[s3e1] Adapting To Change -

He tapped his comms unit. Maya, get down to the sub-level. We need to manually reroute the coolant before the core brackets melt.

The season premiere of their mission was off to a chaotic start.

The fluorescent lights of the research bay hummed with a low, irritating frequency that matched the dull ache in Dr. Aris Thorne’s temples. He stared at the holographic schematics of the atmospheric processor, his fingers hovering over the interface. For three years, the Colony 7 terraforming project had followed a strict, predictable timeline. Now, a sudden shift in the planet's seismic activity had rendered their primary calculations useless. [S3E1] Adapting To Change

That was the problem with the engineers of the old guard. They built things for ideal conditions, never planning for a world that refused to cooperate.

Aris wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead. The station’s environmental controls were already struggling to compensate for the external temperature spikes. He pulled up the personnel roster. If they were going to survive this shift, he needed a team that could think outside the rigid protocols of the training manuals. He tapped his comms unit

He stepped beside her, gripping the wheel. On three. One, two, three!

They threw their combined weight against the seize-locked valve. For a agonizing second, nothing happened. Then, with a scream of complaining metal, the wheel turned. A hiss of pressurized coolant surged through the pipes, vibrating under their palms. The season premiere of their mission was off

Aris looked down at his scorched gloves. He knew she was right. The old manuals were dead weight now. Survival on Colony 7 wasn’t going to be about forcing the environment to fit their plan anymore. It was going to be about how fast they could rewrite the plan.