Depot Units Hold 12 Rolled to a Halt

Depot 12 wanted to help, but it didn't know how. Three days later, at tendance dropped below the master control system's minimal acceptable level. Even the temp workers weren't showing up. The handful of remaining contractors disengaged from their assignments. They clustered about the airlock, whispering voices almost lost to the endless thromg of venti ton machines wound down until the whish of air and the bleaps of idled equipment were the only sounds in the building.