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How does the big parabolic dish area work?
1 of 18: There are five parabolic dishes in all, each of which is numbered and in its own room. The five dishes' rooms and their connecting corridors make up a pentagon-shaped region, like in the map on the last page of Graham's diary.
2 of 18: To help you understand the layout of the place, make a sketch in the shape of a simple pentagon where the five points will be parabolic dish rooms. (Trying to copy and complete the map in the journal isn't as simple as this way.)
3 of 18: Notice that station 3 is labeled on the diary map, but the others aren't. Go around seeing how stations are connected and get them labeled on your sketch.
4 of 18: You should end up with something like the graphic below.
5 of 18: While running around the long corridors connecting the dish rooms, did you notice something else important-looking?
6 of 18: How about those map displays that are halfway between dish rooms?
7 of 18: They probably have something to do with where the dishes are pointed, so note down on your sketch what continent is shown on each map. (Be sure to do this before changing any dish settings.)
8 of 18: Your sketch should end up looking like this.
9 of 18: Now why not find out which parabolic dish goes with which map?
10 of 18: To do that, pick a dish and use its switch panel to set it to either the lowest or the highest number that it'll take, then go around and see which map has changed.
11 of 18: You'll soon find that each dish points at the map that's directly across from it on your pentagon sketch.
12 of 18: For instance, dish 1 points at the map that starts out with South America highlighted, dish 2 points to the North America map, etc.
13 of 18: Also of note is how the map displays change when you rotate the dishes to their far left or right extremes.
14 of 18: They still show the same continent as when the dishes are centered, but they also show another continent.
15 of 18: That other continent will be the one that's on the map display that's just to the left or right of the dish that's being rotated.
16 of 18: Using your sketch to help out, you'll see that rotating dish 1 to its far left setting would change its map from just South America to South America and North America. Rotating it to the far right setting would change its map to South America and Australia.
17 of 18: It works similarly with the other dishes. Dish 2 can be set to North America and Africa or North America and South America, dish 3 can be set to Africa and North America or Africa and Europe/Asia, etc.
18 of 18: A final thing to note is that the reason the dish rotations are restricted instead of ranging freely from 0 to 359 is that every one of the five continents (North America, South America, Africa, Europe/Asia, and Australia) has to be covered by at least one dish at all times. No rotation that would violate that condition will ever be allowed.
