TSO 2: Reclaiming the Odyssey

The crew heads toward the bridge, the command and control center of the ship

01:45 @ 2236-10-03

Stinger opens the door just as Alandra begins tapping and you stare at each other a mooment. Vague recolections go through your minds but another headach distracts you from any solid details.With life support moving to reclaim the ship, lights coming back on, and a trio of survivors now on the bridge you feel a sence of hope and control over what was chaos and the unknown when you awoke.

Moving to your respective terminals on the bridge you find that the majority of ships systems are still locked out but you have sub-light thrusters, shields, and life supports. From what you can tell something in engineering is working on resoting ships systems but all attempts to reach engineering and all sensors to it have been cut. The emergency allert system may still be connected in there but you have no way of knowing.

Adonis works on getting external and internal sensors back online Roll a 2 tests, add aproach details if you have any ideas and aplicable traits/background

Stinger has been able to reconstuct the ships flight path within this system and found records of the ship stationing itself over a habitable plannet for a couple of days before heading to orbit this gass giant. You can roll to help with resotoring sensors ro continue to dig into the logs. Let me know.

Alandra checks over the condition of the others. Though Adonis is an inorganic her instruments have his vitals on file and she is able to determin that he is working within normal parameters. Scans of Stinger rveal he is also healthy but that he suffered recent trama indicative of oxogen deprivation. Apparently the bridge O2 levels dipped to low whne life-support was reduced but there are no signs of permanant damage. There are howerver signs of both his and her own body fighting the same infection. Odd. Few infections can cross alien physiology. She say signs of this in medbay but as it was not a major concern at the tme had moved on to more pressing matters. Roll test to diagnose the infection and/or recover previous logs on it. Same as with Addonis roll and add details

Adonis scans the others and for a biefest instance his visor flickers into an unknown mode. I converts the entire roome into wireframs figures but highlights points or light, that Adonis realizes are floating in the air and clustered in the bodies of the others. Before he can react to look at himself the visor reverts to passive mode and his sight returns to normal.
Checking internal sensors he finds they are still locked out but he figures that once they get the entire crew they might be able to do some adjustments to the ship roster to get around the lockout. As he tries varies systems his access does give him access to he notices that all of engineering is entirely offline. It is not locked out like most of the rest but just unresponsive. Battle damage perhaps? The thsters worked and power is getting to the rest of the ship so at least the reactor is working.

After investigating he concludes that both the officers either took turns locking down systems or ech was trying to lock out the other. Firts officer and captains at odds, a mutiny, and you are all here on the abandoned ship. If you can get to the main processor and reset it to factory default from the hardcoded backup you might be able to designate a new captain and reset all the system lockouts. That will take some time but without a system analyst you lack the skill to circumvent the ships security measures.

Alondra After scanning the others and treating minor ailments, the others being more or less health given their situation, Alondra tries to scann deeper. The med bay scanners can do better but are also slower. A quick scan reveals that all on teh bridge are suffering the same infection, even the Autoborg coms officer AAdonis. Narowing it by comparison you isolate a crystalin life form that binds to nerves and circuits alike. As you scan you find signs os a treatment applied within the last week. Syncing your PDA with a general purpose terminal on the bridge you check with the medbay logs and find teh formula for the treament and are able to access the logs.
Though the source of the infection is never identified there is an exhaustive study of the infection before the treatment was developed. The treatment limits the growth of the infectioon but also has negative effect on those being treates as the treatmetn is very painful, even to teh Autoborg. The treatment was a stop gap to give extra time for additional analasys. only it looks like whatever that was got wiped form the system along with most of the recorded data on the infection.

Fortunatlely Alondra had a habit of adding tidbits of her daily rutine to her own diary. She should be able to write a simpe search to help retrieve data from that, once she gets it straightened out. It too has had its key works and date index stripped from the system. A recoery program might help but tough no novice to basic programs Alandra is no hacker or system admin.

Working together you gain access to
1. Basic Propulsion
2. Short range sensors & Camouflage holograms
3. Limited internal sensors (cameras, motion sensors, and intercom)
4. Basic navigation logs
5. Shield controls & Cloaking
6. Short Range Communications
7. Life Support
8. Medical bay: Sensors, treatment pot, & Records (There are signs of tampering but this is in better shape than other logs)
9. Personal crew and public ships logs but all of the dates are scrambled and some entries seem to be corrupted.
As much as you try you find that there are some systems the three of you can not access
1. Engineering
2. Astrogation and FTL logs
3. Weapons
4. Long Range Communications
5. First officers & Captains rooms and logs
6. Full internal sensors

Assessing the ships status, as best you can you learn
1. The ships shuttle is missing
2. One of the cargo holds external doors was forcibly breached and is now sealed/welded shut
3. Signs of heavy battle are centered around the cargo hold but there are signs of small weapons use throughout the ship
4. You have plenty of food, water, and other basic supplies, but limited fuel at the moment (2/10). You will need to go to engineering and get it back online for more
5. The ship has some minor damage, mostly on propulsion, that was more severe but was repaired at some point

Sam enters the bridge and feels a sense of relief. Even though she can't recall the last six weeks her previous memories are still six weeks old and older. Vague recollections of crew briefings and social minglers where they all met, trained, and got to know each other.

The others have similar experiences. It's like the longer you are up and focusing on event the more you can recall. As Alandra runs her scans on Sam she finds similar results to the others. With all the cybernetic implants in the engineer it may be that analyzing her is the key to finding out more about the crystalin infections. Checking her logs on Sam, now that she can trigger of of her current scans she finds promising notes in her records. However additional research and testing will be needed before she is willing to enact another treatment. For this she will need to get the medbay back to full functionality, try to find any early samples to see if the infection has any mutations before or after the first treatment and then revise her notes proposed treatment plan based on those findings. The notes look promising and the current infection is not too bad so there must be something missing in the logs she has uncovered to cause her to try the stop-gap treatment instead of waiting for a complete cure.

As Alondra scan Sam and explains a bit about the crystalin virus Sam takes a look at the med PDA and compares the virus to her own systems diagnostics. While the crystalline virus (CV) has been causing some of the system glitches on the ship they are not related to the log file corruption and software virus (SV) which from what the two can determine was inserted into the system before the CV. While the CV is a concern the SV may actually be a larger threat at this time and is impeding work to resolving the CV infection.

Sam has cleared engineering and all of her tools of the SV so needs to be careful when connect any of her diagnostics tools to the ships systems or risking spreading the SV further.

Stinger, as a pilot, may have not been paying attention in the training sessions before the crew launched and so missed the fact that the ships fuel is generated by the Reactor. The cargo hold could have some spare fuel but with the reactor online there is no reason for you to be out of fuel. Unless there is another problems preventing the reactor from filling the fuel tanks.

The others are able to quickly pick up the minor task of isolating systems and helping Sam ash she preps to reinitialize the medbay. Alandra backs up all log to simple formats that can be cleaned and transferred to the reinitialized system. By the end of the hour engineering and the medical bay are both deemed sanitized and Alondra has a basis for further testing with a single physically isolated terminal in the room left with the original medical logs.

While backing up and cleaning what she can Alondra finds another interesting record.
While doing this it is decided to backup all logs to a stand alone system and isolate it from the rest of the ship. This will let you try and recover data on it without re-infecting active systems. However without the full processing power of the ship this would be slowed down. The bigger the system used for this purpose the quicker and more accurate the data recovery of the existing logs will go. The two least critical system is the Rec. Room its media library has the capacity to hold the entire ships backup if needed so Stinger and Adonis work on that.

Stinger finds another record that may be relevant as it indicates astral navigation was lost shortly after the attack. Perhaps the virus was injected into the ship systems by the attackers?
As they work Adonis notes that the ship is detecting in system coms chatter but can not pinpoint the location or content with the current stat of the ship systems

Sam theorizes she may be able to clear the trojan once the EIW AI finishes a full analysis of the SV. But for now this is the best solution without the risk of data loss and further system corruption.

With all key data of navigation, communications, astrogation, and medical logs backup up you can now move to the other systems. The other quickly learn how to help with the minor, though exhaustive task of disconnecting all system interfaces and each additional heler can cut the time for Sam to repair another system by 25%. You move on the Life support as the next most key system but then need to pick a priority.

Chronometer(Date&Time): 02:45 @ 2236-10-03

Adonis is still unable to access internal scanners other than the cammerals, motion sensors, and audio feeds in all the public areas. Maybe once Same initializes those and integrates them the ship system you can do that. Or you can try to use life-support monitors to isolate life forms.

Alandra begins checking records for mention of the artifact and finds something pertinent

Sam and Alandra get to work on the galley, a minor system but one with some spare memory and processing power that Alandra could start to use once it is tied into the medbay.

Stinger joins back up with Adonis in the bridge where he finds the autoborg still working on sensors but the increased in system comms chatter is increasing in frequency. Stinger thinks back to their initial position and predicament. The mutineers that fled were heading to a habitable planet and what little he sees in the logs that was likely further in system. So why would they be near the gas giant and its rings? He best guess it that they may have been trying to use the rings to hide. And if there is in system chatter it means either the mutineers are talking with someone else or a couple of new variable need to be added to the mix. But without external sensors or the full comms system up and working to descramble the messages you have no idea who or what they are and what they might intend.

Adonis tries a bit more before realizing that with the ship in its current state internal scans are impossible. Patching basic alerts from the comms station into the PA system, as both are still tied to the bridge, simple tones let you know that whomever is out there is talking back and forth frequently.

Moving to assist Sam you are able to get the galley done and move on to the individual rooms. All of this is finished up in under 1 hour except for access to the officers quarters is still locked out and would take time to physically bypass.

While the comms system is functional the lack of sensors to fine tune the output forces Adonis to simply acknowledge them with a simple broadcast signal.
Anything in particular you wish to say? Comms are working so you can Tx and Rx but can not do anything fancy at the moment.

Adonis speaks through the comms. "Unknown vessel, please identify yourself."

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

Sam is able to access the scanners but hits the same block of needing to control things manually. Until all systems are restored and integrated then there is limited functionality for system automation and integration. Ex Sensors are used by Navigation and Weapons but both Weapons and Navigations have their own dedicated sensors.

None of these systems have the full dedicated computation power to operate at 100% without the ship computer system (Bridge). Engineering has the backups, provides power, etc but it does not have the computation power to support all the systems.

The scanners are physically fine but have the virus and lockouts on some features. Sam is able to bypass the lockout and gain direct access to the scanners and Holo-projectors in a couple of minutes but to clean the virus you will either need to either wait for engineering to finalize the virus removal procedure or take them down entirely to purge the virus and remove all locks. If you take scanners offline now then Stinger would have a much harder time navigating as he would be reduced to driving by camera again until they came back up. (30 minutes with the help of Adoniz and Alandra)

Stinger focuses on driving and just stays in the pocket with minor updates to his position.I am assuming you are trying to lay low so relying on passive sensor and your stealth system combined with the ring system to hide and wait. Alandra and Stinger are working on this. Sam is working on sensors but I need to know what you want to do. Full reset 45 minutes with Adonis help, or 30 with Alondra as well, during which you are essentially blind. Minor improvement to system performance and integration to stealth/navigation.

If you give we a plan of action and/or time frame to work with I will alert you if/when anything changes.

Sam spends the next few minutes and gets basic access to the weapons. (updated on the ship) As the system is still locked down targeting is a bit off but you all feel better knowing that you have defense, mobility, and offense.

As the Holo emitters are tied to the sensor system you will need to take the entire system offline to clear the virus and lockouts but Sam does manage to access the external Holo emitters. They are in a similar state to the stealth system in that they can be activated but not automated yet. As you with on this you detect active scans sweep the area again. roll for the Holo emitters.
If successful then rolls for stealth gain advantage

With both the stealth and Holo systems active you are confident their scans will not be able to find you in the rings. If the salvage ship is still en route to you it should arrive any minute. Their scans continue to sweep the area but they are likely expanding their search as they sweep your area less often.
Chronometer(Date&Time): 04:30 @ 2236-10-03

You remain allert and on the bridge a few minutes more .. .And while one of the scans sweeps directly over you your stealth and camouflage seting are stable and you feel confident they found nothing. After several tense minutes you begin to relax.

During the wait you look around for a location you can hide the ship while you work on restoring the rest of the major systems. Staying in the ring system while blind or imobile is not a good idea. While the ship can move in atmosphere it is not fast or maneuverable while doing so. The gas giant would crush the ship if it went too low but there are a couple moons that you can go to . Fortunately the shields and cloaking system are now fine so you can simply move out of the rings and orbit the gas giant.

Where do you want to park for repairing the engines and scanners and possibly the rest of the ship while you are at it?

The engines, scanners, and weapons are the last major system that need to be reset. Other than those you still need to reset the internal security(armory) and reset the primary computers on the bridge. All the jobs will take about 1/2 hour each with two people helping Sam. Adding a third would do little so 1 can remain on the bridge or in engineering to monitor things or finish checking out the rest of the ship

Chronometer(Date&Time): 04:40 @ 2236-10-03

Waiting out the salvage ships and moving to a good orbit takes over half an hour so Adonis accompanies Alandra to the cargo bay. Looking around they see no one in the large room but both recall that there are also 2 smaller storage rooms for food and ship supplies towards the back of the ship. See map on ship sheet

Alandra makes her way to the storage rooms and soon finds Krom.

As Adonis and Alandra greet their new / old crewmate Sam starts preparing to finish clearing the major ship systems of the computer virus and security lock-outs as Stinger finishes positioning the ship into a stable orbit with a good safety margin while the engines will be offline.

Helping the large Tyranax to the medbay Alandra performs a preliminary scan reveals that they have suffered near fatal wounds as well as the same infection that afflicts the rest of the crew. Once in the medbay and into the treatment tank Krom quickly falls back to sleep and a deeper scan reveals multiple trauma, including dehydration and near starvation, that will require hours of treatment to fully recover.

Under Sam's directions several of you work to finish purging the computer virus from all systems while others scour the ship from prow to stern. Working for a bit over 2 hours you settle back now with a clean and factory default ship save a few problems. Gathering together with the now much recovered Krom in the recreation room you take stock.

Chronometer(Date&Time): 07:00 @ 2236-10-03

Only the recreation, which is completely isolated form the rest of the ship systems, still holds the virus room which is now acting as archive and investigation center for the last 6 weeks. Other than that you find you are unable to access the captains and officers quarters. Both the starboard cargo bay doors and air locks have been patched to cover forced entry breaches and will requires extensive metal work, mechanical repair, and electronic replacements before either will work. The shuttlebay is empty and shows signs of some tampering on the doors and egress, which you figure was used to access the area then leave the ship without the captains permission.

Though the ship has no real internal sensors save the cameras, microphones, and motion, and other basic sensors in the public areas and at key point, Alandra is now able to tie those in with the life support sensors and has been able to determine that the only other life sign is actually coming from the captains room. The life signs are odd and is is suspected that the captain is in a personal stasis chamber similar to the emergency capsules several of you were in.

Most of the time is spent working on repairing systems but you have a few minutes between tasks to set up a basic diagnostics and repair routine on the recreation room system and it chugs away while you work.A couple other personal logs, still somewhat scrambled, reveal the initial days of ship life seemed normal enough

Now that all the systems have been cleared and reset Stinger sets a simple autopilot program. Adonis configures a stealth profile and enables multiple basic sensor alerts to sound ship wide. Let me know if you want to activate the holo emitters as well and if you have any specific profiles you want the scanners to alert you on. Alandra starts a full internal medical scan. Note that while the automated systems are fairly reliably, they are not infallible. Ex: any station not manned can be overcome by a standard NPC Test Krom explains to the other how to set a few basic weapons profiles and performs a basic targeting diagnostic to ensure the weapons system in fully integrated with ship sensors properly.

Sam is able to firewall but not clean the recreation rooms' entertainment system. Once the EWIS ai finished it's analysis of the virus you can scan the infected records. In the meantime with the firewall in place you it should be good enough to let Alandra shift through the jumble of logs manually or use a search algorithm to try and start sifting the records.

Heading to the captains quarters Sam is slightly surprised to find after factory security measures installed on both doors to the captain's suite. The only way in is physically breaching the doors. The tools in engineering will allow this. With Stingers help you fetch the tools and dig into the walls to force the doors open. Sam is confident she can get the doors open but is not fully aware as the captain's suites security measures are not on her own or the ship records so does not know how they system might react. It is obvious however that the rooms have their own life support and while they draw power from the ship they also have their own power reserves. The doors are not yet open as Alandra and Adonis halt the work before Sam finishes their attempts to force entry
Chronometer(Date&Time): 07:30 @ 2236-10-03

After the scanners were repaired and the bridges computer systems brought back online one of the first things you did was instruct the computers to begin collecting basic solar system information using your passive sensors. I will try to always differentiate between passive (look/listen) and active (shine a light over there) sensors. Any time you scan something I will assume it is active, as they have much better detailed information, unless you state otherwise.
System information has been added to the Odyssey sheet under Ship Status & History

As Sam works on the doors she finds they have been completely removed from the ship command control structure so that none of the commands she knows work. The entire control system for the doors had been re-written.
Fortunately she if familiar with their design and is able to perform a low level hack and disable the locks power so they can be pushed open.

Room 1: Officer's Quarters As the door is forced open the lights flicker several times then stay on at a muted level but still bright enough to see everything. As an officer she enjoyed the use of the entire room, an oval area 600', for herself but left it open without any partitions. Elara Vraspe's quarters are meticulously organized, reflecting her disciplined and tactical mindset. The room is furnished with a standard-issue bed with a night stands on either side, a meditation mat, a desk with a holographic interface, a shower cubicle, closset, drawers, and a recliner next to a shelf filled with physical paper books.

First Officer Elara's Quarters
Stinger looks over the shelves that houses tens or possibly hundreds of book. One of the upper shelves are are heavy tomes that look old but well preserved. There are a couple shelves of hardback books, ranging from textbooks, references, and some classics. The rest are smaller soft bound books and range from flirtatious and/or steamy romance novels to historical fiction, and current and historical science fiction. Not seeing anything of note he begins looking through the drawers.

The bedside drawers are simple and contain a variety of personal items, including a locket with a picture of a loved one, a small journal, some cosmetics, perfume, and pain killers.

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Medicalbay
Alandra heads back to the medbay and checks on Krom. The computer and instruments are still analyzing the crystalin virus. However she does note that the environmental system has identified the CV is airborne. However will the ships logs still corrupted she only has hours worth of data so is unable to determine how long it will persist in air. By now Krom is doing much better and though still sore and tired Alandra deems him fit to move now if he feels the need. Chronometer(Date&Time): 07:45 @ 2236-10-03

You suspect the tome is made of leather by the feel of it and you shudder at using animal skin in such a fashion in the current age. Opening it you see it is written in an unknown language and looks to be an original text or vry convincing recreation as it appears to be hand written and the paper is quite old.

Amanda can likely analyze the pain killers and Sams pulls out a sanner from one of her pockets and determines the locket to be simple jewelry with a picture of the same person in the table top picture frame. The journal contains notes and you start to read more on detail...

Elara Vraspe's Journal Entries placed in Player Notes

First Officers Quarters
Searching the bookshelf reveals them to be a bunch of books. The only odd part is the wide variety of subjects. From modern electronics and programming to classic and even archaic works. You do find it interesting that the desk system is independent of the ship network but it does have a wireless interface witch is currently physically disconnected and has several encrypted partitions. However without a key accessing them is impossible. The desk access is restrictions/encryptions can be removed by electronic, biometric, or password keys.

Others search the room and find that when one of the closets is opened there is another door with a sophisticated lock that has been added behind the first. Sam is getting annoyed at all these aftermarket modifications to the ship and wonders just how much effort was put into this mission that was supposed to be a simple trial run of a new ship design with some basic exploration. The locked cabinet within the closet is anchored to the walls and built of high durability materials and the door and lock are very sophisticated.

As Stinger searches the room he finds a small mark on a wall panel. Curious he looks closer and finds that the panel shows a slight variation to the others and with a bit of effort figures out how to press on a corner of it to get it to pop open and reveal a safe embedded into the wall.

The locker in the closet requires a digital key while the wall safe is a simple numeric keypad that could be programed with a code from 2 to 30 digits. Both will require some work and a roll or two to bypass

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Stinger tries a number sequence, using basic information on the 1st officer and quickly determines it is 10 digit code.
Upon entering the third try there is a faint pop sound and a puff of vapor is emitted from the safe. Stinger need to roll a save Test At the same time Adonis's visor picks up a short but powerful EM spike from the safe. Roll a test to gain info on the visors readings

Stinger's quick reflexes allow him to dodge most of the vapors but he still feels light headed for about a minute Adonis alerts the others to the fact that the safe is not emitting a pulse signal. Together you work on the safe until your are able to open it. The contents inside are revealed to include a data chip, a small, high-powered laser pistol, and a fake identification card.

The data chip is a standard design so Sam just gets a dataslate and ensures its wireless interface is disabled, and even blacklists it from the ship network before inserting the chip into it. Most of the chip is encrypted so cracking it without access to the ships network will be slow but possible. Sam starts the slate working on this while Adonis begins setting up a profile on Elara to hopefully speed up cracking the chips encrypted contents. Once the ships systems have finished updating the Anti-virus protocols to clean and block the EWI attack you will be able to finish the job.

You do find that the chip has half of a back door protocol that would allow Elara to send and receive private encrypted messages using the ships long range communications without leaving a trace. Chip content posted to player notes HERE By this time you are all a bit exhausted even though you have only been conscious for a couple of hours. Adonis offers to stay on the bridge while the rest of you get some much needed sleep. By time you wake you should be able to finish getting the ship fully integrated and start digging into the medical records with the upgraded computer security and anti-virus tools that engineerings computers has been working on.
Chronometer(Date&Time): 07:55 @ 2236-10-03

Date&Time(Odyssey): 16:05 @ 2236-10-03

After getting some sleep Stinger spends several minutes working on the locker and eventually breaks it open with some tools from engineering and Sam's help. Inside, you find advanced infiltration gear, including a stealth suit, high-tech lockpicks, encrypted communication devices, and detailed schematics of the ship. There is also slots for other things which are now missing.

Adonis reports that the ships EW systems have finished updating and starting scanning all existing systems and firewalled all personal devices until they can be scanned and have their own firewalls and EW suites updated as well. He helps Alandra set the parameters for scanning and recovering data from the backup you stored in the recreation room systems. While doing this he recovers a record of a detected distress signal. Krom is now feeling much better and helps check the logs for the tactical system as he is the most familiar familiar with them and is able to recover additional information about the attack.

Date&Time(Odyssey): 16:05 @ 2236-10-03

With all the ships systems now online and having had a good nights rest you gather in the galley to talk over breakfast. The ship has been fully explored save the captains quarters and all major systems are functioning within normal tolerances save the hyperdrive which is offline and thus prevents you from leaving the system via hyperspace. There are scrappers wandering the area and possibly the ship that attacked you, not to mention the other half of the crew that left with the shuttle and from what you can tell took it to the first planet, which is the only one with decent temperatures and atmosphere, though the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th all show signs of likely having been life bearing at some point in the past. You are currently in orbit of the 7th planet, the only gas giant and through your cloaking technology is decent you likely only remain undiscovered due to your location, immobility, and low power inactivity.

Though you all had troubled sleep most of the dreams and jumbled recollections are incoherent

Date&Time(Odyssey): 16:25 @ 2236-10-03

Krom and CZ530 head to the captain's quarters and find the doors locked and a quick inspection reveals that the only thing that seems to be active at the doors is the intercom. Though the control panels have power the doors themselves are totally unresponsive. Sam's previous investigation indicated that there were some modifications to the captains' suite including enhanced security and it independant systems not tied to the rest of the ship.

Once at the bridge Stinger begins reconstructing the ships navigation logs. The virus did an annoyingly thorough job of scrambling the information and he can see that it will take some time for a clear picture to be created.

Sam and Alandra check both of the docking bays and other than the fact that one of them is damaged, but repairable with a couple hours work, find nothing of interest. The cargo hold, which spans all 3 decks, is largely unused. What you do find are scattered tools and crates and their contents tossed around. Though it looks like some effort to straighten the cargo hold was done at some point it was no organized and you find yourself digging through various items including rocks, dirt, sections of stonework, bio sample canisters and other miscellaneous scraps of things crushed or blasted by weapons fire.

Stinger continues working on recreating the ships travels in this system. The more he does so the quicker it becomes but it is still like working on a jigsaw puzzle.

Alandra finds that most of the bio sample containers were ruined but some remain intact. The contents look to be a mix of standard samples that were exposed to alien environments, alien flora and fauna, and several fossilized and skeletal remains. As she examines the the skeletons she notices that all show signs of crystalline structures growing in, on, and through them. A quick scan indicates that the crystals are the same as the infection of the ship and crew but are inert. Placing the samples in the medical bay for future analysis she continues her work.

Sam on the other hand has confirmed that all of the maintenance drones are offline and likely scrapped. They would have been nice to help clean the cargo bay but Sam figures she used them in the fight with the mutineers. Inspecting the damaged cargo bay door she determines it will require a major overhaul. She might be able to get it to open but doubts it will seal properly until repaired at a repair dock and writes it off as best left closed and sealed for now.

Krom figures he can simply cut open the captains doors but that might get Sam mad at him. Forcing them open after cutting just the locking mechanism might also work. Other than that it would take more technical skill than Krom knows.

With the ships systems online and integrated once more it is a matter of time before the records are recovered. However a full reconstruction of any/all logs is unlikely. Alandra does find records of a procedure plan using advanced neurostimulators and guided hypnosis to help recover and prevent further memory loss. You decide to do a sweep of the ship once more, just to be sure, now that the limited internal sensors are back up.

As you scour the ship for other anomalies the signs of battle and hasty repair triggers memories the conflict that begin to sort themselves into two separate events. The first must have happened before the mutiny and you recall the ship being boarded by unknown assailants. The attackers were highly coordinated and used advanced technology to overwhelm the crew quickly. As you compare notes you readily identify that the assailants were focused on retrieving the artifact. Other than that they only spent time dealing with trained and or armed individuals. Though the crew fought valiantly the attackers managed to escape with it the artifact after wounding several of the crew. The mutiny was quicker but even more brutal, as evidenced by Krom being left for dead and the drastic measures used to drive off the other crew members.

With the sweep complete you gather at the captains doors to open them by skill or force if needed.

As you examine the doors you hear faint tapping from the other side
" . . . _ _ _ . . . " a pause then repeat " . . . _ _ _ . . . "

After spending several minutes doing what she can to bypass the door locks Sam is able to insert a tool into the doors and braces her arms then with a cybernetic augmented flex she is able to finally get the doors open. Inside you see a large room for relaxation or greeting guests. There are two doors, one to either side, and another on the far side of the room that is still sealed with blast doors. 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.

In the middle of the room stands a figure.

Date&Time(Odyssey): 16:45 @ 2236-10-03

Alandrea finds a human male that matches the captain from what records she has been able to recover is in stasis and infected similar to the rest of you. However the pod indicates the captain can not be revived due to ongoing treatment for previous injuries. However all it notes is that the captain authorized full life saving measures. At the time of entering stasis he suffered from minor blast burns, a stab wound, and the virus. While the stab and burns have been treated the virus is still present and the pod diagnostics has logged increasing severity of issues simply flagged "Anomalous".

A quick check from Sam reveals that the stasis pod has not been infected. Moving to the other systems Sam is elated to find that all of the systems of the captains suite are fully intact with no sign of any of the computer virus or it's scrambling effects. This is likely due to the fact that the captain's quarters are entirely independent, another post production modification. Though the systems do not have a full copy of the ships logs it does have the captains as well as a few key items. With this you should be able to speed and improve the reconstruction of the other corrupted ship logs.As Sam and Alandra check the systems Stinger does a quick check of the 3 rooms while Krom sits with Avro in the captains lounge. CZ530 starts looking into systems once Sam declares them safe.

As you chat a sudden beeping from the captains sleeping quarters catches your attention. As you investigate you find tha tthe cryo pod is blinking multiple lights and sounding a variety of allarms. Rushing over Alandra moves to check on the system only to see something odd through the view window. Inside the pod the captain has opened his eyes. But according to the pod controls he should still be in cryo-stasis. Even more disconcerting is that the captains eyes have entirely turns a pale blue. As you look on the color spreads and soon the eyes and much of the face gleam in the ship lights looking more crystalline than human.

The pod reports the same as before except the captain appears to be conscious as indicated by neutral activity though his heart is beating only about once a minute as is standard for cryo sleep. You try to look deeper and all you discover is his skin composition is slowly changing to a crystallin state. You attempt to get a sample but the pods controls do not respond though the sensors and status functions remain responsive.

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

Alandra rifle through the captain's log and find several points of interest

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Sam check at the request of Alandra and Stinger and verifies that the pod is self sufficient enough to sustain the captain's life if ejected from the ship into any but the most hostile environments. Alandra works with her to wrig up remote telemetry and coms to the pod to allow the ship to monitor the captain if they decide to proceed with this plan. The crystal has continued to spread through the captain and circuitry of the pod. Unfortunately with this extensive growth Alandra is uncertain of any way to remove the crystal, reverse its growth, or redirect it. She can keep the captain alive and wake him up but that is all she is certain of.

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Though Avro is not able able to get any concrete records on the artifact itself she is cobles together several logs that mention it.

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Less interested in the process of the ongoing investigation than the end result Krom heads to the bridge to help Stinger to reduce the tedium and strain of bridge watch so they can swap of as needed and consult each other should the need arise. Unfortunately there seems to be little to do at this stage as Stinger has put them well away from any detected nearby ships. Together Stinger and the security officer find a suitable site for the work on one of the outer moons. Its low gravity will make any work on the ship and extracting the pod simpler. Plotting a route to avoid detection they bring the Odyssey into orbit of the small and baren moon.

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

One of the two docking bay is damages, similar with the cargo doors. One of each is still fully functional. The damaged ones were "patched" by sealing them shut. Both can likely be repaired but that would require extensive work on the damaged doors.

The captain is still alive and thus in need of life support, as far as you can tell. The pod will sustain him for day at least without issue.

As best Avro can tell from the ship records and consulting with the sabotage was a hardware device planted on one of the engines. As soon as the hyperdrive began pulling power and setting the destination it was triggered to overload the drive and corrupt the hyperlane database. Sam may be able to get the drive working, with enough time, but the loss of the navigation database from Elarr's virus and the loss of the hyperlane data due to the pirate attack means all you can do is point at some star and go, without any certainty as the getting closer to or further from known space. You ma be able to reconstruct some known star systems and try to find them but that will take time. Avro sets up a basic reconstruction algorithm for the astrogation and hyperlane records and pushes it into the ship systems to be processed along with everything else.The Odyssey begins scanning the small moon for a good spot to drop the captain.

Anything else or move on to extracting the captain and his pod from the ship. The captains quarters has a door to the upper area of the cargo bay and can be extracted out that way but it will still require some work on his bedroom doorway to extract.

Finding a decent spot you begin the work of disconnecting the cryo pod from the ship power and structure. As you work on it Sam finds that the crystal growth has already extended along both the power and data cables connecting the cryo pod to the captains quarters systems. A quick check reveals that the crystalline growth is actually quite extensive throughout the captains quarters but has not spread beyond due to it's isolated nature and is mostly focused around the pod but slowly infecting all other systems in the captains quarters.

While Sam works to disconnect the pos others of the crew work to clear a path through the clutter of the cargo bay and rig up the crane inside the cargo hold to help move it as much as possible but if you take it out that way you will still have to move it by hand through the captains quarters.

Chronometer(Odyssey): 12:00 @ 2236-10-04

Sam will need help moving the pod even with gravity controls reduced so it weights less. The mass will not change. Give rolls any/all working with Sam.