7: Born Under Punches

Apparently, the science teams managed to program the IADDs down here to fire on you, no doubt in a last-ditch effort to stop you from making it to the reactor and Sentinel. Watch yourself around them — in addition to the grenade-tossing IADDs, a handful of incredibly deadly Fire IADDs are scattered throughout key locations in the subterranean structures. One shot from them, and you're dead. To continue your underground descent, you must open up the junction pictured here, which is currently sealed off.

To do so, you will need to acquire an uplink chip. One is located behind a locked door shown here that requires white keycard access to open. Hopefully, you can locate one of the scientists to make that happen. If needed, you have my direct authorization to shoot or otherwise subdue anyone unwilling to hand over their card.

Once you get the uplink chip, proceed to the auxiliary override station pictured here, and use the chip in the available receptacle. The junction door will then open, and you will be able to proceed further underground toward the reactor core.

/-/ S'PHT TRANSLATOR Active /-/ We have learned so much already from our time down here. Recovered texts tell us that eons ago, the Creators fought for survival against a powerful adversary in the heavens above. Destruction from the battle rained down upon this planet and across the star system. At last, they emerged victorious: the enemy was defeated and cast forth, subdued and neutralized.

/-/ S'PHT TRANSLATOR Active /-/ The Creators settled on this planet for a time, building an outpost below ground as a means to watch over their former adversary. Our ancestors were later created to serve them. Structures were built on the surface, where our kind lived and thrived in perpetual prosperity for many millennia, even long after the Creators left for the stars.

/-/ S'PHT TRANSLATOR Active /-/ Our path has brought us back here to the molten caves. I am astounded to see old Mrrak structures burrowed into the cavern walls. I am ashamed I ever doubted their existence. We must push deeper to find the Edifice. I am sure of its existence now. May the Creators spare us their wrath should they see our efforts to be in vain.