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yanka

Ok, I've stared at this thing long enough to make my head explode (so please bear this in mind when reading what I have to say). A couple observations about the structure itself (if the jpgs represent modules to scale).

- There are 500 rooms in this "hotel", probably 50 per floor. The other modules, which I presume are supposed to house restaurants, maintenance quarters, etc. are HUGE and connect differently on different levels (for example, you can go directly from Delta to Beta on Milos, but you have to go through Alpha on Kithnos; and on some levels you can't get from one module to another at all).

- The only "module" that is closed off is "Sub Pen" on Tinos � or at least semi-closed (it has one red line).

Now, as for the log.
At 7:29:05 the system receives its first 2 "breach" warnings (2311 and 2312). It immediately sets off an alarm at the Delos level of the Beta module. Then it closes doors 4-8. All of this takes 1 second.
In the next second it receives another breach warning (2315), and closes doors 1, 2, 3, 9. Receives 2 more breach warnings (2316, 2317) and tries to close door 7. Can't close door 7. Sets off an alarm on all levels and also sets off a "global" alarm (whatever that means).
In the next 6 seconds it receives confirmation that doors 1-6 and 8-9 [agrr, edit here] are closed. Can't close door 7.
Then for 30 seconds it tries but CAN'T CLOSE DOOR 7.
Finally somebody does it manually, and it works.
Then they check the whole thing; everything's ok; end of log.

Now, if you compare the jpgs with the log, you will see that none of the logs at the times at which Delos had a "warning" are there (7:29:16, 7:29:36, 7:29:46, 7:30:00). Don't know if it means anything. Also, for some reason, "ANDROS" is in red at 7:29:16 � but that time is not in the log.

Now, as per Aquapolis "flood damage was limited to the Delos lounge and accompanying kitchen area�" None of the jpgs give a flood "box" for Delos (blue).

Yes, I know, maybe I'm taking this too far, but it doesn't seem to me like the system did NOT perform flawlessly. It only had a problem with door #7. It's almost as if somebody kept trying to open it as the system was trying to close it � until somebody went over there and closed it manually.

That said, I have no idea how you keep trying to open a door underwater, let alone close it, etc. � wouldn't it just flood everything? Why have doors at all of these levels anyway? And how do you operate them unless you have some chambers BEFORE the module entrances? Very confusing�

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:26 am

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A nice parallel, but unconnected to the game reality is that Delos was the name of the resort in Westworld, where the robot AI went haywire and the machines started attacking the humans.

Nice.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:34 am

ParityBit

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:57 am

aqualung1105 · Boot Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 55

Adding to the bits and pieces of possibly unrelated info:
- Santorini was the location of one of the most violent vulcanic events recorded, around the year 1500. The explosion was four times greater than that of Krakatoa in 1883 (which in turn was 40 times more powerful than the eruption at Mt. St. Helens in 1980).

The tsunami (flood wave) following the explosion destroyed the Minoan culture in Crete as it swept more than half a mile inlands, sweeping entire cities from their foundations and sinking the Minoan fleet in mere seconds...

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:05 am

Wishi · Boot Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

I wonder why the valve on the Tinos level (10) into the Sub Pen is closed. What do they have in there? Is it something so important that it's always closed?

I'm also wondering why Andros is red when the Amargos level is being logged. And what has happened in the 5 secs between images that makes it no longer red?

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:45 am

ParityBit

It is interesting that, strictly speaking, Metacortex's system did work - it received the breach information and sent the close commands to all the appropriate bulkheads - but was unable to close door 7. Presumably this was a mechanical problem, rather than a system problem. So it was a successful test as their news item mentioned.

But what was blocking bulkhead 7?

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:24 am

hyper5 · Greenhorn Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

I watch too many movies...

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:14 am

Worker · Decorated Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233

The system never appeared to turn off the alarms...

I know where I won't be spending my peaceful vacation Smile

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:41 am

Hate · Boot Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 20

maybe, operation labyrinth (-->greek<--- myth), is something to do with this, could they be trying to access information from The Aquapolis??? could they be trying to sabatage it? just ideas.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:02 pm

yanka

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:27 pm

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oops

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:09 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:12 pm

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an anomaly? something they don't explain ( yet thinking of it the security system could be the agent....) or someone they don't want

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:18 pm

Varin

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:59 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:38 pm

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