Note: Notice the direction of North in the maps of this deck. For some reason the level builders have made it different than the other decks.

The basic premise of this deck is to go to the Bridge and get the Ops Override access card. Then go to the Command Center on Deck 4 (Operations) and use it. To start out this chain of events, we need a Bridge Access card.

Go south from the Primary Elevator (white), location 1, to the Tramway (green). Get in the Tram and push the button. You will stop at a station half-way down the line. This is the area containing the Umbilical to Rickenbacker (yellow). Two gun turrets heavily guard this station and the door won’t open until Shodan tells you to go there and use it.

Bridge Access Card

You begin Map 2 at the east end of the Bridge Reception Area (white), location 1. Walk toward location 2. If you’ve paid attention to the Tommy and Rebecca logs you’ve found, you know that they’re headed for the Escape Pods (yellow) and that Tommy has the Bridge Access card.

Go to the west end of the area and use one of the elevators (orange 2 or 3) that go up into the Officer’s Lounge (green). Head west from the elevator toward location 9. At this location the walkway between the two doors that connect the areas is destroyed. However, you can still jump across and enter the Escape Pod section (yellow).

Follow the corridor south to the last pod and location 3. You’ll see the pod blasting off with the two lovers inside. They have conveniently left behind the Bridge Access card.

Shuttle Bay Access Card

You can return back to the Officer’s Lounge (green) by using the first door north of Tommy and Rebecca’s pod and not have to jump any gaps. Go to orange location 4 in the lounge and go up to Officer’s Quarters (purple).

At location 5, inside one of the lockers, you find the security codes (83273) for the security office in officer country, location 4. Go there and enter the security office. Inside is the Shuttle Bay Access card (location 6).

Ops Override Card

Go back down to location 2, Bridge Elevator, Bridge Reception Area (white), and take the elevator up to the bridge. Once there head east then north to the grav lifts. Take one up to the Bridge Conference Area (cyan).

At location 7 you find the Ops Override card in a glass-enclosed niche. Strange, the glass is bullet-proof but you can smash it with the wrench. So, get the card.

Note: Later on you’ll be invited back to the bridge by Korenchkin, who will then be a PSI Reaver controlling a floater out to get you. When this happens Korenchkin, the brain, will be right where you are now controlling the floater attacking you on the Bridge level below.

Deck 5 – Recreation – Map 1

You will re-enter Deck 5 at Map 1, location 9, Main Crew Quarters, Level 1 (yellow). Make your way to Map 1, location 1, Crew Qtrs/Elevator area (white). Use this elevator to return to Deck 4

Deck 4 - Operations – Map 1

You enter this deck at Map 1, location 1, Xerxes Core (white). Leave the elevator and go straight west to location 2, Bulkhead 43 and go through.

Deck 4 – Operations – Map 2

Go east and south through Fluid Ops (white) and enter the Barracks Section (green). Head west and south through here to location 6, Command Center/Security (red). Since you now have the card, go inside and right click on the computer in there.

Now Shodan wants you to go to the Engine Core on Deck 1. Return back through bulkhead 42, location 1 to Xerxes Core (white). Get in the elevator, location 1, and go to Deck 1.

Deck 1 – Engineering – Map 1

You enter this deck at Map 1, location 3, Coolant Tubes (red). Make your way north to location 8 and enter the Engine Core (beige).

Once in the Core go east and find in the south-east corner a small elevator. Take it up to Core Control (purple). Make your way to location 12 and use key code 94834 on the keypad there and enter the room. Right-click on the computer panel there.

When you arrive back at Deck 6, Shodan hands you another quest, destroy the two shuttles on this deck before the Annelids escape. After she speaks, she opens the corridor at orange location 1.

Destroy the Shuttles

Follow the corridor into the Shuttle Bay (purple). Turn north and take the long corridor to the grav lifts. Go up to Shuttle Control (red). Go into the command room on the west end. Click on the console there to lower the shuttle shields. Go through the door on the west end and use your weapon of choice on the shuttle below until it’s disabled.

Go into the command room on the east end. You get there just in time to eliminate a Midwife after she smashes the shield control. Shodan now instructs you to hack into the replicator between the two command rooms and get a Sympathetic Resonator. There is hack software on the body in front of the smashed shield control.

Once you get the Resonator, go back to the command room, through the door and take the ladder down. Place the Resonator on the shuttle by dragging it from inventory. It arms immediately, so run for the ladder. Make sure you’re at least back at the top of the ladder when the shuttle explodes.

Korenchkin Blocks Umbilical

Now it would seem like the next move is to use the Umbilical (yellow area) to transfer to the Rickenbacker. A gang of 5 mutants probably will attack you on your way back through the Shuttle Bays (purple) to the Tram. Just revenge for whacking the shuttles, I guess.

Take the Tram to the Umbilical (yellow). There you find Kornenchkin has blocked access to the grav lifts going up to Rickenbacker. He wants to meet you on the bridge and "talk over your future".

Meet Korenchkin on the Bridge or "Kick the ganstermakker's ass!"

This is real simple. When you enter the Bridge (beige) area, a Floater controlled by Korenchkin will attack you. Just run past it and go to the north side of the bridge, up the grav lift to the Bridge Conference Area (cyan) and blast Korenchkin at location 8 (that felt soooo good). This is right in front of the glass-enclosed niche wherein you found the Ops Override card.

The Floater downstairs should still be alive even though its handler is dead. Just kill it. Without Mr. K, it won’t regenerate.

At last you can take the Tram to the Umbilical (yellow) and grav lift up to the Rickenbacker. Say goodbye to maps and replicators. In the grav lift room there’s a surgical table that operates without a key you can use to heal yourself. There’s a reason you get this freebie just before you transfer to the "Rick".

 Next level - Rickenbacker Deck A.