Posted by Captain Sara Kiernan (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Digital Investigations

Posted by Lieutenant Harry Archer (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Digital Investigations

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Main Sim - Digital Investigations
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After Mwezi and Kohana left, Bethany turned to her console and first began pulling the meta data out of the files. She was looking for the date of the original file, any modifications/alterations to the file. How many times they had been copied, the trace electronic signatures of those that copied and altered the files, etc.

Lt. Cmdr. Gadi, COS

It was very odd… the file was corrupted. The copy she had of the vid was wholly and utterly useless. Well, not entirely. Her expertise allowed her to trace the source of the corruption back to the original vid. Somehow… someway… someone had modified the original recording while it was being made so that any copy made would look like it transferred over correctly; but when opened would be garbage. The code for the modification would be able to be accessed off the chip in the egg.

GM

Bethany stared at the data, “Tricky, tricky, but not enough.”

=/\=Gadi to Kiernan. Ma’am, I need to speak to you. What’s your location?=/\=

Lt. Cmdr. Gadi, COS

=/\=I’m dealing with the egg. What do you need?=/\= Sara had been careful not to state her location, only she would know where the egg was hidden. She just hoped Gadi had some kind of good news.

-CO

Well at least the Captain was dealing with the object of her inquiry. =/\=The egg. Well more specifically the chip inside of it. The copies of the files we have are corrupted. They’ve been tampered with. In order to trace and retrieve the original, I need the files directly from the chip.=/\=

Lt. Cmdr. Gadi, COS

=/\=Understood commander, I’m on my way.=/\= The captain was going to make her journey as quick as possible.

When she arrived, Sara set the egg down in front of Gadi. “Commander, how are you going to access the files without the Admiral’s personal credentials? and are we ready for the heat on our tails the second that thing is activated?” She couldn’t think of many advantages they had, but they hadn’t advertised their cargo yet.

-CO

Bethany stood as the CO entered. She grinned, “Getting it open is the easy part. As for the rest, we have an air gapped computer core in the elctronic warfare room. No signal should get out from there unless we allow it.” She motioned to the door. “Care for a field trip?”

Lt. Cmdr. Gadi, COS

“Can I join?” came a voice from behind the CO, as Harry stepped forward. “You should also shut down the other systems in the electronic warfare room; whilst I don’t doubt the core in there is meant to be independent, I’ve found that this ships configuration management isn’t the standard I would like it to be at. You may also want to energise the electronic warfare shielding around the room as well. Better safe than sorry.” he said, with a slightly boyish grin.

Lt. Archer
Chief Engineer

Sara didn’t like it. This thing had a habit of getting people killed. But there wasn’t a good way around it. “Let’s do it.” She nodded to the electronic warfare room. “And at the very least, we want that shield up. Thank you for the suggestion Lieutenant Archer.”

-CO

Bethany grinned at the engineer and nodded to the captain. “No worries Captain. The shielding is always on unless a command override code is put in to take it down. She led the way to the electronic warfare room and input her security access to unlock the room. She entered, and passing by the main control console she set her combadge down on it. “Might want to leave yours there as well. Otherwise once we go inside, no one will be able to reach you. That way you’ll at least be able to hear the comms.”

Gadi moved over to a large floor to ceiling, floor and roof, cage that buzzed softly. It was a giant faraday cage. She stepped inside and waited for them. Once they had joined her she closed the door and flipped a switch and buzzing increased and a light by the door went from red to green. There was a desk with, what looked like an old fashioned tower PC setup. It had an independent totally disconnected power cell. Bethany sat down and flipped a switch and the machine cycled through its start up procedure. “This computer doesn’t even have the capability to connect to a network or hardwire to another.” She pulled another small device from her pocket, “If you would allow me, captain, I’ll use this to open the egg.”

Lt. Cmdr. Gadi, COS