Victory!

Your Templar squad has survived the onslaught at the bottom of the surface elevator.

The great elevator's doors have opened wide enough to allow your squad to pass through.

A security terminal on the far side has allowed you to shut the horde behind you.

Background

Your squad has discovered strange organic-metallic organisms harboring in the elevator landing deck.

Many moons and planets have a layer of near-surface rock which is softer and can be penetrated by ATAS scans. Below that surface rock is the deep-core layers, which cannot be scanned. You have descended beyond the range of the ATAS scanners.