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As the quarters continues to be drilled out and insulated, you meet again with the stakeholders. The group of representatives takes a stroll around the latest building site, where the powerful ice drills are cutting and melting ice. The pumps hum as they draw out the meltwater into a series of pipes leading up through the shaft to the surface. There it sprays water that freezes as gently falling snow on the surface. You have been ruminating on a fragmented, broken-up message from General Wigwe, asking when you're going to install a decent way of communicating back with Earth.

"We simply must build the laboratory next," Professor Li insists, already impatient at the meeting barely begun.

"Nothing happens without a submarine bay," Marcel Temaru points out.

Sungura Kikwete listens to what the others have said and adds, "Everyone will be happier if they're able to express themselves creatively. We should consider putting in a real fabrication workshop."