TSO 2: Reclaiming the Odyssey

Within moments Sam bypasses the system software and Alandra points out out what is needed have the system administer the sedatives used to prepare individuals for cryo sleep. As the capsule finishes sealing armor you see the captains eyes slowly close but the crystallization of his body contribute to spread.

Alandra checks the pod and find a couple issues.

First of all the pod is relaxing to much sedative to keep the captain unconscious. Checking the setting she and Sam created to bypass the problems controlling the pod she verifies that it as all correct. But for some reason the captains body is cleaning itself of the sedative faster than it should.

The second issue is that while the sensors and diagnostics systems of the pod are operating normally the control systems are being actively changed or removed. She isn't sure his long the jack will keep the captain sedated but whatever is making the changes hasn't targeted the modifications Sam made yet. Pointing this out to Sam a quick check reveals the system changes are moving down the controls from this with the highest lethality to least. It is as if something is trying to ensure the captain will not die or be killed.

Stinger returns to the bridge and adjusts their orbit a bit before reviewing navigational and sensor logs. It seems the salvage ship is still poking around the gas giant and though it tends to wander it is suspiciously getting closer and closer to the Odyssey. The sensors also show faint records of at least one other ship further in system but there is not enough information to identify it.

Avro accompanies Alandra back to the med bay. With the captains quarters isolated from the rest of the ship Sam can either run a cable to hook into the cryo-pod holding the captain or spend more time reconnecting captains systems back into the ship. In the meantime with a decent amount of data transferred from the cryo-pod to her PDA Alandra is able to have the med bad begin analyzing it as she does a full work up on Avro. You are b bit surprised to learn that while Avro's core shows similar signs of infection from the crystalline pathogen it is almost entirely clear of it now. Checking herself as well Alandra learns her system is similarly clearing up from the infection. However the medbay computers confirm that the captain is heavily infected. The infection has saturated his system to the point that is is now visible to the naked eye. The captain was not being changed and indeed it looks as if the infection was interleaving itself with all the captains organs, bones, and other systems. Unsure what this means Alandra will need to study more.

As Avro watches and learns more about the ships situation she ponders before deciding to tackle the task of aiding the ship systems in reconstructing and reorganizing the ship logs. Learning of the electronic virus that had infected the ship she first ensures her system has an updated firewall and anti-virus database from the ship before plugging in and getting to work.

Sam ensures her and Alandras work will hold. Though not as accurate, with the pods controls being compromised, she ensures the sedative will be continually injected into the captain. However with the pod activating it's armor she will have to break in to refill the chemical reserves it carries or the sedative will run out in a day.

Date&Time(Odyssey): 18:00 @ 2236-10-03

Any specific focus for Alandra and Stinger?
What logs would Avro want to work on first? Medical (help Alandra), Navigation (help Stinger), or general ship logs (recover a general timeline.)
What would Sam and Krom like to do?

Stinger believes he is correct that the salvage ship is indeed sweeping the area, though he can not see the pattern himself, and makes a plan to avoid the salvage ship If you roll low it does not always mean a fail, but there might be some consequence or uncertainty. Do not reroll just due to a low result. I will use the 2nd roll as your stealth maneuver's Plotting a course he moves to another moon of the gas giant. Though space is large it is also mostly empty so while staying out of sight by playing ring around the rosies and using planets and moons to hide behind work's for now it is not a failsafe method. Going back into the rings, landing on one of the moons, or leaving the area of the gas giant entirely may be needed to avoid the salvage ship.

Avro heads to the Rec Room with Krom and digs into the log helping tweak the reconstruction algorithm Sam set up. The two play catch up and read random logs to try and jog their memories while sorting through the ships logs. As far as they can tell the series of events went something like this See the TSO : Odyssey page Ship Log section for details. Let me know if you want more detail on any specific point.
1. Ship launch with crew records not listing Avro. As far as you can tell she was never listed on ship records and as she was found in the captain's quarters you assume she stayed in there? Avro has only vague memories of other portions of the ship and a good impression of the captain, but again without clear memories. There must have been a reason for her being hidden and isolated but this is still unclear.
2. Regular shake down of the new ship and crew activities proceeded for several days/weeks
3. The ship moved to fringe space and started a survey of the area
4. Anomalous readings were detected and tracing them lead to the artifact
5. The ship started experiencing minor malfunctions and people started having behavioral am memory issues. The first records of the crystalline were recorded
6. The distress beacon turned out to be a ploy to draw the Odyssey in and the ship was attacked and Artifact stolen
7. Attempting to flee the hyperdrive was activated after driving off the pirates. However this caused it to overload and scramble the records. Likely the pirates planted something in the ship's systems during the assault to do this.
8. Now in this unknown system the 1st officer lead a mutiny against the captain but was driven off and fled with the shuttle. The crew that stayed aboard were forced to stay in emergency pods as the environmental systems were compromised by the doctor to drive the mutinists away. As Krom was not in one of these he likely suffered from this and is why he had a harder time recovering and would have died was he not been so tough.
9. You all woke up with a massive memory gap and now need to find a way home.

Alandra works on the medical log and learns that this recent rediscovery may be key in putting past records together. With the understanding that the infection can rapidly spread through and/or leave a person's system some previous inconsistencies begin to make more sense and she is confident on her records recovery. A suspicion enters her mind and she sets up several tests and is slightly surprised by the results. The crystal infection does not move randomly as most virus and bacterial infections. Though it does tend to cluster on neural tissue, not that uncommon on certain types of infections, it does not react the same to all neural cells. Reviewing all the scans of the crew, before and after waking recently, she determines that the infection is moving in what can only be a deliberate way as if collectively conscious and searching for something. Using her portable scanners she begins sweeping various sections of the ship and remaining crew. Though the infection is still present everywhere a clear concentration can be seen in the captains quarters and scan over time show it to be moving to focus in the area.

Meanwhile Sam continues checking on the captains pod as the system appears to have an infection of some sort. A quick inspection reveals that the computer virus that infected the rest of the ship does not seem to be present, or at least not active. A full scan of the independent computer system in the captain's quarters would need to be run to ensure it is not there. As she is looking over the pod and other systems of the captains quarters she notices that some sections of the pods circuits are showing traces of crystallizing similar to the captain.

You all rest for the night.
Chronometer(Odyssey): 06:00 @ 2236-10-04

Alandra's simulations indicated that though the captains entire body is physically being interlaced by the crystal life form his cells and neural functions appear intact. However she can not determine how much control of his body the captain may still have and the crystals and growing throughout his entire body. Simply stopy the medication and slowly reversing the cryostasis effects should fully revive him. Curious Alandra returns to the pod for an updated analysis and though the pod remains sealed she is able to perform a scan using her portable equipment and determines that the crystal is mimicking or even enhancing the captains biological functions, blood is being pumped, air exchanged as needed, etc. However she notes that the crystals are drawing and conducting electrical energy throughout the body and using this to power their functions.

Sam does a quick check, after noticing the earlier alterations to the ship, and verifies that the captains quarters are indeed currently physically and electronically isolated. Though the crystallization has definitely fulling "infected" the cryo pod and is slowly spreading to connected systems in the captain's quarters it will have a harder time spreading to the rest of the ship if it follows its current growth pattern of following circuits and cables. With a few tests Sam also confirms that she can clean off the crystallization but the process is tedious and she is uncertain if she can stay ahead of the whole thing. However if you can continue to direct it to one location she might be able to contain it and clear the rest fo the ship. The problem would be that the captains quarters are a bit big and even dumping the cryo pod would require cutting open the hull, though Sam knows exactly where she would need to cut to do so without affecting ship systems.

Chronometer(Odyssey): 08:00 @ 2236-10-04