TSO 2: Reclaiming the Odyssey

Currently the sensors are simply locked out by either the first officer or captain. You can try and bypass the security lock.
This will be faster than cleaning the entire thing. Though none of you are master programmers with an engineer and at least one bridge crew you have a decent chance. Standard test for any/all who which to assist.

At this range without the full sensor suite you only get a rough idea of the ships power output and speed which allows a rough guess to its mass. The ship is well over double your mass. If it truly is a simple salvage ship then it likely has a small crew and large cargo space with variety of tools and scanners. But that is all guesswork for now.

Together Stinger and Adonis figure they can set up a simple ping announcement and tie it into the PA to help you keep track of the ship, or any other moving power source. This should only take about 5 minutes. The faster the ping the closer the ship, the louder the ping the more power it is outputting. That is the best you can do for now without continuously monitoring the scanner raw data and making continual calculations.

In the meantime Stinger is thrilled to find that though he can't map out the rings of the gas giant he can at least monitor a much larger area manually. This should let him maneuver through them should the need arise.

The thrusters are fine but FTL is a problem without full system repairs. The stealth engines are given a quick check and seem fine as are shields and cloaking. But with all the sections locked out by the officers you are not certain and it will take a full system diagnostic to get there.

Fortunately the Engineering system has an initial revision to clean the EV from infected systems. You begin with a all portable devices and tag ones that are clean to help keep track of the work. Everyone's personal portable devices are now cleaned of the EV and have limited resistance. The EW/AV system should be able to remove the EV by the end of the day but that would still leave the officer security lock out you will need to bypass by resetting each system, though that will be a lot quicker once you fully restore the ships internal system network.

Chronometer(Date&Time): 04:35 @ 2236-10-03

Give me rolls for stealth, cloaking and piloting into the rings

With about an hour before the ship arrives you head back into the ring system. With system integration and automation offline due to the security lockouts Stinger will have to pilot the entire time manually. Not used to such limited ship systems he has to focus the entire time and you have a couple close calls. Luckily most objects within the ring system are in stable orbits and once Stinger finds a good spot the shields should prevent any minor incidents. Taking a look at the cloaking system you find much of the same situation. Full system integration is offline due to all the system lock outs put in place by the captain and first officer. Sam and Alandra do what they can and though they get it online stable and you are confident you hid your presence before moving too deeply into the ring system, you're not sure how well it will work against full active sensors.

As Stinger moves the ship into the rings Alanadra and Sam get to work fully cleaning the defensive systems and finish up after 45 minutes, just before the salvage ship arrives. Now in the rings and cloaked you have a bit of safety. Unfortunately the scanners often lose contact with the salvage ship due to interference from the rings and so only get intermittent data.

Chronometer(Date&Time):04:20 @ 2236-10-03