Taptaptaptap.

"Important enough to keep upgrading through the post-apocalyptic wasteland... Some of these algorithms are new to me."

" - Most people haven't had the time, resources, or cause to be doing stuff like that."

"People making synths would."

"Honestly that kind of advancement might be necessary for synths..."

"Yeah. My Jade's good, but..."

"I wouldn't mistake her for human. She's a person, but..." Awkward glance over at Jade. 

Light shrug. "I don't want to be human or to think like one, honestly. I like being - straightforward."

"That's because you're perfect just the way you are."

Preen!!! "Because you made me this way, Mistress."

"Yes, yes I did."

And back to hacking this terminal.

It turns out two hundred years of secret development are no match for her - she's able to get through. ...Eventually.

Hah! Take that.

Now, let's open this door up...

There's a suspiciously clean and undamaged hallway beyond, all white with bright lighting that flicks on automatically as she opens the door. 

"Who wants to go first?"

"I will."

"All right. Jade, watch our backs."

"Yes ma'am."

And into the hallway.

Which pretty quickly brings up a question of if they want to bother opening the closed side doors, to see what's beyond.

Ellie sorta wants to? Peek in, if nothing else.

- Most of them seem to be locked, though not as thoroughly as the door they entered through. 

Physical locks or more electronic ones?

Electronic. 

Ellie wants to take a crack at a couple, at least. Should go quicker now that she has some ideas of what logic their programmers were using.

The locks also seem less thoroughly secured, which helps - and she gets faster pretty quick, since they're all using roughly the same programming.