Session Start: Tue Jun 09 23:48:07 1998 Junky, do you think you'll be able to get any info from that burned out terminal? * Restore enters medbay with recoil carrying Wait behind her, Artifice also enters Set him down over there * Recoil sets the fallen leader down on a medical bed Artifice, activate a med drone to assist your wounds will do * Restore opens Wait's chest plate and gets to work trying to fix the damaged components hm uhh... 's he gonna be alright? * Restore pulls out some shrapnel "good thing this didn't go any further than it did, would have fried some major parts otherwise" Can't say at present Recoil Any luck Junky? * Junky_LaFord gives Lilwall the chip containing all the recoveralble info. Satisfaction guaranteed... except where prohibited by law. * Admiral-Lilwall takes it "You and Overwrite take this scrap pile back to your lab and find out who or what it was uh huh * Admiral-Lilwall to Bridge Bridge, Stardrive here. * Junky_LaFord goes about his work. What's our ETA to the trade point? Ah... about two hours. Maintain course, I'm heading back Uh, I meant 2 days, read the wrong gauge. * Admiral-Lilwall heads back to the bridge * Restore removes some machinery from Wait and replaces it with a new one "That should do it for now." * Waitstate stirs a bit, somewhat more functional, but still quite unconscious *turns to Artifice* Pieces of shrapnel that pierced Waitstate's armor, *watches the stir* hit some pretty important stuff, gave him a massive power surge to his brain circuits he could be out for hours or days, can't tell at this point Hmm Who's second in command? Admiral right? Correct * Admiral-Lilwall enters the bridge Welcome Admiral Stardrive, take a look over this *reveals chip* * Stardrive takes chip and plugs it into the comm board. Junky pulled this from the terminal our elusive 'friend' was using Another decepticon chip... I'd have him look it over but I've got him concentrating on the wreckage of Mr Boom * Bit arrives at the bridge Bit! just who I wanted to see, come over here if you please I understand you have a damaged chip of some sort? * Stardrive rips the chip out of the reader, accidently sending flying across the room. * Stardrive types madly at his console. * Lightning picks the chip up and hands it to Bit Thank you One thing that survived was a re-write virus. * Restore over looks the med drone's work on Artifice * Stardrive continues typing. A virus? please elaborate Hm, not bad for a automated piece of scrap, you can go Artifice Hehe, I hope you weren't talking about me :) Thanks Restore I got it blocked from going any futher... * Artifice heads to the bridge you'll never know :) But it's rewriting the scanning systems... again. perhaps a restore from the protected backups is in order? * Stardrive purges the virus. Bit, where is Format? That's what shut down the scanners. I do not know. Perhaps you should ask the computer. Same chip that did it you think? That or another copy. I will attend to the restoration of the scanner software. Hm, Bit find Format, the two of you dig up any other info you can get off this chip Good idea, Bit. * Bit transforms to mini-mainframe mode and attatches to the console Restoration complete I also determined that Format is on Deck two, section 4 Admiral You know what to do then Bit, thanks. Good job, Bit. The scanners are working correctly again. * Bit takes the chip Stardrive has there been anything odd going on with the computers over the past few weeks? I will scan this. When I finish, I will deliver my report. besides recent troubles Very well Bit * Bit leaves the bridge for his quarters Any signs of coded messages in particular Define odd. With Format around. We did find that weird code, but we never deciphered it. Good point, and good cover up for a possible intruder * Overwrite enters the MedBay I guess it got stored in the circular file. Pardon me Doctor... umm... is Captain Waitstate going to be ok? * Restore nods at Overwrite "he's ok for now" But he WILL survive? To the best of your knowledge anyway? Find the code, have Format and Bit look it over as well, meantime scan the ship continuously, I doubt the troubles are over somehow I believe I can have him back to full operating status, you need not worry Overwrite, I'll take care of him LaFord to Bridge. Go ahead Welcome to Radio Shack clearance item... it's reduced to Reeses Pieces... no money back gaurantee this time scoundrel, self destruct sequence completed. Oh good. I was worried about him you know. Plus, I really didn't want to have to get out that Will he had me write up. Nasty buisness that. Any ideas who it was? Real? or a decoy perhaphs? * Restore chuckles He said whatever it is, it's in too many pieces to recognise. * Admiral-Lilwall frowns "very well... thanks Junky" Oh well. I guess I will take another crack at organizing his quarters. Maybe without his chaotic influence, I'll be able to do SOMETHING with it... Low, low prices, means substandard equipment. Good day Doctor. * Overwrite leaves the MedBay *nod* He says the material is too low a grade for a normal Cybertronian body. Thank you and good night. Hmm, maybe he has an upgraded body like mine He said Laford out. Another decoy more than likly.... I don't have anything Cybertronian in me aside from some programming and my past ah yes I figured that one thank you Stardrive..... Don't suppose you've noticed any odd incoming trans have you? I'd have to check the logs. A lot of stuff is automated. 'scuse me guys, but I've got a Quint ship bearing down on our position * Stardrive works at the console. Let me know if you find anything interesting..... Oh great like things weren't bad enough distance and time to intercept? Shouldn't the ship be on alert? all hands to the bridge or something? brace for attack? 200,000 Km and closing just under 1c I read full shields and weapons armed raise shields and arm weapons, Stardrive open a channel to them Shields and weapons ready * Stardrive opens a channel. This is Admiral Lilwall of the LSS Freedom, we have no quarrel with you, we ask your intentions 100,000Km and closing No response. Well, someone has got to do it. Computer, put the ship on alert only command staff may activate an alert status Well if you want to play it that way then... Red Alert, lock weapons, do not fire until told Ready * Scamp joins the bridge [comm] Red alert, all hands to battle stations. [comm] Repeat... Red alert, all hands to battle stations. * Scamp goes to his battle station Red Alert. This is not a drill. Red Alert Put us into reverse Ready warhead interceptors finally some action The Quint ship has stopped 5,000Km from our position Stopped? Dead stop They're sending signals to the ship... I detect long range weaponry though... they could still hit us quickly and easily Helm continue to back off until there's 50,000km between us Signal of what kind Now we're backing off? They'll just move closer Internal sensor are picking up an unusual energy signature in engineering Scamp when I need your opinions I'll ask, but for now please be quiet I think they're here to collect Mr self destruct. hmmph Wonderful, Admiral to Engineering, Junky what's going on down there? There's a industrial strength headache goin' on down here and it's screaming for help! Stardrive? There's a BIG problem. overload? Send a security team down there double time I've lost main engineering sensor systems. Not a virus or anything, just a plain overload Warning shot off the starboard side of the quint vessel Firing Abracadabra, presto chango... no first alert security system. are they sill inclosing? I think he said stuff's disappeared from engineering. The quint ship's gun was a decidedly non-Quint bit of tech. A phased partical beam of some sort can you pinpoint that weapon on their ship? trying... [comm] Junky get out of there before you vanish too Advancing to the rear. * Junky_LaFord leaves engineering. got it... unfortunatly, we don't have any weapons that could reach the other ship without getting blocked or intercepted... we're just too far away get us out of their 'beam' range, now! I estimate that thing's range at over 100,000Km... where'd they GET that thing? Dammit, we've got a trade to get to, escape course, engage IST drive engaging IST Drive Are they following? yes, but they can't keep up good, let's keep it that way detecting a space fold distortion ahead! full stop! * Drill_Master puts away the spinning toy Now what? It's that Quint ship again! Quints don't use space fold though... Yes, now what? Are we going to just let them shoot us down? What the hell.... The hell we are! Fire a spread of 5 torps on them, then msg them a final warning to back off Firing torpedoes trying all hailing frequencies Response? They sure as hell can hear us, but I'm not getting a response * Stardrive relaxes in his chair as DM steals his job. Sorry Stardrive, forgot you were there * the ship is hit dead on by the Quint ship's beam-weapon Direct hit! We've got power flux all over the place Alright then we defend this ship as best we can, open fire, target that weapon! * Stardrive holds on to his console. Fire in engineering! How long to charge the primary weapon? *grabs chair arms* containtments fields up firing weapons at will Primary Weapon is at full charge Target their powerplants then fire the main gun! Targeting, locked...fire! Did we hit em? Direct hit! Damage? Registering a direct hit. Their shields are holding though Charge it again! Start calculations for space fold to our trade point Rapid charge engaged *lights dim and flicker* Fire! Firing! estimated time to space fold calc completion: 1hr 42minutes 13seconds Damn! * Junky_LaFord returns to engineering. Any effect from the last blast? their shilds are still holding, but their fold engines appear to be offline * Junky_LaFord attemps to repair the damage. Cirrus, can you open a hole in their shields big enough to transmit a tiny signal to their main computer? [the ship rocks again as it is hit a second time] * Restore straps Wait down to his 'bed' The DEM is offline! Wonderful, how are our shiedls holding? I can open a hole if we can get within 4,000Km Stardrive, find that virus again, get ready to transfer it to them Admiral, suggest we bring some more firepower into play. Helm, when Stardrive and Cirrus are ready, I want a drive by! I am already firing torps and turrets! they are having little effect Transfering weapons and comm system control to my station * Stardrive retrieves the chip fom bit. Continue to do so Lightning I've tied the laser pulse arrays to the comm system. tell me when you have the virus ready to transmit * Stardrive tries to figure out how to transmit without re-infecting the system. Portable weapon allow me. I have protected I/o retransfer ports Do we have a weapon that is not connected to the ship? Launch interceptors, have them swarm the quint vessel Bit, add to that virus, make it knock out their weapons and space fold if possible If we had a large weapon capable of firing the virus, we could just destroy the weapon when we were done Bit> Perhaps Format would be better suited to that task Get it done! * Bit transforms and uploads the virus to Format, who alters it and returns it What are our shields at? bit> I have the virus 32% and holding Any power we can spare put them to shields Transfering power... hmm... Admiral, remember to turn out the lights in your quarters next time, ok? What about the hole? How are we going to make it? Leave that to Cirrus Ok. * Stardrive sleeps at his console. The fore pulse lasers are setup to pierce the shields and send a dirct tightbeam transmission into their computer systems... I think Our torpedoes are not doing much, the swarming interceptors are keeping their other weapons busy though * Junky_LaFord redirects the plasma flow to produce more power for the shields. If that's a cue let's do it, prepare the transfer I'm ready for the attempt when you guys are Drill Master, engage drive by! * Drill-Master engages the drive by Range to target * the Freedom accelerates toward the Quint ship. Luckily it is too fast for a lock on of the devastating beam weapon. the lasers pulse piercing the shields and transfering the virus perfectly. Ya gotta love automation. * Stardrive wakes up. I want as much distance put between them and us as possible, full speed Reading nothing yet... wait... the Quint ship is losing power on all decks Damage report Shadowpaw Excellent! I'm getting a transmission... they're surrendering. Put me on speaker to them I'm guessing it's genuine. In the state they're in they can't even self destruct They've also sent a wideband signal pulse on a coded channel. You're on. This is Admiral Lilwall, what do you want And make it convincing... I've got a trigger happy tactical officer * Lightning grins Quintisson vessel respond or be destroyed, your choice I'm reading a ship leaving the Launch Bay! small... some sort of shuttle Heading? It has weapons armed Targeting the Quint ship... neutralise it! We are out of range Oh SLAG! GET US OUTTA HERE! * Admiral-Lilwall glances Cirrus and decides not to argue full speed helm! move it! * The small ship fires at the Quint ship, effectively destroying it. This also triggers a chain reaction in the Quint ship's drive core, sending out a MASSIVE shockwave all power to engines! Report, what the hell was that The little ship got away... musta had a mini space fold setup and predifined coordinates. damn, Stardrive isolate that coded thing they sent us, keep it out of the main computer network Someone give me a damage report It's coded... same code as that other message, I think. The computer can't decode it. power to deck 3, 7 and 9 is out. shields at 32%. Space fold engines are offline. main weapon is shot to hell. Send it to our resident hackers then the MedBay is on deck 3... Well, one is in MedBay. * Admiral-Lilwall to Restore Internal comm is out too Cirrus, Shadowpaw, get down to Medbay damn... I can't get clear reading overall... half the internal sensor systems are blown out * Stardrive reroutes a direct line to Medbay. On a good note though, all our cargo is undamaged * Shadowpaw leaves the bridge and heads for medbay. Helm maintain course heading and speed, nice to know the cargo is still ok, Stardrive continue to redirect power to the areas that need it most, I'll be in engineering You have the bridge comm bot * Stardrive calls Medbay and tells them that SP is on her way to ask them something. * Restore manages to retain Wait in a stable condition * Admiral-Lilwall heads down to Engineering * Waitstate continues to lay on the medical bed Bridge to engineering, damage status? Uh-oh, better get Maaco * Admiral-Lilwall thinks to self "if he means macintosh I'll reprogram him myself" That good huh Session Close: Wed Jun 10 05:10:36 1998