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Posted June 3, 2020, 8:50 p.m. by Commander Daniel "DaVinci" Colter (Chief Intelligence Officer/ 2nd Officer) (Terry Sullivan)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Teller Graham (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

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Sha turned around. “How about something in our Comm badges, or even a marker under our skin? At least for command crew with vital system access?” She wasn’t sure if it was too extreme on short notice, but never hurts to ask.

Sha
Security

“Would something like that be feasible?” Dante asked, his mind going to his wife and child, the sudden worry at the problems suggested bringing in a measure of doubt. “Of course, currently we are only getting a sporadic signal from the mirror universe from what we can tell, so we should be able to get a signal from ours as well, or get a signal out although that might be detected on the other side as well.”

Dante thought for a moment and then turned back to Graham. “Hang on, is that terran signal something we are getting as a transmission, or is it coming from our computer directly?”

Captain Knight, CO

The Terran signal in the LCARS display appeared to be mixed with their own systems, there was no sign of an incoming transmission or signal that would explain it.

“Subcutaneous transponders are fairly common and can be made only to activate under a specific scan… so as not to alert others. The other detector is an innovation. I would have to design and create it from scratch.” Graham stalled until the GM could tell him how long that would take.

It would take a few hours for a Scientist of Grahams ability to create a device from scratch, and there would be no guarantee it would be any better than existing tech that was tried and true.

Adam looked back at his display as he waited patiently for the results. He tried to remember what he could of the mirror universe.

-XO
CSO

“Wouldnt do us much good if some had already swapped places. We need to know if that’s happened. Maybe compare radiation signatures to last physical. Background radiation is unique to all dimensions.”

Sinclair, CoS (also a PhD)

Sha had an idea, “The transporter buffers. They should have the actual crew patterns and we can find a way to use ‘that’ information to look for ‘that’ particular signature on the ship. The duplicates would be slightly off so we could ask for close comparisons as well. Would that work?”

Sha
Security

“Buffers only carry the information of the last transport and then only as long as they are on. Its a huge amount of data.” Teller remembered the two Enterprise D missions that covered that topic and the one incident on Deep Space Nine.

Graham

At his console, DaVinci listened to the conversation as he watched the ship retrace her steps on his monitor. He called out distances as they got closer to the point they first felt the effects. “5000 kilometers (for lack of a more accurate number) and closing. . . .”

Colter (CIO)

Sha felt sheepish for not remembering that. Her mind was so jumbled with trying to help she wasn’t thinking straight. She took a deep breath and went back to her console, her monitor showing the ship in relationship to what they hoped would be the horizon to getting them out.

Sha
Security

“Let’s assume for the moment that the computer is all that is affected,” Dante stated as he began to pace back and forth. “If any crew have switched places, others should notice the change in behaviour but, so far we only have evidence of the computer. Lets trust our crew to be who they are until proven otherwise and solve the problem in front of us.”

Sha nodded. As she relaxed, just marginally, she reminded herself that as long as nothing went awry, they were fine.

The ship approached the mark the computer had set as their entry point, although in the ‘nothing’ around them that was maybe a best guess at most. There was simply no outside marker to measure distance, speed or anything else for that matter.

The Saracen passed the mark, and nothing happened. Dante sighed and turned to Colter, but as he was about to speak, all the consoles on the Bridge started flashing. The Terran symbol alternated with that of the Federation on every screen, rapidly changing back and forth and the lights on the Bridge dropped once again to emergency levels.

“Helm has locked out, we have no control of the ship!” The NE at the Helm station reported, his hands frantically moving over the surface and finding no response. All of the other stations would find that they were locked out of the computer one moment, had access the next and then lost access once again. The computer was struggling to respond to any input.

At the Tactical station, the Saracen suddenly began searching for targets for it’s weapons systems. The probes they had launched earlier appeared in the targeting systems.

A shower of sparks from the Engineering console alerted them to a sudden surge in power, as the ships computer switched rapidly between conflicting power overlays, some of which were never in the Saracen’s power scheme and seemed to come from, somewhere else.

Captain Knight, CO

As if in cue to her thoughts, the consoles went haywire. Her own gasp, followed by a growl made her head shake. “Nothing at Security, either, Captain. I can’t seem to keep it focused.” She was running her hands over her console and the one beside her to see if she could isolate the security system during the brief seconds she actually could see it. “AHhhhhhrrrr....” her deep rumbling growl a clear indicator to anyone who knew her that whoever did this was gonna pay dearly in the end.

Sha
Security

“I’ve have zero matter readings, zero power readings.” which was close to impossible.

Graham

Sinclair looked up and said “Captain. We should lock out the computer core. Until we figure out what in the Nine Hells is going on.”

Sinclair, CoS

As all hell broke loose, the Tactical console where DaVinci sat begin to take on a mind of it’s own. He waved the smoke away and felt the acrid smoke in his throat.

“Captain, targeting and weapons are active,” he coughed out. “Weapons are locked on the probes we sent out.”

His hands flew over the console trying regain control of the weapons system. His hands burned from the still sparking board. Pushing the pain away, he continued to try . . . .

Colter (CIO)

As she heard it, she tried to get a lock on the probes. If she could steer them clear of the firing solution....

Sha
Security

“The backup data core is isolated.” Graham checked just to be certain. “But the problem is, if this is a dimensional change - our computer is transitioning for one existence to another… Isolating it won’t help.”

Graham

Big hands grabbed Colter and he was lifted bodily over the chair and away from the console. “You’re no good to us electrocuted!” said the voice of the Security Chief a s he set the man on the deck. “Hands! Now!” and he broke open the med kit he had grabbed as he rushed to the man, and grabbed the burn gel and ripped the top off and began applying it.

Sinclair, CoS

Sha had an idea. Rather than getting ‘in’ to systems, she started trying to isolate them. Like a child’s game of “Catchit” she was drawing lines trying to separate needed and necessary functions from whatever was happening. She was talking to herself in low tones. “If I get engineering away first....” she tried to catch Engineering when it wasn’t flashing up on her screen as being accessed. If they could gain that footing… security was next.

Sha
Security

At first, as Colter felt someone pulling away from the console, he resisted. He needed to get control of the weapons. . . . Realizing it was Sinclair (one of the few people on the ship that could move him so easily), he stop struggling and let the COS apply the medication to his smoking fingertips. “Thanks,” was his simple reply.

Colter (CIO)


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