07-06-2025, 09:45 AM
Leo’s screen pulsed grey and amber.
Error logs unfurled across his console like a slow hemorrhage. Calm, factual, and entirely unforgiving. No sensor data. No updated system statuses. Just static and timestamped failures blinking in quiet warning.
Emergency forcefield: FAILED
EPS Conduit Integrity: BREACHED
Affected Area: Isolated to Jeffries Tube 9A and junction trunk
Emergency Containment: SEALED – Bulkheads
Sensors: OFFLINE (INT / EXT)
Visual Monitoring: ACTIVE: Main View Screen (1x mag)
Leo’s eyes flicked to the centre of the room. d’Tor’an was managing the chaos and showing her skill that Leo knew, without a doubt, had landed her her current position as Chief of Security. She was being decisive, poised, and clearly pushing hard against the tide of alerts and input. He waited for a gap before he leaned forward slightly in his seat.
“Chief,” he said clearly, threading his voice into the buzz of orders and status calls, “I’m still reading the fallout from the EPS grid — looks like it took a secondary hit near the hull breach. The emergency forcefield’s down, but bulkheads sealed the exposure.”
He tapped a few keys, cross-checked, then added, “Internal and external sensors are still dark. Visual feed only, one-times magnification.”
He hesitated for half a breath.
“Jadaris might be right, this doesn’t look like we’re in an ion storm. Not based on what we’re seeing. This looks more like systems damage. If that EPS conduit rupture pushed feedback through the mainframe... could explain the sensor blackout.”
He paused again, not sure if it was overstepping but but proper decisions couldn’t be made on hesitation so he said it anyway,
“And the maintenance hatch. The one that came open over the starboard impulse engine? If that’s located along the power routing for the blown EPS line. I’m not a big fan for coincidences… but the shuttle bay, the conduit, the hatch… could they all be connected?”
It wasn’t a theory, yet. Not even a conclusion. Just a set of data points forming a faint constellation. But it felt like a pattern was trying to show itself.
Ah, The maintenance hatch. Jadaris is going to look. Thats one less fire for us to deal with right now. For now maybe. The thought came and went. Then it came back to Linger. That thought that maybe he would need back up soon too.
Leo sat back slightly, eyes still flitting between Artemis and his screen, waiting for confirmations, denials or another alarm.
== Tag: d'Tor'an, Jessy, Gary, Engineering ==
== GM Input: If Leo is allowed to dig into the console's EPS schematic logs, can he determine whether the conduit failure and sensor blackout are on the same subsystem or cascade branch? And how far (using a basic ship schematic) are the Shuttle Bay and the Starboard Impulse Hatch from the Shuttle Bay explosion and EPS Blowout?==
Error logs unfurled across his console like a slow hemorrhage. Calm, factual, and entirely unforgiving. No sensor data. No updated system statuses. Just static and timestamped failures blinking in quiet warning.
Emergency forcefield: FAILED
EPS Conduit Integrity: BREACHED
Affected Area: Isolated to Jeffries Tube 9A and junction trunk
Emergency Containment: SEALED – Bulkheads
Sensors: OFFLINE (INT / EXT)
Visual Monitoring: ACTIVE: Main View Screen (1x mag)
Leo’s eyes flicked to the centre of the room. d’Tor’an was managing the chaos and showing her skill that Leo knew, without a doubt, had landed her her current position as Chief of Security. She was being decisive, poised, and clearly pushing hard against the tide of alerts and input. He waited for a gap before he leaned forward slightly in his seat.
“Chief,” he said clearly, threading his voice into the buzz of orders and status calls, “I’m still reading the fallout from the EPS grid — looks like it took a secondary hit near the hull breach. The emergency forcefield’s down, but bulkheads sealed the exposure.”
He tapped a few keys, cross-checked, then added, “Internal and external sensors are still dark. Visual feed only, one-times magnification.”
He hesitated for half a breath.
“Jadaris might be right, this doesn’t look like we’re in an ion storm. Not based on what we’re seeing. This looks more like systems damage. If that EPS conduit rupture pushed feedback through the mainframe... could explain the sensor blackout.”
He paused again, not sure if it was overstepping but but proper decisions couldn’t be made on hesitation so he said it anyway,
“And the maintenance hatch. The one that came open over the starboard impulse engine? If that’s located along the power routing for the blown EPS line. I’m not a big fan for coincidences… but the shuttle bay, the conduit, the hatch… could they all be connected?”
It wasn’t a theory, yet. Not even a conclusion. Just a set of data points forming a faint constellation. But it felt like a pattern was trying to show itself.
Ah, The maintenance hatch. Jadaris is going to look. Thats one less fire for us to deal with right now. For now maybe. The thought came and went. Then it came back to Linger. That thought that maybe he would need back up soon too.
Leo sat back slightly, eyes still flitting between Artemis and his screen, waiting for confirmations, denials or another alarm.
== Tag: d'Tor'an, Jessy, Gary, Engineering ==
== GM Input: If Leo is allowed to dig into the console's EPS schematic logs, can he determine whether the conduit failure and sensor blackout are on the same subsystem or cascade branch? And how far (using a basic ship schematic) are the Shuttle Bay and the Starboard Impulse Hatch from the Shuttle Bay explosion and EPS Blowout?==