GenDiver aircraft destroyed in Northwest Territories Four dead when a GenDiver research aircraft was shot down using human-portable missiles in the Northwest Territories

GenDiver announces research aircraft carrying deadly fungus samples "Whoever shot it down will die unless they receive the antidote."

Terrorists Captured Six native terrorists were captured during a raid on a GenDiver installation.

Biogene announces IntuIT enhancement for children "Kinder, Gentler intelligence enhancement."

New Treatments Anasasi Systems releases version 3.5 of its popular longevity treatments.

New Base in Zion ClusterAnasasi Systems to place Poseidon installation in Zion Cluster.

GEO to place additional Peacekeepers on Poseidon US, China lead protest. 2000 extra peacekeepers to come to Poseidon.

Time flies by until 066.101, taken up by small jobs (including another transport of moulded plastics) and shopping. Jenny buys a PicoV for 15K. The team also buys two biohazard suits for 5000 scrip apiece, and a new medkit. Pilot buys himself a subscription to AquaPinups.com, which... well, you can figure it out.

From 066 to 072, they are either flying down to Macondo, at Macondo, or coming back. It's a long way away, down past the Zion Islands. They do some deliveries for fuel money. At Macondo, Whitney and Regina put on the biohazard suits and row ashore in the inflatable raft accompanied by Pilot's remote. Dive and Jenny stay in the plane a respectable distance from the island itself.

Once ashore, the away team finds an old campsite with a skeleton and some sort of still apparatus. All of the plastic parts are eaten away, however. Regina takes lots of air and plant samples. The skeleton appears to have been gnawed on after death by fairly small creatures, and there is no hint as to the actual cause of death. The general opinion is that this skeleton was probably distilling illegal drugs out of local plants before his death.

They head inland, following the path of the geological expedition that Regina's parents died on (well, they died when they got back, but they caught their death on Macondo, allegedly). They find a survey marker on a rocky outcropping.

29th Biogene Geological Expedition, 2187 - inscription on survey marker

Whitney and Regina and Pilot search around a while, but find no other evidence near the outcropping. Regina takes more samples. Suddenly, Regina's suit reports a pinhole leak! The suit's internal pressure is higher than outside to help with these situations, luckily. Whitney quickly patches the leak. They aren't sure what caused it, though, and after a few more minutes of poking around, Regina has another leak. They start back to the shore, and by the time they get back to the dinghy they have both had leaks. The culprit appears to be some sort of fast growing web fungus.

Whitney and Regina are dunked into a floating vat of disinfectant (the cheapo version of a disinfectant chamber) in their suits, then have to strip and scrub with harsh soaps before they are let back on the plane. Pilot's remote is dunked in bleach as well. The suits are also isolated after being taken out of the bleach mixture. On the long flight back home, no one comes down with anything mysterious, thankfully, though the suits are considered to be a loss. When they get back, Jenny finds that junior hacker types have been attacking their new computer with pretty standard exploits. They haven't worked, but there's no way to backtrace them right now.

The next morning, 073.101, they receive an early morning distress call from Coronado station. A big storm is going to hit, the station is damaged due to shifts in the reef, and they don't have enough aircraft to evacuate. The team debates a bit, but agrees to go. They are assigned twenty people to try to evacuate, most scientists with photographs in action provided, but four stand out as young teenagers in head-and-shoulder shots. Pilot takes off for Coronado, carrying Dive and Whitney as his ground team.

"We have an insufficiency of evacuation transport and require assistance." - Biogene spokesman.

While they fly, Jenny does some research and finds out that Big Blue Charters, which also operates out of Atlantis, hasn't heard of this evacuation. Then she analyses the video to see if the person is real, and the results are inconclusive. A real human would have behaved differently, but a simulation would have been more believable. Perhaps it was a real crazy person, or a simulation of the same. His phrasing was odd, for one thing, as was his blank look while waiting for Jenny's response. Jenny warns the team that it's a fishy situation.

Coronado station air control hails them and knows nothing about an evacuation. The man talking to Pilot gets cut off by a woman yelling about not talking to strangers. Everyone finds this disturbing. Pilot sets them down on the landing platform, which high seas are already washing across. He estimates three hours before it becomes impossible to take off again.

Coronado station is a giant mushroom with attached landing pad on the reef, with a fusion reactor in a separate installation nearby along a walkway. Whitney and Dive head for the main mushroom, only to be attacked by a gibbering scientist. He misses Whitney and is subdued by Dive, but is clearly not right in the head. As they wonder what is going on, a man claiming to be the director and wearing a breather mask comes out. He is more reasonable, and tells them that every in the station has been being a bit crazy for months - in fact, the station has been under quarantine since the beginning of the year. In the past week, however, things are getting much worse. He suspects a substance in the air, hence the breather mask.

Whitney tells him that they have come to evacuate everyone, and he is pleased, saying that Biogene won't do so because of the quarantine. The station, he says, isn't locked down for heavy weather, and there's no way to do that now. Then Whitney tells him that they're unsure who actually sent them to do the rescue. This sends him into a paranoid fit, and he puts his mask back on and retreats inside the main structure. Jenny takes this opportunity to call Marshall Lightfoot and explain what is going on.

Whitney, Dive, and Pilot's remote go inside to the hanger/storage bay and find a crazy mechanic building some sort of machine who won't talk to them. They then head upstairs to the control room, where two women have ripped apart all the computers to build the over-mind. They're otherwise harmless. Unfortunately, they can't use the computers to put the station on a storm footing. Checking out the flight control room, they find the man Pilot spoke to earlier, and subdue the woman who is beating him. He proves to be strangely giggly and very clear that everyone else is crazy, but patches their communications through the main antenna, allowing them full video to the outside world. Jenny tries to hack into the station's computers, but discovers that they are too paranoid for this to be a doable task in a short time.

Major Thompson of the GEO Peacekeepers Disaster Relief unit gets in communication with the team and they decide to make sure the fusion reactor is safely shut off. It should be... unless someone crazy has gotten to it, which seems all too likely. After crossing the wave-swept walkway, they arrive in the reactor, where a naked man has just finished killing one of nine victims. He's friendly and happy to see them, offering to let them draw straws to see who has to sacrifice the others to the reactor. They do so, and the poor man gets the short straw again, revealing that he isn't worthy and will have to sacrifice the other two.

Whitney luckily thinks quickly and takes that responsibility herself, "sacrificing" the man by getting him to take some poison (which is actually a sedative). As she's doing this, Pilot shuts down the reactor. The team notes that there is semtex piled at the base of the reactor, but on close inspection it doesn't have a detonator or anything yet and the Major thinks it is fine (for small values of fine) to leave it there. They prepare to return to the main building, with about 2.5 hours remaining in Pilot's storm countdown.