Talk:Hacking/@comment-99.141.58.22-20130223060516/@comment-99.141.58.22-20130223092931

Okay, here we go. You have to get the top 6 (the part you manipulate with the arrows) to match the bottom 6. The top half is a 3x2 grid, and can be thought of as two 2x2 sets that share 2 squares; sort of like a Venn Diagram. Pressing a button will cause one 2x2 set or the other to rotate, shifting the position of the four code blocks on that side clockwise or counterclockwise. In doing so, each time you hit the button you take one square out of the center and move one square into the center. In this way, you can shift the code blocks around, taking one that was on one side and moving it to the other via the shared middle.

Definitely tricky, since the answer isn't obvious, and you've got enemy ships firing at you while you're sitting there diddling with this puzzle.

My suggestion: Bring sentry guns, fight the pirates and try to kill them all far away from the ship you're docking with (it will appear as a dot on the radar) with your sentry guns up and the pirates dead, get over to the wreck as quickly as possible using your cloak and boost. Hopefully your sentries will draw the respawning pirates away from you, and then they'll stay away from you due to being too far away to aggro.