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-has never been properly understood. There are two types of nodes that can be used in teleportation; (1) hardware nodes, (2) software/hardware nodes. (1) are stations that teleport between a set group of nodes. The destination is usually permanently fixed between two nodes, but is sometimes controlled with a switching device of some sort. Most
switching devices gives the users/controllers only limited destination options, but more sophisticated versions can send the subject virtually anywhere within range. (2) are computer terminals that allow teleportation when the correct programs are initiated. These are not as reliable as the teleport stations, but are much more versatile. It is much easier to end up in the wrong place when traveling from a terminal than it is when traveling from a station.
More unreliable still is teleportation to a place that is not equipped to receive teleportees. This is why one is often teleported to a point slightly above the ground. It reduces the chance of one's feet being trapped in bedrock upon arrival.
Even though teleportation technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated, the physics behind it is poorly understood. Apparently, teleportation signals follow "currents" flowing in n dimensional space. These currents have no measurable effect in our space-time continuum as we experience it, but they are affected both by gravity and electromagnetism. A rapidly fluctuating magnetic field, for example, can block teleportation altogether, while strong
gravitational fields can make the destination hard to predict unless it is - - --k--- because - -- -- - -
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Faster-than-light engine technology utilizes a rare compound as engine coolant, mercuric enexomer, a substance that is a superfluid at nearly all temperatures. Producing the power necessary to travel at FTL speeds generates a lot of heat, and most of the actual bulk to an FTL engine comes in the coolant tubes and storage needed to deal with that heat. It takes a monstrous amount of mercuric enexomer to cool the engine of a decent-sized ship.
How is this relevant, you ask?
Simple. About seven hundred thousand gallons of superfluid coolant is currently spilling out of Chimera's engine structure and into the decks below it. Namely, the decks where all evacuation pods are held.
Our last mission planetside is to place the wetware chip you've just picked up into an evacuation shuttle and send it to the UESC Triumph.
I hope you brought a change of clothes, because you're going to do a little swimming.
As you can see from the security camera image, the shuttle bays are flooded. I don't think you'll meet any Pfhor in there, but I'm going to try swapping your AR ammo in transit to something that works underwater just to be on the safe side.
I haven't changed equipment in mid-teleport before, so we'd better hope it's the ammo that gets swapped.
You need to do three things:
First, find a docking bay that has an operational shuttle in it. Look for the unmanned one with the open chip slot.
You need to do three things:
Second, place the wetware chip in its slot.
You need to do three things:
Third, open the large bay doors directly in front of the shuttle. This will flush the water out of the bay. You'd better be holding on to something when that happens, or else.
Too bad I don't know how you're supposed to do that. I'd ask Haller, but he's not feeling well at the moment.
The shuttle will leave on a timed 30 minute delay after you're done, but you should be long gone by then.
Good luck.
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