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If you are stuck where I think you are, then you need to turn on the air conditioning to give yourself enough time to reach your parent-bot's ship. To be able to turn on the air-conditioning, you need to have control over the environmental systems of the ship. Hope that gives you a clue.

How do you get environmental control of the ship?

In your final battle against King Darm, you can use various means to defeat him. The Big White Elephant represents the 'second best' ending in terms of finding a solution that doesn't involve just killing him. That said,it is probably the hardest ending to reach. The greatest flaw with The Diamond Key is that there are many non-essential sections that most people will never see because they are so hard to get into, yet they comprise many paragraphs. Were I to redesign it now (and if I wanted to make it really hard) I would put some essential element to victory in each of the hard-to-get-to areas. To find the Big White Elephant also involves a bit of luck, which I have considered asking Andy to change. Currently, in the palace when you search the throne room, 3 things can happen, or there is a 3 out of 6 chance of finding nothing. It would be better if one of these three things always happened. But as it is, you only have a 1 in 6 chance of finding the item you need to eventually meet the Big White Elephant. Finding the ending with the BWE isn't neccesarily more exciting than any other ending, so don't be too curious about it. To get there, I will tell you how to get over the biggest obstacle: When you leave Darken Wood, you must have gotten back your lockpicks (which of course you must have purchased previously in order to lose them). Once you have these, they will give you access to a hard-to-get-to area, where you can find a certain item. This item, when used with something you can find in the throneroom, will lead to a few endings involving the Big White Elephant.

To be able to control the environment within the ship, you need to have command status. To get command status, you must go to the Bridge and register yourself.

The ship you are trying to start belongs to your parent-bot, so it knows how to start it.

if you have a blaster to shoot it with in the first place, you've made a wrong turn earlier.

environmental controls in WWGB?

the point where you finish your encounter with your parent-bot, and are running along a corridor that is rapidly getting hot. The next passage then describes you being burnt to death.