***Preparing effectors for probe…abstractors and grabbers coming on-line…I’m spinning up propulsors…transiting to exit…***
“Doc, just get in there and take a quick look. Don’t trigger anything…just poke and probe and give me an analysis. How far advanced are these things?”
He felt the sting of the swarm exiting his belt container. For a few moments, a faint mist thickened the air between Winger’s shoulder and the containment cell’s port. A few brief flickers and the mist began thinning. Doc II had made his way from the embed capsule to the containment cell and was inside the tank. Spivey cycled the port shut. Soon enough, the first bots of the Doc II swarm drifted into view on the imager.