,"date":"2025-08-13T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=16779"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:42:27","slug":"tragedy-and-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/tragedy-and-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy – and Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“XO!”, called Michael Straight. “Look at this”<\/p>\n

Madiwa hurried over to the small terminal in the corner of the cargo hold’s admin office. “What’s up?”.<\/p>\n

He turned the monitor towards her and pointed excitedly at a graphic showing the upper floor of the station. Several coloured dots pulsed on the screen. “Transponders in the command centre – there are people there”.<\/p>\n

“Dead or alive?”. Madiwa wasn’t getting her hopes up.<\/p>\n

“At least a couple of them have moved, so they’re not dead”.<\/p>\n

“OK, let me rephrase that – alive or zombie!?”.<\/p>\n

Straight’s face fell. “Um – no idea. I can’t get IDs or any biometric data from them, we weren’t able to get into the database to identify the tags. I just know they’re there”.<\/p>\n

“So they might not be alive ?”.<\/p>\n

“No. But it’s the first time we’ve found anyone – and they’re in the command centre, which would be an obvious place for any other survivors to head to”.<\/p>\n

The executive officer pondered briefly and then straightened up. “OK, we can’t hang around here all day – and it’s starting to smell anyway. Getting to C&C was always the goal, so everyone up saddle up, we’re moving”.<\/p>\n

The cargo bay was on the outer part of the station – Command and Control was three decks up in the middle, so it wasn’t a short walk. The next deck up was mostly crew quarters, clustered around the ship’s mess and rec rooms. Helen took the lead, flanked by Harker and Barry, each toting a blaster rifle. Instead of the obvious route down the main corridor, she took them straight across to a side passage that led to a workshop. She moved a pile of boxes, slid a welding trolley to one side and revealed a battered access ladder fixed to the wall. She climbed up a few rungs, then turned two latches that held a maintenance hatch in place. <\/p>\n

She carefully lifted the hatch a fraction, peering through the gap to make sure that there was no-one (or no thing) moving in the space above. Satisfied that all was clear, she swiftly climbed the ladder and emerged into a shower cubicle. Stepping through the open door into the head, she motioned for the rest of the eight crew from Hiber-D to follow her.<\/p>\n

She stepped over to the exit door that led into one of the corridors on the accommodation level. Again, she opened it a fraction and squinted into a dimly lit corridor. She was beginning to become used to surprises every way she turned, so the sight of four more blood-stained corpses in the passageway didn’t do too much to phase her. Except that these weren’t crew, the gore-spattered bodies were dressed in military green armour and clutching some serious looking weaponry.<\/p>\n

They were still dead, though.<\/em><\/p>\n

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SF28-225<\/a> – Security Casualty #1 – \u00a34.00
\nSF28-226<\/a> – Security Casualty #2 – \u00a34.00
\nSF28-227<\/a> – Security Casualty #3 – \u00a34.00
\nSF28-228<\/a> – Security Casualty #4 – \u00a34.00<\/p>\n

Designed by and printed under licence from David Sheff<\/a>.
\nBackground image by Handiwork Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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