Aboard the Eidolon - Day One

[Bjorn]

Finn shrugs, her eyes and hands preoccupied with the game of solitaire she dealt out while waiting for Kelly.  "Airlock's up'n'runnin' again," she reports.  "Workshop's in good shape, too, an' so're the suits."

[Ebiris]

"Yes, you were just waiting on a robot, weren't you?" Albert nods, rubbing his chin. "Hale, what's the current progress on dust cleaning?"

[Brian]

"The cleanup effort is proceeding as projected," Hale replies.  "Current projections indicate that the outer hull should be habitable without special equipment within two days."

Eric grunts.  "I stayed up late, Captain, but I did get that final bot cleaned out and fixed.  It was seriously modified, though, so I had Hale take out the memory core.  Until we know for certain what was planned with it...."  He shrugs uncertainly, and looks at Kelly questioningly.

[Dracos]

"I'll take a look at it first thing.  As I said last night, Captain, Hale's had a memory core removed which we'd do well to find.  Until then, it is kind of limited in what it has to tell us."

Dracos

[Ebiris]

Albert nods to both Eric and Kelly. "What sort of modifications?" he asks the former. "With Mr Keiron's discovery of the killswitch in the atmospheric processors and what I've read of the late captain's logs, it's not painting a very inspiring picture of our predecessor's last days..."

[Brian]

"Well," Eric temporizes, "keep in mind I work with hydraulics, not robotics, so most of this is what I got from Hale when I asked what exactly some of the things I was looking at were.  Most of the bots are equipped with a number of tools so they can affect repairs without needing to report to an engineering station first.  This bot had the majority of its tools removed, as well as all of its shielding.  I originally thought that it wasn't meant to work in an atmosphere, but Hale reminded me that dust exists outside of atmospheres, as well, even if its more rare.

"The bot has had the majority of its casing stripped off, so it'll get fouled much more easily than the others on dust, but its articulators make it faster.  Also, without the bulky outer casing, it could theoretically fit through smaller passages, like the airways.  Of course, the entire ship is so accessible I can't think of a reason this would be neccessary...."

Eric shrugs.  "Aside from that, Captain, you mentioned a meeting to discuss our findings?"

[Ebiris]

Albert chews his lip for a moment as he digests Eric's report. "I'm not sure what to make of that, myself.

"In any case, yes, we should discuss things. From the state of the ship and what I read in the late captain's logs, it's blatantly apparent that a mutiny took place, which was probably an indirect cause of the crew's deaths. So our two priorities right now are getting the ship in working order and properly manned, and finding out exactly what caused the first crew to turn on each other.

"The former is more important at this stage, but we can't ignore the latter - especially as it could be related to the mission we originally departed for."

[Brian]

"Well, it may not exactly be news, but from what I could see, they were making something in the workshop as a jamming device.  What exactly it's supposed to jam, I don't know, though.  It just broadcasts short-range noise on all communication frequencies.  Doesn't knock out the bots, but it does keep them from talking to Hale," Eric volunteers.  "Other than that, I think it looks like the workshop was set up to be barricaded, so access could be more controlled."

[Ebiris]

"Maybe something to do with the signal we were sent out to track?" Albert ponders, before speaking up, "Hale, when was the last recorded contact with the ET Signal?"

[Brian]

"The last recorded contact is the original transmission," Hale says smoothly.  "There are no records of this ship recieving any other transmissions."

"And the antenna has been knocked out how long?" Eric asks.

Hale replies, "Ever since the incident."

[Ebiris]

"Of course, we don't know exactly how long that is," Albert observes. "Hopefully we can work out more once we get a navigator up here... who's all in quarantine right now, Hale?"

[Brian]

"Doctor Jack Helms, Navigator Samuel Moore, Mechanic Bryce Hawthorn, Pilot Harris O'Keefe, and Sensor Technician Jessica Torm," Hale replies.  "Seven hours remain in quarantine."

[Dracos]

"Why don't I just go over that odd robot's memory banks now if there isn't anything better to do?"

Dracos

[Ebiris]

"Yes, you do that," Albert nods briskly.

[Brian]

Kelly starts taking apart the memory core.  The rod logic seems to be most readable, and what Kelly is looking at was obviously hacked together very quickly; it's not subtle at all.  The robot was designed to fit through air ducts to reach things that were installed within the air ducts themselves.  These things should all be accessible from within the ship normally, however, so why this was done is questionable.