Some had been detailed to explore and
take an inventory of what was found, others had been ordered to provide
temporary light and power using portable equipment from the ships, and
still others worked under Jesus Madera-Cruz in the desperate attempt to
restore power to the asteroid.
From the communications center aboard the Tempest, Mr. Madera had been
in contact with SE's best engineers and the Starmen. SE's best hope was
in the Starmen since they had been aboard the asteroid and had walked
through its power plant. By electronic communication, Mark had been
able to provide some of the plans for the power plant to Mr. Madera,
but the plant was simply too large and too complex for the plans to be
of much use.
George St. George had given Madera the proper combination of buttons in
the elevators to give him access to the warehouse, but even after the
portable units had restored power to the elevators they could not
deliver men to the warehouse. The elevators would not descend beyond a
certain level since Zip had previously destroyed all the panels when
the pirates were pursuing them. Consequently, Madera had had to detail
men to descend manually through the shaft to the warehouse floor and
repair the controls at the warehouse level for one elevator. That had
taken nearly eleven hours.
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