"We could have something small move through the air ventilation shafts." Shilla suggested as they floated there.

"No, that will take too long and while the thing to open the door is not big, it is not small either. It is a lever that will have to be pulled or pushed." Jace explained as he tapped his fingers together. "We need something else."

"The doors are not thin enough to blow off with explosives. That much I can tell just from tapping it. What material is that? Can it be melted with a chemical combination or heat?" Shilla asked and then explained her reasoning a second later. "You would better know the human metal combinations than I would."

"Not easily." Jace answered with a sigh. "I have seen that type of metal. It is extremely conductive but it does not train heat. In fact it transfers it all quite quickly. It is a reactive metal, there was a single defect that could be destroyed easily by vibrational rounds so something traveling a supersonic speed or a vibrating round could easily destroy it. But that is not ideal in this situation, we do not want to damage the reactor or anything else in that room."

"So we need to be gentle in this case." Shilla floated to the other side and started touching the walls. "These walls are hollow. I don’t suppose we can go through them?"

"We can, but I am worried about damaging some wiring. All of the power should be running out of that room and it is going through wiring that covers the walls. It is crisscrossed so much that I would not know how to be able to track them all without taking a few hours to really study the schematic." Jace began explaining. "So I think that will only work as a back up plan."

"Okay, then what about... the exhaust. The size of this place is so massive, they must have a necessary precaution in the event of an overload or anything else." Shilla points out as she moves forward and starts moving down the hall.

"Nope, the largest opening is this one. The walls, floor, and ceiling are all sealed and where they are not completely sealed they have wiring going through them which will take hours to decipher and decide the best spot to enter from." Jace sighed and stretched his limbs. "We could pull it open."

"What? Really?" Shilla asked in surprise. "Is that all we have to do?"

Jace slowly nodded his head. "It is a simple system and the idea to keep them closed relies heavily on the weight of the doors themselves. Which is... irrelevant." Jace pointed out casually as he pushed off the back wall and moved toward the doors. He ran a gloved hand along the center line. "Yeah, this could work. We will have to use the katana. It is the thinnest one."

"You have got to be kidding me." Shilla clicked out in annoyance. "All we have to do is leverage the door open using a sword?"

Jace shrugged while in his open hand materialized a sword. Specifically his katana. He then flipped it around while moving to a position in front of the door and magnetizing his boots. Once he had his footing he slid his sword between a crack in a door. "Basically, we just need to open this door. Yeah. The latch used to lock it was already undone. It looks like they were about to open it when they kicked the bucket."

Shilla sighed as she grabbed the handle of the blade with him. They then started pushing it and the door started pushing open. Once it was open enough they stopped and Jace dematerialized his sword. She flashed her helmet’s camera and saw into the reactor. "Well damn..."

Jace pulled open the door the rest of the way with his hands and slipped into the room. Bodies were floating in the air. Both the bodies of the crew and the small little chitin creatures were floating about. "Well this is interesting." Jace points out as he moves toward what was the reactor.

"What is so interesting about a mass..." She stopped slowly as she realized something. "Suicide." She looked at Jace and pushed off the ground to catch up with him. "This was a mass suicide. But how? Electricity?"

"Yeah." Jace answered. He grunted as he grabbed the large round casing that encased the reactor. He moved around it before looking at a body that was standing stock still while pressing a button on the console. "I am guessing he is our culprit. They knew they would not be able to keep the ship so he made sure to kill everything aboard. Which explains why the latch was undone."

"They were trying to desperately escape before he set off some type of electric pulse that killed everything in the range of the reactor." Shilla answered with a nod of her head. "But why did they never return?"

"Because humans condense information and chances are that all of the people that knew about this facility died in it. The few that didn’t die here seemed to have never come looking for it." Jace explained, "you want to know the worst part about this?" Jace asked with a chuckle.

"What?"

"Since it was such a strong electric pulse, the chances are that any information is toast. So we will never know what truly happened here. We can only make assumptions now." Jace explained as he looked at the reactor pod and then at the rails on the ground.

"I doubt that is the worst bit of news. What about the electronics and wiring? Why is it not fried?" Shilla pointed out.

Jace shrugged as he looked around the reactor pod for a moment before finding a view window he could open to look inside. "No clue, but considering the way they are built. I am guessing there was a failsafe that successfully protected them." Jace explained as he unlatched the large metal viewport and started to open it.

A bright light illuminated the room and both Jace and Shilla had to turn away. But after a few moments when their visors adjusted they were able to look back at the view port for the reactor pod. Inside they could not see anything except a giant flame.

"Is that... a miniaturized sun?" Shilla asked in shock.

"No," Jace shook his hand. That was not possible. But something else was possible. "Cain are you there?" He asked quickly over the radio as he looked around at the rest of the reactor room. Quickly realizing something he had missed as he looked at the designs.

"Yes I am here. What do you need?" Cain asked in a much less grumpy tone.

"Do a scan of the facility. Scan for ’that’ and only that thing." Jace told him quickly as he pushed to another part of the reactor and began looking it over.

"What is going on?" Shilla asked as she started to discreetly scan the contents with her armor.

"If I am right. That is a theoretical material that we were searching for. It should allow us to get home much more quickly." Jace explained quickly as he nodded his head in confirmation of what he found.

There was a crackle on the radio before Cain spoke up. "You are right. There are two of those things in the facility. I am guessing you are next to one of them. But there is a second one near the edge of the facility."

"Two?" Jace asked in shock before shaking his head. "Shilla, move that guy away from the controls. We need to make sure his dead body is still not pressing the button to trigger the electric pulse." Jace explained as he pulled the reactor pod toward the rest of the reactor. He activated his boots’ magnetic locks as he pulled it along the rails, feeling the vibrations as it moved.

"You are right." Shilla spoke up after moving the body that was stuck to the control device. "This appears to work on a separate system from the rest of the facility. It probably had someone dedicated to watching it and maintaining it while the only output was power from this room."

"Figured." Jace grunted as he moved to the side and pushed it further in before walking around it and pushing it in from the other side. It clicked into place and he could see it as a button lit up from Shilla’s console. "Hold off for a moment. I need to connect some tubing."

As Jace moved around began moving tubing to some round holes that were closed on the reactor pod. "Have you created something similar before?" Shilla asked as she waited for Jace’s directions.

"No, I developed some designs but that is about it." Jace answered. "I never got past the theoretical stage. This design is similar to mine but a lot less efficient." He explained as he moved back. "Go ahead and start it up."