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Mitsuki took off running, two rooms east and then one room south. She blew by the alien mold growing across the remote offworld mining outpost, making it in great time to the experimental McGuffin, helpfully marked with a red X, down near the south airlock.

But those three moves were her entire allotment of actions for this round. I, a heavily armored space soldier named Jared, was still halfway across the map, busy mopping up zombie-like Xenos and in no position to offer covering fire.

This turns out to be a fatal miscalculation. A larger tank-like creature moves into the same room as Mitsuki, as does a fast-running alien hunter who can cover twice as much ground as anyone else. Behind her, a pair of new…