OCTOBER 3RD 1400 HOURS [excited] There's something down there! They never heard back from the advance probes sent out a week ago but command figured they'd failed or been hit by some junk. We’ve just finished EVAC detail hauling in what’s left of them. Doc says they picked up a metallic signature on the surface and then suddenly their power cells went dead. He figures their sensor sweep must have triggered something. We seem to be holding at a "safe" distance for now. I don't have a clue what's down there but I think most of us are ready for a fight. We're trained to hurt things, not to sit around or explore dead planets.