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“Clear!”
    Tomas and Seo-yun moved carefully inside while the rest of the team moved further inside toward s the doorway that lead further inside. Once they entered they could see that they were inside a kind of a hangar, the room was 15 meters wide from wall to wall and maybe 20 meters deep, with the ceiling being around 5 meter high. The room was mostly empty save for a few strange looking crates pilled on the right side.
    Elias approached them his face hidden behind his faceplate . “The lights seem to be automated, they turned on when we entered a few meters inside. As we thought there doesn’t seem to be anyone home. We can stay here for a few minutes or continue inside.”
    Seo-yun looked around and shook her head “I think we should continue, there doesn’t seem to be much here, and the next team can look through this room more closely later. Unless there is something you want to look at?” She said to Tomas.
    “ No, those crates might warrant a closer look but nothing that can’t wait.”
    They continued making their way inside, as they entered the doorway from hangar to the next corridor the lights again turned on, with the same eerie blue washing over the metallic walls, the light intensity was low, like the light was covered with a blanket.
    “The lighting might suggest that whoever used this ship had delicate eyesight.” Seo-yun said.
    Tomas nodded , that had occurred to him as well. The corridor wasn’t long, a few meters at the most, with four doors on the left and right wall, two on one side and two on the other opposite each other. The doors were closed and didn’t open when they came close, there was a panel of some kind beside each door but apparently it wasn’t under power. The celling was around two and a half meters tall perhaps judging by the gap between the top of Elias’s head and the celling, since he was the tallest in their party at two meters and ten centimeters, the doors themselves were about two meters high, so that Elias needed to lower his head when he went through. They continued down the corridor to the next doorway, the hallway was at an angle upwards which then turned by 360° so that they rose above the hangar and the corridor they were previously in. The purpose of next chamber they entered was clear immediately it was the ships control center. The team quickly moved thought the room and cleared it. It was shaped as a half sphere, so that the center of the room was in fact the center of the sphere, the round walls had no devices or instruments on them, they were smooth and made of a different kind of material than the metallic walls in the corridors or the hangar, the room was around 7 meters across, in the center there were two small chairs, with no handholds, and some kind of consoles, the chairs were turned towards the back of the ship, which seemed odd at first, before it dawned to Tomas that they probably didn’t need to see the outside to pilot the ship, and if they did the vision of the outside was most likely generated on the consoles, there were two more consoles one to the left and one to the right of the center ones, with some kind of plate placed on the floor further inside the room behind the center consoles.
    “Well this seems a bit-”
    “Anticlimactic” Tomas finished for Seo-yun
    “Yes…”
    Tomas approached the middle console the one with two chairs, he looked down and saw a series of levers on the edges on the right and left side, with the middle being smooth and of a strange light silver color.
    “The ship is obviously under power, yet these consoles show no sign of being active.” Seo-yun said.
    Laura approached with her helmet removed; she had close cropped black hair and was Caucasian with maybe just a bit of Asian ancestry thrown in. She peered down. “There doesn’t seem to be an on switch, maybe the ship doesn’t have enough power, or maybe it was damaged, we don’t know why it was at the bottom of the ocean.”
    “Perhaps, though if