[OOC: Nill: The droids have obviously seen major combat damage.]
Trax and Querro pick their way through the cluttered factory floor to the corridor off to the left while Niil heads towards the stairs and Mariah heads to the lift. The three troops and Jex keep a keep eye out, while Collan tries to not get in the way.
Trax reaches the corner and takes a quick glance down the passage. About 20m down the passage, there is a breech in the ceiling, and a power conduit is hanging down. Every now and then sparks arc out from the end of the conduit, dancing on the floor before going out. It seems there is some sort of power in the facility, though it would be a long run from there to the lift.
The corridor seems to have seen a lot of combat, and Trax can clearly see blaster burns and what look like grenade explosions on the walls, ceiling and floor. Whatever fighting went on here, it was intense.
There are several blasted droids in various stages of dis-assembly strewn over the corridor as well, but not enough to account for all the signs of combat here. Likely it was troops supported by battle droids.
Meanwhile, Niil goes to the stairs. Some of the support struts have been pierced with blaster fire, and there is a 10' section that appears to have been taken out by a grenade. The resulting damage likely weakened the stairwell significantly. The lower section looks strong enough, but up higher, it looks like it might collapse at any moment. Still, Niil goes to have a look, being careful to step closest to the supports.
About 20' up, he gets near the missing section, and his suspicions are confirmed. The top 5' of the lower section are mostly shredded, and the bottom 10' of the upper section look the same way. It's unlikely that, even if someone could make the 25' leap required to get to something resembling sturdy stairs, that what remains of the upper stairs would support them.
Mariah heads to the lift and checks it out. The motivator is on the ground behind the lift. Shifting some debris off the housing with a clang, she opens it up. A quick look tells her the motivator is intact, just unpowered. The generator from the E-web could be rigged to provide power to the lift, and give you guys a safe way up to the upper levels.
Then, Mariah catches movement out of the corner of her eye. Glancing quickly, she sees a small sphere about 1' in diameter rising into the air beside her - obviously some sort of droid. The casing is badly dented, and it seems to be listing oddly. One of it's visual processors is dark, and the other one is flickering, but it turns to Mariah. It hovers there a moment, emitting a mournful series of tones, but there seems to be some damage to it's vocabulator, and the sound is intermittent and scratchy. While the sudden appearance is startling, the droid is so beat up it's unlikely a threat.
At the same time, Jex picks a minor power signature near Mariah's position and spots the droid rising out of the debris near her.
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