Code

As hard as he tried, he simply could not find an answer this time. It had to be somwhere, hidden in the text, but this code was unlike anything he'd ever encountered before. There seemed to be no cipher whatsoever, no clue as to how he should interpret the apparently random sequences of letters and numbers.
     "Any of you fluent in Ugaric?" he asked.  "It was rhetorical," he muttered as one of the men started to answer.

Generator

     "If you don't get that generator back online, we won't survive the next few hours, let alone days."
     "I'm working on it, Jade! It'd help if you kept the forzali off my back."
     "What do you think I've been doing, you thankless grunt? Move it, or I'll kill you myself and use your oxygen."