Why would the wires be severed? she thought. Unless...

"Jericho was trying to repair the pod. But if it had been sabotaged!"

N-XS scanned the Bay and saw it in a corner. The gravity-assist crane.

"It's here! But, that means..."

She swung up through a hatch into the pod, Jericho's stupid pet project. But it wasn't stupid. It was vital. And they were trying desperately to fix it.

"But where is everyone?!"

The answer to that question seemed very important but it took a deprioritized position in her queue when she saw what was sitting in the pod's storage compartment. It was understated in its presence, trying so hard to appear commonplace.

"The reactor..."