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Why doesn't the tram come when I call it?
1 of 16: The tram behind the door with the red rod appears to be broken.
2 of 16: You'll need to get the tram working again before the call button will work.
3 of 16: There's a control room inside the Nexus -- go down the dark tunnel and through the airlock to find it.
4 of 16: You can only have one door at a time in the airlock open, of course. Use the two buttons, one inside the airlock and one outside it, to open and close the doors.
5 of 16: If you look at the controls in the center of the room, you'll notice that one of the crystals is dead. This is the crystal that controls the dead tram.
6 of 16: Before you can fix the crystal, you'll need to find something to put in those holes next to the five crystals.
7 of 16: You'll find a blue rod in the orange spire. Look in the location with the crevice for it.
8 of 16: Now put the blue rod in one of the holes and two more rods should appear.
9 of 16: Click on the dead crystal and see if you can notice a difference.
10 of 16: It turns slightly lighter when you touch it. Maybe that's significant.
11 of 16: Now try sliding the three blue rods. (You'll need to click on them and then drag up or down to move the rod.)
12 of 16: The brightness of the crystal will change slightly as you do this.
13 of 16: You're trying to light this crystal, remember.
14 of 16: So position each of the rods so the crystal is the brighest.
15 of 16: Once you align all three rods this way, the crystal should turn blue, and you should restore power to the tram.
16 of 16: If, by accident, you kill power to any of the other crystals, you can repeat this procedure on one of them to restore the corresponding tram.
