This might actually work.
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The Site
Back before the wars, UNSO would have made us sign NDAs before we could learn sensitive information. Now they’ll just send us to the colony worlds if we talk out of turn, and never mind what Salmaria Corp thinks about that. Or anything else, honestly.
Still… maybe this site is a secret worth keeping.
“We found it during the planetary scan,” UNSO Field Inspector Baskhi Chumley told the three of us. It was me, my crew chiefs Budi and Ilga, and her: I don’t know why the rest of the crew wasn’t in on this. Some nogo bullcrap, probably. “The site is on the moon’s equator, seven hundred and forty-three” — her pale, pinched face flickered for a moment — “miles southeast of her. Thankfully, it is embedded only twenty feet below the seabed surface, which is itself quite shallow in that area. We have already dug a sloping shaft that gives us access to the facility.”
Budi flicked a finger. “How flooded is it, ma’am?”
Chumley raised an eyebrow, then caught herself. “Yes, that is a natural assumption to make,” she murmured, probably to herself. “You are all hydraulic technicians, after all. To answer your question: considerably. We don’t know if there was a breach, or someone simply left the lifesystem open, but the entire facility is filled with Europan slushwater, mixed with seafloor debris. We will need to pump out the site and find any leaks before we can hope to reestablish life support there.”