THE COSMIC COMPUTER

Back Forward Menu

"We'll find plans of the building," Jerry Rivas said. "Any big dig I've
ever been on, you could always find plans. The troubleshooters always
had them; security officer, and maintenance engineer."

There were inside-use vehicles in the big room; they loaded what they
had with them onto a couple of freight-skids and piled on, starting down
a passage toward the center of the building. The passageways were well
marked with direction-signs, and they found the administrative area at
the top and center, around the base of the telecast-tower. The security
offices, from which police, military guard, fire protection and other
emergency services were handled, had a fine set of plans and maps, not
only for the building itself but for everything else in Port Carpenter.
The power plant, as Matsui had surmised, was at the very bottom,
directly below.

The only trouble, after they found it, was that it was completely[Pg
111] dead. The reactors wouldn't react, the converters wouldn't convert,