Exterior of Cyber Spaceship

The docking bay area outside the angular Cyber spacecraft is a flat, metallic expanse of industrial tarmac marked with recessed service panels and gentle ridges where support skids once made contact. Cool air vents near the ship's underbelly hiss with barely perceptible halocarbon fumes, cutting through the stale night breeze that tugs at carefully tended hedges and low ornamental shrubs planted along the access route. The spacecraft's shadow stretches jagged across the pavement, creating ripples of darkness where the Doctor and Ace press themselves into cover beneath the dense foliage, ears straining for approaching footsteps. Distant floodlights cast hard-edged pools of white and blue over the scene, illuminating scuff marks and recent tire tracks that betray intense recent activity as armed groups converge from two directions.