Same Time elsewhere in the Universe
Dylan sat alone in the quarters he had been ordered not to leave two days ago. He had spent the time silently sorting through all the information he had retrieved from this vessel, and he had not learned much. He knew the name of the vessel as it had once been called; it was named The Vedrans Vengeance. He also knew the class of vessel it was a Star of Vedra class Heavy Assault War Cruiser. He knew when it was commissioned, 3 weeks before the battle of Witch Head. What he didn't know was why it had never reached that battle and most importantly of all he didn't know what had happened to the AI that had caused his captain to order him to erase himself and abandon ship. That is he didn't know the answer to these questions... Until now. He found a secured record of what had happened, hidden deep in the back of the memory archive encrypted, he was just lucky that his command code was still valid which allowed him to access it. What he found had shocked him; it was the last personal diary of the captain it said...
"Captain's personal log dated 11-11-9786. Today things got really bad, we have found out the hard way that the AI that was created to run this vessel was not up to the task and 3 days after commissioning he is starting to go insane. The way we have found this out was a very gruesome example, one of the engineers tripped a wire whilst repairing the Slip drive that caused it to go offline, it was an honest mistake but Van thought that he was a Nieztschean spy. Before anyone could do anything Van upped the AG field to maximum around him instantly turning him into a pile of liquid and skin. Needless to say we were all horrified, I ordered Van to never again take actions into his own hands, I told him he always had to get permission from me before doing anything like that again. I was a bit more sated when he agreed straight away and I thought that would be the end of it... Boy was I wrong. The next thing that happened was the reason with which I initiated the AI erasure.... It was so horrible that I can not repeat without the threat of my lunch leave my stomach the same way it entered, suffice to say that it involved around 15 crew members and a crazy repair droid with a laser saw. Anyway I decided to make this recording prior to issuing the command for erasure in the hopes that whoever finds it never has to go through what my crew and I did, having an insane AI is not fun." With that the recording was stopped Dylan had no idea what happened next but he knew the AI was erased although not totally.
Aside from finding out what had previously happened to the vessel he had also found the schematics for the vessel he looked at them for a while before storing and encrypting them in the back of his mind thinking they might come in handy sometime in the future.
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Back on Sintii
Rommie raced all the way back to the Maru and burst through the door, she was excited about the idea Rev had given to her and decided not to wait with telling everyone else. She burst through the airlock yelling "Beka, Tyr, Harper, Trance everyone come here quick" before she had finished Beka and Tyr had burst into the room weapons drawn
"What's going on? Rommie?" They both asked, seeing no threat they both put their weapons away as Harper and Trance came running into the room asking
"Rommie are you ok? Did something happen to you?" Seeing the reaction her screams had caused she burst out laughing, but stopped abruptly when everyone looked at her like she was crazy or something.
"Sorry about that it's nothing bad just a brilliant idea Rev gave to me whilst we were talking" she said
"And what would this idea be?" Asked a curious Beka
"Well you know how we've been studying the recordings trying to find out all we could about Mat and whomever it is he works for?" They all nodded "Well Rev said why don't we go back to where this all started, Vegas drift" she finished waiting to see the reactions, they were about what she had expected joy. They finally had something to do that could provide some answers to quite a few of their questions... All except Beka she just looked upset
"That's a good idea but we can't... At least not yet" she said
"Why not?" Called everyone including Tyr
"Because we have to wait for a response from the Conclave about the information we provided to them." Beka waited as that sunk in then continued "But I promise we will go as soon as we find out what they have decided to do" and with that she went back to the cockpit, strapped herself in and initiated the pre-launch count down. When it was completed she lifted off and flew back up to the Andromeda where they would await a response from the Triumvere and Conclave.
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Dylan sat alone in the quarters he had been ordered not to leave two days ago. He had spent the time silently sorting through all the information he had retrieved from this vessel, and he had not learned much. He knew the name of the vessel as it had once been called; it was named The Vedrans Vengeance. He also knew the class of vessel it was a Star of Vedra class Heavy Assault War Cruiser. He knew when it was commissioned, 3 weeks before the battle of Witch Head. What he didn't know was why it had never reached that battle and most importantly of all he didn't know what had happened to the AI that had caused his captain to order him to erase himself and abandon ship. That is he didn't know the answer to these questions... Until now. He found a secured record of what had happened, hidden deep in the back of the memory archive encrypted, he was just lucky that his command code was still valid which allowed him to access it. What he found had shocked him; it was the last personal diary of the captain it said...
"Captain's personal log dated 11-11-9786. Today things got really bad, we have found out the hard way that the AI that was created to run this vessel was not up to the task and 3 days after commissioning he is starting to go insane. The way we have found this out was a very gruesome example, one of the engineers tripped a wire whilst repairing the Slip drive that caused it to go offline, it was an honest mistake but Van thought that he was a Nieztschean spy. Before anyone could do anything Van upped the AG field to maximum around him instantly turning him into a pile of liquid and skin. Needless to say we were all horrified, I ordered Van to never again take actions into his own hands, I told him he always had to get permission from me before doing anything like that again. I was a bit more sated when he agreed straight away and I thought that would be the end of it... Boy was I wrong. The next thing that happened was the reason with which I initiated the AI erasure.... It was so horrible that I can not repeat without the threat of my lunch leave my stomach the same way it entered, suffice to say that it involved around 15 crew members and a crazy repair droid with a laser saw. Anyway I decided to make this recording prior to issuing the command for erasure in the hopes that whoever finds it never has to go through what my crew and I did, having an insane AI is not fun." With that the recording was stopped Dylan had no idea what happened next but he knew the AI was erased although not totally.
Aside from finding out what had previously happened to the vessel he had also found the schematics for the vessel he looked at them for a while before storing and encrypting them in the back of his mind thinking they might come in handy sometime in the future.
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Back on Sintii
Rommie raced all the way back to the Maru and burst through the door, she was excited about the idea Rev had given to her and decided not to wait with telling everyone else. She burst through the airlock yelling "Beka, Tyr, Harper, Trance everyone come here quick" before she had finished Beka and Tyr had burst into the room weapons drawn
"What's going on? Rommie?" They both asked, seeing no threat they both put their weapons away as Harper and Trance came running into the room asking
"Rommie are you ok? Did something happen to you?" Seeing the reaction her screams had caused she burst out laughing, but stopped abruptly when everyone looked at her like she was crazy or something.
"Sorry about that it's nothing bad just a brilliant idea Rev gave to me whilst we were talking" she said
"And what would this idea be?" Asked a curious Beka
"Well you know how we've been studying the recordings trying to find out all we could about Mat and whomever it is he works for?" They all nodded "Well Rev said why don't we go back to where this all started, Vegas drift" she finished waiting to see the reactions, they were about what she had expected joy. They finally had something to do that could provide some answers to quite a few of their questions... All except Beka she just looked upset
"That's a good idea but we can't... At least not yet" she said
"Why not?" Called everyone including Tyr
"Because we have to wait for a response from the Conclave about the information we provided to them." Beka waited as that sunk in then continued "But I promise we will go as soon as we find out what they have decided to do" and with that she went back to the cockpit, strapped herself in and initiated the pre-launch count down. When it was completed she lifted off and flew back up to the Andromeda where they would await a response from the Triumvere and Conclave.
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