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How can I get to where I can realign the data nodes?
1 of 16: Proceed along the pathway and help "Sledge" make sludge out of the Strogg who attack you.
2 of 16: Battle along until you reach a callable lift that's guarded by an iron maiden.
3 of 16: TIP: Don't miss the DMG energy cores that are hiding in a room a short ways before you get to the lift.
4 of 16: In the room at the bottom of the lift, prepare for a lengthy combat with a bunch of Strogg marines and gunners.
5 of 16: After that, "Sledge" runs up to a locked door and complains about it not being open, and Strauss says that you have to do something about it.
6 of 16: Go through the newly unlocked door and on to a large energy column view, where you and "Sledge" will have to shoot down a couple of those horrid old sentry creatures.
7 of 16: Then go around a flaming floor section and on until you come to a large room where "Sledge" runs up to a particular computer console.
8 of 16: Check it out to find that you can click on "open seal" to open up the center part of the room, revealing a bunch more data nodes (and an iron maiden).
9 of 16: After the maiden's down, use a little lift off in one corner of the room to go up a floor.
10 of 16: At the end of the walkway that the lift takes you to is an interactive console with eight clickable buttons with little "L" shapes on them.
11 of 16: After the nodes are aligned to unlock the door across the room, go back down the lift and then accompany "Sledge" through that door.
12 of 16: You'll have to fight more sentries and Strogg marines on the walkway near the huge central shaft with a big machine in it.
13 of 16: After you kill off everything else, approach the other end of that walkway to get a tank guy to come down on a lift. Quickly retreat and fire at him, letting "Sledge" help out with his hyperblaster.
14 of 16: After the tank is dead, use his lift to get up to where you can fight a gladiator, then look around for a door you can go through.
15 of 16: Past one is a room with two iron maidens in it. Note that you can retreat back through the door you came in.
16 of 16: After you kill them off, you can finally finish realigning the data nodes by using the large lift in the center of the room.
