Dael walked into the EPS systems as frazzled as he’d ever looked. Realigning a warp matrix was nothing compared to having his staff turn into a bunch of raving lunatics swinging fists all over his warp room. He found Katie after a quick scan and walked over to the cadet.

“Good job on getting everyone out of the Engineering , Hobbes. I don’t know what’s come over everyone in there but they started swinging at each other and me. In my Engineering deck. They better hope whatever has them acting like this is mind-control, or they’ll wish it was something fatal.” He took a deep breath and worked to regain his focus. All the rest could wait, the functioning members of the Engineering team had a job to do. “I’ve been getting scattered reports of the situation, looks like you’ve done well keeping them isolated and from damaging anything. What else have I missed?”

-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, CE