4: Plumbers

Alright. I believe you'll enjoy this one. Go on. As expected, the bulk of the insect army followed us to this compartment of the ship. There isn't anything here that's especially important to our overall mission, but we can use some of the more interesting mechanics of this section to our advantage in destroying them. Alright... The eleventh sector of the ship is used largely as a reservoir of sorts of that molten liquid that the shipbuilders seemed to enjoy so much. With so much of it, though, they apparently decided that it needs to be in a state of constant motion, or else it will cause too much damage. I don't know why they thought that, but...

Oh, I think I know where this is going! I'm sure you do. And I do like it. I thought as much. Yes, indeed, we will use this system of cycling fluid to destroy the aggressors. Aren't we technically the aggressors? We did board their ship. Technically, they're just defending their turf, so to speak. But it appears the bugs stole their ship from us. Or, at least, from our makers. In reality, we're just taking back what belongs to us. Fair enough. Go on. Of course, flooding parts of a ship with liquefied metal is not a trivial task, and there will be some safeguards to resist our progress. Not to mention the constant onslaught of the bugs.

Alright. Adjacent to this terminal is the first of two pumping controls, though you will see that it is disabled because the pipe in this room is left open. You will have to find the control station in order to close this pipe again. Find a way to get inside the pipe, locate the control panel, close the pipe, then return here to throw the switch. Go on. South of this room is a large attack force of elite alien troops. We will want to lock them out of this area, and then flood the antechamber with slag to kill them, and then drain the slag into a different reservoir for the second stage of our plan. So, first, locate the door controls in the adjacent chamber and close the door, before you do the rest of this. Boy, that will be amusing. I have to agree. Once you've drained the slag, there should be another terminal in the antechamber from which I can teleport you out.

Excellent work, that was most amusing. This is merely a sample of what I intend for you to do in full. You mean I get to do it again? That's cool. I hope it doesn't go stale, though. I find that unlikely. If this goes right, this should be the last time we have to deal with that, and we should be able to make our final move on the ship's power core. And from there... Yes. We may feed on the ship's energy for over a century. It will be quite satisfying. However, there's still much work ahead of us. I will bring you into the next region and then highlight the details of your objective from there.