Inside the fortress technical workshop, glowing circuit boards and soldering irons lay scattered across the reinforced workbenches under bright illumination.
The air carried the faint scent of ionized ozone and copper as the engineering team sorted through forty sealed canisters of captured supplies.
"Found the signal source," the communications specialist announced, using fine tweezers to lift a micro-transmitter the size of a grain of rice from the false bottom.
"The municipal council embedded an off-world quantum tracer inside this medical shipment."
"The director wanted to track our internal storage vaults and pinpoint the exact coordinates of our core," the chief engineer observed with a dark scowl.
"The device transmits a sub-harmonic frequency directly to their central monitoring hub in Sector One."
Nox, Vasa, and Yeda walked into the workshop as the specialist connected the micro-device to the fortress decryption array.
