MANTIS: Getting through it

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MANTIS: We could just blast through.

SINGH: Yeah, and if we’re lucky, Nahema kills us and fills our biobeds with concrete before the Tailings get to us. This is their history. We can’t blow it up!

ZIP: They do take good care of the exterior…what if the electrical system still works? We could hook up our own generator.

MANTIS: Unless you can find me a wiring diagram we’d fry the whole system. You ever see a metal fire underwater?

ZIP: What if there ARE wiring diagrams? Instructions right in front of us? And we just can’t see them?

MANTIS: Did your hot springs tell you about this?

SINGH: Actually…she might be right. The Axum see with a combination of sonar and polarized light. Some of their writing might be invisible to us. We’d need to modify our scanners to look for it. Or our eyes.

ZIP: Ha!

MANTIS: All right. Let’s ask Sophie if we can try out her super scanner. PDA, activate the base camp waypoint. Singh, drop a recording here in case we get reset.