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"MALFUNCTION ON SENSOR, alpha three, quad four, red." The metallic tone of the
speaker reverberated through the module.

The monitoring officer's fingers seemed to meld with the keyboard while she accessed the
network controlling the defective sensor. Her eyes widened as the data scripted out on the
bluish screen before her. The sensor showed a temperature of 3░ absolute positive, barely
above absolute zero. On Mithrada, less than 120 million kays from the sun, that was
patently impossible, not on a planetary surface so hot that water had never occurred in
liquid form.

Shaking her head as if to clear her thoughts, she keyed the reset function.

Bleep.

The remote readings from the sensor on the planet below remained the same, long after
the fractional units it took for the reset command to travel to the remote command network
on the high plateau of Mithrada's northern hemisphere.

She took one deep breath, then another, before glancing at the sealed portal that
separated the monitoring module from the rest of the planetary reformation station.

"Malfunction on sensor, beta six, quad three, orange. . . .

"Malfunction on sensor, gamma three . . .

"Malfunction on sensor, omicron eight . . .

The console before her blazed with maroon malfunction lights, bright points of brilliance
that seared at her senses.

"Malfunction on sensor, delta four . . ."

With a sigh, she returned her attention to the original malfunctioning sensor and keyed the
reset function again. And waited, ignoring the rising maroon tide that turned the module
twilight-coloured. And waited.

Bleep.

The sensor now registered a reading of 60░ AP with a trend rate indicating a return to
normal, for Mithrada, of close to 800░ AP within one standard unit.

"Malfunction on sensor . . ."

The number of maroon lights continued to increase, even as the temperature on the first
sensor continued to rise.
The monitoring officer ignored the more recent failures, finally blanking the row of screens
above her on which the lights had flared. Then she returned her attention to the first
failure, shaking her head slowly.