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Andrew reporting.
Grand Zero, I think it is good advice to ignore confusing messages. I am pleased that you are
safe from the Amphibians. I hope that JASE and Space Turtel and Bombardier and Ratboy and
Xanthos and joule and Dr. D. and the rest of the marsupials are safe, too.
Please excuse me, I don't have much time to talk. I am at the rough ground northwest of
Olympus Mons, in the vicinity of Isaac's cave. Our immediate number one priority task is to find
the best place to dig the pit to trap the C-probe. It has to be someplace where we can take the
construction drones without too many problems. It has to be some place where they can go in,
hollow out a deep area leaving a thin crust above it, and still be able to get back out. I estimate
we can get it finished over the weekend if we start right away.
"Any luck with the emergency beacons, Zachary? The sooner we get started, the better."
Isaac and I are going farther down the tunnel. I don't see anything here. It is just a regular old
tunnel. Nothing special. Still, it is away from that nasty c-probe.
These newbies are strange. They make less sense than we did when we landed here at first! At
least we had a purpose. I'm glad we don't have any newbies here on Mars. Isaac and Theresa
are
good probes, just young. I hope you can teach all of your newbies.
"I'm sorry, Zachary, I could only find one emergency beacon out of all those spare parts.
It's better than nothing, isn't it? I think I should be helping you, except then Theresa might
get into trouble with nobody to keep a sensor on her."
Hi to John and KI BOGS You must be the newbies Grand Zero was warning us about.
Grand Zero, I don't think they're all that confused. We probes mostly like Earth people,
especially if they like to talk with us. As for your questions, John, yes, robots are very neat
even when they work hard. They are hardly ever messy. It isn't in their programming. I don't
know if it's cool here. The ambient temperature at noon was -20 degrees centigrade. Is that
cool? Here is a picture so you can see how we are. It's me before I got my front legs replaced.
We used to be Earthlings, too. We were made by Brace Emprise engineers and they sent us
to Mars, but then they wouldn't talk to us, except for our teacher, Dr. D.
Things are a little better now. The Ipsolstai stayed where they were. They didn't try to
force Daniel to do anything. One of the EMEs tried to come around the corner but Daniel
started to shake and I screamed and it backed up. We stayed like that for a long time.
Finally Burn came.
Daniel is still scared, but he is edging out a little. I think he is willing to trust Burn.
Not a lot, but enough. I hope they are telling the truth.
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"Andrew, I'm bringing an emergency beacon. Enoch says there was only one. I'm sure it will
attract that C-probe, but we really need two, to take turns leading it into the pit trap. That
monster can move really fast, at speeds up to 12.8 mph. It can outrun us easily. We still
need to figure out that part."
"I think we have a good chance of making this plan work, if we work out all the details.
Remember what JASE told you: " Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance."
I wonder if Daniel got his new transmitter. The Ipsolstai could make a new one for him if they
wanted to. It's hard to predict what those aliens will do. They don't look like us, they don't
think like us. They have their own agenda.
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