[s3e1] Adapting To Change -

We aren't going to fight it anymore, Maya, Aris said, turning to look at the viewscreen showing the shifting, violent landscape outside. We are going to adapt.

Aris looked down at his scorched gloves. He knew she was right. The old manuals were dead weight now. Survival on Colony 7 wasn’t going to be about forcing the environment to fit their plan anymore. It was going to be about how fast they could rewrite the plan. [S3E1] Adapting To Change

He tapped his comms unit. Maya, get down to the sub-level. We need to manually reroute the coolant before the core brackets melt. We aren't going to fight it anymore, Maya,

The overhead lights flickered, stabilized, and the oppressive heat began to slowly recede. He knew she was right

Aris grabbed a plasma torch from the tool wall and moved toward the lift. The metal grate under his boots felt hotter than it had an hour ago. When he reached the sub-level, the air was thick with the scent of ozone and heated iron. Maya was straining against a massive iron wheel, her boots slipping on the slick floor.

Maya let out a long breath, leaning her back against the cool metal of the housing. We can't keep patching this place together, Aris. The planet is changing faster than the tech can handle.

The fluorescent lights of the research bay hummed with a low, irritating frequency that matched the dull ache in Dr. Aris Thorne’s temples. He stared at the holographic schematics of the atmospheric processor, his fingers hovering over the interface. For three years, the Colony 7 terraforming project had followed a strict, predictable timeline. Now, a sudden shift in the planet's seismic activity had rendered their primary calculations useless.