Usually when you go to a statue gallery you expect to see things chiseled out of stone or wood, shaped out of metal, and formed from melted materials.  But in the statue gallery of the Harvenstall Art Museum, the statues can move and even talk, if they are programmed to do that.  One night it was a good thing they could do that. 

When the museum closes for the night, the main power is shut down to save energy even though it comes from the hyperlight reactor that supplies most of the power for Newgate.  The secondary reactor replaces the energy as the main power line is shut down.  That way the computers don’t trip. 

One night before the transporter barrier went up to prevent burglars from entering the museum, five men beamed in and hid in another dimension until only the human guard was the only living soul in the museum.  He was to be joined by the two synthetics that were on permanent duty.  Instead, the synthetics were removed by the burglars and shifted into the dimension they had shifted to.  The synthetics were shut down.  That just left the human to contend with. 

At the time, the human on duty was an older man of about 115.  The last danger he had ever faced was when he wore a fighting suit for ACE during KBW 2 on a distant world.  Even then he was older than most of the fighters.  He too was removed from this dimension and incapacitated. 

The men overrode the security commands and shut down the transporter shield so that they could transport out what they wanted to remove.  They also shut down the computers and reactor so that do signal could be sent to the police.  With field projection visors, the intruders didn’t need any lights to allow them to see. 

The targets for the men were items in the wearable art gallery and some items in the functional art gallery.   They headed for those two galleries after disabling the systems that would prevent them from taking anything. 

The men had to pass through the statue gallery first.  They were allowed to pass unstopped but not unobserved.  When they closed the doors, the statues went into action.  They motioned to each other as silently as they could.  Three synthetics that looked like wax figures left the gallery to see what had been done to prevent security measures from being taken.  At the same time, a bronze man, two stainless steel demon wolves, and a dozen plastic and metal birds took off after the men.