The Last Caretaker - Close Enough For Government Work

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:00]Howdy folks. Hope you're all having a good one and welcome back to The Last Caretaker. Uh we're still at the Exodus station. I've just cleared out and powered up mission control. I'm heading back to the launch platform.

[00:00:14]I think I've more or less totally cleaned out any traces of infestation.

[00:00:22]There might be a few pockets still lying around that I've missed, but not a lot.

[00:00:28]Um, what I mean by that is there may be some nasty surprises waiting for me if I open up any of these cargo containers, but other than that, I'm pretty sure I've got the uh the infestation under control. And what I need to do now is start working on the infrastructure in order to get that rocket into orbit. And I'm going to have to start, as usual, with power. Now, there are some power generation facilities already here, but well, as you can see, they're all busted. So, I'm going to need iron, titanium, carbon fiber, I've got this stuff. It's all back on the boat. It's not doing me any good on the boat, though.

[00:01:04]Now, good news. There is an absolute metric ass ton of stuff lying around on this launch platform just waiting to be scrapped that is going to yield all of the materials that I need.

[00:01:20]Sort of. The thing is, if I go around, for example, scrapping some dead caretakers or angels or stuff, I will get high-tech scraps, and I will be able to get things like carbon fiber and titanium from high-tech scraps. But they require processing first through a recycler. And there's no recycler up here.

[00:01:39]So, I'm going to have to build a recycler. But guess what the recycler needs? It needs power. So, I'm going to have to get these uh power sources up and running so I can build a recycler so I can scrap everything that isn't nailed down so I can build more stuff and start getting the infrastructure ready that I'm going to need to get this rocket into orbit for now because I do actually have a lot of materials on me and I don't want to still be carrying stuff that I could be using to get the basic stuff fabricated here. Um, I don't want all that weighing me down when I go back to the boat and come back with, you know, more exotic stuff.

[00:02:19]So, I don't like that that is just sitting there because there were another two murder balls down the access ramp to the helipad where all the water pumps were and they were nice and quiet until they weren't and started trying to kill me.

[00:02:37]They're not fooling anybody, you know.

[00:02:40]I'm quite surprised at the fabrication process. Uh, no power again. It's that bug again.

[00:02:48]It's fine. I suppose this is why uh there's a catwalk. This is actually faster than taking the travelator. Um, but as I discovered in the last episode, there is a bug here on the Exodus station where even though you are supplying power, in fact, you have an excess of power. Sometimes the elevators leading to um launch reception over here, they just stop working. And the only way to fix it is to save the game.

[00:03:17]Of course, to do that, you need to be at a save terminal, but there's one on my boat. Um, and then relaunch the game from the menu. And then miraculously, power returns to the to the elevator systems over on this side of the station. The first time I ran into this bug, I was pulling my hair out in frustration. I was thinking, "What's wrong? What have I done?" It must be me.

[00:03:38]I was running around following cable runs, making sure everything was plugged in, checking battery connections, making sure none of the generators needed repairs, everything over and over. And no, no, it was I was doing everything right. It's It's just It's a known bug.

[00:03:53]So, if this happens to you, find the nearest save station, back yourself up, quit to the main menu. There's no need to exit the game entirely. Just quit to the main menu, and then reload your last save. And everything will be working as it should. And so, I did exactly that right after recycling all the junk I was carrying. And oh, wow. Would you believe it? Look at that. The elevator works.

[00:04:16]Didn't touch anything. Just reloaded the save game. And suddenly, yeah, fixed.

[00:04:21]So, as you can see by the task list up there in the top left corner of the screen, all of the bits for the Lumax and the medium battery that I'm building are in green. So, I've got all of the required materials. Uh, and I should also have enough required materials to repair all of the stuff that's already there but broken.

[00:04:42]You know, I'm not even going to bother waiting for the travelator. I'm just going to run cuz it's faster. So, I'm close enough now for the fabrication process to complete with the assembled materials I'm carrying around on the medium battery and the solar panel. And while that's completing, let's get the existing facilities repaired. I've got all the plastic and iron and carbon fiber that I need. That's almost done.

[00:05:07]There's the one that I've just built. I bollocks.

[00:05:12]You know what?

[00:05:16]Not ideal.

[00:05:19]It appears that I may have made a slight miscalculation in the amount of materials I was going to require. Let's at least try to get some power in the battery and then connect the battery up to the utilities.

[00:05:34]Enough to at least keep the lights on.

[00:05:36]I'm not going to make it, am I? The sun's already setting.

[00:05:40]If I just had one wind generator shit, it there's no way it's going to be enough.

[00:05:53]Oh well. Well, there's nothing I can do about it. Well, I mean, there's lots I can do about it. There's just nothing I can do about it right now. Tell you what, I'll I'll at least get the connections made and then I'm going to have to do another resource run back to the boat. this time come back with what I actually need in order to get some sustainable power generation up and running. So, sun's up. As you can see, I spent the whole night doing a whole bunch of salvaging and a whole bunch of recycling. How we doing for power?

[00:06:23]Well, I mean, the sun's only just come up, so it's not really surprising that the uh the battery doesn't have much of a charge on it. I'm going to need some power cable extensions here cuz I'm currently using all three of the power sockets on the battery. Uh two from the solar panels that I have up and running and then one from the battery to the utilities on the platform. Um and if I'm going to repair and connect these other solar panels and wind generators, I'm going to need some extra cable runs and extension leads. So, let's get this fixed.

[00:06:59]Oh, you've got to be.

[00:07:02]Please tell me I can fix this one. Yep.

[00:07:06]Nobody saw that, right? I can at least get this one connected.

[00:07:13]We'll at least be able to get the lights on. Um, just going to have to sort out the cables. Unfortunately, in shitty weather like this, the two solar panels aren't really generating an awful lot of power. the wind turbine is, but I've only got one of them up and running, but it it's enough.

[00:07:30]So, let's get this all plugged in. It's not the prettiest cable run I've ever seen, but it it will do. There's barely any power trickling in from the solar panels in this weather, but power is power, and all I'm doing is turning the lights on and keeping the doors open, so it doesn't require a lot.

[00:07:51]Oh, yeah. The computer's up and running.

[00:07:52]Are there any access codes I need from this? No. Okay. Oh, hang on. Space. What do you mean space? What was that?

[00:08:01]Nothing. That's odd.

[00:08:03]An entry on a computer that doesn't Well, it doesn't have anything on it yet. Maybe it'll be important later. But anyway, the lights are on, the doors are open. Obviously, I'm going to need to make more power generation facilities.

[00:08:17]And if I don't want to spend the rest of the game miscalculating the amount of resources I need and constantly running backwards and forwards to and from the boat with the wrong amount of resources, I'm going to need a recycler.

[00:08:31]Because with a recycler, I don't need to be constantly doing shuttle runs to and from the Exodus platform to the boat, loading up on resources, and then coming back because all the resources I need are here on the Exodus platform. I just need to scrap them first and then process them into the raw materials. And for that I need a recycler.

[00:08:51]And the recycler needs power more power than Oh, it needs to be connected either to the battery or to a working power source. Uh not the broken solar panel. There we go.

[00:09:09]Right. So now I can dump all of the I mean I don't have an awful lot of scrap on me right now cuz I used everything to build the recycler. But now I can start scrapping. And this is going to take some time because there is literally on this platform more stuff to scrap than I have the carrying capacity to take to and from the recycler 10 times in a row.

[00:09:32]And since you gain experience from dismantling and scrapping stuff, I'm probably going to gain a couple of levels in the process, which is nice.

[00:09:43]I have to confess, I didn't actually spend the rest of the day running around scrapping everything and dumping it in the recycler because that's boring as shit. I just did enough. And I still don't trust that murder ball. I did enough to get a fully functioning power farm up and running with all of the generators working.

[00:10:02]more dead robots to scrap. You know what? I'll be it while it's here.

[00:10:04]High-tech scraps and tech scraps are always going to be good, right? So, my Lazarus pod. Um, I think it's been sitting on this elevator just waiting patiently for me to actually stick it in the rocket the last 3 or 4 days. Uh, fortunately, it is still viable, but rather than just leaving it there at the mercy of the elements, let's actually, you know, load it into the rocket. Just keep it safe.

[00:10:27]I don't think I've ever actually been up here before. It's kind of sad really.

[00:10:32]I've been on this rocket platform for 3 days and I've never actually gone to the top to take a look at the rocket.

[00:10:39]Okay. Uh aha. Okay, that extends the gantry.

[00:10:44]What's going on here?

[00:10:46]The launch startup sequence. Uh oh, okay. Oh, no power. Can't open the door without power.

[00:10:56]Well, I know somebody who's just spent the best part of two days organizing power, but I don't see a power cable run. Wait, are you kidding me?

[00:11:06]Surely not.

[00:11:08]How am I getting power into the rocket?

[00:11:11]Well, there's a battery over there, but it's probably going to need Well, I mean, the battery might do just to get the door open, but that can't be it. Oh, hello. Ultra Tech scrap. having that can't be the battery. It's there. There is there is no way an orbital and return rocket is being powered by a small battery. Um, so how am I getting power to the rocket? Cuz the door ain't opening without it.

[00:11:43]I've I've obviously missed something.

[00:11:47]Let's have a look. Let's check it out.

[00:11:51]cuz surprisingly for all the time that I've actually spent here on this platform, I haven't actually taken much of a look at the rocket.

[00:11:58]So, let's see what we can see. Looks like something down here. Actually, there's another one of these uh startup sequence. Check this terminals.

[00:12:07]Okay, I don't actually know what it is. I'm looking for blue cables. Yeah, power cables. I'm not seeing any blue cables, which is mildly worrying.

[00:12:21]There's nothing back here.

[00:12:23]You know what? While I'm puzzling that one out, I've made an executive decision. I am not going to sit around waiting for that murder ball to just decide it wants to kill me at the worst possible moment, like when my hands are full with a crafting tool or something.

[00:12:38]So, I'm just going to take it out. Yeah, it is active.

[00:12:42]I mean, I knew it wasn't dead cuz I wasn't able to scrap it, but um yeah, I don't like waiting, but it's inevitable at some point it was going to wake up and try and kill me.

[00:12:54]The two murder balls down below on the heavy gas is good.

[00:12:59]Oh, I need to be real careful here. Oh, where the hell did they come from?

[00:13:04]Oh, level n. Okay, that's nice. Not top priority at the moment. Where where did they come from, though?

[00:13:12]I need to be real careful these ricochets don't hit the angels cuz I don't fighting them and the laser ball.

[00:13:18]That would be bad.

[00:13:22]There's more. Are they Wait, is there an infestation underneath the rocket in the venting chambers?

[00:13:35]You know what? I'm going to punch this thing off and I will.

[00:13:39]Oh shit, that hurts.

[00:13:42]Yeah, these things are way way worse on their machine.

[00:13:47]But you know, they die too.

[00:13:50]And I didn't aggro the angels.

[00:13:54]No, I'm good.

[00:13:57]Still no idea where these motherfuckers are coming from.

[00:14:02]There are I don't even know what you call them, like exhaust vent tunnels underneath the rocket that vent out um rocket exhaust. And I haven't actually been down into those tunnels and they might be infested. The only thing I can think of for where those little buggers came from because there were no nests.

[00:14:23]And I mean, it's not the first time I've fought a laser murder ball. Where are they coming from? And I know they don't dispense them. They don't come from the laser ball because I've fought those things before and that didn't happen.

[00:14:36]So, that's a mystery to go with the other mystery of how the hell I'm getting power to the rocket, but I'm sure I'll figure that out soon. On the bright side, I do have power. There is no emergency lightning. The main flood lights are on, so I know that I now have sustainable power. So, anyway, next morning, just um charging myself up. I figured out how to supply power to the rocket, at least in theory. It's it's insultingly simple.

[00:15:06]Don't worry, I'll show you. Uh, and you can all have a good laugh at my expense.

[00:15:11]So, I have spent the night scrapping more resources. Um, as you can see, there's a lot of good stuff there. A lot of high-tech stuff as well. And now I am going to make a power run from the energy farm here up to the rocket. So, I'm going to have to lay a couple of extensions. And I'm going to need a lot more cables. I'm busy making a bunch of cables, but I can't actually do that while I have my hands full because reasons. It's just one of the rules.

[00:15:36]Anyway, let's get the cable extension uh halfway point, I should imagine.

[00:15:44]Maybe on the wall so I can loop it over.

[00:15:48]That will do.

[00:15:52]And we will need another one cuz there's no way I'm getting a cable run going that far. I think 60 m, something like that is as far as you can go before you need another connection.

[00:16:02]So, right, let's start stringing the cables.

[00:16:09]I did leave a spare connection, didn't I? Yes. Okay, there we go.

[00:16:16]All right.

[00:16:18]Rather than putting another connection down, I'll just string a cable and then when I stop cuz I can't go any further with the existing cable. I'll put another connection down there.

[00:16:29]I hope I have enough cables. And that's as far as this one is going to go. Okay, so we need another connection.

[00:16:38]That should do.

[00:16:41]And we connect that. And then we'll do another run. Um, so I'm going to need to get up to that sort of maintenance ring around the bottom of the booster up there.

[00:16:53]I'm probably going to need another Yeah, about here is good. Actually, I'll pop another one down here.

[00:17:01]Um, and then I'll plug this in. And then I'll pop up.

[00:17:07]I think I should I think the best way to do this is take the elevator up to the maintenance ring, connect it to the rocket, and then jump off down to the connector.

[00:17:20]You see these hatches? That's where I plug in the methane.

[00:17:24]Yeah.

[00:17:27]So, that's what I need methane for.

[00:17:30]That's where I plug in the power.

[00:17:33]So, the connector should be Yep. Right down there, and I should just be able to drop it off, plug it in, and now I have power to the rocket.

[00:17:48]There's an oxygen connection port up there as well. So, that's what you need um for the rocket fuel, which, you know, makes sense. You need a fuel and an oxidizer. So, you know, oxygen, methane's the fuel, and then you just need power. And that's it. Those are the three things, which explains what these oxygen containers are doing here, and why there is a massive oxygen tank and a massive methane tank down on the other side of the platform. That's where I'm going to be fueling the rocket up from.

[00:18:16]I just need to figure out how to generate methane and oxygen. I suspect water and the Sabatier reactor are going to have something to do with it. But anyway, first things first.

[00:18:27]I can finally hopefully open the hatch.

[00:18:32]Yay.

[00:18:34]And oh, this can take three Lazarus pods.

[00:18:43]Well, I've got one.

[00:18:45]One will have to do. I'm not going back to the Lazarus complex and making another two humans. There we go. Place the human within the rocket. Step one of four complete.

[00:19:00]Now to check exactly what it is that I need. I mean, I know it's going to be fuel. Um, I have power, but exactly how much of each I'm going to need in order to get this thing off the ground. Here it is. Moses rocket system. Let's uh hit the startup button.

[00:19:21]And oh, actually, startup complete.

[00:19:23]Ground complete. Payload complete.

[00:19:25]Weather complete. Just propellant and power was at 11%. Although I don't know how much it Well, no, it started at zero because I couldn't open the pod door because there was no power. So, that's pretty good. Um, propellant obviously not.

[00:19:39]Can't do a system check until all of the other points on the checklist have been completed. Okay, so we're supplying power. Um, it's not just a question of plugging it in. Obviously, the rocket has its own capacitor that I need to fully charge up.

[00:19:55]So, that's at least happening.

[00:20:00]Now, I need to sort out fuel, oxygen, and methane. There were oxygen and methane tanks and like some other stuff around the launch platform. I just can't Oh, here we go.

[00:20:12]These were are these oil oil tanks?

[00:20:19]Why do I need oil tanks? Oh, great. I'm out of plastic again. All right, so I'm not repairing anything just yet, but let's Ah, there you go. So, that's the oxygen tank, and I can't repair that yet either, but it's fine. I've got a recycler if I'm running a Sabatier reactor and the methane tank.

[00:20:39]So, there's, like I said, a whole bunch of stuff to scrap around here, which I'm obviously going to have to do in order to get the repairs underway over here.

[00:20:47]Um, plastic in particular has been a real pain in the ass. But stuff like these plastic pallets, they generate a ton of plastic as do these uh, what do you even call those things? Like traffic cars, whatever. So, I'm going to do a round of scrapping and recycling. And then we'll come back and assess the situation.

[00:21:08]Hopefully, I've got enough plastic this time because I can barely move. I'm weighed down with resources. But, we're going to get them used. Here we go.

[00:21:17]So, this is the methane tank. Doesn't take long to fix. This is the sebatia.

[00:21:23]Oh, piss off game. Now it's iron and plastic.

[00:21:27]And I can barely move cuz I'm carrying so much. But I don't actually, you know what?

[00:21:32]I'm going to build some storage here.

[00:21:34]Uh, dump everything that I'm carrying into the storage. And so probably not a bad idea actually because I suspect I'm going to be doing a lot of construction around here uh to get this methane and oxygen generation up and running. So I should probably start working on facilities over here. And we're going to start with some storage.

[00:21:53]As you can see by the pile of stuff on the floor, I was carrying a lot of stuff. And there's some exotic stuff over there as well. There's neutroneum, there's silicon gel, there's carbon fiber.

[00:22:06]too much of that and not enough of the basics. Plastic, iron. I am definitely either going to need another recycler over here and probably a fabricator as well or just scrap and salvage the recycle that I've built over on the power generation platform uh and relocate it over here. So, sometime later, um I've fixed everything over here that needs fixing, including the Sabbatier reactor. I have built a fabricator and scrapped and reassembled the recycler over here. And I have some power generation facilities going on here as well as well as battery backup. So as you can see I have been a little bit busy. So Sabatier reactor it is connected to a power supply but nothing's happening because I also need to provide it with fresh water and I also need to provide it with carbon dioxide.

[00:23:01]Now, the fresh water ain't going to be a problem. Oh, and there are the outputs.

[00:23:08]It outputs oxygen. Seems to output a lot more oxygen than it does methane cuz it's got four oxygen outputs and one methane output. But that's what these tanks are for. So, I'm going to feed the rocket from these tanks and top them up from the Sebatier reactor. But I need a freshwater input, which isn't going to be a problem. But I also need a CO2 input because that's what satier rafters are. Uh they produce methane and water by reacting hydrogen with carbon dioxide. Uh they do it over a a nickel catalyst apparently at a temperatures between 3 and 400° and under very high pressure. So the water's not a problem cuz I've got all these water pumps down here.

[00:23:51]What do I have that produces CO2 as a byproduct?

[00:23:58]I know the engines, the diesel engines on on my boat produce CO2 because there's actually a CO2 output port on the back of the boat.

[00:24:11]But that's no good. I can't Oh, hang on.

[00:24:15]What's this?

[00:24:18]You know what? I'm not investigating that yet. Um, I toyed with the idea of um building a CO2 tank on the boat, but then then I've got the I'm just transferring the problem from one place to another because having CO2 tanks on the boat isn't doing me any good. I need CO2 up here. So, what do I have or what can I build that's going to generate carbon dioxide?

[00:24:44]Is that what those two oil tanks are for? Cuz I still haven't figured out what I need oil for. But generally speaking, if you need CO2, I mean, it's a greenhouse gas, isn't it? If you need CO2, burn a fossil fuel. Is that what the oil tanks are for? But I don't think I have anything that burns oil.

[00:25:04]You know what? We're going to table this problem for now, and I'm going to get some water purifiers built and at least sort out the fresh water problem. But I don't like the fact that there are two 4,000 L oil tanks on this platform just at the other end of where I am now because they wouldn't put the oil tanks here unless unless they were needed for something. There's going to be something here that's going to require me to start burning oil. And that kind of worries me cuz it could put a stop to everything cuz at the moment I don't think I actually have any technologies uh that require oil.

[00:25:42]But I mean, you know, it makes sense. If you want CO2, you burn fossil fuels.

[00:25:48]So, what else would the oil tanks be?

[00:25:51]Also, it has not escaped my attention that there is, although I haven't been there yet, but I've seen it on the map, there is an oil rig.

[00:26:02]And you know, like I said, on this very platform, there are two hoofing dirty great big 4,000 L oil tanks, which suggests that I'm going to be needing large quantities of oil for something.

[00:26:17]I just don't know what. Anyway, one problem at a time. As you can see, I've got the water pumps repaired. I've got one um water purifier up and running, and everything has power, but nothing's pumping water. That's because I've got nowhere for the water to go um other than into the back of the Zatlia reactor. But without a methane input, uh which I'm still working on, that's not going to do anything. So, for the moment, I'm just going to build a water tank over here to get a buffer, like a supply of water ready. Not the Chief Bosen's mate. Sorry, Navy joke.

[00:26:54]The Chief Bosen's mate is known as the buffer in the ro. Yeah, I never said it was a good Navy joke. All right.

[00:27:00]But anyway, um, so I can have like a tank of water ready to go to supply the seabatier reactor when I figure out my methane problem.

[00:27:13]Oh, anyway, that's the fresh water problem taken care of. I'm not going to bother running all the pumps just yet.

[00:27:19]Unnecessary use of power. Uh, I just need I mean cuz I don't know how long it's going to take me to figure out how I'm getting carbon dioxide and therefore methane out the Sebatier reactor. So, I'm not in any great rush to be um generating fresh water. Um there's not even any point in me connecting the water tank up to this about reactor yet until I figure out how to get the carbon dioxide input. But I'll build a fresh tank. You know, there's no such thing as too much fresh water.

[00:27:45]I can actually get the oxygen tank full.

[00:27:48]I mean, that's actually easy cuz there is a device called an oxygen generator.

[00:27:53]It it literally you put electricity in one end and oxygen comes out the other.

[00:27:57]I have no idea how that works, but the oxygen generator and I'm I'm going to need a few gas cables. Uh, but I connect that up to to the oxygen tank.

[00:28:09]I hit the switch. Power goes in one end.

[00:28:14]It's not the most It's okay. The placement is a little awkward. And I was kind of hoping that maybe that was going to be CO2 coming out of the back cuz it's clearly burning something, but nope. It's just taking in power, 1 kilowatt hour, and it's pumping out oxygen. So, that's topping up the tank, and then I can just run a connection from the tank um straight up to the input port on the rocket. And that solves my oxygen problem. But you know what else would solve my oxygen problem? Getting the Sabatier generator up and running cuz it outputs four times as much oxygen as it does methane. So, the oxygen generator is only fixing half my problem. I'm still not fueling up the rocket because I've not got any methane, any actual rocket fuel. Got plenty of oxidizer, got plenty of power, got no methane. And I'm not going to get any methane until I figure out a source of CO2. And that was the problem with my thinking because I'm not looking for a source of CO2. I'm looking for something that generates CO2 as a byproduct. And I've I've had something like that for a very long time, but I never considered it because generating CO2 isn't what it's for. It's for making petroleum from biomatter. And I've got one running in the boat and had one for ages because it's making fuel for my flamethrower, which is my preferred weapon for dealing with snugglies.

[00:29:33]But I never stopped to consider the fact that as a byproduct, it generates carbon dioxide.

[00:29:39]The thing is, a tiny little petrol generator is never going to generate enough carbon dioxide. Well, not in an acceptable time frame, uh, to power a seatier reactor. But I do have another thing, same technology that also generates CO2 as a byproduct, but which I never considered. The small electric generator. You can build a large electric generator as well, but the small one should do. And the reason it never even occurred to me was because why would I want to build a thing to generate power that burns petrol? I need petrol for my flamethrower and solar panels and wind turbines exist. So, the idea of building a a petrol electricity generator never even occurred to me, but it is. Well, again, I'm I'm kind of shifting the logistics problem from one place to another, but making petrol is a solved problem. I know how to make petrol.

[00:30:40]There's the electricity input. There's the CO2 output. So I connect that to the SATA reactor and I'm making methane.

[00:30:50]That's the last input that I need. Now the problem is how do I get enough petrol up here in order to keep that thing running long enough to keep the Sabatier reactor running long enough to generate enough methane to fuel up the rocket.

[00:31:11]Shit.

[00:31:15]On the bright side, I will now be generating additional electricity cuz I have been running into electricity supply problems with all this machinery up and running. In particular, the Sebatier reactor is going to be drawing a lot of power. Um, but running this small electric generator, I mean, it outputs 10 kwatt hours. I think it's pretty good. I just need to give it a, you know, steady supply of petrol.

[00:31:41]That's my new problem.

[00:31:44]How am I going to provide a sustainable source of petrol? Because I can provide it with a source of petrol. It's just not going to be practically sustainable.

[00:31:52]And again, it doesn't need to be. I mean, it might end up needing to be, but right now, I just need to get one rocket launch. I just need to get this one human into space. So, while this is by no means an elegant or sustainable solution, it is a solution and it will do for me. That is the old small petrol generator that I've been running from the back of the boat since forever uh to produce petrol to fuel my flamethrower.

[00:32:20]Like I said though, it's not exactly sustainable because I'm I'm just moving the problem in the supply chain further down the line. Now the problem is sustaining a supply of biomatter. What happened? Why did that become unconnected?

[00:32:34]It's popped out of both ends, hasn't it?

[00:32:35]This just happens sometimes.

[00:32:38]Sometimes one of the angels does a low pass and it snags one of the cables.

[00:32:42]But like I was saying, I've just moved the problem elsewhere down the supply chain. Now my problem is I need a constant supply of biomatter to keep that petrol generator running and pushing out petrol in order to keep the small electric generator running and pushing out CO2 in order to keep the Sabbatier reactor running and pushing out methane. Why is it not pushing out?

[00:33:03]Oh, it's lost power.

[00:33:08]There we go. Right. Wait. No. Now, what's going on? Water's going in.

[00:33:13]Although, it stopped going in. Methane is not coming out. Why is methane not coming out?

[00:33:20]Oh, right. Wrong output. Okay. Now, why is methane not coming out?

[00:33:27]Oh, what's going on? Wait, why is that stopped? Why is everything stopped?

[00:33:33]Turn it off. Turn it on again. Nothing.

[00:33:36]Petrol generator stopped. It hasn't burned up all of its biomass.

[00:33:42]Power is going in. Nothing's coming out.

[00:33:44]The only reason that would happen is if there's a stop in the circuit somewhere.

[00:33:49]The what? The oxygen tanks. That's fine.

[00:33:52]Um, that's now just topping up the oxygen tank. The rocket itself has all the oxygen it needs. We're just short of methane now. Why is the Sebatier reactor not for God's sake? You got Yep.

[00:34:04]There it is.

[00:34:08]Oh, this is a nightmare. I can connect that up now, I suppose, and start actually filling up methane tanks on the rocket. But again, this is working. It is a solution. But all I'm doing is moving the problem further down the line. Now, my problem is keeping that small petrol generator topped up with biomatter. And that's a particular problem because biomatter is my chief source of diesel fuel for the boat. So, I need I mean this will do to get this one rocket into orbit, but it is not a long-term solution. I'm if I need to do further rocket launches, I am going to have to come up with a way of keeping that petrol electric generator going that doesn't involve fing bucket fulls of shit from the ocean bed up to the petrol generator. Uh because that is just not sustainable for now. However, this will do. All I need to do is fill the rocket up with methane. I no longer need the electric connection. I no longer need the oxygen connection. And in the next episode, one way or another, as soon as this janky as all hell process, this rat's nest of cables gets the job done and tops that rocket off with the methane that it needs. One way or another, we will be having a liftoff.

[00:35:29]For any further orbital missions, I am definitely going to have to come up with a much much better way of doing it than this. But for now, this is close enough for government work. Take care and I'll catch you next time.