With the careful search operation very rapidly and forcibly turned into a smash-and-grab, the team set about stripping the lab as fast as possible. Several of the rings grabbed armloads of tech and damaged components and ran for the lift, while Granos oversaw the lifting operation on the much heavier datastacks. Unfortunately, there was no way to tell which ones had valuable information on them, and there wasn't time on the countdown to get them all, even with Echo's clever solution to boosting them up the ladder. At the very least, the navigator's implant would give them a perfect reconstruction of the scene as it was. That wouldn't save whatever was hidden on the lost stacks, though. There were simply too many of them, and they needed time to get clear as well, so they couldn't cut it too close to the wire.

Working quickly, Anika ripped out wires, lugged servers, and piled armloads of material into the makeshift harness. By the time four minutes had passed, she had saved most of the stacks. There was maybe time to grab one more, but she risked cutting it very close on the timer.