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The Eagle realizes the asteroids are made out of alucanite, which is magnetic. Something very helpful in trying to deflect the asteroid. | The Eagle realizes the asteroids are made out of alucanite, which is magnetic. Something very helpful in trying to deflect the asteroid. | ||
The Eagle also reasons out a way to bounce the asteroids off the Ring's odd platforms in a way akin to skipping a pebble on a pond, albeit on a wildly different scale. Saving an extinction event, although it will cause problems with the day-night cycle facilitated by the platforms, and some | The Eagle also reasons out a way to bounce the asteroids off the Ring's odd platforms in a way akin to skipping a pebble on a pond, albeit on a wildly different scale. Saving an extinction event, although it will cause problems with the day-night cycle facilitated by the platforms, and some radioactive debris. | ||
Along the way, Lt. Commander John Kendrick returns from a brief leave of absence and reaches out to the Eagle when he gets the asteroid readings on his own ship's computers to help out. | Along the way, Lt. Commander John Kendrick returns from a brief leave of absence and reaches out to the Eagle when he gets the asteroid readings on his own ship's computers to help out. | ||
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The Engineers plan to polarize the emergency shielding they do have, and work with Gogigobo's team to use the shuttlecraft Nenana and some others to use as a centerpoint to create something of a Halbrach array; a magnetic field on one side but not the other. | The Engineers plan to polarize the emergency shielding they do have, and work with Gogigobo's team to use the shuttlecraft Nenana and some others to use as a centerpoint to create something of a Halbrach array; a magnetic field on one side but not the other. | ||
And in the meantime, the time coordinating gives roughly five minutes left to get it all in order before | And in the meantime, the time coordinating gives roughly five minutes left to get it all in order before the asteroid inevitably hits. | ||
=== Act 3 === | === Act 3 === | ||