Illuminae

Kady and AIDAN make a plan. She has to get its engines restarted, and to do that she has to go down many levels. There are over a thousand afflicted onboard as well as many other obstacles, including fires, blocked doors, and broken elevators. She will fail if she tries to go through the ship, so AIDAN recommends she access the level she needs by walking outside the ship. First, she has to get an envirosuit, which is two levels down. AIDAN maps the afflicted for her with red dots on her portable console and plans to watch her through it, though it doesn’t tell her that second part.

The maps of the Alexander show the distance Kady has to bridge to reach her destination and the high number of afflicted personnel still onboard.

The surveillance footage shows Kady’s treacherous journey down a few levels to get the envirosuit. She crawls through the vents mostly unnoticed due to the sound of sirens and screams. The afflicted have started killing each other, but at one point a few of them hear her and smash an ax inches from her head in the vent. They crawl up into the vent behind her, and she races to the room with the envirosuit, guided by