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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3126345" data-attributes="member: 17691">DRK-1X floats silently for a few long seconds after its Mistress issues it instructions. The fact that the probot seemed effectively unable to prevent the torment it's mistress would soon suffer caused the droid's emotive and algorithmic nodes to nearly suffer a complete program failure. Only the accumulated experience and code refinements of its heuristic node managed to keep its neural network processing. Finally it manages to upload a short binary block to its vocabulator data-buffer. "Report: Understood Mistress."DRK-1X pauses again as it attempts to determine whether offering the woman words of encouragement, sympathy or apology would be appropriate and helpful or not. Finally, the glow from the black spherical probot's holoprojector lens fades away as it turns and traces an arc through the air back up to the open ventilation grate. Once inside, DRK-1X draws the small hydrospanner from its storage container at its back and quickly bolts the grate back in place. Before leaving the area, the probot unloads the two magnetic clamps, Four's datastick and biohazard vial before retracting its two manipulator arms back inside its chassis. Relieved of its cargo, 1X quickly backtracks through the ventilation duct as it heads off on this latest leg of its mission.[sblock=OOC]Thanks for the congrats. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I'd had the same idea of using the magnetic clamps to restrain Dofina and/or 1X if necessary. And I have seen Alien: Resurrection, but I don't know if I'd point to it or any other sci-fi story as a realistic example of sudden decompression. In that scene the other passengers didn't seem to have much trouble resisting the vacuum or suffer ill effects from the change in air pressure or the heat of atmospheric re-entry. The alien also kept whining pitifully for quite a while as its brain was being blown out the back of its head IIRC.You're right when you say that "the same amount of air will be rushed out" of a small or large opening; the only difference is how long it takes. The force of the vacuum is a constant as is the air pressure inside the station. The air won't go faster out of a small hole than it will through a large hole; in both cases the air is moving as fast as it possibly can. The amount of matter that can fit through the two openings is the only thing that determines how much matter escapes in any one moment. Your assertion that "the vacuum strength will be even more" is, I believe, wrong.Imagine for instance that you have a bucket of water with a goldfish swimming inside. The water exerts a set pressure on the interior of the bucket because gravity is pulling it down. Neither gravity nor the weight of the water changes. Punch a small hole in the bucket and the water starts slowly draining out as its pulled out by gravity; the fish can easily resist the down-pull of the water because only a small amount of liquid is being drawn out. On the other hand, if you were to punch a fist sized hole in the bucket chances are that the fish would be swept along out of the bucket as all the water is drawn out in a few seconds. It's the difference between standing knee deep in a small stream and being swept away in a large river. In our case, I believe Dofina could resist the vacuum as long as she stands some distance away from the hole until the air has escaped.1X will be aiming to reach a window if possible then. Accessing one in a small isolated room would work best for us since we'd have to wait less long for the air to escape a smaller space. DRK-1X will try to covertly locate such a room and scout out an unobstructed and low-traffic path to it from Dofina's room while it's out on its upcoming scavenger hunt. 1X would prefer, if possible, to do so from the vantage of the interior of the station's ventilation/maintenance duct-work while it periodically peeks through vent grates. Also on the probot's schedule is a round trip to the hangar bay's storage locker to locate and acquire a flight suit.Hopefully while there or somewhere en-route 1X can locate and acquire an emergency medkit and some food rations for Dofina as well. Most of this stuff weighs little so I think 1X should be able to manage it now that's its unloaded most of its cargo. To that end 1X will also leave its two magnetic clamps, datastick and bio-hazard vial hidden inside the ventilation duct next to Dofina's room. If there aren't any emergency medkits or food inside the hangar bay storage locker then 1X will have to plan a foray to the local galley and medical bay as well. Consequently 1X will carefully plan its itinerary beforehand to bring it near these various points of interest in its trip around the area. As always, DRK-1X travels stealthily and out of sight while remaining weary of station personnel, droids and security devices. 1X's goal is to return to the ventilation ducts near Dofina's quarters with all its newly acquired supplies and then depositing them all temporarily while it carefully returns to the grate overlooking Dofina's room.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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