One last time.

dpat57 on May 25, 2018

Dutch, Raglan, Dr. Rachel Halliday, Captain Kulato.

Where we've got to: Inexplicably, Mars's gravity has been steadily increasing, which has placed the Martian colonists, physically weakened over a prolonged period by Mars's lower gravity, in grave danger. If it doesn't stop soon, Mars will have to be evacuated.
Lunacorp Special Projects director Colonel Duncan Raglan and U.N. Space Marine Dutch Cornelisen—an unlikely pairing given recent hostilities between Lunacorp and Earth—have flown a Lunacorp swingwing down into a twisting network of tunnels and caverns deep beneath Mars's surface. There they discovered a miniature sun blazing above a molten lava sea, adding mass to Mars's core and causing the gravitational increases.
Raglan landed the swingwing on an island in the middle of the lava sea and they entered a man-made—or robot-made?—structure. Inside they encountered a Behemoth: the legendary giant combat robot, Battle Lord Kobayachi, which switched to combat mode and grabbed Raglan, identifying him as a challenger. Seriously injured and hardly able to move, Raglan sent Dutch back to the swingwing to fetch a medical kit. The swingwing autopilot wouldn't let Dutch aboard but a second swingwing, presumably flown there by the humaniform robot John who they encountered, does. As soon as Dutch is inside however the swingwing blasts off….

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