"It's been three days. All the others are in stasis in the pods Brody and I found about a week ago. Power's gone down all over the ship. The food and water will last three more weeks, but life support will have to shut down before that. I dunno, it may take a few days, or maybe even a week, but without power, I can't get that last pod up and running, I'll have to think of something fast. That way I won't die before we drop of FTL to early and I won't die." Ely stopped recording on the Keno and set it on the table next the control panel.
"Ely." Ely looked around. The control interface room was empty. "Ely."
"Ginn? But-" Ginn walked into the control interface room.
"Ely, I came to help, you need to get into that pod, right? Well you can't do it without power, and I can help you find a way to bring power back online without dropping out of FTL too soon."
"But, ah, never mind, um, good to see you?" This shouldn't even be possible, she's in the ships memory banks, which can't be active if the ship doesn't have some amount of power devoted to it. "That's it!"
"What?"
"I've got a start I think. The ship still has enough power to keep the FTL drive working, and is still devoting a fraction of its power to life support, obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be here. And some amount of power is in the memory banks, otherwise we wouldn't be talking. Anyway, I think I can work in the in one of the suits that we use in a vacuumed atmosphere and divert the power to the pod from life support."
"But you'll have to get a console online."
"Yeah, that's the hard part. Maybe Destiny will automatically shut off life support, or- or you could do it, I mean you are connected to the ships systems right?"
"Yes, but access is still limited because me and Ammanda Perry are still in quarantine, to save Doctor Rush."
"Right, um, think, Ely, think. I guess we'll just have to try my first idea, then. I put on the suit and we'll see if Destiny shuts off life support."
Ely went to where the suits were stored and put one on. "OK, Ginn, I'm in the suit." Life support shut off, at least seemed to as Ely heard the vents stop. A smile crossed his face. "It worked. OK, eight hours of air in here." Ely went to the stasis pods and removed the cover to the controls. The circuitry was burned out. "Oh, great. The circuits are burnt out." Ginn looked over Ely's shoulder at the wiring of the control panel.