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"Awesome," Edgar says as he shoves you aside. "Time for me to get started on the project then." He cackles and starts to get to work on your suit immediately. You watch from the side as he installs the new mod into your suit.

"There, all done!" he announces a few minutes later. "There will be a new option in your suit's HUD so that you can use the new mod when you want to," he explains. "Give me a few more minutes. There's a couple of things that I still need to work on," he says and gets to work on your suit again.

You watch as he works on your suit for a short while, making a few adjustments before he hops down and gestures at you to try it out. "Here you go. Gave it a few tweaks, and you should have a slightly smoother time with your suit too. As thanks for me wasting your time," he says with a crooked smile on his lips. You climb into your suit and power it up, giving it a quick test run. It is running smoother than before, and a quick diagnostics check shows that its performance is slightly tweaked. It won't give you an edge in a fight, but at least it's much more fluid to move in.

You power down your suit and hop out of it, thanking Edgar for what he did, and he waves you off impatiently. "Yeah, yeah. Anyways, off you go. I've got some more things to do and more test subjects to get a hold of." You blink and ask him if he's getting others to test the mods for him. "Well, yeah. Can't get a reasonable answer from just one test subject. The sample size has to be big enough for the data to be accurate," he says, still impatient, and he shoves you out of his workshop. You shake your head and walk back to your bunk; you do have a lot of preparing to finish up with.

You spend the rest of the day preparing for the upcoming mission.

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