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the doors in the corridor read ‘Secured’. He turned the hologram slightly and
started touching multiple places on it. Each door's status changed from
‘closed’ to ‘open.’ Brad stopped for a second as he studied something and
zoomed into a room.
    “I’m going to Main Medical now,
holler if you need me,” Andie said. She turned and walked to one of the doors.
    “Okay, we’ll let you know once
we’re done here,” Jonathan said.
    “Atlanta, please access control
circuit 23-A-03 and run diagnostics,” Brad asked.
    “One second,” Atlanta said. She
closed her eyes as she did what Brad asked.
    Brad continued to work on the
lower level doors so the water would be routed into one of the empty storage
bays. Mike turned and took a seat at engineering and brought up some code and
began scanning it as it scrolled by.
    “Well, this actually looks better
than I thought,” Brad said.
    “What does?” Jonathan asked.
    “We can route the water back down
this corridor here and into this empty bay. If we pop the external docking ring
and flush the water out completely, we can get to work doing repairs,” Brad
said. As he spoke, he pointed out the areas he was talking about. “The only
problem I've run into is this door.” He pointed to a door that was still closed.
“It’s not responding to commands to open. I have Atlanta checking the circuit
out now. Mike is looking at the code to make sure we can pressurize the core
and actually flush it clean.”
    “The circuit isn’t responding to
my commands,” Atlanta said. She looked at the hologram as she spoke. “It is
probably burned out.”
    “Well, that solves that mystery.
Do you have replacement parts in case of something like this?” Jonathan asked.
    Atlanta shook her head, “No, the
maintenance bots replicated things they needed on site.”
    “Replicated? You mean you can
produce stuff like metals and food and such,” Jonathan asked.
    Terri’s stomach rumbled,
“Speaking of food. I’m going to go find the galley and see what I can get
together for us.”
    “Okay, Sis,” Jonathan said.
    “No they can’t, I ran across it
while I was surfing all the engineering specs in my head. They can do on site
repairs and they use each other to build the parts they need. They have to have
something to replicate from a base compound. I would guess if you had organic
compounds we could make a replicator that would produce foodstuffs. Not sure
how good they would taste, but it would be possible, and we could do it so it
was a vitamin rich supplement,” Brad said. He pulled up another hologram of one
of the spidery looking bots. “There are several types of these spider bots.”
    “Spider bots?” Jonathan asked.
    “Well, that’s what they look like
to me … a huge spider,” Brad said as he shrugged his shoulders. “Anyway, they
come in various sizes and the base will produce all types: small medium and
large. There are always some that are active and some on standby. Small ones
are the cleaners, although they can do simple repairs. The mediums are used to
maintain the base’s functions, and the larger units can reprocess them both to
create whatever they need for a situation. Larger units are never reprocessed
unless it is a dire need, there are only about five at any given time. Think of
them this way, small bots are the drones while the medium bots are the
warriors. The large ones are the queens of the hive and control the functions
of the smaller units even when they’re not active.”
    “Oh, I see,” Jonathan said.
    “Yeah, it’s not that complex. I
looked up the spiders when we were trying to decide what to do,” Brad said.
    “I’ll go over the technical specs
of everything later. Right now, I’m still trying to learn about the rules and
regulations,” Jonathan said.
    Brad grinned at him, “So I guess
I will be taking a trip down and see if the manual release still works.”
    “Yeah, I’ll come along. I’ll
glance over the code later.