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in reserve. Also listed was what had caused the
malfunctions to the pressure doors and itemized everything needed in order to
repair them.
    “Wow, that’s a lot of damage,”
Mike said. “Twenty-two sections are flooded and the outer shell has been
breached. Is there a way to get a picture of the outside to see the extent of
the damage?”
    “We could have used Research arm
two, but it’s flooded as well as arms four and six. We might be able to use the
shuttle or one of the drones. However, the drone would stress my power reserves
and the shuttle is not safe,” Atlanta said.
    Jonathan looked up at Atlanta,
“Why is the shuttle dangerous?”
    “I used it as a last resort to
save you. However it is way over its maintenance schedule, by a couple of
hundred years,” Atlanta said.
    Mike sat down at the Engineering
station and pulled up the sub-routines that controlled the pressure doors. Code
scrolled across the screen as he pulled the information he needed from the data
uploaded by Atlanta. He reached up and touched a spot stopping the code. He ran
his finger across a spot, which highlighted the code, and sat back for a second
as he stared at it.
    He reached over and pressed a
small button, which transferred the code to the main table. He then got up and
walked over.
    Mike reached up and touched the
code suspended next to the hologram of the base, “This seems to be the main
problem with the doors.”
    Atlanta duplicated the code and
pulled it down to the table while looking it over. She looked up at Jonathan as
she spoke.
    “This does indeed look like what
caused the problem with the doors. During low power, and down times, the
maintenance bots don’t do maintenance on the doors. It’s to conserve power in
case of an emergency.”
    “I can see the need in
prioritization in maintenance,” Jonathan said. “So, it’s not really a code
problem as much as a power problem. What level of power do we need to bring the
maintenance bots online? I don’t really want to have something like this happen
again.”
    Brad reached up and touched the
hologram of the base making it zoom back out. He touched another spot and
pulled up the main core and Engineering section. It displayed its power output
as 35%.
    “We have to get the power output
to at least 75% before the bots will come fully online. Some of the lesser bots
are already online and working, mainly cleaning bots, but that’s it. To do that
we have to purge the water in the lower levels of the core,” Brad said.
    “Okay, how do we do that?” Terri
asked.
    “Well, it looks like the pressure
doors actually worked and the surrounding area is free of water. I guess that
is a starting point. If we could rig some type of pump to pull the water from
the room and put it outside that would be the best bet,” Brad said. He reached
out and expanded the view of the lower section of the core.
    “Hum, how would you do that? If
we open any door down there we will be flooded,” Jonathan asked.
    “We could drop something over the
edge of this level here,” Brad said touching the hologram. “Then when the water
gets too far down we can move down to the next level. All we need are the
supplies to build the pump.”
    Atlanta pointed at the hologram,
“Well those lower levels are where Engineering really is located. The computer
core and maintenance shops are down there too, along with bulk storage …”
    “Wait,” Jonathan said. “Bulk
storage? How large are those rooms?”
    “Why?” Brad asked. He looked up
at the hologram and it hit him. “Oh … OH! That’s not a bad idea at all.”
    “What isn’t?” Mike asked.
    Brad adjusted the hologram as he
spoke, “If we open the doors along here and directed the water to here.” He
pointed out the path and which rooms he was talking about routing the water
into for 'storage.' “There’s nothing in Mass Storage One and Four. It would let
enough of the water out we could bring the reactor up to full power and shut
down