Bridge

"Yes ma'am." Def replied to the Ship Mistress. She monitored the instrumentation as she continued to make minor corrections to compensate for the yawl the explosion put on the Gam'trosha. She modified her IDT setting so that in addition to monitoring the progress on splitting the rock, it showed the engine status.

"She's definitely a bit sluggish ma'am. We lost a number of maneuvering thrusters between the two explosions so I'm having to use the main engines and vector the thrust to compensate." she said aloud. Although she was still doing a calculation of how fast the Gam'Trosha needed to accelerate to avoid the asteroid once they split it. Her numbers were not promising. The main engines while operating were fluxing and definitely not operating at max performance.

Engineering Bay

"Hey, engineering people, I've got something over here!" Tite'Yanus called out to the engineers. He poked his head into the conduit hole, trying to get a better idea of what was going on.

The young Laibe had been working on optimizing processing speeds, in an effort to work around the burnt-out core, when the shaking began. Curious, and a bit perturbed, the midnight-furred Engineer checked on his data-mining progress to find --- nothing. No progress, no connection, nothing working on his task.

Fuming, Erm'olai began to check the ship's systems. Quite a few systems seemed to be down according to the mainframe --- including extra-ship communications. It was also at that point that he received the call from the Shipmaster.



"Affirmative," he transmitted before turning back to the mainframe. First thing he needed to do was find where the issue was with those systems. Where they external or internal? Was it hardware or software? The anything along those lines were easily detectable by using the mainframe. Signals that don't return from a piece of hardware could mean a hardware issue. A software issue could be detected via a diagnostic scan of the program files.

So, Erm'olai did both. Maybe if he could solve which were software and which were hardware, he wouldn't have to run all over the ship trying to fix everything.

"Aye, aye ma'am!" Shar responded and as soon as fire was put out, she was on the run. Moving one floor down she was already calling Tite'Yanus.

"Yo Tit, bosslady says we should check the cargo hold. Get yourself a suit and link up with me at cargo-bay doors!" She called and herself went into armoury to get a pressure suits. Vacuum her lungs were not friends after all, as soon she suited up, she sprinted to the meeting spot.

Engineering

"Keri! Can you take care of that please?" asked Quin'trema as she floated over to another station, she saw that Keri's actions were having a positive effect on the ship, the power was equalizing and she could see that the reactor was starting to settle down but her main concerns were the three systems that she couldn't access right now.

Mainframe

As the mainframe did its work, two holographic diagnostic windows appeared beside him relaying the status of the scans. The left would show a hardware scan, with the mainframe testing the various components to ensure that they were running properly. While right frame was running a software scan, to ensure that the software wasn't corrupted.

After about a minute, the left window changed to show a scan progress on the communications system. The first one detailed that there was trouble contacting the system, that there was a hardware failure somewhere within that would need to be addressed locally.

However, the right window showed a software fault with the turret control systems, detailing that there was in the turrets targetting systems. He'd have to diagnosis the virus before he could be certain what it was.

The shield systems were still being scanned.

Bridge

"See if you can communicate with the other ships, I wanna know if anyone else is having these issues," ordered Sa'kira as she lifted off her command chair and floated up behind Def.

Bridge

"I've been trying to communicate. I have been using the LADAR to send simple early code. But I am not sure if they are actually receiving what I said or simply following our earlier instructions. I will queue up a new message." Def replied. She quickly typed up a message and fed it into the LADAR for pulse transmission.



"Here goes ma'am." She said as she keyed up the transmission to repeat multiple times before stopping.

Engineering

Tite shook his head a little before pulling it out of the maintenance conduit and pushing himself towards the exit of the engineering area. Once he was through the pressure lock, he jogged over to the armory.

Armory

Once Tite'Yanus arrived at the armory, he moved to one side and slipped the end of his tail into a data terminal. Moments later, mechanized arms began detaching his My'leke module. Once the module and all of its attachments were safely away, he slid his tail into the terminal once more and the mechanical arms began helping him into a pressure suit. Once he was satisfied that everything was attached properly, he began jogging his way over to the Cargo Bay.

Gam'trosha Engineering Bay

"Right... right." Keri'cruen said, frowning as the ships energy readings seemed to finally revert to a more stable configuration. He was loath to leave the console when he felt the systems could suddenly go once more out of whack, but they wouldn't even have a console if things in engineering kept on exploding.

Shifting his weight, Keri'cruen glided over to the maintenance conduit that Tite'yanus had just vacated. He drew himself inside carefully so as to avoid the sharp protrusions and metallic fragments caused by the recent explosion. His blue-green eyes -- slightly obscured by his glasses -- were fixated upon the hole within the interior of the conduit. Inside the dark shattered recess the young kit's ears twitched as they focused upon an errant noise -- the sharp crackling of electrical discharges.

Engineering Conduit

Mixed in with the electrical noise that Keri could hear, there was another noise he could vaguely make out, something that was blowing, like air circuiting very rapidly - except there shouldn't be any air circuiting in the area. He'd have to carefully move aside the tangles wires and pull back some of the blown out metal before he could get a better view of what of making the additional noise.

Corridor outside Cargohold

When Shar and Tite got to the corridor just outside of the cargohold, they'd notice that the blast door that would've sealed the bay was on the ground laying flat. The backside, the side that would've been facing the cargohold, was completely blackened.

There was a control panel beside the door, with the words:



Mainframe

As the status progress continued, the display showing the status of shield generator suddenly went offline - an error message appeared with the words:



This was followed not even a second later by a new message, except, it was a message that was corrupt:

Gam'trosha Engineering Bay - Conduit

Keri's ears pricked again as he caught another sound, akin to that of air rushing and not unlike that of a windy, planet-bound breeze. The young kit frowned as that sound didn't belong anywhere near the engineering bay -- the life-support systems and ventilation shafts weren't located anywhere near this section. He briefly considered it might be a breach, though thought that less than likely due to the distance from the ships outer hull.

As he came to a stop beside the ruined gap in the conduit, the kit gently pushed aside the larger metallic fragments and peered down into the recess -- he could barely see a thing even with his natural night vision due to the mess of ruined wires and errant power leads obscuring his sight. At he reached in to pull some of the wires out of the way, he felt the odd sensation of his fur standing up and pulled back sharply as an bluish bolt of electricity discharged in the mess below him.

"Yaaah!" He screamed, heart racing in his chest due to shock. He looked at his gloved hands, now partially hidden by the indistinct white spots that blurred his vision. Forcing himself to calm down and steeling his resolve, he waited until after the next discharge to pull the offending electrical cable free and end the hazardous electrical surges -- the gloves of the ABS beneath his uniform hopefully providing a measure of protection.

Once the damaged cable was free and disconnected, Keri'cruen peered into the recess once more and set about pulling free other damaged cables and wires whilst seeking any other signs of damage, as well as the source of the unusual sound.