We managed to communicate with Venn and Seylee, an elf technomacer. We had to scrap the ship, and had to rush, as the PDSU gave us an entire minute to be out and portside. Venn and Seylee had it a bit rougher. Lexx got from us that we couldn’t get past one level to get to the bridge. It was cut off from the rest of the ship. Thank Triune we put that robotic hand on the outside (which maybe was reinforced last time we were on Absalom Station). After Sresaka basically shot the bridge right off the ship, the robot appendage grabbed it and delivered them to the PDSU.
Before we could so much as greet each other, we ended up between the ship the Swarm on Venn’s ship came from, and a dreadlancer we never even saw. That one decided to shoot, and hit every single time, pulverizing its target. Thankfully, it ignored us and continued to shoot the other Swarm ship.
Apparently, the Swarm are in a civil war of sorts. They have been experimenting with altered DNA and nanites. After having a quick look at a sample, I noticed that it had a serial number, not unlike ones from the black dragon on Haspis 3.
Told the bots to drag Venn to my quarters when he finally falls over, which he’ll do seconds after finishing a sitrep with anyone still on the bridge. He hasn’t even noticed the Celi are on board.