“Understand this, if the lower hatch is not closed all the way, depressurizing alarms will go off everywhere and they will find and destroy you. But we can prevent them from seeing the outer hatch opening. The old system was never updated up on the bridge.”
“Chief where does the inner hatch open up to? I don’t remember any hatches in that area.” The lieutenant was peering at the schematic and scratching his head.
The old Chief chuckled, “No you haven’t seen this one. That’s because it opens into the waste disposal area. There is a crawl space here,” he pointed on the map. “Once you crawl about five meters there is another ladder leading up. That hatch opens to the cargo deck lavatory. It is set into the wall in the last stall. I would suggest borrowing a remote stethoscope from the docto
