Field Promotions

[Ebiris]

"I suppose the captain's place is on the bridge," Albert remarks, starting off in that direction. He's only taken two steps before he pauses. "Hale... what happened to the bodies of the first crew?"

[Bjorn]

"I'm gonna go check out th' airlock fing," Finn says.  "See if the PPC is still alright, get everfing cleared up.  Gimme a call if somefing comes up."

With that, she heads off in the appropriate direction.

[Brian]

"They should not be discernable," Hale replies.  "According to my monitors they were reduced to the same dust that fills the outer corridors."

[Ebiris]

Albert coughs several times, waving a hand in front of his now rather purple face. "Lovely..."

[Brian]

After that, Albert and the other two (currently thawed) bridge crew reach the bridge itself.  Currently, all of the consoles look to be in working order, and dust free.  One of the maintainence bots is in a corner, reattaching a coupling.  Shortly after that, the lights go from 'dim' to 'normal', causing everyone to blink for a few minutes while the robot reseals the service panel.

Finn now goes to: It's a Crummy Job, but....

[Brian]

As everyone is settling into their command consoles, Hale says, "Captain, I have a message from you from Crewman Finn."

[Ebiris]

"Relay it," Albert nods, while randomly peering over various consoles in an effort to look busy.

[Brian]

Most of the consoles are in low-power mode, nothing visible.  Hale plays the following recording: "Ship's Engineer Finn Ezekiel examined the airlock, found the override wheel'd been torn off, crowbar shove t'rough the controls. Prognosis for repairs, is, uh.  Prognosis is that it's possible, but not fun."

[Ebiris]

"Well, tell her to get to it, then," Alert replies, distractedly, flipping on some nearby consoles.

[Brian]

The nearby consoles are communications, sensors (half of which are reporting a loss in efficiency), and navigation, which is faded out and says, "Auto: Hale", in bold letters across the screen.

"Acknowledged," Hale replies.

[Rezantis]

Kieran moves over and sits at the engineering console, flicking it on and running some more general diagnostics (again).

"Hale," he says thoughtfully, "do you have fingerprints on record for the first crew?"

[Brian]

"Yes," Hale replies.  "Fingerprints, retina scans, voice-analysis records, and genetic code are all on record for all crew."

[Rezantis]

Kieran stands up and makes for the exit to the bridge.  "I'm going to go and check that airlock personally.  Hale, if anything comes up in the diagnostics that needs my attentio - especially if the engine performance drops any further - let me know immediately.

[Brian]

Kieran leaves the bridge.

Kieran now goes to Dust to Dust.

Kieran is gone, leaving Albert and Kelly alone with the consoles for a bit before Hale suddenly relays the following conversation to the bridge:

Kieran: "Hale, can you see this crowbar through your pickups?"
Hale: "Negative. Dust is obscuring my sensors. I can pick it up on your suit's sensors, however."
Kieran: "From your files, who among the first crew had the physical capacity to do this?"
Hale: "Primarily, any crewman who had augmentation of any kinds. Secondarily, Dragon Hodges Meyer."
Kieran: "Any information on who might have had such augmentation?"
Hale: "According to medical records, only four crewmen had any augmentation of any time," Hale says after a moment. "One of these was on the First Crew: Aquilla native Jared Freyman.  Augmentation: visual pickup embedded in the mastoid. Without it, Crewman Freyman was blind in one eye, and lacked depth perception. Additionally, his left eye was synthetic. Without this augmentation, Jared would likely have been unable to pilot."
Kieran: "Hm. So that wouldn't have given him the strength for this?"
Hale: "Negative. Except...."
*pause*
Kieran: "Except what?"
Hale: "Unknown. It appears that a database concerning confidential information regarding the First Crew has been damaged or altered in some way. I am unable to obtain permission to access it."
Kieran: "Hale, who has or had authority to deny you access to that information, and who has the authority to override that?"
Hale: "Unknown. It is assumed that Crewman Kelly could alter the database permissions manually. This appears to be within his skill-set. However, he lacks the required permissions. Presumably Captain Albert has the authority to override any and all locks, as the highest ranking authority available to us.  This assumes, however, that the database is sealed, and not damaged. I am unable to ascertain which is occurring at this juncture."
Kieran: "Hmm.  Please convey this conversation to them after we finish speaking.  Hale, are you aware of any other deliberate damage to Eidolon systems?"
Kieran: "The airflow system in the outer hull of the Eidolon has been disabled until the dust can be removed from the corridors.  This is the only additional deliberately halted system I am aware of."
*pause*
Hale: "Many of my sensors are currently obscured, and I am not able to access the external repair robots. There may be further damages I am not yet aware of."
Kieran:  "If you become aware of any more deliberate disabling or damage to systems, please make me aware immediately.  Hale, do you have any information as to who, if any, of the first crew would have been outside when this incident occurred?"
Hale: "Understood.  Logic would suggest one of the EVA specialists. The First Crew's EVA specialist and communications expert was Eden native Julie Briggs-Hearth."
Kieran: "She would have been able to use another airlock to re-enter the Eidolon - do you see any obvious inaccuracies in that statement?"
Hale:  "The other airlock is currently sealed from the outside."
Kieran: "Do you have any information as to why this would have been done?"
Hale: "Negative. Outside of deliberate editing of the history files, this must have happened within a twelve hour window between automated backup cycles."
Kieran: "Right.  What about the vehicle airlocks, would a person on the outside of the ship been able to use those?"
Hale: "Affirmative. Emergency manual overrides are in place on both vehicle entrances."
Kieran: "Hale, tell me how many pressure suits are not currently in their usual storage areas and report status on all of them, excluding my own."
*pause*
Hale: "Two pressure suits are currently missing from the ship. Three are near the starboard airlock in the gangway. All others are within their proper storage units."
*extended pause*
Kieran: "When you were first reactivated after the emergency reconstruction, could you detect the missing pressure suits?  Additionally, is the Eidolon missing any vehicles?"
Hale: "Negative. There is no record of the missing suits. All vehicles are currently in place."
*pause*
Hale: "One of the probes is missing."
Kieran: "I assume the probes are unaccounted for in your logs?"
*pause*
Hale: "That section of the database is currently damaged or locked."
Kieran: "Please convey our previous conversation to the captain now, with this addendum: I believe that the maintenance bot in the port airlock was trapped there deliberately.  Why this was done is unknown, but it was sent there for what seems to be a spurious reason, and it's logs don't quite fit together with the evidence.  I'm going to go and check the starboard airlock, then the vehicle bay, I'll explain when I return to the bridge.  I also recommend that when a doctor is released from quarantine that the crowbar be subjected to genetic analysis to see who last used it.  Abernase out."

[Brian]

Before there's really any time to respond to the conversation that Hale has just relayed, he adds another report to the session:

Kieran: "Hale, list unusual circumstances on the Eidolon that you have not previously related to me and that you believe should be brought to my attention, in descending order of priority."
Hale: "List output:
Hale: "Prime: While still operational, all of the oxygen regulator controls have been altered in a way that is not known to me. Within the inner hull, all four of the five oxygen refiltration units have been modified to include a remotely activated 'kill' switch. These switches have been removed from the four reachable units. Within quarantine, the fifth has not been accessed according to the door logs. The only known control for these switches was located in Captain Kim Landy's quarters, and is currently in the robotics maintainence lab. Only Captain Albert and the current security officer (unassigned) may access this locker. There has been no access to the external oxygen plants yet.
Hale: "Secondary: At intervals generally near course-correction or times of changing acceleration/deceleration, and intermittently throughout standard operations, audio-pickups detect a resonation throughout the ship, as though a very slow-moving bit of debris has been deflected by the hull. Triangulation suggests that the source of these noises is near the comm. array.
Hale: "Tertiary: While all vehicles and related supplies are undamaged, all survival-related equipment excluding pressure suits has been removed from them and is now stored in the cargo bay.
Hale: "List ends."
Kieran: "Hale, forward that list immediately to the bridge."