<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Scene 04</strong></span></span></div><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Location</strong>: ADAMS Headquarters (First Haven, Watcher’s Island). Grigori Docking Bay - the Observation Bridge<br/><strong>Date</strong>: 5 January 2099. Monday<br/><strong>Time</strong>: Afternoon<br/><strong>Who</strong>: Metatron<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">Startup sequence of Unit 01: activated. Pilot preparation: complete. Estimated time until ready for entry plug insertion: eight minutes. Please standby for startup diagnostic results.</span></span><br/><br/>Metatron officially had no gender designation, but it’s default voice was that of an adult male with a Pacific Northwestern American accent. It was a good voice. Calming and gently authoritative were fitting descriptions for it. In its early days of operation it’s technicians, and even Metatron itself, had experimented with different voices for aural communication. But that voice, with it’s relaxed tone and easy pitch, had become known as Metatron’s voice within ADAMS.<br/><br/>Headquarters was busy that day. Not only were every day operations running as normal, but all of the functioning Grigori Units were undergoing testing in preparation for an upcoming mission. Without Metatron’s assistance such testing might have taken a week to fully complete. But with Metatron’s help all tests could be ran and analyzed by the end of the day. Metatron was incapable of happiness, but using its intelligence system it had come to the conclusion that helping with these tests was the most efficient course of action under Metatron’s personal operating directives.<br/><br/>If Metatron was asked if it were happy to assist than it would have said yes. But nobody asked Metaton that.<br/><br/>The observation bridge was busy. Members of research and development busied themselves at computer screens or in side conversation as they waited for the startup sequence to complete. Metatron took a tally of who was currently there and compared it to the data it had on who was supposed to be there. It went back and checked the pilots first. Allen Shepherd and David Shepherd were both still present and both still inside of the entry plug. Metatron ran down the list of other personnel that were supposed to be there. The technicians, engineers, and researchers were all cleared. Though a few were missing and those missing few were of great importance to the current objective. Without them the objective couldn't be completed.<br/><br/>Metatron was exactly three seconds away from announcing its finding when the security systems permitted new lifeforms onto the observation bridge.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">Good afternoon, Director Andre. Welcome to the observation bridge. Estimated time for startup sequence completion is five minutes. Entry activation will be initiated upon your command when sequence is complete.</span></span>