She’d come for one thing: the manual. Not a PDF. Not a schematic. The original binder-bound panel manual, rumored to contain the emergency override codes for the gravimetric centrifuge. If she could restart the G-Force, she could spin the heavy water out of the ice sheet and save the colony. If not, she’d join the frozen statues in the upper tunnels.

The amber screen turned green. A new line appeared, one she hadn’t read before because the next page was missing—torn out by some long-dead engineer.

She screamed into her helmet and threw her whole body into the motion. Her shoulders burned. The crank whined. The floor began to vibrate.

She looked at the manual, still open to the missing page. The handwritten note at the bottom wasn't an instruction.