Sector A Maintenance Office

Entry #003

The maintenance office of the sector A is a gloomy place, filled with the ghosts of those who lost their lives in the terrible breakout accident. Just like all maintenance offices, it was a place to monitor the growth of artificial bodies created in the resurrection chambers like the resurrection chamber 1A7+.

The second smallest, it was made to monitor 4 resurrection chambers with a permanent crew of eight people, half of which were technicians. Two of them were bionurses tasked with the monitoring itself, one was the manager and the last one a security officer. Only the last two were given the authority to activate deadly countermeasures in case of inmate rebellion.

All resurrection chambers have, embedded in a wall, hidden doors leading to the maintenance office, for the technicians to quickly intervene should a malfunction happen. Other than that, the room is fitted with nine desks, a resting spot and two other doors, one leading to the sanitaires and the last one to the main office.

The accident was as spectacular as it was unfortunate. It happened when a newly resuscitated inmate went psychotic in the resurrection chamber 3A4+, a rare but not unheard of side effect of the technology. The standard protocol is to dispose of such cases quickly to avoid excessive property damage, and resurrect the inmate if they still have sufficient credits.

What was new is that this resurrection was unplanned, and occurred as a pair of technicians were investigating a malfunction in the alimentation of a group of tubes. In such cases, the security officer should intervene to pacify the threat, but the one on duty was in the toilets with his headphones, impossible to contact. The inexperienced manager ignored the protocol on his first day, and tried to play hero by opening the hidden door to subdue the inmate himself, using his own augmentations.

When the security officer went back into the room, he was greeted with the scene of a slaughter. The psychotic prisoner proved too much for the manager to handle, and he had broken in the maintenance office, killing everything that breathed. From his own testimony, the security officer barely managed to put the inmate down and was gravely injured in the process, leading to an extended stay in the infirmary.

Since then, the broken door of the maintenance office has not been repaired, and no maintenance team takes care of the sector A, doomed to suffer exponentially more failures until it ceases all function. The guard was not questioned further on the incident, even when his personal grudge against one of the bionurse, who reported his erratic behavior the day before, was discovered.