The kids all took off for another day on the beach along with the Innu, who were excused from duties today by Nico. They would find out tomorrow that they would be working from Absolution until Max and Nico returned from their mission, as it was too dangerous to take a bunch of postgraduate students into an extreme combat zone under any circumstances.
There was no way to protect them, and they were already well on their way to making a number of their Thesis a reality. To lose them to something stupid now would be a loss to the entire Alliance, as well as the humans, who would love to get their hands on anything new that the Innu made.