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	Message: : We start in a large empty room, to the sound of pirates arriving, but they : are no danger to us, yet. We note that this is a vacuum level, but an : oxygen recharger is not too far off. There's a door here that doesn't : open, and as we can't get back to this room for much longer, I don't see : it having potential as a secret.... The door that does open leads us up : some stairs and through a door into a small fight, a terminal and pattern : buffer, and the oxygen recharger in a room off to the left. : The terminal gives us some instructions but not really enough if you ask me, : and the fact that we can't get back to it later doesn't help. Basically we : have to hit three switches in a certain order to get out of here ... but : what order? The vacuum is explained by damage we did to the Diablo and an : unknown gas leaking into the area - great. Now to get on with exploring - : well we don't seem to be able to get very far, until working out that : heading towards the oxygen recharger room opens the door at the other end : of the corridor. Beyond this there is a switch for this door as well, : which allows us to access that pattern buffer for a little bit longer. : Down the stairs a door opens as we go past it, to reveal the pirates that : we heard right at the start. The door further along opens but only leads : to another locked one at the moment. : After dealing with the pirates, recharging oxygen and saving again, we head : through the self-opening door as the only way to go. Here we get access to : a 1x shield recharger, a door to a switch, which opens the door we just : saw a minute ago, and a couple more rooms with pirates and a little ammo. : Now bearing in mind that we're in vacuum, getting out of this area could : have been made easier. There's a lift behind a hidden door in the middle : of the central room here, which I remember having activated in playing the : level the first time, ages ago... but could not work out how to activate : this time. So I took the way out that I did remember - a 'secret' door in : one of the side rooms. : This leads up some stairs to an annoying area for navigation, with solid : objects really getting in the way. An invisible Galaxan 'appears' at one : point, and we see a couple of S'pht'kr as we have known them - they seem a : bit bored. Again there is only one way to continue, past a couple of : locked doors to run across ground that slowly starts sinking into lava. At : the end of this we have access to the earlier area of the level again, to : the left, but the door back to the pattern buffer is locked, and there is : a small pirate presence, which is not really what we need right now. : Rather, to the right, we encounter just a couple of fighters, another : S'pht'kr, a switch, and a little further on, a 2x shield recharger and : another oxygen recharger ... just in time. In this room there is a narrow : opening along the length, with a couple of drones and some ammo visible : but unattainable. There is also the sound of a platform rising at some : points in the room, but no evidence of this. : There is also a view into the area that we want to end up in - which we also : saw from the terminal room earlier. The switch in the room just back : lowers one side of the central chamber in that room, revealing countless : drones that eventually take out the solo S'pht'kr in there to deal with : them. The panel rises again if we don't switch it off, which is what we : want to do, so that we can get in at the bottom. Back in the direction of : the earlier part of the level, the previously locked door is now open and : leads to a pattern buffer and another switch. This one I'm not sure about. : From the map we also see an area much higher up - too high to access in : our vacuum state, frustratingly, as we discussed earlier. : Now the next step appears to be a passage leading out of the lava that we : hopefully just avoided a few paragraphs back :) - this we see in map view, : and having saved again and recharged ourselves, I suppose we can risk it. : We come out in a room with a few fighters and then a big drop. The drop takes : us down to where the lift that I couldn't activate would have. From one : side of an expanse of lava, we take out a bunch of projectile fighters : shooting through a narrow opening, and then fusion the switch on their : platform across the lava. This raises platforms across the lava pool to : some drones and stairs that lead to an oxygen recharger. There's some ammo : to pick up from the fighters' platform down there before we carry on up : the stairs. In both directions these link us up with the area with the 1x : recharger again, and so with the rest of the level we know so far. : Now, the first time I played this level, this was as much as I ever found : out. After going around and around all these areas and getting frustrated : that I could not rocket jump to the one visible new area, I did eventually : give up, out of boredom! And I was on the verge of having to wait until : its volunteering to work it out this time, when I happened upon the : 'secret' door leading in towards the big octagonal chamber - leading off : from the passage with the lava run nearby and the way to the 2x and oxygen : recharger at the end - Eureka! : To me this is just another example of the "the place you have to go next : often defies logic" sentiment from right near the beginning of the : volunteering of this scenario - but I was so excited to have found the way : that this was soon forgotten. : So we go down a lift and find countless drones, which we must take out from : the periphery, the way in being blocked by 'posts'. There is a locked door : to the right, and an unlocked one to the left - the latter takes us to : another lift, which leads to more drones and a way into the main chamber. : There is also a door that leads to another passage, and a hidden door : leading to the drop off that we so frustratingly saw earlier. The passage : takes us to another opening onto the chamber, via a spiral staircase. Here : there is another switch! : Now it is basically a matter of falling into the chamber and then further : into the central tower, before taking the lift up while dealing with : constantly reappearing drones, and then guessing at the sequence in which : to hit the three switches at the top (left, right and centre - idiomatic : somehow?). And then we head straight to the final terminal, in which we : hear that Mithrandir has been able to communicate with the Diablo's : information system thanks to our efforts in killing most of the pirates, : and that the UESC congratulates us and offers us stripes. Great! But we : still have to go to the pirates' home base, and survive, to get them. : Bring on AMBUSH! : Now I've played to the end of the last level but AlephOne reacted simply by : quitting as I left the final terminal - I assume there is an end screen or : similar ... could you post it somehow if so when you volunteer the level? : Cheers.
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