Over the months since our first venture using drones, the Gamers had continued to analyze the circuitry that controlled the rail system. Things that could be bypassed had been identified, things that could be replaced with our components had been reverse-engineered. Unfortunately, at the end of the exercise, we couldn’t be confident that activating the elevator wouldn’t set off alarms somewhere. So we were still going to have to ride to the inner shell, one at a time, in a small mining drone.