Artemis

Jazz spends the next day getting ready for her sabotage mission. She revels in the privacy and luxury of the hotel room she has booked for the night. Jazz begins her day with a shower and then gets to work on the details of her plan. She realizes that she needs a HIB, or hull-inspection bot, that can climb Artemis’s bubbles, and asks one of her father’s colleagues if she can borrow their HIB for 1,000 slugs. The woman, Zsoka, insults Jazz, saying, “You are unmarried and have sex with many men” (71), but she takes the deal anyway. Jazz takes the HIB and goes to get a new Gizmo.

Jazz procures the Gizmo from a hotel; she uses this, a long dress, a hijab, and a niqab to hide her identity. Using this disguise, she takes the train to the Apollo 11 landing site, which is separate from Artemis itself. She speaks Arabic and reads Saudi gossip pages as part of her cover. Once at the visitor center, she pays to go on the moonwalk. Bob Lewis leads her tourist group, but she goes undetected. The HIB is operated by remote control, like an RC car. It also has an AI assist to help navigate.