There were three days of waiting time between the actual plan and the knowledge of what it entitled. The tension between Mark and Alan had not lessened at all. It had shown up in the way they interacted only.
For someone who had not known them for long, most of Luna's team and the base team also did not notice at all. But Jean and Luna did pick up.
As did Rika who had been shut down in her lab all this while. She had taken the samples she had collected as well as the ones Mark gave her and gotten to work at once. Mark had even decided to give Liam the location of material needed for future research.
The other had been spectacle but he had taken to discover those lands as well for the material. Especially since those data locations could not be determined from the new game code. It would take long but they would come to light sooner or later.