[Backsim!] Cpt. Karrod Niac - Times They Are a Changling
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Karrod Niac
Aug 18, 2024, 3:39:55 PM8/18/24
to USS Ronin – StarBase 118 Star Trek PBEM RPG
((OOC: Quick backsim here to get things realigned with the extra tags I missed from Chief Tucker. Folks can respond to my act 2 starter normally - apologies for the confusion! Just a reminder - once someone tags themselves out of a scene with an 'End' tag, please don't leave any subsequent tags for them in the same scene!))
((Deck 3, Main Hull, Bridge, USS Ronin in route to DS33))
O'Connor: Engaging Warp drive.
Karrod tried to take a breath, if only to release some of the tension that had built up in his jaw over the last several minutes, but the universe decided it wasn't quite done throwing curveballs their way quite yet. The engineering console began shrieking in alarm and Karrod looked, concern deepening as Chief Tucker began jabbing at the controls with angry passion.
Tucker: :: nervously:: I don’t mean to be a Debbie Downer here, but someone is in the computer system. Before I was able to block what was happening, I was locked out of engineering and weapons controls. I’d bet dollars to donuts that our intruder is to blame. I’m working on restoring those systems now.
Beck: I'll start prepping test kits to start screening the crew for changelings… and maybe replicate some tupperware while I'm at it. ::to Niac:: There were changelings on the Artemis, too. This is not an isolated thing.
Niac: Get on it Chief, I don't want to fall any further behind the Khitomer. Advise Commander Carpenter to...
Karrod barely got the words out before the ship shuddered and tumbled out of warp, the telltale alarms of engine failure blatting loudly across the bridge. He gripped the arms of the command chair as the intertial dampeners whined, barely keeping them all from being thrown forward with lethal force.
Tucker: Shit! ::he pounded his console::
Karrod couldn't have said it better himself.
Niac: Chief I want that intruder locked out, now! We don't have time to play 'chase the changling' while the Khitomer heads back to DS33 without us!
O’conner: RESPONSE
Tucker: Yes, sir. I’m working on a back-trace now. If I can find the terminal, he can at least get its last known location.
Niac: Understood Chief, pass that to Commander Carpenter as soon as you get it. Dispatch an engineering team as well, there's every chance its been sabotaged to slow us down even further.
O’Conner: RESPONSE
Time ticked away slowly as Karrod forced himself not to hover over his Chief Engineer's shoulder. He could see the man sweating as he bashed away at his terminal, trying increasingly complex and byzantine routes into the very heart of their computer systems to bypass whatever software hijinks their infiltrator had performed.
Tucker: Commander Carpenter, the subject's last known location was the officer's mess on deck eleven.
The viewscreen shifted to an isometric rendering of the Ronin herself, with a probable location of their intruder and nearby security teams overlaid. Their people were close but the infiltrator was moving with the impossible speed and dexterity only a changling posessed.
Niac: Isolate that whole deck Chief and then begin contracting the security fields so we can funnel it towards a non-vital area. I want it captured if at all possible.
O’Conner: RESPONSE
Tucker: It’s now in Jefferies tube seventy-four dash gamma three. It looks like it’s headed towards environmental controls.
As his security teams closed in and their Chief Engineer swore, Karrod pressed a hand to his temples and tried to rub away the incipient migraine that was forming behind his eyes.
Niac: Mr. O'Connor....advise the Khitomer we've been delayed and will rejoin them as soon as possible. The minute Chief Tucker gets the warp engines back online get us back on the road, best possible speed.
O’Conner: RESPONSE
Tags/End Act 1 For Niac. Seriously. For real this time!
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Captain Karrod Niac
Commanding Officer
USS Ronin - NCC-34523
V239509GT0
((Deck 3, Main Hull, Bridge, USS Ronin in route to DS33))
O'Connor: Engaging Warp drive.
Karrod tried to take a breath, if only to release some of the tension that had built up in his jaw over the last several minutes, but the universe decided it wasn't quite done throwing curveballs their way quite yet. The engineering console began shrieking in alarm and Karrod looked, concern deepening as Chief Tucker began jabbing at the controls with angry passion.
Tucker: :: nervously:: I don’t mean to be a Debbie Downer here, but someone is in the computer system. Before I was able to block what was happening, I was locked out of engineering and weapons controls. I’d bet dollars to donuts that our intruder is to blame. I’m working on restoring those systems now.
Beck: I'll start prepping test kits to start screening the crew for changelings… and maybe replicate some tupperware while I'm at it. ::to Niac:: There were changelings on the Artemis, too. This is not an isolated thing.
Niac: Get on it Chief, I don't want to fall any further behind the Khitomer. Advise Commander Carpenter to...
Karrod barely got the words out before the ship shuddered and tumbled out of warp, the telltale alarms of engine failure blatting loudly across the bridge. He gripped the arms of the command chair as the intertial dampeners whined, barely keeping them all from being thrown forward with lethal force.
Tucker: Shit! ::he pounded his console::
Karrod couldn't have said it better himself.
Niac: Chief I want that intruder locked out, now! We don't have time to play 'chase the changling' while the Khitomer heads back to DS33 without us!
O’conner: RESPONSE
Tucker: Yes, sir. I’m working on a back-trace now. If I can find the terminal, he can at least get its last known location.
Niac: Understood Chief, pass that to Commander Carpenter as soon as you get it. Dispatch an engineering team as well, there's every chance its been sabotaged to slow us down even further.
O’Conner: RESPONSE
Time ticked away slowly as Karrod forced himself not to hover over his Chief Engineer's shoulder. He could see the man sweating as he bashed away at his terminal, trying increasingly complex and byzantine routes into the very heart of their computer systems to bypass whatever software hijinks their infiltrator had performed.
Tucker: Commander Carpenter, the subject's last known location was the officer's mess on deck eleven.
The viewscreen shifted to an isometric rendering of the Ronin herself, with a probable location of their intruder and nearby security teams overlaid. Their people were close but the infiltrator was moving with the impossible speed and dexterity only a changling posessed.
Niac: Isolate that whole deck Chief and then begin contracting the security fields so we can funnel it towards a non-vital area. I want it captured if at all possible.
O’Conner: RESPONSE
Tucker: It’s now in Jefferies tube seventy-four dash gamma three. It looks like it’s headed towards environmental controls.
As his security teams closed in and their Chief Engineer swore, Karrod pressed a hand to his temples and tried to rub away the incipient migraine that was forming behind his eyes.
Niac: Mr. O'Connor....advise the Khitomer we've been delayed and will rejoin them as soon as possible. The minute Chief Tucker gets the warp engines back online get us back on the road, best possible speed.
O’Conner: RESPONSE
Tags/End Act 1 For Niac. Seriously. For real this time!
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Captain Karrod Niac
Commanding Officer
USS Ronin - NCC-34523
V239509GT0
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