Calling the Escape Shuttle

Ideally

Go to the bridge, find the communications computer (one in the captain's quarters, one at the bottom of the bridge lobby). Login, type "commaster", "link", and then "call". You'll get a count-down and in 10 minutes the shuttle will show up. Alternatively, ask the AI to do it.

Problems!

Several things have to be working in order for the above steps to work.

• A physical (wiring) link between the communication terminal and the communications dish.
• Functioning computer with commaster installed
• Power to the computer

If these are out, you can ask the AI. If the AI is dead, you have Problems!

Making a new computer

If the old computer is blown up or broken or inaccessible for some other reason, you'll need to build a new one. Things you'll need: Metal, glass, wiring, wrench, screwdriver, hard drive, mainboard, ThinkDOS disk, Commaster disk, ID scanner module, floppy disk module, wired network card, An ID that can access COMMmaster! while anyone can get the computer working, you'll need an ID with the requisite access to actually call the shuttle! There's not any specific "commaster" access listed on the ID computers, but as far as I know anyone who can get into the bridge can call it.

• Build the heavy computer frame and insert your modules
• Remember it must be wired to the dish, so try to build it as close as possible. There's a spare frame already set up near the backup comm dish so use it if you can.
• Access the computer. Insert your ThinkDOS disk and your ID.
• You'll see a message about not being able to boot from fixed disk, restart the computer.
• It will restart and boot using the ThinkDOS floppy. Login.
• Type "dir". You'll see a listing of the files on your ThinkDOS disk - thinkdos itself, logs, and bin.
• Type "copy thinkdos".
• Type "drive", and a listing of the installed drives will pop up. Typically hd0 (hard drive) and sd0 (floppy drive) but I think it can vary.
• Type "drive hd0". Your drive name could differ but when you switch to the hard disk drive it will tell you that you have switched to "Storage Drive", this is what you want.
• Type "paste thinkdos".
• Eject the ThinkDOS disk and restart the computer.
• If you did everything right, it'll start up and you can login!
• Insert the Commaster disk and you can either run commaster straight from the disk or you can do the same copy-paste sequence you did with thinkdos.
• Follow the steps listed above to run commaster and call the shuttle.
• Luxuriate

Fixing Wiring

Pretty straightforward, grab some wire and use it to hook the communications dish into existing station wiring or a commaster computer. You need to have wiring on dish's actual tile, not just "next" to it! Usually if the wires are cut, you'll have to go into space to fix it so bring a space suit.