Meanwhile, Walta is approaching another building.

The door is not marked with the one way symbol. It opens to reveal a hallway with shifting colors on the walls. 

...Well, it's not one way. She heads inside and drops a scrap of paper near the entrance.

The first door off the hallway will open up to reveal a rather immersive diagram of what seems to be plate tectonics. There are indicators for the currents in the mantle and and outer core. There are hot spots, seafloor rifts, and subduction zones marked, there's a slider control on a railing in the middle of the room. The continents depicted are obviously not those on Earth.

Wait a minute.

Is this supposed to be a science museum? She jogs to the next doorway.

The next door reveals a detailed diagram of the life cycle of coral and a map with what appear to be the locations of all the coral reefs on the planet. Little displays around the sides of the rooms provide detail on specific species of fish and other non-coral inhabitants.

It's totally a science museum! Sweet!

She goes back to the first room and sketches the continents (unsure what's land and sea) and moves that slider.

The slider appears to control apparent time. As the slider moves backwards towards the start the continents come together and drift apart again and again.

Cool. She plays with the slider for a bit before remembering the whole situation and sobering up a bit.

Still, she heads back towards the warehouse in good spirits.

Zahn and Nick are waiting outside with a small pile of stuff.

"That building is apparently a science museum. With some global maps. I didn't see all the rooms, just one about tectonics and one on coral reefs, didn't want to take too long."

"Neat. There's actually a fair bit of stuff out here. Too bad it feels dangerous to go exploring, eh? Global maps don't help if they don't show where we are, though."

"Depending on how high-resolution they are we might be able to pick out this place. It's a pretty large structure."

"If it's even marked. We can look more later. Think we can tell the home complex doors to open for more people?"

"I think Alice might be able to do something like that if she tries. My training is very specific in stating that I'm only allowed to open doors when I'm physically present."

"We can ask when we get back. You gonna build something with all this stuff, Nick?" He nods. She picks up a few items and they all head back.

Zahn helps lug everything into the workroom. Then he goes to find Alice. He finds her in the Dojo doing katas. "Hi Alice."

She doesn't respond until she finishes her current kata and then "Hi," her voice is trembling a little. "We're not going to be able to save them are we?"

Zahn shakes his head. It isn't clear which one of them moves first but they both end up hugging and crying on each other. After a minute, they link each letting the depth of their sorrow flow into the link and passing back and forth names and faces of the people they'll miss. Finally, the break the link. "Is there anything I can do?" Alice asks.

"We're not really well positioned. It doesn't look like we have any way to get back in touch with Earth. So, Nick and I have both switched our focus to making the best of things here. I'm trying to help him figure out a way to map the entire complex. I'm also working through the training in hopes of getting elevator privileges set up. Being able to visit the other home complexes quickly would be a huge advantage. Also, Walta was wondering if you can permanently unlock doors."

Alice nods, "Alright, I can try with the doors." They stand there for another couple minutes taking comfort in each other's arms then they part. Alice leaves to take a shower and Zahn walks back to the Workroom.

Nick is sitting at the workbench with bits and pieces strewn around. Hands trembling, staring at nothing.

He's suddenly fine, working with focused motions on some contraption of poles, as soon as he notices Zahn.

Zahn does not know how to respond to that. He doesn't say anything. "Is there anything you need before I go back to trying to get clearance to activate the teleporters?"

"Round up some idle hands, clear out the bathroom, privacy dividers: First try is about ready."

"Alright," Zahn goes off to the lounge to see if anyone's hanging out.

A few people, mostly pretty morose.

Walta is setting up a whiteboard labelled 'Raw Ingredient Requests: Tally mark by your favorites. Pick 5-10. Honor system. Sorry, no animals!'

"...Hey, Zahn."

"Hi, Nick asked me to find some people to help with this first attempt at privacy dividers for the bathroom."

"I can help with that, sure."

"Me too," someone else pipes up, "Thank god we can at least have a little fucking bathroom privacy during the end of the world." He has four volunteers soon enough.

Zahn leads them back down to the workroom.