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From: Gianna Hilton D043
To: John Schaeffer C067
Date: March 20th 2051
Subject: New equipment needed

Hey John,

Work has slowed to a crawl. We hit the slab the geos told us about and
nothing is getting through it. I'm not getting any help from the Nyxos people
as they're insisting that they will only talk directly to Gabris, who will
only speak directly to you.

The tooth sets we're using just aren't strong enough. We break at least 3 of
them a day. They take 2 hours to replace with our depleted workforce, plus we
have to back off the mole and go through the start up/shut down procedures
every time. If we don't start using better gear there's no way we're going to
be at target depth in 3 months. We're currently drilling less than a meter a
day.

I really don't want to come to you with this stuff but I know you're going to
see the numbers on the last week and wonder what the hell's going on. Can you
speak to Nyxos? See if they have any tooth sets using stronger material?

Gianna