Chapter 34: Chapter 33: Orbital Papa Gottlieb

There’s a high-pitched whining as the centrifuge spins around and around, finally slowing down after its work. The sample of ooze that Gottlieb had collected from the frozen creature comes to a stop.

 

It’s quiet for a moment, and then the lid pops open.

 

Gottlieb takes out the vial of separated liquid, looking at the contents that have come apart in a variety of layers, much like when one would put oil in a glass of water.

 

This looks right.

 

He grabs several different petri dishes and then does his best to extract samples from the various layers of coagulation in the centrifuge-vial, placing some of them each into their own little container.

 

“What do you think, Kai?” asks the man, sliding them onto a sheet and into a device that looks like an oven. “Will it work?”

 

A blue light runs out from the inside of the oven, as the properties of the collected samples are examined carefully by the station’s AI.

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— The light flickers above his head.

 

Gottleib looks, staring at the bulb. It doesn’t look like it's on the fritz. The station as a whole is falling apart. He’s doing his best to keep up now, but it’s hard. For the last few days, he hasn’t really been working the gun anymore. Firing this often has led to several burnouts in the wiring. The gun especially needs intricate and careful maintenance, that he has neglected, opting instead to roughneck the piece of machinery to the edge of its intended lifespan.

 

Pieces need replacement and fixing, and while some of those parts are here, not all of them are. He’s going to have to try to be more resourceful.

 

The light in the little chamber dies down as the scan finishes.

 

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