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How do I open the red security doors?
1 of 9: First, I wanted to give you a warning about a bug that I found in my version of the game -- once you've managed to open these doors, do not leave the main part of the ship for the bay where you first landed. When I left this area and then returned, the game re-locked all of the red doors but wouldn't let me re-open them, claiming they were already unlocked. The only thing I could do to continue in the game was to load an earlier saved game and retrace my steps. (I didn't try the "noclip" cheat, since I didn't want to risk breaking something else later on.)
2 of 9: You won't be able to open the doors right away. Explore the ship until there's nowhere else that you can go without unlocking the red doors.
3 of 9: When you get to the 3M-a location, you'll see a console on the wall to the right of the security door there.
4 of 9: Click on the console, and then click on the button just to the right of the camera icon. You'll now be given an option to match up each of the 5 creature types with a specific sort of symbol.
5 of 9: You may have seen these symbols elsewhere.
6 of 9: They were floating above the consoles in other rooms.
7 of 9: Specifically, you should have found 5 usable consoles that identified the room you were in as some kind of "lair" -- you had to fight a few of a single type of enemy in each of these lairs.
8 of 9: All you need to do is select the symbol that was shown in the corresponding lair for each of the 5 creatures. As soon as you have chosen all 5 creature/symbol pairs correctly, the door will open. Read ahead if you want to know the proper symbols.
9 of 9: I'll refer to the symbols by number, starting with 1 for the symbol that appears by default when you first view the console -- the one with two slightly angled panels on one side. 2 is the symbol you get when you press the right arrow, etc.
