(pnpc) PO1 Julien Paradi - Inside Out.....

[Iain Turnbull]

((Main Engineering, Deck 11, USS Octavia E. Butler))

Julien was a fish out of water when it came to navigating Jeffries Tubes and it didn't help when one hand was also clutching a PADD. So, it was rather fortunate that his current companion was an Engineer. And the Chief of that eccentric band no less.

Herrick: =/\= Jefferies Junction 15-Charlie-2, good to hear your voice Lhandon. =/\=

Nilsen: =/\= Acknowledged, and you too Josh. It’s been too long. Julien, I’m guessing that was you who shut down the transporter rooms. =/\=

He had. Rather quickly in fact after having confirmed his last two passengers were intact apart from a few knocks and bruises. A small cog in the machine he may be, but there was no way he was allowing anybody else onto a transporter pad when there was some kind of – admittedly small and elusive – systems error.

If it did turn out to be nothing, he'd deal with the fallout later.

Better that than ignoring things and having a crewmember arrive on a pad inside out or something.

Paradi: =/\= Yes, that was me. But they're both fine. Please confirm you have our location on screen? =/\=

Nilsen: =/\= Confirmed, I’m tracking you both now. Glad you took them rooms down, it made sense. From what I heard, that was scary. If the upper deckers give you any grief about that, send ‘em to me. I’ve got you both on screen now. I’ll take overwatch on you both now. =/\=

It was a small relief to know that at least one of the Ops heirarchy were solidly behind him this early into the investigation. Pausing in his crawl, Julien resecured his slightly loosened tricorder in its belt holster.

Herrick: =/\= Good; we’ll keep the comm line open while we do our inspection. =/\=

Nilsen: =/\= Josh, I know you got your reasons, and I ain’t an engineer but isn’t this a solo job? =/\=

Herrick: =/\= Well… the last time I opened it up, I found myself in Sickbay. So I think Paradi and I are going with an abundance of caution with this round. =/\=

Instinctively, Julien nodded even though neither of the other men in the conversation could see it.

Nilsen: =/\= Dude you alright?….you’re totally right not to do this solo now. I’m cutting power to the junction, my turn for an abundance of caution =/\=

Paradi: =/\= Appreciated, Ops. =/\=

Reaching their destination, Julien looked around. Nothing seemed out of place and the junction was almost pristine enough that you could have eaten your lunch straight off of the floor.

Herrick: =/\= I need to give my team more credit; miracle workers here after only a day. =/\=

Nilsen: =/\= That they are, just don’t forget about us in ops yeah? =/\=

Herrick: =/\= What do you make of this? =/\=

Shuffling up beside the Chief, Julien narrowed his eyes as he looked at the mans tricorder. Putting his PADD on the deck and pulling his own tricorder free, Julien ran a broad-spectrum analytical scan of the junction. Finding nothing untoward, he looked at Herricks readings again.

Paradi: =/\= I've got nothing. ::He angled the device for Herrick to see.:: But right there, you've got a slight variance on the secondary buffer feedback coils. =/\=

Recalibrating his device, Julien ran his scans again.

There it was, the same variation. The difference was well into the micro-millionths and so minor it was a miracle that it had even been detected.

Nilsen: =/\= I’ve connected to your tricorder, I see the read outs over here. =/\=

Paradi: =/\= A variance this size shouldn't be detectable, let alone cause any disruption to the systems. =/\=

Herrick: Response

Nilsen: =/\= Josh, can you connect the tricorder to the MUPD slot. Just on the top left. I wanna look at those logs. =/\=

That made sense. Lt Nilsen would be able to pull the platform logs as well as Juliens console logs from Ops, and overlay it with the same from this junction. Hopefully some sort of solution would be forthcoming at that point.

Paradi: =/\= What's your line of thought, sir?

Herrick: Response

Nilsen: =/\= It don’t make sense. I’m looking for the kernel dump and I’m finding nothing. According the computer josh when you got transported out, that…never happened….Obviously that’s not right. This damn computer is trying to gaslight us. Julien, can you access the kernel dump from either Br'desh and Watanabi, or Yinn’s incident, or even Josh’s incident? in case it didn’t find it’s way here and it’s still in local storage.=/\=

Nodding to himself, Julien tapped at his tricorder before putting it down and scooping his PADD from the deck. Keying his way into the transporter logs Julien found that they were missing from a system search. He narrowed his eyes a little. He'd been able to access the local memory storage in the transporter room, but was now unable to access the same logs from a different place.

He keyed to access the logs mentioned about Chief Herrick, and Yinn but found he couldn't pull those up. There were file headers visible, and a data tag confirming the files existed. But within the folder, nothing.

Paradi: =/\= The information is there, sir. But at the same time its not there. =/\=

Nilsen/Herrick: Response

Paradi: =/\= Maybe we need to try from whichever terminal those logs were originally input from? =/\=

Nilsen/Herrick: Response

Paradi: =/\= Could be a memory core issue? =/\=

He didn't think it would be. It certainly shouldn't be, but were could you go if you didn't try everything?

Nilsen/Herrick: Response

Tags/TBC

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PO1 Julien Paradi.

Transporter Officer.

Simmed by;

1st Lieutenant Arturo Maxwell.

Marine Officer, 4/73 Marines.

USS Octavia E Butler: NCC-82850.

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