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Trying to reach Deck 31

Posted Feb. 11, 2019, 4:10 a.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Pretha Oberon (Chief Security Officer) (Melissa Aragon)

Posted by Lieutenant Sural (Chief Engineer) in Trying to reach Deck 31

Posted by Commander D’Vash Odinson (First Officer) in Trying to reach Deck 31

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Pretha Oberon (Chief Security Officer) in Trying to reach Deck 31
Posted by… suppressed (1) by the Post Ghost! 👻

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=^= Sural to Bridge. The improvised bridge has been secured. =^= He repeated that message that was missed previously. And then added =^= =^= Our .. visitors .. who fled from their makeshift bridge here on this deck have dispersed throughout the ship. Most notable is at least one who is in the vicinity of Deck 3 armory. I am also sending you a maintenance report that would be of interest to you. =^= That maintenance report would show the ‘stages’ of occupation that was their ‘plan’.
-Sural, CE

=^=Acknowledged, Sural,=^=, came Odinson’s voice over the comm.

Galen relaxed at the report. As long as Pretha and the XO were secure, he was sure they could hold the bridge. “That’s good news. Ok… so need to find Harding, make sure he’s not compromised, then calibrate some tricorders to do the scanning.” He said it like listing cake baking ingredients. “Piece of cake!” The laugh that accompanied the words were pretty clear he was being facetious. “Well, Chief, you rank here… do I go find Harding or you need me someplace else?”

Sural glanced at the screen viewing the bridge. While he was considering scuttling this contrivance, it was proving to be useful. “I believe if we observe the bridge screen here we will see that Dr Harding is on the bridge already. I believe I had seen him there before their .. incident. We can confirm this when next we hear from the Commander.”

He knew better than to run off half cocked. He may be the security man in this room, but rank still ruled and till ‘who was who’ was figured out, he preferred more competent minds were making the decisions regarding the retaking of the ship.

NE Galen
Security

He considered their situation. There were three of them. Himself, Ensign Pierce and NE Galen. That was not an effective ‘force’ to lay siege to anything, though their initial objective was Deck 31. There was still something below. Were they to depart from here to descend via the shuttle bay beyond, they would have to abandon this place. That would necessitate at least a temporary deactivation of this place. Given that the vessel was under effective ‘siege’ that was prudent. “For the moment I need you here. We need to plan to continue our descent to Deck 31. Prior to this we will need to disable this construction lest it be reoccupied.”
- Sural

Galen nodded. “Ok… XO, Doc, and Security Chief. So that’s half… Who else is key to the ship that we need to secure?” His mind was going over ways to secure the place yet still allow them to abandon it to secure the ship. As he wandered around the mock bridge, he touched one console after another. Turning to Sural he frowned slightly. “Ok, so I am not a pro… the bridge isn’t what we need to preserve, it’s the information, right? If they are tapped into the systems, is there a way we can upload everything to the ‘real’ bridge where we know intergity still holds? Then we can shut down, destroy, virus..” he started throwing words out unsure if any of them would stick to the wall. “Or whatever… so they can’t just seal the door and start all over again.” He wasn’t exactly sure how it all worked, but they had to be able to do ‘something’ that didn’t require someone staying in here with a phaser on stun till it blew over.

NE Galen
Security

The PADD Sural used to send the “maintenance” report beeped with a reply missive. “We’ve got a situation here people. The computer is locked out with Code Black, so their Beta priority has already been activated. We need to regain control of this ship before they activate the self-destruct. We’ve also got the issue of Mirror ‘verse doubles running around. We need options and we need them fast people.”

Odinson (XO)

Were Sural human he would have been well in a position to sigh. He had tried it once; apart from an exhalation of air it did not particularly accomplish anything. Still, in similar situations he had observed there was a 78% chance that a human would, at this point, sigh. “Unfortunately, I too am not a ‘pro’ at this. Tactically we cannot allow assets to be left for the intruders. We are dealing with a computer, albeit a sophisticated one. Perhaps we can exploit that.”

“You are correct. The information is the value of this installation and it must be stored somewhere. He gazed about. Wireless data transfer was possible, however with the kinds of data that they were talking here it was implausible. Hence the network of neural and hard lines throughout a vessel. Ensign Pierce, logically feeds from these monitors and stations must lead somewhere. If Mr Galen is correct we may be able to place a redirect device onto their data storage and feed it to the bridge. Please attempt to locate that source.”

“Mr Galen, our travel will likely take us down further to deck 31. From this area the shuttle bays are beyond. Tactically what is the best way of getting there?”

Sural considered the next idea. It was germinating in his mind however it was not forming a plan. Computers were fallible in that they operated by their programming. Perhaps the duality of the duplicates might be utilized to confuse the computer. It had been done before on the basis of appealing to the AI, such as the fledgling M5 of many decades earlier. The computer currently had very limited parameters. Logically it was not a full program as so many of the inquiries were redirected to punishment. Still, how to take advantage of it or at least tie it up in some way.
- Sural, CE

Galen thought for a moment and then came to Sural’s side. “OK, so we are here… the shuttle bays are down one more deck on 30…” he was pointing to the location on the console before them as he tapped up the info. “You know…” he closed the console and put it back on the message Sural had received. “The upper secondary computer core is there. If we can managed to tap into the core from here, we can download the info then secure it from the rest of the ship. It would be … trapped… for lack of a better word. Right? Would that work?” He was no engineer but he knew the computer cores were able to be segregated from security trainings. They would be able to use the shuttle bays to move about as well. He just hoped that they could traverse that one deck difference with enough safety that they would all make it to 31 after that.

NE Galen
Security
((Going that we are in one of the bays on 29… and heading to the bays on 30 on our way to 31… if wrong, lemme know))


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