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4 to Stabilize reactor first, shut down if necessary and activate backup power:99As it happens, Lisa was taking a shift at the command center when the crisis hits. Reacting quickly, she hits a couple buttons, and sirens and red flashing lights blare across the ship, waking anyone not dead.
"I'll get the reactor! Hannah, you and Dom go get the local power backups for the pods online before we lose the colonists! Mack, you and Lindsey try to get the computer un-borked! I'll take the rest with me"With that, she and her party rush to the reactor, making the trek in record time. Once there, she dashes to the control panel:
"Alright, looks like backup control kicked in when the computer packed it in, but it's locked the reactor in a continuous increasing output loop. Current output is...300%?! I didn't think this output even go that high without blowing containment!" She types quickly while she directs the others:
"Gerald, cut the interlocks out of the secondary loop! Jack, I want you monitoring magnetic field levels! If it goes critical we're fucked, so engage the safety discharge if we overload. Meg, reverse the flow through this bus here, I can reduce the output to safe levels but we need somewhere to dump the charge, and the secondary capacitors are it. They can take it, along with the tertiary ring... thank god we designed some hefty backup safeties for this hunk of junk....Working quickly, they manage to safely bring the reactor down to normal operating levels without damaging anything. All systems are green, just awaiting restoration of main computer...
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2 to take manual control of command and wake up crew:36With Lisa activating the ship's alarms manually, the crew will be awake shorty, so that's taken care of. What's NOT so easy is figuring out what went wrong with the computer. As mack hits the reboot sequence, lines of crashing code scroll across the screen before blinking out again.
"Fuck, some of the core memory files must have gotten corrupted during the last regular maintenance, causing an eventual main line segmentation fault and corruption of the rest of the system! Or at least, that's what I think could explain the code I saw. I'm going to have to reprogram everything just to get a usable command prompt, and that's not going to be quick. Lindsey, when you get the chance, go find Ned, the alarms should have woken him up by now, he's much better at this than I am." He furiously types away attempting to get some sort of boot-up in order to get at least basic systems running...
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2 to check cryo pods:
91Hannah and Dom motor to the cryo area, and are relieved to find the backup power controls function perfectly. It seems the only thing wrong was the computer initiating a system shutdown, and that's reversed easily. They manage the same for the main life support control, and soon have the fans back running.
"Dom, let's never do that again. I don't think I can handle more crisis like that..."(Looks like you brought enough goats
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