7 Points
By Chaoseternus
RSS05 Invincible
"Right!" Kalinda responded into the intercom as the report came through, quickly dropping the handset she turned to the small group assembled around her, " Cerberus just immobilized a baseship for us, we're heading over to it now, its right on the edge of the engagement zone so you shouldn't be disturbed too much but that might change, get ready to hack and remember don't get hacked yourself. This is an AI you're facing after all"
"With these toys, they wont know what hit them" Dade smirked as he turned to face the multiprocessor monster in front of him, its loud whirring speaking of the four pre-release processors crunching away inside, the massive three gigabytes of RAM, the hefty 300GB hard disks, this, and the computers used by Cereal Killer and Acid Burn just screamed 'money no object and connections to die for'.
Dade had a hard… err… was in heaven.
The monitors flashed, 'Establishing Connection'.
Dade grinned, cracked his knuckles, cranked the volume on his music, and let rip, he wanted some fun.
Del Shakka Mel
Enerina glanced around the dimly lit control room of her Ha'tak, the bright lights of the consoles causing her to squint, a stabbing shaft of pain echoing through her head.
She had to admit to herself that she had overdone it just a touch trying to remove the cylon from Boomers head, a task that was not yet finished, right now some famous Neurosurgeon of doubtable sanity was waiting with his totally insane assistants for her to finish 'making work for them to meatball' so she could assist with her hand device, an essential component of that operation.
But first, she had a battle to win.
"My Lady, Invincible has began the 'hack'"
Enerina nodded slowly, pushing the pain to the back of her mind, "Drop us out of hyper within support range of Invincible, prepare to engage the enemy"
"Yes, My Lady" Enerist nodded, her eyes gleeful as she contemplated the vengeance about to be wrought, she liked her God, an unusual situation for a Jaffa and she didn't like that her master had been hurt saving an innocent from their machinations, she didn't like that it was necessary for her master to struggle to save an innocent because of them.
And she would be more than happy to explain her displeasure, at the Ha'taks weapons great length.
Without a shudder or whine, Del Shakka Mel dropped out of hyper above the absorbed Invincible, its crew concentrating on keeping an active hookup for the hack at the expense of their own protection, that was why the Del was here.
"My Lady, we have a baseship plus sixty raiders grouping for an attack, extreme range" Enerist spoke softly from the command console, trying not to send another shaft of pain through her master's mind.
"Suppression fire"
Enerist nodded, and tapped the controls.
From the tip of the Ha'tak, bursts of brilliant golden light spat out, rapidly flashing across space and between the rapidly moving, evasive Cylon fighters.
Even at that extreme range, hitting was only a matter of time.
A Scimitar span off, its left side melted beyond recognition by a glancing hit from the depleted weapons fire, a second suffered a direct hit, its wings spinning off in separate directions as the body of the fighter was vaporised.
The cylons turned, and joined by the baseship began an attack run on the Del. That was a fatal error, now they were racing towards the 'most effective' region around the Ha'tak, the area in which the weapons were most efficient and effective.
The Del paused momentarily, then fired; the ships light darkening momentarily as a maximum power burst was fired, hitting the baseship.
For a moment, all seemed still.
Then, like the Empire State Building in ID4, the baseship blew, fire bursting down through the hull, debris scattering across space, several cylon fighters being hit by the expanding ball of debris, their existence negated in a moment.
The cylons withdrew, watching, waiting.
They would have their chance, after all, wasn't 'God' on their side?
RSS05 Invincible
"Yes!" Cereal shouted as a burst of apparently random letters spewed across the screen, "hey Kal, how's a text file of the AI matrix sound to you?"
Dade eyebrows raised, "Text file?"
Cereal nodded happily, "Don't really think the RSS would like a hostile AI as anything even remotely runnable on their computers"
" Fuck no" Kalinda muttered behind them, causing the hackers to share amused grins.
"Won't that corrupt it?" Libby asked.
"Corruption we can deal with, a hostile AI running the Invincible is a little less fun" Kalinda interrupted.
"Really, well I kind of doubt that, you see, you have three elites here and…"
Kalinda interrupted Cereal midflow, "Can you remove an AI from the Invincible's computers in the twenty or so seconds before it finds the little buttons marked emergency atmosphere vents?"
Cereals mouth snapped shut, and he turned back to his computer, letting Kalinda claim victory, for now.
"Right, looks like I have a email log and store here" Dade commented.
"That'll give the Intel boys a hard on, grab it" Kalinda commented.
"You know," Dade added thoughtfully, "I'm beginning to like you"
A sardonic eyebrow was raised by Kalinda, "Touched, really"
"Wow, we have a trace and a backdoor bomber" Cereal announced, "I think the AI just twigged"
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