TSO 1 : Waking up Wrecked

Blackness in the middle of stillness is interrupted by a flash of consciousness. Unfortunately consciousness to not ensure enlightenment and chaos if what surges to the surface as you struggle to get a grip on your situation.

01:23 @ 2236-10-03

Subject : Adonis : Comms Tech

Adonis twitches as his automated systems come back online. The sleek and sophisticated robotic life form lays motionless as his visual receptors and other sensors bring a flood of information to be processed.

Location : Communications Hub
He quickly analyzes and identifies his surroundings as the armory of the Odyssey. He is laying on the floor next to the door of the room lit only by emergency lighting.

A slight flicker as a set of foreign symbols scroll across the top of his vision The visor . . Instant discord fills his processing unit and he quickly runs some basic diagnostics. Physically fine Adonix is dismayed at the state of his internal logs. Recent memories have been wiped, corrupted, or encrypted, and there are signs of a digital infection still active in his system. Glancing at the security console nearby he checks the ship status. According to the ship systems the current time is 01:23 @ 2236-10-03. But the last clear searchable memory is dated 2236-08-21. Over 6 weeks are missing.

Sitting up Adonis finishes his diagnostics and removes the visor. It was acquired . . on this mission . . and only he could properly utilize its functions. It seems to have several basic scanner functions built into it but accessing them has proven problematic. Could the visor be the source of the digital infection? Unknown.

Looking around he notes that most of the small arms have been removed from the armory. This would require the captain or first officer and one other security personnel to do this. Moving to the console he interfaces with the ship’s system's and finds that it too has suffered both physical and electronic damage. Working to reset faulty systems and restore internal sensors, Adonix is filled with unease.

Objective: Restore internal and external sensors. You have no idea what the state of the ship is and with your gaps in your memories do not feel sending a distress beacon is the best option at this time.

Subject : Sam / Ships Engineer

Sam, blinks to clear her sight as her thoughts slowly form a clear idea of where she is.
Location : Engineering Bay
Raising up to look around you see the main Engineering bay are alarmed to see damaged machinery and exposed wiring. Moving to stand you have to grab a nearby rack as nausea washes over you. Quickly checking the status of ship Sam is first confused. Engineering has been physically isolated from the rest of the ships network, but even worse the date. What happened? Thinking back Sam instantly gets a headache as she tries to recall anything recent as according to the computer she is missing 6 weeks of memory but the last engineering entry is by her from a couple of days ago.
Getting lightheaded you realize that it is hard to breath. Checking the console you verify that engineering is on local life support and it is struggling. Looking up from the console she confirms that engineering is sealed tight, from the inside. She did this, but why?

Status & Objective : Systems compromised. Extensive damage. Repair is imperative. Survival depends on the restoration of power and life support systems. Failure is not an option.

Subject : Stinger : Pilot

Stinger tries to focus as his head swims and he is forced to brace himself with a set of secondary arms. Shaky from lack of food and lightheaded from air too thin it is hard to focus.
Location: Bridge
Looking down at the bridge's navigation console you try to recall what exactly happened. Your compound eyes instantly take in the entire bridge with flickering consoles and emergency lighting. Most of it seems to be locked down by a combination of codes you can't override at this time. However the ships navigation systems is beeping incessantly, warning of imminent danger. Frustration washes over you as your attempts to access external sensors or navigation records are baulked at each turn. The ship’s automated navigation is offline but luckily enough of it is functional to identify a threat. You just wish you knew what is was and how much time you have to avoid it. You have restored basic thruster control through access emergency overrides but without sensors or logs of where you are you are blind.

Objectives : Recover navigation logs and plot a route to safety.

Subject: Alandra : Medical Officer

Alandra, the ship’s dedicated medical officer, awakens on the cold floor of a dimly lit room.
Location: Medical Bay
By the smell of it you are in the medical bay. The soft hum of the med bays independent life-support machine is somewhat comforting. The sterile environment is a stark contrast to the turmoil in your mind. Flashes of arguments, treating the crew, and, and, it fades in a flash of white and a blinding headache. Picking yourself off the floor and lying down on the the examination table you start it it running through self diagnostics and then have it check yourself. At the tone indicating the scans are complete a glance at the chart slightly reassures you. Minor injuries and dehydration as well as lack of nutrients. Your stomach rumbles at the thought of food. But then you notice that all medical logs since the ship left port are locked down by a chief medical officer, but is isn't your credentials. Able to get access to your own records you notices that several scans were run with multiple anomalies, and the ship left port over 6 weeks ago but you can remember none of it. Leaning back to think you see a piece of paper on the floor next to where you awoke. Picking it up you see a set of security codes and . . . Oh, that's not good.
A quick check confirms that ship life support has been set to minimal. Anyone without independent life-support would soon find themselves almost suffocating.

Objectives : Stabilize the life support and check on the crew's condition.

Sam checks life support but with engineering cut of from the rest of the ship systems network all she knows is that it is drawing power, but mimal levels only. The engineering local life support is set to independant mode and has been for some time, which is why it is struggling. Independant is normally only enabled when there is a breach or contamination in the ship. The engineering life-support indicates there is air to draw in for local use but without access to internal sensors the quality of the air is unknown.

Tracing the systems status she can check she finds the main network feed to and from engineering was manually disconnected or severed. Turning she sees the panel in question is open and cables laying haphazardly pulled out of it.

Security / Adonis
Adonis gets to work and finds that many systems are locked out. Fortunately he can get the CCTV security feeds of the hallways at least and quickly determines the entire ship is worse for wear. Low level lighting only and multiple signs of damage can be seen. Cycling through various systems Adonis slowly learns that many have officer lockouts in place. However he is eventually able to get some basic information.
+ Current crew count aboard = 6 (Identities locked out)
+ Shuttlecraft : launch authorized by 1st officer (no further information)
+ Bridge and Engineering are not responsive from the security terminal
+ Internal comms are offline with multiple lockouts in place but with a bit of effort the emergency alert systems could probably be converted to a PA system.
+ Internal life support = Minimal atmosphere and temperature in the halls. Individual rooms are heated but have even lower oxygen to the point that any exertion by biologicals would soon lead to fatigue or even unconsciousness

Bridge / Stinger
As Stinger checks over navigation he realizes that sensors and thrusters are offline. Fortunately Stinger is able to activate the view screen scan the surrounding. The predicament is all too readily apparent. The ship looks to be in orbit of a gas giant with rings. The ship has drifted into the rings and though the shield have kept the ship safe so far it has drifted deeper into the ring where the rock and ice chunks have gotten bigger. Adjusting the view screen he finds they are so deep in the ring that there is no clear path out. With a quick check Stinger verifies he still has emergency thrusters and he uses those as best he can to adjust their trajectory to avoid any major collisions though a few meteors are brushed by the shields. Fortunately though you are deep in the ring the density of the objects it not too bad, yet.

Medbay / Alandra
The headache and nausea cause a few entry errors locking herself out of the system. Forced to wait she tried but to think to much about what may be happening with the others.

As she waits a could of soft tremors rub through the ship. Collision? Not direct. Still, she hopes someone is awake on the bridge.

When the system finally lets her re-enter the codes she slows down and gets it entered properly. A quick check reveals according to the logs she disabled most of the air scrubbers some rooms ago and quickly she reactivates them as well as increasing circulation after verifying the air is clean and safe. It may take a few minutes for the air to improve.

Engineering / Sam
Sam starts slowly pushing power back to key areas of the ship. First checking life-support sighs with relief as the system registers and increase in use back to normal levels. Sam then moves onto other systems, starting with shields, sensors, propulsion, but leaves internal basic infrastructure (lights, plumbing, wall outlets, etc) and sensors as well as ship external weapons offline for now. Just to be safe.

Bridge / Stinger
As Stinger monitors the ships position as best he can with only visual cues he is elated when he sees power being resorted to the thrusters. However without the use of the ships primary sensors he will have to be very careful. Making a decision Stinger heads towards what he hopes is a the shortest path out of the ring. But without the other external sensors he is unable to product so the motions of the pieces of the ring and several impact the ship's shields before he is able to get clear of it. Fortunately he is able to minimize the impacts so none style the ship itself.

Medbay / Alandra Alandra grabs her kit and slings it around her waist. Moving to the medbay doors she has to unseal them as they are locked down with quarentine procedures. That gave her a slight pause at first but the attacked notes indicate that the contagion was listed ad "Mutiny" so... you grab your collapsable shock staff and extend it before preparing to open the door.

Adonis is creating a message to the crew to gather. Post desired message

Sam is restoring power and but with an unplugged network, which was obviously done by her in a hurry, she has limited information. However she is somewhat relieved when power restored to both life support and thrusters were put to God use. What next...

Stinger is checking nav logs and while most are in tact there are a couple of corrupted FTL entries. He's starts working from the most recent backwards. He starts accessing other logs to try and recreate these and find an officers log. Alanddra is prepping to find the others. There is a basic ship map and list of features available on the ship sheet. Let me know where you're heading and doing

Vague recollection of the ship's launch and crew as well as checking logs reveals that there was a crew of 12 plus the first officer and captain. A bit high for the class of ship but it is a bit bigger as well. The crew roster has been locked out so no names are found except for the captains. Captain Jaxon Thrace

FYI : As this isn't a pirate ship so it is S.O.P to keep weapons locked in the armory. The fact that everyone has they personal weapons indicates things were not good before you lost consciousness

Engineering / Sam
Sam starts a basic systems EWIP (electronic warfare & infiltration prevention) check and instantly finds signs of trojan programs in most of the engineering system. The disturbing thing is that the system only found them because they had been identified previously but not removed. Probing further she identifies that the programs have 2 triggers. The first is an electronic trigger, likely prevented due to the severed network. The second is triggered by a failure to remove the virus. If any of the infected systems are not properly cleaned it will instantly trigger the other systems. Glancing around the room and the disconnected systems Sam gets the idea that she was clearing each system independently. This would greatly reduce the risk of a shipwide cascading failure of all systems. Unfortunately she seems to have been knocked out before she could finish purging engineering.

Looking back over the local logs, and referencing her own internal records Sam realizes this is no random trojan. It was designed with intimate knowledge of the ships systems and controls. If the EWIP systems had not already isolated portions of the infection she is not sure how long it would have taken. Luckily the systems hard coded original templates are still clean. All she will need to do it transfer the updated EWIP database to a single clean system then use that to start restoring the others. Not too hard, but time consuming. The odd thing is that according to the EWIP logs these trojans were inserted after some of the initial system errors. Something else is or was at work. But first things first.

Creating a stand alone EWIP terminal she quickly restores it from the original then updates it. Using this Sam starts cleaning the engineering systems. Isolate, wash, restore, rinse, repeat. Only connecting systems back together once she is sure they are clean.

While the system is doing its thing she has short breathers between bouts of disconnecting and reconnecting cables. Sam takes this time to review what she can of the logs. For some reason an earlier virus, a much cruder version, focused on changing or erasing log entries date fields and indexing while leaving the content alone. She suspects it sent a key to whomever created it so that they could still look over the logs while preventing others from doing the same. However she is able to locate one that seems recent.
Sam is shocked. She likely wrote the entry but it sounds so bleak.

Alandra moves along the dark corridors that are still cold and filled with mostly stale air. It doesn't take too long for her to reach the ship bridge to find the door is locked. She knows she felt the ship move and that means someone on the bridge or in engineering or both.

Adonis makes his way to the bridge, not bothered by the low level lighting and upon reaching the door to the bridge spots the doctor looking at it in annoyance.

Thinking back to before the launch, and your memory loss, you piece together the crew

Stinger opens the door just as Alandra begins tapping and you stare at each other a moment. Vague recollections go through your minds but another headaches distracts you from any solid details.Story moved to new thread TSO: Odyssey Bridge

Avro's intro
Blackness in the middle of stillness is interrupted by a flash of consciousness. Unfortunately consciousness to not ensure enlightenment and chaos if what surges to the surface as you struggle to get a grip on your situation.

Avro comes online and forms from your core. Looking around you are in a small room, probably a closet from the looks of it, and your form glitches as waves of unaligned data is flushed from your core. You have no memory of this room and have no idea how you got here. Thinking back the last clear data point is spotting a ship that looked perfect for your next jaunt. You slipped onboard and then . . . . it all goes fuzzy.

The lights are dim and a quick check reveals the computer will not respond to your voice commands. Moving to the door you are forced to find a manual release to force it open. Outside is what looks to be a bedroom. There is a large pod to one side of the room, bracketed by a couple small dressers or cabinets, as well as two other doors.

Here are some basic game guidelines.

The big gap in your memory persists and is very disconcerting. You find a data pad on the wall over one of the cabinets and walking over take note of the time, then stop in shock.
Date&Time(Odyssey): 16:30 @ 2236-10-03
You are missing more than a month of time from all memory. As you try to recall things you get flashes that shift and are accompanies by an intense level of pain forcing you to cease your recollections, for now.

Looking down into the pod, an advanced medical pod that looks to have independent systems for life support, cryostasis, and even auto doctor features included. Inside you see a man.

According to the pods reading he is in cryostasis and suffering from an infection of some kind.

As you move around the room the lights have slowly increased in illumination allowing you to see personal decorations, including artwork and what looks like family photos. Looking through the cabinets, both of which are unlocked, reveals them to be standard issue storage furniture with 2 small and 1 larger drawer each. In the first you find miscellaneous personal items such as a wristwatch, a journal, and a small lockbox containing currencies and other small items of value such as gold and gemstones. In the second you find a personal data pad, glasses, and a bottle of prescription medication.

The door opens easily to a large room for relaxation or greeting guests. There is another door on the far wall and two others, one to either side, that are currently sealed by heavy blast doors. The rooms has a seating area with a couple chairs, couch, and holo table. The walls are decorated with start charts, art and pictures of astral phenomenon and photos of people. There is also a dining table with a small kitchenette and several cupboards.

You easily find the basic schematic and lean you are indeed in the captains quarters of the ship. However the terminal informs you that "Isolation" protocols are in effect and the captains quarters have been sealed and cut off from the rest of the ship.

The Isolation protocols have entirely broken all physical and electronic connections to the rest of the ship. You will have to find a way to disable the protocol or circumvent individual issues. From what you can see the blast doors are locked and the mechanisms disabled while the physical network and power wires have been disconnected and wireless systems within the captains suite disabled.

Though Avro manages to access portions of the system and electronic controls it proves too complex for minor tinkering to breach.

As you watch you hear work being done on the door and surrounding area for several minutes before a gap appears.