Now, I believe, would be an excellent time for information.
Wouldn't I love some.
Here's what we've got.
When the Eudora does a space jump, it goes into lockdown to scan for any anomalies in the system and to ensure that passengers are safe, which is common procedure. We didn't have one scheduled because the distance between us and the next planet is negligible for a ship this size. Lockdowns are used for longer jumps, for moving to different galaxies, not shorter trips where we were moving within the galaxy. Like this one.
Short jumps, if they happen, are usually just non-essential functions going into low power, not the entire damned ship locking all of us in place and locking us out of the system. Even the security monitoring was deactivated, which meant we - specifically, I couldn't see what was going on in any area of the ship. The other officers were also locked in place, and communications were completely disabled.
We tried to override the lockdown, which should have worked because all 8 of us attempted it. That's a failsafe built in place. But we were denied by the system itself. It means there's a deeper problem, or an abnormality was in fact found by the ship. For our supposed safety, everyone was incapacitated. Senior crew is sedated later and awakens earlier than junior crew in an attempt to assess, contain, or apprehend the problem.
Except the only thing we could do first was make sure everyone in an area that needed locked down could be removed, and close them off with cryofreeze to ensure that nothing was tampered with as we try to figure out what in the hell is going on.
[ actually deeply appreciative of this, thank you, even if this icon doesn't look like it and he doesn't say thank you. if the IRIS does a "typing..." notif, there's one here. ]
We saw your attempted override.
Firstly, if no one has informed you, Luke passed away last night. Mere seconds before we were forcibly knocked unconscious - choking and coughing as if he were ill. We could all feel the signs of it.
What do you mean by 'area that needed locked down'? Are these crime scenes? Was Dahut awake, when the rest of us were not - and for that matter, and I suppose a better question. Was someone else?
We know, unfortunately. In his circumstance, we don't know what happened - Io is going to do an examination and go over everything that they can to try and figure it out. This is why we needed those godsdamned medical records.
[ oops, deathflagged you with that one. ]
They're being considered crime scenes, considering Dahut didn't die through natural causes like sickness. We just don't know who or what did it, yet, because he shouldn't have been able to move around. No one should have, once we were unconscious. Not unless their credentials were excluded from the two crew groups.
[ yeah. makes sense. goddamn get your shit together nuts and bolts don't let people die of terminal illness
anyway unfortunately, temenos is better at solving murders than he is dealing with space tuberculosis so he's setting luke aside now. im sorry my fellow detective ]
Why would their credentials be excluded? What status would be granted to them to allow them to move about from place to place? And for that matter, by whom?
[ which is why they bring up the medical records again.
there's not another answer for a little while, but they do come back before the silence drags on for too long. ]
And that becomes the next greatest question, doesn't it. There shouldn't be another set of security credentials - just those two. Nothing is visible in the system. Outside of the officers on board, there's no one else who should be able to do that.
Our superiors are so far away that it might take another week for us to even hear back from them. Unless they planted something in the system, they're unable to influence the ship like that. The ship itself... maybe if there was an actual anomaly in the system.
We're going to do our own investigations tonight, but depending on what we can - or can't - figure out, we might be doing a full investigation that we'll rope you all in on. If there's something dangerous, we've already lost two people. I'm not letting anything else happen to you all if I can help it.
I would like to be involved. Ideally, I'd rather see it tonight, but I have the sense perhaps breaking in is going to be impossible. I can take care of myself and hardly need babysitting. Though, admittedly, better so when my larger functions are not blocked off.
[ maybe he could have saved luke. maybe, for once, he could've stopped something from happening. ]
Can you give me an example of an anomaly in the system? Beyond this.
You're a grown man with an impressive skillset, with or without your abilities, but we still have a responsibility, and I'll be damned if I don't fulfill it for the living.
[ you're nerfed go sit down. ]
Breaking in isn't going to be possible, no. With the fireproof shields up we need to find a workaround to investigate with that active. But... Gravity disengaging. The spreading of contagions, which would trigger a full lockdown and disinfecting of the ship to ensure that it didn't hit the entire crew.
In theory we should, if it's done with all 8 of us. But apparently that theory is null currently. They would, regardless, all result in a similar message and situation as what we were in last night.
That would imply that the ship knew in advance that a potential murder was about to happen, considering the lockdown engaged before everyone was incapacitated.
You're the one who said Dahut didn't die from natural causes, Adrastea.
Does it not suit? Suddenly, someone has no credentials. Why would that happen if not enabled, somehow? Why would he move from place to place? A sickness is hardly reason, unless there was a way for him to escape it by walking away from it. What other predatory forces could there have been? Unless you'll tell me there's a felvarg that's leapt through a window and attacked him, which seems highly unlikely. The only predators on this ship are us.
[ there's a read receipt, but then silence for a while again. ]
The predictive power of the nanites is typically only applied to the simulation room for extensive immersion. Even then, it's not perfect. For it to extend out to the rest of the ship, it shouldn't be a possibility, and yet here we are, in a situation full of the impossible. If it were a sickness, all of you in the observation area would have succumbed to it if it were as simple as walking away from it.
But if the ship were to put herself on lockdown to prevent a threat from traveling freely, why allow a victim like Dahut and his possible pursuer to freely come and go when the rest of us were incapacitated. Why not isolate the threat.
[ they're probably thinking aloud and letting speech to text pick it up so that they can soundboard each other honestly. ]
But, we don't have the 'rest of the ship'. Only this small area, no? If it was contained, would it still be impossible?
Now you're thinking. [ he's also talking into his watch like a weirdo so don't worry ] Yes, I concur. We all felt this pain last night in our chests - just before Luke fell, similar to how we have shared sensations of hurt, thoughts, and feelings throughout the week. There's no reason why a sickness, were it contagious, wouldn't have spread to us, unless it was something that Luke previously contracted, and in the same regard, Dahut wouldn't have caught it.
As for your final inquiry. I believe the answer lies in the words you may have just given. It must not have recognized a threat.
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Wouldn't I love some.
Here's what we've got.
When the Eudora does a space jump, it goes into lockdown to scan for any anomalies in the system and to ensure that passengers are safe, which is common procedure. We didn't have one scheduled because the distance between us and the next planet is negligible for a ship this size. Lockdowns are used for longer jumps, for moving to different galaxies, not shorter trips where we were moving within the galaxy. Like this one.
Short jumps, if they happen, are usually just non-essential functions going into low power, not the entire damned ship locking all of us in place and locking us out of the system. Even the security monitoring was deactivated, which meant we - specifically, I couldn't see what was going on in any area of the ship. The other officers were also locked in place, and communications were completely disabled.
We tried to override the lockdown, which should have worked because all 8 of us attempted it. That's a failsafe built in place. But we were denied by the system itself. It means there's a deeper problem, or an abnormality was in fact found by the ship. For our supposed safety, everyone was incapacitated. Senior crew is sedated later and awakens earlier than junior crew in an attempt to assess, contain, or apprehend the problem.
Except the only thing we could do first was make sure everyone in an area that needed locked down could be removed, and close them off with cryofreeze to ensure that nothing was tampered with as we try to figure out what in the hell is going on.
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We saw your attempted override.
Firstly, if no one has informed you, Luke passed away last night. Mere seconds before we were forcibly knocked unconscious - choking and coughing as if he were ill. We could all feel the signs of it.
What do you mean by 'area that needed locked down'? Are these crime scenes?
Was Dahut awake, when the rest of us were not - and for that matter, and I suppose a better question. Was someone else?
no subject
[ oops, deathflagged you with that one. ]
They're being considered crime scenes, considering Dahut didn't die through natural causes like sickness. We just don't know who or what did it, yet, because he shouldn't have been able to move around.
No one should have, once we were unconscious. Not unless their credentials were excluded from the two crew groups.
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[ yeah. makes sense. goddamn get your shit together nuts and bolts don't let people die of terminal illness
anyway unfortunately, temenos is better at solving murders than he is dealing with space tuberculosis so he's setting luke aside now. im sorry my fellow detective ]
Why would their credentials be excluded? What status would be granted to them to allow them to move about from place to place? And for that matter, by whom?
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[ which is why they bring up the medical records again.
there's not another answer for a little while, but they do come back before the silence drags on for too long. ]
And that becomes the next greatest question, doesn't it. There shouldn't be another set of security credentials - just those two. Nothing is visible in the system. Outside of the officers on board, there's no one else who should be able to do that.
no subject
And yet.
The ship itself? Your superiors? Who accessed the ship to bring us here in the first place?
I would like to see the crime scene, Adrastea.
no subject
We're going to do our own investigations tonight, but depending on what we can - or can't - figure out, we might be doing a full investigation that we'll rope you all in on. If there's something dangerous, we've already lost two people. I'm not letting anything else happen to you all if I can help it.
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I would like to be involved. Ideally, I'd rather see it tonight, but I have the sense perhaps breaking in is going to be impossible.
I can take care of myself and hardly need babysitting.
Though, admittedly, better so when my larger functions are not blocked off.
[ maybe he could have saved luke. maybe, for once, he could've stopped something from happening. ]
Can you give me an example of an anomaly in the system? Beyond this.
no subject
[ you're nerfed go sit down. ]
Breaking in isn't going to be possible, no. With the fireproof shields up we need to find a workaround to investigate with that active.
But...
Gravity disengaging. The spreading of contagions, which would trigger a full lockdown and disinfecting of the ship to ensure that it didn't hit the entire crew.
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... A contagion. Interesting.
And you wouldn't be able to override those, either?
I suppose a potential murder is something of an anomaly.
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In theory we should, if it's done with all 8 of us.
But apparently that theory is null currently. They would, regardless, all result in a similar message and situation as what we were in last night.
That would imply that the ship knew in advance that a potential murder was about to happen, considering the lockdown engaged before everyone was incapacitated.
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Does it not suit?
Suddenly, someone has no credentials. Why would that happen if not enabled, somehow?
Why would he move from place to place?
A sickness is hardly reason, unless there was a way for him to escape it by walking away from it.
What other predatory forces could there have been? Unless you'll tell me there's a felvarg that's leapt through a window and attacked him, which seems highly unlikely.
The only predators on this ship are us.
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The predictive power of the nanites is typically only applied to the simulation room for extensive immersion. Even then, it's not perfect.
For it to extend out to the rest of the ship, it shouldn't be a possibility, and yet here we are, in a situation full of the impossible.
If it were a sickness, all of you in the observation area would have succumbed to it if it were as simple as walking away from it.
But if the ship were to put herself on lockdown to prevent a threat from traveling freely, why allow a victim like Dahut and his possible pursuer to freely come and go when the rest of us were incapacitated. Why not isolate the threat.
[ they're probably thinking aloud and letting speech to text pick it up so that they can soundboard each other honestly. ]
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If it was contained, would it still be impossible?
Now you're thinking. [ he's also talking into his watch like a weirdo so don't worry ]
Yes, I concur. We all felt this pain last night in our chests - just before Luke fell, similar to how we have shared sensations of hurt, thoughts, and feelings throughout the week. There's no reason why a sickness, were it contagious, wouldn't have spread to us, unless it was something that Luke previously contracted, and in the same regard, Dahut wouldn't have caught it.
As for your final inquiry.
I believe the answer lies in the words you may have just given.
It must not have recognized a threat.