Depo 12 Stand By

With all the human workers gone, the only light came from emergency beacons dotting the building. With 30 seconds of relative silence, depo 12 went into sleep moat. It woke when its batteries reached capacity. Despite the lack of activity, the clean room still required cleaning. Graphine filters needed frequent replacements. Depo twolve queried the change in task. Stand by idled in the fab's main aisle. Thuds repeated and getting louder. Beneath the thuds, it heard voices. A throng of men and women surged through. Many carrying makeshift weapons. The mob threw itself against the bomb proof glass,. cudgels bouncing ofn clear latticework