Book Five, Chapter 37: The Chatbot
"You're telling me we have to blow up the ship?" I asked.
"No," Dina said. "We have to puncture a window on the outside of this room so it'll depressurize and give a green flag for the other room so they can walk through it."
That sounded extreme. IBECS protocol would force open one room when the other is depressurized.
"No wonder it took you three hours to figure that out," Antoine said. "That's a little bit more than your average lock-picking."
"Yeah," Dina said. "These doors have priorities, and they're labeled different things by the system. I know that the label can change, but only if one of the doors is disabled. That's what it's taken me three hours to figure out."
Savvy Safecracker was one heck of a trope, but even though it gave us a solution, it wasn’t exactly a good one.
"How are the surrogates supposed to do that?" Kimberly asked. "They’re the ones that have to unlock it On-Screen, right?"
I nodded.
We might have been able to figure out a way to blow a hole in the window of the room Dina had been trying to unlock to open the room next door, but the surrogates would not be able to do that.