Michael Shanks credited as playing...
Adam Wade
- Adam Wade: Your planet is not in the best of shape. The core is unstable.
- Sumuru: The quakes?
- Adam Wade: Yeah, they're caused by that snake monster you've got in the pit.
- Sumuru: Is that so? We mine oil & gas deep in the rock, and every time the world shakes, my engineers measure every movement.
- Adam Wade: But the... ah... sacrificial ceremony to the serpent goddess?
- Sumuru: Taxan? At one point our people got so scared of the quakes, that they turned to religion for an answer. Taxan has been feeding on that ever since
- Adam Wade: Taxan is...?
- Sumuru: A living serpent goddess. It was her warriors who shot you.
- Jake Carpenter: Oh, and Adam...
- Adam Wade: Yeah?
- Jake Carpenter: Tell the Queen friend of yours that I checked the base logs up until the accident. The quantum reactor blew because of a structural weakness with the inner tubing. Probably a freak reaction of the plans, weren't off beat radiation. But no judgment, no light of death and sure as hell no fault of the engineers, male or female.
- Adam Wade: Yeah, thanks for the info Bud.
- Sumuru: So we were wrong all along? But...
- Adam Wade: Oh, it's natural. I think after a disaster everyone looks for someone to blame. I guess it helps to channel pain into anger. That's human.
- Sumuru: But our society, our beliefs - It's all based on a mistake?
- Adam Wade: Yeah, I think most of Earth's cultures were based on a mistake, some form or other. It's making the best of it that counts. Maybe now you can do that.