It doesn't seem like brute force is going to solve this, which 76 had already guessed would be the case. While he'd never actually tried before, that had partly been because he knew the Natha wouldn't make it that easy to break people out of their pods. Someone would have succeeded at it by now, after all this time.

"You could try asking around," he says as he backs away, not giving the woman sleeping inside another glance. "But my guess is that they're impenetrable. If someone had managed to get one of these things open, we would have heard about it by now." Worth a try, though, just so that they could see for themselves.

76 shrugs, the closest he'll get to an apology for not being of more help. "This is how it is with the Natha. If they don't want us to access something, or if they don't want to answer our questions, they just ignore us." It's extremely frustrating.