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A small communications droid is linked to a terminal and it disengages and backs away as you approach. You blast it and move over to the terminal. A screen is covered in multi-coloured blocks which flash seemingly at random, but the communications port is still open. You take your Universal Interface and plug it in. Its shape changes to fit the alien specification of the port and it is linked into the communications network in seconds. It probes the databanks, subtly changing the software until it has extracted gigabytes of data on the status of Mechanon. As the Universal Interface completes its work you pick up a radio message.

'Bloodhound calling Lynx, I am in position in front of the hangar door. The inside of the fluorescent building is teeming with battle droids and mobile scanner banks.' Jobanque has sent Bloodhound and Lynx to help you on Mechanon! You cut in on the same frequency and tell them your position. It appears that the tunnels between you and them are teeming with wardroids. Will you:

Try to fight your way back to them? Turn to 8
Continue deeper into the complex? Turn to 19