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“Hey,” says Devon, “if we fix this thing, can’t we use 
it to broadcast massive static in that frequency and 
jam the signal? Then the crew will wake up again.”
The Earth engineer replies, “Yes, absolutely that 
could work. Good thinking, Devon. It has risks 
though. We need to fix it in time. We’ll need to 
turn off the power to do it – that means it will take 
time to build back up to 100%. And to make it 
certain we’ll have to draw on power from all the 
communications systems. You will lose contact 
with Earth while it’s done. I’m going to recommend 
it as a plan to the Mission Director. It all depends 
on getting someone outside to the transmitter as 
soon as possible.”
“Ok, I’ll get Kamari on the case. Mission Control 
out,” replies Sasha.
Josef is listening to this exchange and nods 
appreciatively as Sasha calls Kamari.
“Hey, Kamari, looks like we are going to need you 
to go outside and fix a transmitter.”
“Aliens?” she interjects with surprise.
“Maybe. Don’t know for sure. It’s also broadcasting 
in a frequency that is the same as the internet 
chips in the adult crews’ brains. The flight surgeon 
says this is what is affecting the adult crew. The 
broadcast is making the brain internet chips 
overload. It’s preventing the adults from thinking. 
They can only feel emotions and physical urges 
– anger, hunger, fear, that kind of thing. But the 
bad part is that the chips are getting hotter. Their 
brains are going to fry. We’ve got less than twenty 
minutes left to solve this thing.”
“This is awful,” says Sasha. “What are we going to 
do about it?”
“We’re working on it. In the meantime, get back 
in touch with Devon and see if we have an update 
on the transmitter. We’re going to need it to 
communicate with the spacecraft.”
She calls Devon and the Earth engineer and finds 
out that an antenna is broken, and someone is 
going to have to do a spacewalk to repair it.

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