There were cases and racks of environmental testing and sampling tools. One was a core cutter, made to take nice round cylinders out of walls of rock for whatever reason humans need to do that. It was an extension meant to attach to a sampler unit, but they probably had it because Miki was strong enough to lift it and use it; it’s a long tube that uses directed explosive cutters to extract meter-length sections. I slung the ammo bag over my back, grabbed the cutter off the rack, switched on its power pack, and climbed up the access.
Fuck yeaaah - a regular discussion on geology/archaeology field projects is how wildly underappreciated our bog standard tools are a really really quite effective weapons they are...
