The remaining group of survivors retreated to Lab Two, where Sgt.Brodski was healed and strengthened.A piece ofGrendel'shull flew off the ship into deep space.The patrol shuttleTiamatsent a reply to theGrendel'sdistress signal, notifying them hat they could arrive for assistance in 45 minutes, but a core implosion was expected in less than 30 minutes.On the far side of the room, the walking corpse of Imhotep growled at them - now regenerated with skin over his skeletal musculature.To cover his tracks, Gabriel ordered the killing of his own computer hackers in the mobile tractor-trailer rig.She declines, because she is "meeting somebody...like a man" for a drink - she describes how their relationship "used to be serious - at leastIwas, but he wasn't," but it is now "more or less kaput.He was beaten unconscious and dragged off.His punishment was to be staked to a large rock and left to die in the hot sun by starvation, to set an example.