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It should be. Yet every time it’s used the power shoots above threshold. Look.
The fact that it’s active at all bugs me. Unless that’s supposed to be some kind of canary.
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The fact that it’s active at all bugs me. Unless that’s supposed to be some kind of canary.
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*Points to that spike*
There's our next spike. There' a lot of communication, either coming in or going out. Probably the former. Also all assuming the satellite is for communication like I would expect.
*Tries to find somewhere in the systems more detailed info on the satellite beacon activity*
It should be an emergency-use connection. That’s the same one they use to set off the alarm in case anything is malfunctioning.
*The detailed view shows the beacon periodically polling a body in space with long blips between each connection; red-zone power spikes in the beacon’s grid zone line up with each outgoing communication channel*
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Well, then I'd be famous when we travel.
*Simply tries to power it on*
*The monitor sputters to life and pulls up detailed system diagnostics, reporting normal levels of all physical components, with marginally elevated activity across other machines and high activity on the satellite beacon*
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Why not? I'd be down to be famous.
*Checks for any way to turn on the disabled monitor*
*The monitor has a working power source, but rusted buttons*
I actually like taking you places, goofball.
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Fair.
*Walks into the room*
I would say that neglect is farm more dangerous than direct attack, though. But that's just me.
Could be. But I’m not going to count on neglect if we make too much noise around here—I don’t want your face plastered across every news station in the country.
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Baffling that a nuclear plant with live nuclear material in it would be left abandoned. That's a no-no on like every level there is.
When they made the last generation of fission reactors, they were designed to resist meltdown even if hit by some kind of warhead, since those were still around back then.
*Kicks over another piece of rubble*
This maintenance design is definitely some kind of violation, but they also probably didn’t expect someone to walk in and laser it open like that.
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It does. I guess we've already crossed the line of vandalism, even if a concrete wall is harder to fix than a new door.
*Checks the wall to make sure I don't sever any important connections before carving my way through the wall*
I think this crosses into felony territory.
*Kicks the slab in to the next room, opening up the passage to a control center with three locked terminals and a disabled monitor*
Looks like nobody’s run this place live for a looong time.
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*Follows the wires all the way*
More controls here.
That saber of yours work on concrete?
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I only saw the one. Let me check again.
*Looks as well as feels for any additional non-functioning ports and cables*
*Everything else seems to be connected, routing along the maintenance tunnel and through a thin stone wall to a more robust control room with interactive terminals*
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I wish I could see how recently they were here.
Doesn’t look like we’re going to get any more detail than “sometime the past week” unless you can find more of those busted cables.
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