Nakera was chanting now, speaking in strange tongues known only to the Machine Cult.  Her fingers were striking runes across the various effigies and control surfaces, communicating as best as she could to the colony's main systems without angering the Spirits within.  She gave up the manual entry and found the data port.  Pulling the line from her skull, she interfaced with the Machine Spirit directly.  Her reward for not using the proper rites to do so was a sharp, blinding pain as the Spirit lashed at her directly.  She whimpered in the control room, a few sparks popping from the side of her cybernetic skull.  Inside the Machine Spirit's realm, she focused on appeasing it.

The station was overloading with power.  Lights were growing brighter, various Spirits throughout the system were being overcome by the buzz of the Plasma Reactor's output.  She fought the pain burning in her head and went to calm the Reactor's raging spirit.  Every attempt she made to connect to it, however, was blocked.  Something had separated the reactor from these consoles.  She tried hard to find another route, but the buzzing pain in her skull was getting worse and worse.  She realized it was going to be impossible to fix the reactor from here.

Unplugging, she turned and looked at Phant and Kaicero with wide, scared eyes.  "I...I can't stop it.  The Spirit is too agitated.  Th...this place is gonna be free floating vapor here in a few minutes.  We need to go now!!"

She looked panicked, terrified even.  Her skull was still smoking a bit, a few redundant circuits tripped to prevent the power from loading directly into her head.  Her hand was trembling with, a mix of adrenaline and pain from the computer.  While looking at them, she saw a blip on the Void Echo.  Running over to that console, she plugged in to check the Machine Spirit's plea.  While normally, she wouldn't understand the Void Echo Screen being plugged into it directly fed the information into her Cybernetics.

"Uuuh...in other news, there's a number of ships coming from the edge of the system.  W...were you expecting compan---AAAAAAAAAAGH!!"

The console she was connected to burst into arching sparks.  The screen blew out and gave Nakera a good dose of broken glass and sparks.  Her shaking hand only BARELY managed to unplug her dataport before falling to the ground in pain.  She felt blood running over her face, chest, and arms.  Glass had blown through her rough fabric, and etched a few gouges into her face.  Luckily, her eyes were spared.

"....Aaah...we gotta go NOW!" she yelled, through her fingers as she cradled her face.