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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 5335204" data-attributes="member: 11437">June 29I've just finished tearing apart all of the noncritical systems aboard Deep Red.  I'm no electrical engineer, or cyber-engineer, for that matter, but NASA didn't send me to Deep Red for my looks and sparkling personality.  I just figure things out.  I don't really know how else to explain it.  I'm good with gear and equipment.  I find ways to make them work.  It's something I've been doing since I was a kid.  It set me apart from the other girls, I suppose, but it's not something that really ever bothered me.  While my peers were spending time at the mall or friending each other on the SocNets, I was tinkering around with smart phones and cybers, breaking things down and trying to figure out how they worked.  Heck, how I didn't end up an engineer of some kind is a mystery, indeed.CyberDoc is definitely fried.  The fact that it's tied directly to the life support system makes me think that it too was damaged in the "power surge", but I find no evidence of that.  That means, however, no more checkups and no more diagnostics on my systems.  I suppose I can "self-diagnose" until help arrives... if it ever does.  TriCalc is down too, but that's not much of a problem considering the state of the station's sensor arrays.  The AI, aside from CyberDoc and TriCalc, seems to be intact.  It's not talking, but Deep Red's AI always was a strong, silent type.  The AI responds when I ask it questions, but doesn't offer any suggestions.  Piece of junk.Comm is still down.  I've checked the internal wiring and, while there is some fraying from normal use, I don't see any major damage that would explain a systemic outage.Whatever this "power surge" was, Deep Red definitely took some major hits.  I am unable to account for the source of this surge.  My wild imagination leads me to think that it somehow came from the planet, but how?  EROS hasn't jumped back into orbit, but, not knowing their plans, the team could be down there for months... or longer.</blockquote>

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