***ANAD replicating…can I get a heading to the target?***
“I’m doing that now,” Mendez reported, as he scrambled through the galley and berthing deck and the engineering deck. “Robles, where’s the leak? Can you localize it?”
Still back at the command deck, Robles scanned his instruments. “I’m showing maximum pressure drop at frame ninety-six, starboard side…somewhere between E and F deck.”
Mendez squirmed through the central access tube. He knew E deck was for Engineering, Shops and Utilities. Just aft was F deck, home to Gopher’s hybrid battery and fuel cell power plant.
“I feel it…there’s a whistle just off to my left—“ Mendez paused, sniffing, letting his senses guide him. There. A utilities duct penetrating the bulkhead seemed to be the center of the leak. He saw a faint mist in the air swirling around the duct. “I found it….ANAD configure max propulsor. Home on my signal.” He pressed a button on his wristpad.
Several decks forward, the shimmering fog of the assembler swarm wheeled about and began transiting the access tube.
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