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The SMES cell will cut the power from the APC, which will slowly drain and eventually kill the AI when the equipment shuts off. It'll take a while, though, so don't count on it.

The wire from the satellite to the station only powers all the outer rooms. The chamber itself is separate from the grid and is powered solely by that SMES cell.

The Orwellian society they have is interesting. Pretty nice decorations all over their bases, too.

I kind of wonder how any of the civilizations are still alive. The largest establishments they have are a few dozen members at most, unless you're in the border sectors and the major cities are located elsewhere. Earth was apparently destroyed, too.

Yep. All the bandages. Take your axe to a bunch of those giant fiber trees and make tons and tons of bandages. They've taken me through the boss, reaching the bottom of a planet, and multiple times all the way around others. Red combat stims a few times, too.

Truly, the Apex citizens know the right questions to ask. With the approval of Big Ape, of course.

Also, fun fact: I killed the first town guard thinking he was an enemy. Whoops.

Not sure about NV, but Fallout 3 had companions that might've been Terminators. By that I mean they have an absolutely insane amount of health when you reach the higher levels, especially Dogmeat. Dogmeat could take on deathclaws by himself when I reached level twenty, and the only time I managed to kill him was by shooting him in the back of the head with a shotgun while he was in a fight. Definitely saps some of the difficulty when your companions can destroy entire settlements by themselves, possibly even in a more effective manner than the PC.

Luckily, doors are immune to thermite. The RCD can be used to take one apart for only ten units, though, so be wary. If you have a welder, energy sword, energy gun, or some other strong weapon/multiple people, you could also bash open the window in the escape airlock and then the shuttle, hopefully without dying to the void. Connecting oxygen first gives you a very good chance of making it in before going critical, but you'll probably be killed after you get on. Blowing up escape and the hallway leading to it after announcing your intentions could work. Make it unsafe for everyone without a suit to cross, kill everyone who dares. Not even the suicidally overconfident human wave of crewmen could beat the void. I think Bd managed to hijack the shuttle by blasting Metastation's escape off the map with a gargantuan uncapped bomb he built.

Also: Using a bomb to crack escape without a really, really good reason will most likely result in you being yelled at by the admins.

My original tactic for escaping alone was welding and emagging the escape doors, then using lasers to keep people off my back until the shuttle docks and I can escape. It worked exactly zero times, although I somehow managed to escape by claiming the shuttle and saying everyone who shows up will be shot. Been a while since I had to escape alone, though I like stealing all the energy guns and the ablative and scaring people, usually by tasing and cuffing, then dragging them around for a bit. Pisses people off most of the time, though, despite murder + space would be an equally valid option.