Happiness is a Warm Spaceship is a side quest.
Synopsis[]
Help Junlei Tennyson fix the radiator arrays in the maintenance shaft.
Walkthrough[]
Speaking to Junlei Tennyson about why the ship seems extraordinarily warm will reveal that Groundbreaker's radiators need replacement parts to prevent them from continuing to dump super-heated air onto the ship. Junlei has been unable to get new parts as the Board is refusing to part with any for a fair price. Offering to assist with the situation will start the quest.
Junlei will tell the Stranger that spare radiator parts can likely be found in the ship's Back Bays - an abandoned area on a lower deck which is now inhabited by crazed outlaws. She asks the Stranger to retrieve the parts by whatever means is necessary, but preferably without violence. If asked, she will also explain that she previously sent an engineer with a small security detail to retrieve the parts but they did not return.
Travel to the Back Bays using the elevator directly opposite Engineering. Upon entering the Back Bays, the Stranger will be confronted by Captain MacRedd, a crazed outlaw leader and self-proclaimed "king". There are some options available, each of which will allow the Stranger to pass through the Back Bays and retrieve the parts:
- Attack and kill MacRedd and his outlaws.
- With Persuade 40 or Intimidate 40, MacRedd will ask for tribute in exchange for the parts. Lie 40 can be used to lie about the parts leaking deadly toxins, or he can be bribed with 630 bits.
- With Felix in your party MacRedd will only need to be bribed.
The spare parts are located on the upper level of the Back Bays.
Return to Junlei to move on to the next step of repairing the radiators. Junlei asks the Stranger to take the elevator at the back of Engineering down to the machinery shaft and activate the terminal they find there. She warns them of a mantipillar infestation and advises that they go armed.
Travel to the machinery shaft. It is populated with mantipillars and hostile automechanicals which must either be defeated or sneaked around to reach the required terminal. Activate the Fluid Circulation Pump Terminal and cycle the droplet pumps to fix the radiators and return the temperature on Groundbreaker to a more comfortable level.
Return and speak to Junlei to complete the quest.
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Bugs[]
- If you peacefully completed the bounty hunting quest "Who Goes There" before starting this quest, you will not, in some circumstances, get a dialog option with MacRedd to negotiate for the parts, and will be forced to fight.