EmailText1:"The entire sector is depressurizing and the blue vacuum shield won't last long. Get through a secure airlock before you are sucked into space. Move it!\n"
EmailName2:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Keycodes\n"
EmailPortrait2:"Polito"
EmailIcon2:"OpsIcon"
EmailText2:"Some of these doors are sealed off by keycode locks. The body in front of you belongs to the maintenance man for this sector. He probably has the number on him. Don't be squeamish about searching his body. He won't mind.\n"
EmailName9:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Dead powercell\n"
EmailPortrait9:"Polito"
EmailIcon9:"OpsIcon"
EmailText9:"This powercell is dead. There should be a recharger nearby... just use it and it will recharge all the power-driven devices in your possession. After you've recharged the cell, plug it into the auxiliary power unit. That should open the airlock door. Be quick about it, the vacuum seals won't hold up much longer.\n"
EmailText21:"Good. You've managed to get out before the whole area depressurized. I've just uploaded you some cybernetic modules. You can use them to upgrade your cybernetic rig at the upgrade units in this area. There are four types of units in the next room, one for each subsystem of your cybernetic gear: stats, psi, weapons and tech. But use the modules carefully... they're hard to come by.\n"
EmailText13:"These cybernetic modules are used to enhance individual subsystems of your neural enhancements. Remember, there are 4 unique types of upgrade units, so don't spend all of your cyber modules on one unless you are sure you want to focus your hardware in that particular area.\n"
EmailName3:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Fixing the elevators\n"
EmailPortrait3:"Polito"
EmailIcon3:"OpsIcon"
EmailText3:"That insipid computer Xerxes has shut down the elevator as well. You can transfer power at the engine core on deck 1, which will get the elevator up and running again. But you can't use the elevator to get down there. Wait... there's some kind of maintenance access right on this hallway. You can use it to reach deck one. However, it's locked and Xerxes is hiding the passcode from me. Dr. Watts should have the code. He's probably in the Crew sub-section. Grassi has the key to get in there, but he's in the Medical sub-section, probably near the biopsy lab. Now get to the Medical sub-section and find Grassi.\n"
EmailName17:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Powering the door\n"
EmailPortrait17:"Polito"
EmailIcon17:"OpsIcon"
EmailText17:"Damn. The power outage has also taken out access to this bulkhead. It's the only way to get to the Medical subsection. Pick up the battery from the floor and find a recharger. The one you used before is in hard vacuum now, I'm afraid, but there should be another one on this deck. Once you get the battery recharged, place it in the auxilary override.\n"
EmailText19:"On most decks, you'll find a quantum bio-reconstruction device. Xerxes shut them all down, but I've discretely put them back online. You'll need to interface with each machine locally to provide a quantum entanglement sample. Once you do that, the device will be able to rebuild your body essentially from scratch. It's not pleasant, but it's preferable to slow decomposition.\n"
EmailName10:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: The security system\n"
EmailPortrait10:"Polito"
EmailIcon10:"OpsIcon"
EmailText10:"Xerxes has control of the ship's security system. Avoid or destroy any security cameras you see. You can hack security computers to power down the cameras too, if you're good enough. But don't botch the job, or you'll set off the alarm yourself. Your corpse is useless to me.\n"
EmailName22:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Chemical stores\n"
EmailPortrait22:"Polito"
EmailIcon22:"OpsIcon"
EmailText22:"Each deck has a chemical store room where you can find the resources you need to research the artifacts you'll find around the ship. Don't try to carry around all the chemicals at once. It's impractical and unnecessary. Your research software will tell you what chemicals it needs... and when.\n"
EmailText4:"Good, you've managed to get into Med. Now find Grassi and get the keycard to the crew sector. He's the one who monitored your cryo-sleep, so he might be interested in joining you... if he hasn't been butchered yet.\n"
EmailName7:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Keycard to R&D\n"
EmailPortrait7:"Polito"
EmailIcon7:"OpsIcon"
EmailText7:"Good, you've made it into the crew sector. Now find Dr. Watts' room...\n"
EmailName20:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Ghosts\n"
EmailPortrait20:"Polito"
EmailIcon20:"OpsIcon"
EmailText20:"You might witness some strange phenomena. Your R-grade cyber rig has an experimental perception enhancment that can theoretically detect residual psychic emanations. These emanations traditonally come from the recently dead. Literature might call them ghosts. I call them self-hypnotic defects in the R-grade unit. Don't let it distract you from the job at hand.\n"
EmailText5:"You can hack this replicator to get at the unauthorized materials. Use this and any means possible to get up to deck 4. This isn't a game.\n"
EmailName18:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: R&D card\n"
EmailPortrait18:"Polito"
EmailIcon18:"OpsIcon"
EmailText18:"Watts isn't here, so he's probably in his office in the R&D sector. Maybe he's got a backup R&D card in here. Take a look around.\n"
EmailName14:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Find Dr. Watts\n"
EmailPortrait14:"Polito"
EmailIcon14:"OpsIcon"
EmailText14:"Dr. Watts is alive and in his office. He should know the code to the maintenance access shaft. Hurry... he's been badly wounded. Don't let him die before he tells you that number!\n\n"
EmailName6:"POLITO 12.JUL.14\nre: Access to Deck 1\n"
EmailPortrait6:"Polito"
EmailIcon6:"OpsIcon"
EmailText6:"Do not waste time patting yourself on the back. Get down to that shaft to Engineering and reset the primary react or core. That will restore power to the elevator and you will be able to get up to deck 4. Get going!\n"
LogName32:"Chemical Manifest:\nMedSci\n"
LogPortrait32:"Chem"
LogIcon32:"MedIcon"
LogText32:"Laboratory Stockroom Inventory: Med/Sci Stockroom 143\n\nAntimony (Sb) : 2\nBarium (Ba) : 1\nCalifornium (Cf) : 2\nFermium (Fm) : 2\nGallium (Ga) : 1\nIridium (Ir) : 2\nOsmium (Os) : 1\nTechnetium (Tc) : 1\nTellurium (Te) : 2\nYttrium (Y) : 2\n\nThis inventory list is required by UNN Safety Code #134882 to be kept on hand in all areas of hazardous chemical storage. \"Storage\" is defined by UNN Safety Code #195331 to consist of all areas in which hazardous chemicals (see Safety Code #093355) are stored in quantities greater than 50g per 10 square feet, for durations of greater than 24 hours.\n"
LogName18:"DIEGO 17.MAR.14\nre: Yanking my chain\n"
LogPortrait18:"Diego"
LogIcon18:"RickIcon"
LogText18:"To: Korenchkin, Anatoly\nAnatoly, there's only so much corporate calisthenics I can go through before I start to feel a little queasy, so let's get down to brass tacks here. We don't like each other. We each have our own motivations for undertaking this mission, so let me give you a little warning. I cannot be circumvented, I cannot be tricked, I cannot be manipulated, and I cannot be bought. You come at me straight and keep the fancy maneuvers for your next board meeting. Just because my father swam with the sharks doesn't mean that I do.\n"
LogName21:"DELACROIX 04.APR.14\nre: Xerxes\n"
LogPortrait21:"Delacroix"
LogIcon21:"EngIcon"
LogText21:"Why is it that no one listens to me? The security protocols on the Xerxes system are clearly immature. Some idiot hacked into the primary data loop last night and made Xerxes sing Elvis Presley songs for three hours. I finally had to pull the voice sub-system off line. What would happen if somebody with a real agenda got into him?\n"
LogName22:"GRASSI 12.MAY.14\nre: Damn chimps\n"
LogPortrait22:"Grassi"
LogIcon22:"MedIcon"
LogText22:"Whose idea was it to bring 150 chimpanzees on board anyway? The interests of science? What about the interests of hygiene? Does anybody have any idea how much crap 150 lab monkeys make in a day? The poor chimps... they come onboard for the most historic mission of all time, and they end up being chopped into little pieces in the name of progress.\n"
LogName6:"KORENCHKIN 14.JUN.14\nre: First contact\n"
LogPortrait6:"Korench"
LogIcon6:"ComIcon"
LogText6:"To: Zhukov, Vladimir\nWe have picked up a transmission from the surface of Tau Ceti 5. I have been in negotiation with Captain Diego of the Rickenbacker and after some... coercion, he's agreed to go planetside as a joint venture. Imagine, this historic mission might even become more historic. First Contact. And who is there to get exclusive rights to all media, patents and land grants? TriOptimum. Miri, I told you this would be worth it.\n"
LogName19:"SUAREZ 20.JUN.14\nre:100% Torture\n"
LogPortrait19:"Suarez"
LogIcon19:"RickIcon"
LogText19:"To: Siddons, Rebecca\nWow... you are incredible, do you know that? I made this game where I tried to make myself not think about you. What a moron. I love you, Rebecca. And I've got a plan. I've been buttering up the captain to transfer me from the Rickenbacker to the goodwill team on the Von Braun. Pretty soon, nothing will keep us apart.\n"
LogName1:"GRASSI 20.JUN.14\nre: All work, no play\n"
LogPortrait1:"Grassi"
LogIcon1:"MedIcon"
LogText1:"I got called up around 0430 to help unload the shuttle coming back from Tau Ceti. Korenchkin was there alone. Jesus, what the hell happened to him? He'd lost most of his hair, and you could see these lumps on the side of his neck. And that smell. I told him he should go see Dr. Watts, but he told me to mind my own business. Well, la-dee-da.\n"
LogName12:"POLITO 25.JUN.14\nre: Strange AI\n"
LogPortrait12:"Polito"
LogIcon12:"OpsIcon"
LogText12:"To: Delacroix, Dr. Marie\nMarie... I'm sorry I've been out of touch, but I've been working on that artifact Bayliss brought back from Tau Ceti 5. I've done a level 3 analysis on it... I think it's some kind of Artificial Intelligence. I've managed to pull an audio tag file out of its memory... I'll let you be the judge... Marie... I think it's speaking English...\n"
LogText23:"Ever since we reached Tau Ceti, the lab monkeys have been acting strangely. Nurse Loesser picked one out of a cage to be brought in for vivisection and the rest of them, I mean the entire group, stood up on their legs and howled. This wasn't just a random display, it was a protest.\n"
LogName24:"WATTS 30.JUN.14\nre: Nonsense\n"
LogPortrait24:"Watts"
LogIcon24:"MedIcon"
LogText24:"To: Loesser, Angela\nAngela, while it may appear that the lab monkeys are communicating with each other, I assure you it's quite impossible. You claim that one monkey signed the passcode for a supply closet to another and the latter proceeded to open it. As I'm sure you know, there have literally been tens of thousands of studies of primate intelligence and there is no evidence of behavior even remotely that sophisticated. So either you've single handedly trumped the entire field of animal behaviorists or you're badly in need of a vacation.\n"
LogName9:"WATTS 01.JUL.14\nre: Patient Watson\n"
LogPortrait9:"Watts"
LogIcon9:"MedIcon"
LogText9:"Since returning from the Surface of Tau Ceti 5, patient has experienced numerous novel phenomena, evidenced by inflammatory nodular growth and the presence of a large wormlike parasite. This morning, the parasite penetrated the subject's chest... from the inside... and attached one end of itself to the subject's forehead. If I remove it, I could kill the kid. If I leave it... Final Diagnosis: beats the hell out me. I'd love to refer this to Madorsky at CDC, but unfortunately, he's 67 trillion miles away.\n"
LogName15:"CURTIZ 02.JUL.14\nre: Rad Hypos\n"
LogPortrait15:"Curtiz"
LogIcon15:"EngIcon"
LogText15:"Medical tells me they've replicated a whole bunch of Rad Hypos. I'm gonna pick those up and distribute them to the engineering staff unless anyone gets a better idea. Watts also asked me to check on the replicator in the crew lounge... he says it's a hacker's paradise.\n"
LogName4:"CURTIZ 06.JUL.14\nre: Coolant leaks\n"
LogPortrait4:"Curtiz"
LogIcon4:"EngIcon"
LogText4:"To: Delacroix, Dr. Marie\nMarie, I've got to restrict access to Engineering until we can figure out what to do down there. It's just too hot. I don't know where all the Hazard Suits went, so I'm reduced to bringing down an armful of Rad Hypos. Those damn things always give me a headache.\n"
LogName7:"GRASSI 07.JUL.14\nre: Implant job\n"
LogPortrait7:"Grassi"
LogIcon7:"MedIcon"
LogText7:"To: Polito, Dr. Janice\nHey, doc... a security bot showed up with orders from you to place this grunt into the recovery freezer. I'm no cyberdoc, but I know a plant job when I see one. I suppose you know they outlawed R-grade cyber-goodies after that fiasco back on Citadel Station... but, hey, I just work here, right?\n"
LogName20:"AMANPOUR 07.JUL.14\nre: New code\n"
LogPortrait20:"Amanpour"
LogIcon20:"MedIcon"
LogText20:"Great. I've got to change the access codes out of Cryo A again! Like I've got nothing better to do. I think Grassi just likes to make work for me. I'll set the new code to 45100. That should be easy enough to remember.\n"
LogName10:"WATTS 07.JUL.14\nre: Patient Watson, pt. 2\n"
LogPortrait10:"Watts"
LogIcon10:"MedIcon"
LogText10:"Patient Watson died at 0240 of non-specific causes. Despite zero respiratory and brain function, the body is still displaying autonomous motor function, as does the parasite. At 0847, the patient even spoke to one of the nurses. Autopsy is set for 1630 and then we'll see what makes this Lazarus tick...\n"
LogName5:"CURTIZ 07.JUL.14\nre: More trouble\n"
LogPortrait5:"Curtiz"
LogIcon5:"EngIcon"
LogText5:"I've been unable to get in touch with Delacroix... this place is falling apart... members of my team keep disappearing. The leaks in the venting shafts shorted out the primary access channel... and that means we'll all be on auxiliary power until we can get it back up. That means ALL the lifts are out... Marie, where the hell are you?\n"
LogName8:"CURTIZ 07.JUL.14\nre: Lifts are out\n"
LogPortrait8:"Curtiz"
LogIcon8:"EngIcon"
LogText8:"I can't raise anybody down in Engineering. With the lifts out, I'll need to get down there through the emergency conduit in the Sci Annex. I think the access code is in Watts' lab.\n"
LogText14:"To: Curtiz, Juan\nAll right, calm down already... the access code to the conduit is 12451. I've got an autopsy at 1630, but let's grab a beer on the Recreation Deck afterwards. Sound good?\n"
LogName16:"TURNBULL 07.JUL.14\nre: Procedures\n"
LogPortrait16:"Turnbull"
LogIcon16:"OpsIcon"
LogText16:"Goddamn Bronson and her stupid procedures. She's changed the code on the MedSci 2 sub armory again. Now I've got to head back up to deck 4 to find out what it is... Somebody's gonna frag her but good some day...\n"
LogName11:"WATTS 07.JUL.14\nre: Watson autopsy\n"
LogPortrait11:"Watts"
LogIcon11:"MedIcon"
LogText11:"The time is 1630. Autopsy subject: A. Watson. Now we're going to make the first incision in... hold him down nurse! Nurse! Hold him down! Aahhh!!! Hey! AAAHHH!!!\n"
LogName2:"DELACROIX 08.JUL.14\nre: Not ready\n"
LogPortrait2:"Delacroix"
LogIcon2:"EngIcon"
LogText2:"To: Korenchkin, Anatoly\nThis mission should have been scrubbed before it left Earth. We've been unable to contain the reactant coolant leaks on deck 1. I've put an order requiring Hazard Suits down there. I know you think this will cause a panic, but it's better than giving everybody radiation sickness, don't you think?\n"
