DEAD SPACE MARTYR PART FIVE COLLAPSE Part 41, 42
41 He took two trips and had to use the tranquilizer gun once. The first trip reprogrammed the MROVs, switched them over to robotic self-control, and the digging progressed at a tremendous pace, but he had to tranquilize the technician accompanying him before they reached the surface. The man gave him a fair amount of advance warning, growing more and more irritable and then finally lashing out. He waited to tranquilize until he was absolutely sure he was violent and as a result almost waited too long. Indeed, the man was trying to choke him to death as the tranquilizer took effect and his hands slowly relaxed and he collapsed. The other trip, strangely enough, was with Stevens, the psychologist, who applied electrodes to both his and Altman’s heads, reading changes in their brain waves as they descended. “So I guess this means Markoff agrees with me that Hendricks’s mental problems might have been caused by the signal,” Altman asked. Stevens smiled. “How can I know what Markoff thinks, Mr. Altman?” he a…
