"So far as I know, there's nothing in the way of a compass that works down here." Although there could be, if Stacy didn't jam them. Maybe install a grid of transmitters on the ceiling/sky, and have the omnicomms use them as positional guides? "I usually use the Juraian Royal Palace as a guide - that's the giant tree over that way - because it's the largest landmark that's near the transport tubes."

"My pleasure." She took out her omnicomm and transmitted the map to him; the omnicomm should be able to superimpose them for maximum reference use.

"Alex might come back, and I would dearly like to see him again. But he was very young, and not much inclined to fighting. Some of his friends were repodded before he was ... I think he might be lonely again, if he came back. The pods are safer than the ship ... most of the time." She winced and thought of SHODAN.