HEPHAESTUS | Sci-Fi Short Film

Indexed: 2026-05-21

[00:00:09]What?

[00:00:27]>> [music] [music] >> Command, this is minor 204721.

[00:01:22]I need to report an anomaly in sector 11.

[00:01:25]204721, this is command. Acknowledged.

[00:01:27]State the sensitivity level of your report. Level three minimum, possibly higher.

[00:01:32]This channel is open. Do not transmit details by voice or data link. You are required to report in person per STSC protocol. Proceed to HQ immediately.

[00:01:40]Understood.

[00:01:46]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [sighs] >> Hey.

[00:03:58]>> Sir, minor 204721 is requesting access for the debriefing.

[00:04:03]Let him pass. Clearance room.

[00:04:28]What did you see?

[00:04:31]I'm getting a sensor update. Signal must have been buried under the last cut.

[00:04:36]What's it saying?

[00:04:38]Pressure's been above critical since 600.

[00:04:42]The other miners on that shift, did any of them pull the same reading?

[00:04:46]None that I know of.

[00:04:52]Hey.

[00:04:53]Move.

[00:04:56]So, you were on your way down, and your tablet synced mid-descent. I was running my pre-shift check, opened the pressure readings, numbers were still updating.

[00:05:07]That's when I saw it.

[00:05:10]How bad?

[00:05:11]Bad enough I stopped the lift and ran a sim.

[00:05:14]We've got hours, maybe less.

[00:05:21]You did right coming straight here.

[00:05:23]Stay put.

[00:05:24]I need to reach the director. She might want you on comms when I patch through.

[00:05:34]There are 42 people down there.

[00:05:50]>> [sighs] >> Six months they delayed those sensors to keep us drilling.

[00:05:59]We should have walked out.

[00:06:49]THERE ARE PEOPLE DOWN THERE. THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL DOWN THERE.

[00:06:58]>> [panting] [sighs] [sighs] >> ELEVATOR'S WE'RE AGAIN.

[00:07:41]Always is.

[00:08:16]Well, [ __ ] me.

[00:08:41]We lost the extraction team in sector 11.

[00:08:45]43 personnel.

[00:08:47]Pressure cascade in the deep cut.

[00:08:51]Director.

[00:08:54]Was the seam compromised?

[00:08:57]No, Director.

[00:08:59]The vector's gone, but we can still cut from the eastern flank.

[00:09:05]Then cut.