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The masses in the conduit hesitated, their hungry eyes darting toward the heavy bulkheads. They had heard rumors of a scavenger-king who hoarded grain and liquid gold. To a Sump-rat, a full belly was a dream worth dying for. If they could breach the wall, they could feast for a lifetime.
Driven by a hive-mind of collective greed, the first few hundred surged forward. Some carried crude fire-bombs made of chemical waste; others hammered on the plasteel with industrial sledges, trying to find a weak point in the masonry.
They hadn't even reached the gate when the first tongue of fire erupted from the wall.
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