Posted April 30, 2021, 8:11 p.m. by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) (Lindsay B)
Posted by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) in Jefferies Tubes- Conspirators Unite!
Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Jefferies Tubes- Conspirators Unite!
Posted by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) in Jefferies Tubes- Conspirators Unite!
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“What is it they say? Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth,” Walker said as he pulled a PADD out of his kit. “Last I had checked there hadn’t been, but these engineers have never been known to do things the correct way…
“Now when did you say these issues started to come up?”
WO Darach - COO
“Three days ago, according to my program logs. But the glitch is throwing up unusual errors which means it could have happened even a day or two before and taken that long to do something in the system.”
She sighed. “We can repair the matrix. I’d rather not have to, but I do want a working system that isn’t going to draw too much attention from those that shouldn’t be messing with it.”
~Faye Calloway
“Oh I don’t think that it’s attracted any attention,” Walker said with a chuckle. “And I think that is the problem.”
Scrolling down the entire list of maintenance logs, he started looking 3 days prior. After a couple of minutes he stopped. “Well I’ll be, there was a regular maintenance activity logged to the power junction the next section over. Looks like the system had flagged fluctuations to a secondary coupler, and a repair team came out and replaced it. It was all routine, and nothing out of the ordinary, not to mention should not have resulted in this kind of result. But…” he ended with a shrug.
“Well,” he said tucking the PADD back in his kit, “beyond needing to review proper logging protocol with the engineering teams. I can get the ship side systems fixed pretty quickly. But how do we harden your tech so this won’t happen again?”
WO Darach - COO
Pulling one knee up. Faye braced her arm on her knee as she pondered his very good question. She really did love a good troubleshooting situation but she would rather prefer it not be with her very delicate and necessary work. However, this was precisely why they had sent someone like her to design and implement the system. There was no one size fits all option her and everything had to function fluidly with the rest of the ship’s systems. “I like redundancies in these sorts of systems and there is a fair number of them, but the issue is that the more places we add extra pieces to the flow of information, the more places we have to guard against incursion.”
Studying Darach for a moment Faye nodded to herself. “Tell you what. Let’s lock down this area with a bypass and head down to my lab. Maybe seeing my actual program will help us find a tidy solution.”
~Faye Calloway
Walker gave Faye a shocked look. “Now don’t you tease an old man here Lieutenant. Actually getting a chance to see your program?”
WO Darach - COO
She let out a carefree laugh, seemingly at ease for once. “Come on, Chief, let’s go make your day.”
After locking down the area so it wouldn’t affect the rest of the systems and also not get accidentally tampered with, Faye led Darach down to CS Lab 2.
The lab was a rather tidy place these days as Faye didn’t need most of the spare parts on a regular basis. There were still several crates tucked neatly along the back wall, but the central work table remained clear and for the most part Faye only needed the three large displays she had set up to work together along the bank of consoles that formed the workstations. There were some task chairs at the monitors.
Faye unlocked the lab and showed him in knowing the lab itself was nothing special. It was the work that went on inside that was why they were here. “Pull up a chair,” she said as she took up one herself, situating herself in between Monitor Two and Three, so he could sit between One and Two and see what she was doing.
She unlocked the system with a highly encrypted procedure and set about pulling up the root files. Then with graceful tap of her fingers, she let the code slowly scroll so he could parse it. Her code was very much like she was and yet somehow more elegant than she ever would perceive herself to be. It was clean and to the point, but where the parts had to merge with the rest of the Manhattan’s systems, it seemingly got messy. However, if you looked closer, a skilled programmer could see the logic behind the forcefulness of the program. It didn’t play by the standard rules and even broke them at times but it did so with exceptional delicacy.
“So, I know the issue isn’t the programming, but perhaps we can devise a solution with it,” Faye commented.
~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist
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