Mantis/Zip - "A reactor down HERE?" is a Databank entry contained in a Quartz Data Chip. It records a conversation between Mantis and Zip regarding their exploration of the deep Intermediary Basin.
Location
This data chip can be found in the following location:
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Biome | Intermediary Basin |
| Landmark | Next to the Shattered Dam |
| Depth | ~300m |
| Coordinates | -248992, 421356, 30000 |
Databank Entry
MANTIS: I have water in my rebreather. How do I purge this thing?
ZIP: We're at bottom...where's that hot water Singh promised? It's cold down here.
MANTIS: It's all cold compared to your caves.
ZIP: I like them.
MANTIS: And Nahema likes you. Because you're growing white fuzz on your skin, eh? You are her lab culture.
ZIP: Hey! It's a heat adaptation.
MANTIS: It is creepy. Like Nahema. [bubbling noise] I can't get this water out.
ZIP: Creepy? I don't see you passing up Anita's digestive trick, even though she fed herself to — whoa.
[distant Collector leviathan roar]
MANTIS: Let's bail out.
ZIP: Wait! Wait, boss—do you recognize anything?
MANTIS: Of course not. That was a different me.
ZIP: But it was still you! You came all this way out, you built those elevators—why?
MANTIS: I don't know. Lead poisoning makes you stupid.
ZIP: Not you, boss. You were looking for something.
MANTIS: Something hot. Something we need, but can't make...PDA, go to shipboard mode. Check for reactor leaks.
PDA: Warning! Reactor leak. Elevated concentration of caesium-137 detected at bearing 315.
MANTIS: My God. Zip, you head back now. Tell them— [leviathan roar, louder]
ZIP: Why would you build a reactor down HERE?
MANTIS: I didn't. I found one. PDA, print this to quartz.
