PNPC - Lieutenant jg TK Cabrillo - Everything in there but the kitchen sink
Joel Cannistraro
TK glanced over as Morgan typed into the LCARS in front of her, which was connected to the table. She quickly brought up both a Breen and a Cardassian lexicon.
Cabrillo: Anything interesting?
The question was more of a thought. TK knew that if there had been anything interesting to report Morgan would have. That meant the next step was not going to be as easy as he would have hoped.
Morgan: How good are your hacking skills?
She smiled, blowing a stray curl out of the way so she could see better. TK pursed his lips together and lifted the right corner of his mouth in a smirk.
Cabrillo: Cardassian systems, piece of cake. Breen, especially these newer systems, might take a moment longer.
Morgan: If we give it just enough juice, we can hack it and crack open its logs and database.
TK looked over the scans as Morgan attached a cable to a port on the holotable and ran it to the bot. Although inactive, they were still getting low-level energy spikes. TK thought about the spikes and looked from the scans to the bot and then back to the scans and then finally to Morgan before he threw up his hands.
Cabrillo: Wiat....hold that thought for a moment.
Morgan: Alrighty, I shouldn’t plug it in?
TK shook his head in a negative response as he stepped around the table and picked up a different Tricorder. This one, was programmed to Security protocols and scan settings.
Cabrillo: In the Gamma quadrant we encountered a....::looking at Morgan:: a booby trap for lack of better description left behind by an unknown race. The trap was simple really. A dead or seemingly inactive automated centurion was brought aboard the ship for us to learn more about. All scans indicated the centurion was offline but a very low residual power spike left our Chief Engineer hopeful that the units onboard memory logs could be accessed. It was a failsafe for tampering by the enemy. Just enough power so that when the enemy tried to open the centurion, it activated an internal self-destruct. Our sensors did not pick it up until three of us were lying on the floor and needing medical attention.
Morgan: Well, I’m glad I didn’t plug it in. I'd rather not have to explain that one.
TK scanned the power spikes and the area of the spiderbot they came from. He could not get a goodlook internally but the security scan still showed no internal explosives. After his experience in the Gamma Quadrant he did not trust the scans. They knew nothing about this bot's internal makeup and if it were up to him, he would have planted a safe guard to stop unwanted eyes from looking inside his creations.
Cabrillo: I can't see a threat but I say be ready just in case. I'll start the code hack at the third junction of the isolinear pathway in the port. That should at least bypass the inital port contact and hopefully any booby trap linked to the port.
Morgan: Alright, I reconnected, do your thang…
TK started to enter the codes and commands he would need to access the isolinear pathways and then looked to Morgan, nodding to her to start her access from the port and the cable she had connected. TK knew that if the combined technology was being used in unison with each other then it would take both of them to hack this bot at the same time. He handed it to the creators of the spiderbot, they had made this more a challenge that TK had given them credit for.
Morgan: I’ve bypassed two firewalls, and I'm coming up with some Romulan that I’m having little trouble with, not that it’s hard, it’s the last time I read Romulan was just out of the Academy.
Cabrillo: Never thought I'd be happy seeing Romulan over Cardassian or Breen.
Morgan chuckled and blew a stray red curl out of her face. TK grinned and looked back to his task. The pair seemed to be making a decent effort moving forward and TK was not sure if he liked that or if it scared him. Romulans, at least the one he had dealt with, played nasty and did not play fair. Was this too easy or were they lucky enough that the designers of this bot did not play with the same scruples as the Romulans TK had faced in his past?
Morgan: What brings you out to the Isles Cabrillo?
oO And I was just starting to like how silent you were. Oo
Cabrillo: Your new Chief of Security. Lieutenant Kessler thought it would be a good idea for me to join him out here. ::beat:: I thought about saying no but he had the Commodore's support and he generally gets what he wants so I go where I am told. ::beat:: What about you? How did you end up on the Ronin?
Morgan: I came aboard when the ship was docked at Deep Space Nine. I helped get her back up and running after the beating she took during the retake of DS thirty-three. We haven’t been back yet, we’ve been sidetracked along the way…
Cabrillo: So your assignment here is....
A loud beep interrupted the moment and TK glanced up to Rachel. The look on her face confirmed his thought that this didn’t sound like a happy beep.
Morgan: Was that me or you?
TK looked back down at the coding wall he was trying to get through and paused. He felt a hint of frustration run his forehead as he looked at the secondary diagnostic file and then looked at the primary command structure.
Cabrillo: Me....I think. ::beat:: Take a look at this.
TK stepped from the table over to the wall closest to Morgan and changed the display to show the command paths and he felt a little lost in what he was seeing.
Morgan: response
TK pointed to three points on the scan and then enlarged the view. The cluster of command fibers which lead from the assembly he was trying to bypass intersected something he was not familiar with. The computer indicated organic matter.
Cabrillo: Are these nano-bio gel packs? Is this thing using bio-neural circuitry?
Morgan: response
TK glanced at Morgan and then to the spiderbot laying behind them on the table. The designers of this thing were throwing every conceivable piece of tech into it and they were making all this tech work together.
Cabrillo: ::grinning:: This thing does not have a plexing beacon or a subspace relay to the Borg does it? ::chuckling:: Seems like it has everything else in there.
Morgan: Response
TK stepped back to the table and stared at their project. This thing had so many more questions than answers to it and they had barely cracked into the initial layers. Picking up a leg TK looked it over cautiously and slowly.
Cabrillo: This thing can probably jack itself into any data node and start accessing anything it wants. What if we give it enough power to try and link up with what it thinks is a computer source and piggy back that code right back into its own matrix? Let the monster let us in without knowing it?
Morgan: response
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