Hey guys, we're closing in on the inner core.
The nukes are ready. The timers are on.
Great. Let's start dropping them.
No. The bombs are not built for these pressures. That's why they were in that pod. If you send them out now, out of that casing, they'll be crushed instantly.
And I assume we have a plan D.
Plan D is Virgil's compartiments. We put a nuke in each section of Virgil and then eject the individual sections. They should stay intact long enough for the nuke to go off. [Braz sighs]
What?
The Virgil is not designed to eject undamaged compartments. [shows them an animation] Okay, these are the ejection mechanisms holding each compartment in place. They're all connected by one master hydraulic gear, kind of like keys on a keyring. What we have to do, we have to unlock the piston. That will release the compartments so the bombs can be jettisoned.
Where's the master gear?
In the crawl space we used to get out earlier.
Look, I had this ship built in three damn months; I didn't think I'd deliberately be sabotaging her, I'm sorry!
So one of us has to go in there.
Correct.
Into the crawl space, that has core fluid at over 9000 degrees?
Yes.
Can you flush it with liquid nitrogen?
We don't have enough of it at this point.
9,000 degrees. And our suits are built to withstand...?
Half that, probably.
Right, half that.
So what you're saying is, whoever goes into that crawl space, is not coming back.
