Awesome / Hole Diggers

• The group finds out that the portal to the deep dark requires four unstable ingots to make. An ingot will explode ten seconds after being crafted, and, worse, there is no way to automate this process. On Simon's first attempt to craft it he blows up almost immediately due to closing his crafting window. Him and Duncan both fail repeatedly, and then Lewis blows himself up as well, prompting them to rethink their strategy. While the others are trying to come up with a loophole, Lewis psyches up and succeeds on his second attempt, crafting the portal with just over a second to spare.
• Episode 48 has two awesome moments:
  • One is Simon, of all people, building a fully functional and extremely powerful yellorium-powered nuclear reactor for the space station, and getting everything right on his first attempt.
  • The second is the ME wireless system Lewis builds for the computer, with access terminals for the entire group and access points both on Earth and on the space station. It seems kinda nifty at a glance, before you remember that the computer system is ridiculously powerful, intelligent, and crammed to the brim with almost everything they have mined and hoarded over the course of the series. And then Duncan hammers it home:
  Duncan: Our inventories are now the entire contents of the computer.
• By the end of Episode 49, the Dwarf Star is a fully armed and operational mining station, beaming a constant stream of materials from the planet below with its mining laser. The crew is getting minerals they'd never seen before. The crew is getting minerals from other dimensions. Combined with the above, Simon, Lewis and Duncan have the resources of an entire world at their fingertips. The only questions are what they're going to do with all of it... and where exactly on the planet their laser is drilling.
  • Later they find out that the mining laser actually destroyed Duncan's Golf Course and Hotel, even destroying Bedrock and exposing the void. Doubles at both a CMOA and Nightmare Fuel since the laser is moving toward their base slowly and the fact they made a laser so powerful it could destroy bedrock.

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