We can't reach the hand yet - but this newly-explorable room may prove useful.
For our current task, relevant discoveries include a useful code and access to another room.
Well, there's no door, but that's never stopped us before.
The air duct! It may seem secure, but the other ones did too.
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Use your wrench to loosen the bolts.
A chef robot! Nice! Unfortunately, he won't help us unless we have an authorization code.
The code we saw on the geology lab's whiteboard isn't useable here, but can be used to contact 'headquarters'.
It's a long shot, but headquarters may give us the authorization code.
You'll need to find a place to contact them, however. ?
Somewhere rather officious and formal.
Input code '424' on the intercom in the conference room, and try to squeeze information out of the admiral.
The Admiral's main goal is, apparently, to make us surrender. That should be your main bargaining tool.
Offer to surrender in exchange for food; you'll get the ? (SpatulaA)
chef authorization code!