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Juan looked up the stairs “Raven, any chance that door is going to open?”

She shook her head “Not without an RPG”

Juan leaned back as he thought about what he needed to do That’s when he noticed the ventilation hatch thirty feet above them There was no way to cli it down

But there was one other way to get to it

“We’re running out of time,” Eddie said “What do you want to do?”

“I’ve got an idea, but it’s risky”

Eddie shrugged “I prefer your risky ideas to no ideas”

Everyone in the crehat they’d signed up for when they joined the Corporation They had lost crew members in the past, and their names were memorialized on a plaque in the ship’s boardroom as a reminder of what they’d sacrificed for the ship, their crewood chance their names would be added to the plaque if this didn’t work, but he didn’t see any other way

“Max, you kno you don’t like my Plan Cs?”

“Yeah,” Max said dubiously “They’re usually insanely dangerous”

“I’ve got another one now You’re going to hate it”

“Why?”

“Ask Murph ill happen if the Centaurus is underwater when the rockets launch without the cargo bay doors closed to stop them”

Max relayed the question A few seconds later, he came back with, “He says the overpressure from the water in the tubes will cause them to explode as they launch”

“Then it looks like we have our answer”