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here but us chickens,” Siegfried muttered. “Are they offloading yet?”
“Wait—yes. The ramp is down. We will be within visual range ourselves in a moment—there—”
More screens came alive; Siegfried read them rapidly—
Then read them again, incredulously.
“Mechs?” he said, astonished. “Remotely controlled mechs?”
“So it appears.” Rommel sounded just as mystified. “This does not match any known configuration. There is one limited AI in that ship. Data indicates it is hardened against any attack conventional forces at the port could mount. The ship seems to be digging in—look at the seismic reading on 4-B. The limited AI is in control of the mechs it is deploying. I believe that we can assume this will be the case for the other invading ships, at least the ones coming down at the moment, since they all appear to be of the same model.”
Siegfried studied the screens; as they had assumed, the mechs were about the size

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