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#16
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 17, 2007, 09:08:07 PM
Tom had been working hard on the ship's systems, trying to find something that he could get operating that would help them. Phasers were almost completely out of the question, as they were either all buried, powerless, or just not there, sheared off in their descent and crash landing. They had also been the first thing the Heraan had aimed for in their attack.

"GOT YA!" he yelled, as a small section of his screen started to show some fluctuating power readings.

"Sir!" he cried out to the Admiral. "I can get the deflector working for one short pulse. It'll fry out most of the circuits for the dish, but I can use it like a shock wave, and push the Heraan back. It'll take four minutes to charge the dish sufficiently for the pulse!"

The uncharacteristic outburst shocked him. Normally he was calm and collected, even in battle. He'd have to take some time out as soon as he could and calm his emotions. Though that would probably be quite a while.

=/\="Bridge to all Starfleet and Marine forces outside of the ship. Begin moving back towards the ship immediately. Try and get inside, or as close to the hull as you can. Bridge out."=/\=

He hoped that his trick would cause enough of a lull in the Heraan's offensive to allow the Marines to strike back. He noticed on the sensors though some life signals near the deflector dish. Anyone that close when the pulse went of would likely be killed.

=/\="Major. You'll have to start moving your Marines inside the ship, that close to the deflector dish on the outside of the ship......wouldn't be pleasant."=/\= he  said. He knew there was a large hole in the dish, hopefully they could hold them off from just in there until he could initiate the pulse.

He began the painstaking process of charging the dish, ready for when the Admiral gave his approval, if he was concious enough to do so. He had taken a pretty bad strike to the head.
#17
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 01, 2007, 09:16:39 PM
Tom checked his readings. "Long-range scanners are offline. Short-range sensors are functional - barely. I think I can get them working at about 50% their full capacity if I can get to the EPS Conduits on deck 6, but no more than that."
#18
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
February 05, 2008, 01:42:02 PM
Thomas decided to report to his quarters on Avalon station, leaving the young Lieutenant Dolan to the station's medical team. In his mind, Dolan had been poking his head where he shouldn't have, and so his health wasn't his problem.

=/\=Richards to Avalon. One to beam over.=/\= he said into his combadge, as he dematerialised in a blue glow.
#19
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 05, 2007, 11:59:26 PM
"With some fine-tuning of the system, depending on his distance from the ship, yes Sir."
#20
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
December 05, 2007, 01:23:24 PM
Tom walked back onto the Bridge after his trek to and from the long-range communications and sub-space relay controls. He had various burns and cuts on his arms and face, but looked pleased with himself.

"Captain, Long-range communications are operational, and should cover the majority of the planet, though the further the recipient, the more distorted the audio." Looking up, he saw the sensors on the main view screen and walked over to the operations console.

He rerouted power from a few systems, shut off the power going to the now-destroyed sensor panels and shunted it to the functional ones. The image on-screen distorted, and then showed a slightly larger radius, showing 5 green dots with a reading next to them of 3, though the closest dot showed only two - a total now of 14 friendly life signs. There were also three red dots, moving much faster - Heraani fighters. One was within the previous range of the sensors, while the other two were just out.
#21
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
November 27, 2007, 07:58:51 PM
Tom simply nodded at the Director, as the klaxons began wailing a red alert. As the Captain moved out of his ready room onto the Bridge, Tom silently moved towards the operations console, and began accessing functions. His station was secluded enough so that non of the other bridge officers could see what he was doing without standing next to him.

He began running a few programs he developed in his early years. They were a few of the programs he used whenever he hacked a system, though he never used the same on constantly, else a block would be developed for it. He had about ten different programs that he alternated between with each time he hacked a system, and this time he used his Echo set.

His screen showed the addresses of each of the consoles on the entire ship, and some parameters Tom had built into his program - ways of narrowing his search. He first selected consoles only on the bridge. He then cross-referenced which consoles were designated for each department, and then who was logged onto them, quickly finding the one he wanted. Console #452345-009, User: Dolan, William, Department: Science.

He soon accessed the system without any notifications appearing on any screen, anywhere, and without even any logs in the computer cores. He set his program to copy every shred of data that passed through the Lieutenant's terminal, and display it on a small section in the bottom-left of his own screen, and send copies to three separate storage locations in his quarters, and again to another data store he had hidden in an area of the ship previously. Sure, he might be paranoid, but it might save his life one day.

Double-checking that the computer cores had no evidence of his hack, he began running his scans on the Heraani vessels.

"Operations; ready." he stated, in reply to the Captain's call for reports. He began analysing the readings he was getting from the various vessels, and thought he would comment on Lieutenant Brown's idea.

"We can modulate the phasers to fire two bursts, one timed precisely after the other, and at different power ratings. The first can be programmed to overload their shields, and the second to disable and/or destroy any part of the ship in our line of fire. The ships can either be destroyed, or disabled ready for capture."

He then transferred the calibration data to the Tactical Console, ready for the tactical officer to enter in if the Captain took up on his suggestion. His hack tool confirmed they arrived at the console.

"As for the larger vessel, it seems to have multiple shield generators. If one is overloaded, then it will only leave us a minute gap, and precision manoeuvring would be needed to be able to his a critical point in the vessel through the points where the shields would have a gap. If, however, we overload two generators simultaneously, then a larger gap would be created, and a better shot would be opened."


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#22
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 5 "The Great Blue Yonder"
January 26, 2008, 09:42:54 PM
Tom watched Dolan through the security feed he had routed to his console - through various other consoles to hide his infiltration. He had moved consoles twice since the Director had spoken to him, making it seem as if he was trying to help with the running and maintenance of the ship.

Dolan had somehow found his way to an as-of-yet unexplored storage room. Tom only knew where he was because he had been keeping an electronic eye on the Lieutenant, as per the Captain's instructions. Tom double-checked something at the edge of the screen, while at the same time looking briefly over his shoulder inconspicuously. Good, nobody was looking his way, and noone was even close to him. He wouldn't need to move consoles again yet.

He nodded slightly in satisfaction. The files pertaining to the identification of those objects, and the inventories of all storage rooms on the vessel, were among the files he had managed to safely lock out access to. The information was above his clearance level, but he was tempted to have a look anyway, just out of rebellious curiosity...

No. He was still feeling the brunt of the punishment from his last case of disregarding his clearance level. He had better leave the files be.
#23
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 6: "Unto the Breach"
February 13, 2008, 09:35:45 PM
After rematerialising in Transporter Room 1, Tom made his way to the turbolift, to which he said; "Deck One"

The lift began moving with almost no motion detectable by Tom as it rose through the decks towards the bridge. The ship was of an old design, but it had been well kept.

Stepping out onto the bridge, Tom nodded to the Captain and Richard before moving and taking his place at Ops, which in this case was in front of the Captain and next to Helm. "Captain. Lieutenant."

He began running the usual new-ship diagnostics, still annoyed at the happenings of earlier, but determined not to let it show.
#24
U.S.S. Normandy / Mission 6: "Unto the Breach"
February 19, 2008, 02:10:15 PM
Tom tapped a few commands on his console, redirecting power from the terminals in some unoccupied quarters to sensors. It wasn't usual procedure for boosting power, but he was sure the Captain wouldn't mind.

"Try now, Lieutenant." he said a little dryly.
#25
U.S.S. Rivendell / Mission 13: "The Heist"
January 27, 2008, 12:14:56 PM
Quote
Orpheus had already begun plotting the slipspace coordinates as Chief Sarpedon took the ship to warp. Eight seconds remained, then seven... five... three... one...
The Rivendell dropped out of warp, with the Heraan in close pursuit. The jump drive was held at near-critical power, and as soon as the ship was below light-speed, Orpheus engaged the jump with electric precision.
Three-point-two-six seconds later, the Rivendell emerged from slipspace, twenty lightyears from their previous position. Since their warp trail had been masked, it would take the Heraan precious moments to realize that they were no longer in pursuit.
"I'm continuing to transmit the distress call, Captain, but there's no guarantee anyone will hear it, much less be close enough to respond in time."
#26
Crew's Quarters / Quarters of Richards, Thomas
February 11, 2008, 08:35:18 PM
Leaving his quarters after recycling a broken lamp in the replicator, Tom decided to wander around the station, to try and cool off.
#27
Crew's Quarters / Quarters of Richards, Thomas
February 05, 2008, 02:00:04 PM
Thomas had left the transporter room as soon as he had arrived onboard. Walking into his quarters, he locked the room with a security code higher than that of a normal Starfleet officer. Only another Intelligence Operative would be able to enter, and to all others, it would appear as if the room was locked down due to malfunctions in the environment controls, or a similar fault.

Computer. Open a secure channel; Protocol Richards-One-Alpha-Indego. Target; Sierra-3-1.

The computer bleeped. "Secure channel open."

A face appeared on the screen, mostly obscured by the shadows of it's room. "Richards. What have you got?"

"I think S31's going to like the toys we brought back, Sir." Thomas said, smiling to one of the heads of Section 31 back on Earth.
#28
Crew's Quarters / Quarters of Richards, Thomas
February 05, 2008, 09:14:28 PM
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU COMING TO ME WITH THIS FOR?"

Tom was glad that the room was completely soundproofed. The Director didn't like this at all.

"You are supposed to take things to your direct superiors, Richards!" That was bad - the Director never normally used names in communiques. Tom tried to say something, but couldn't get a word in edge-wise with the Director. "You will take this through the chain of command, Agent! And your superior will hear of this!"

With that, the screen went dead. The communication was terminated.

"Brilliant. The stuck up, son of a-" Tom stopped himself before he broke something, and reduced his door security back to normal levels. Laying on the bed, he tried to think of something to vent his frustration on.
#29
Holosuites / EVERYBODY ALL READ THIS FIRST!
November 25, 2007, 10:39:24 PM
Quote (Julian @ Mar. 01 2003, 8:03 am)
anyone who would like to use the holodecks may now use them at will.
just dont get the rooms mixed up.
there are 4 holodecks max.
thnx
Vice-Admiral Julian

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#30
Docking Bay & Shipyard / The Wanderer
February 11, 2008, 08:41:05 PM
As Tom stepped onto the observation platform of the main docking bay, he looked out at the masses of ships the base held. It was hard to believe so many ships could be held within one station, and it still having room for so many more. None of the regulars were there - the Rivendell, Evolution, Iroquois and the now-destroyed Lothlorien were all absent. Tom leaned on the railing of the observation platform and looked out over the ships, playing a game he always used to cool off. And so he stood there, naming the class of each of the ships he saw.

Nebula.

Akira.

Steamrunner.

Defiant.



He continued doing this until he had named every ship class present in the hangar, and then started reading the registry numbers of each of the ships, making up childish jokes and rhymes with each sequence of numbers in his head. It got him thinking about something other than the Director, and that was a good thing, as he was beginning to calm down now.
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