Yesterday, 05:00 AM
(This post was last modified: Yesterday, 05:20 AM by Morad Ameen.)
== GM- Ola! ==
== Interior - The Broken Arrow ==
The scan from Midshipman Cortez's tricorder reveals a terrifying reality. The intermittent sparking at the junction box isn't a sign of an overload; it is the system's desperate, final attempt to draw energy from a completely depleted capacitor.
The question of a safe shutdown is answered immediately: Negative. The three critical pods have absolutely zero battery backup remaining. They are running entirely on this dying trickle of current. If Cortez attempts to cut the circuit to splice it safely, the magnetic containment fields will collapse instantly. The occupants would succumb to cellular degradation before he could even begin to twist the wires together.
There is only one option. He has to perform a live splice. He must clamp the Aura's high-voltage cable onto the alien bus bars while the current is still flowing. It is a dangerous maneuver; if his hand slips, the feedback could fry the pod's systems... or overload his own EVA suit.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Gath's search for a cockpit hits a physical wall. There is a heavy, sealed blast door at the forward end of the bay, likely leading to the flight deck, but breaching it would take time they simply do not have. However, his light catches a potential alternative. Embedded in the central pillar, right above the sparking power junction where Cortez is working, is a Black Box Data Module. It looks removable. If he pulls it, he might secure their logs without ever needing to reach the bridge.
Dr. O'Fee's analysis confirms her suspicions. The pods are "slave" units, lacking individual computers and relying entirely on the central pillar for regulation. This means that if Cortez saves the pillar, he saves all twelve. The bio-scans indicate the occupants are in a deep Delta-wave suspension. Waking them up here—in zero gravity, with no medical support—would be fatal. They must be transported inside their pods.
The clock is unforgiving.
Time remaining to critical failure: 4 Minutes.
== Interior - The Broken Arrow ==
The scan from Midshipman Cortez's tricorder reveals a terrifying reality. The intermittent sparking at the junction box isn't a sign of an overload; it is the system's desperate, final attempt to draw energy from a completely depleted capacitor.
The question of a safe shutdown is answered immediately: Negative. The three critical pods have absolutely zero battery backup remaining. They are running entirely on this dying trickle of current. If Cortez attempts to cut the circuit to splice it safely, the magnetic containment fields will collapse instantly. The occupants would succumb to cellular degradation before he could even begin to twist the wires together.
There is only one option. He has to perform a live splice. He must clamp the Aura's high-voltage cable onto the alien bus bars while the current is still flowing. It is a dangerous maneuver; if his hand slips, the feedback could fry the pod's systems... or overload his own EVA suit.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Gath's search for a cockpit hits a physical wall. There is a heavy, sealed blast door at the forward end of the bay, likely leading to the flight deck, but breaching it would take time they simply do not have. However, his light catches a potential alternative. Embedded in the central pillar, right above the sparking power junction where Cortez is working, is a Black Box Data Module. It looks removable. If he pulls it, he might secure their logs without ever needing to reach the bridge.
Dr. O'Fee's analysis confirms her suspicions. The pods are "slave" units, lacking individual computers and relying entirely on the central pillar for regulation. This means that if Cortez saves the pillar, he saves all twelve. The bio-scans indicate the occupants are in a deep Delta-wave suspension. Waking them up here—in zero gravity, with no medical support—would be fatal. They must be transported inside their pods.
The clock is unforgiving.
Time remaining to critical failure: 4 Minutes.