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  • You should know that you begin right near Point C if you are coming from Level 2.  Point A is the freight elevator that will lead you to Levels 4 and 5.  The elevator at Point H can only be accessed once the laser is blown up.

    You don't need to worry about most of the things on this level yet.  In fact, there are many doors that will not open (the once that say "No maintenance required") until you try to jettison Beta Grove.  And you can't get all of the cameras until all of the doors open, so you can't open the closet containing the Enviro-Suit v2 until then.  Also, right before you enter the closet, there's a retinal scanner that opens the door.  Get Abe Ghiran's head (point E) and use that -- you can examine heads in your inventory.

    When the relay burns out when you try to jettison Beta Grove on level 6, head down here, get the Interface Demodulator, and use that on relay 428 (point F).  Then, goto the Relay Analyzer (point G) and type in 428.  That's it!