12: Med Lab

I'm glad you found your way here. I have recalibrated the teleporters, based on information from your appearance in the maintenance ducts you arrived in from the power facility. That type of error shouldn't happen again. I've been able to collect data on the new alien lifeform brought here by the pirates. The pirates call them Galaxans, and seem to have begun their rampage with these unusual beings. The Galaxans ship is badly damaged, and if their reactor goes, this entire outpost will be rendered uninhabitable by humans... but that cannot be your current concern. The first thing you need to do is find the group of Galaxans that the pirates have been experimenting on. They do not seem to be able to communicate with me, or with humans. Furthermore, the few I've been able to perceive (again, they seem to be able to filter themselves out of my sensors) are quite hostile at this point. My guess is, this is because they cannot distinguish between humans and the pirates. Their physical containers are not stable without a lifeforce within them. If you damage one badly enough, it will simply discorporate. This makes study difficult for the pirates, and it will make any rescue you attempt very dangerous - the samples are still alive, and may not realize that you are not in league with the pirates. Your primary job is staying alive to fight - try to reason with any you find, but destroy them if they attack. Your mission here is simple: Stop the pirates from learning more about the Galaxans.

The pirates have taken over this laboratory, and have destroyed my link to the door operation circuits. I've managed to reroute some of the wiring, though, and have coopted controllers for areas you are not needed in for use as manual overrides for the laboratory door. There are two of them, but there are no visual sensors in either of those areas, so I cannot show you what they look like. Although it is currently offline, the communications terminal in the laboratory seems to be teleport-enabled, so I should be able to transport you to the engineering level of the outpost from here. I will attempt to restore power to it before you arrive.

You are currently in a recovery ward. One of the controllers I've coopted is nearby, close to the hydrospa you can find upstairs. The other is up in the maintenance tunnels above you. Good luck!

Maintenance Duct 43-j HydroSpa 14 Cleaning Area AUTHORIZED ACCESS ONLY Cleaning personnel: When clogging of HydroSpa 14's drain occurs (usually due to organic detritus), emergency bulkhead 16-a will seal, in order to keep the entire facility from flooding. This access tunnel will be your only access to the drain. SCUBA gear can be found in maintenance closet 433.

Sensors are still picking up lifeforms in this area. You must destroy all traces of them to prevent the continuation of the experiments on the Galaxans.