Posted by Lieutenant Harry Archer (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim: Engineering - Diagnostic Bay - Tag GM

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Posted by Lieutenant Harry Archer (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim: Engineering - Diagnostic Bay - Tag GM
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Harry entered engineering and made his way toward one of the diagnostic bay, where he had instructed the transporter room to beam the Admiral’s hardware and data recorders. Connecting them to one of the diagnostic networks, which was separate to the ship’s systems, he started to backup all of the data and configuration, just in case anything went wrong.

Once completed, he started to analyse the data from the hardware to see if there was any clues to the origin of the file that the Admiral had viewed on these devices. As he did so, he did wonder whether he would need the original file from the chip that was no concealed in the egg, or whether the Admiral had kindly left a copy on her terminal that he was now analysing.

Lt. Archer
Chief Engineer

None of the hardware or data had any kind of identification coding or transmission history. Odd, since everything had to have a transmission code to move it from one system to another. There was a file that should have been a copy of the recording… but when he opened it, it was complete junk. A somewhat in-depth attempt to restore it failed, but it did tell Archer that something prevented the video from being copied… and that prevention was housed in the video itself.

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Harry was intrigued to discover the copy of the file wasn’t intact. Normally the system would copy the file locally and run it from the copy. He started to run the file through various data reconstruction algorithms, and even tried to see if it had been encrypted. Even without any decryption key, he realised the file was very much corrupted. He even looked to see if there were shadow copies of the file in the file system, but no such luck.

An hour and a large pot of tea later, he admitted defeat; although it had been fun to dust off some of computer science skills.

=^= Archer to XO. No luck with the data console; I suspect I’ll need to take a look at the chip itself to find out anything further from the recording. =^=

Lt. Archer
Chief Engineer

The channel opened but there was a long pause before Calloway responded. =/\=I’m not surprised. Can you restore any of the corrupted pieces? If not, myself or Gadi might be able to lend a hand. Sometimes there is information contained within what looks like nothing. In any case, talk to the Captain about the chip. Just… be careful about keeping our internal systems as separate from this stuff as possible. Proceed with an abundance of caution.=/\=

~Shara Calloway, XO

=^= Understood Commander. =^= Harry said, a little frustrated that the XO would even ask the question about whether he could restore any of the corrupted pieces. He reminded himself that was unlikely to be a comment on his ability, more the XO checking verifying that he had done his job, despite him thinking it was fairly obvious that he would have done.

He tapped a couple of commands into his console, and noted that Gadi was in her office and, apparently, running a similar set of diagnostics. He sighed slightly.

“Why bother having engineering if you’re just going to do everything yourself,,” he muttered under his breath. Security officers were always the same.

“I’m sorry sir?” said a passing ensign, overhearing the Lieutenant.

“Ahh,” Harry started, “nothing to worry about, I was just airing some frustrations that I probably should keep to myself.” he said with a slight smile. “Whilst you’re here, can you query the Starfleet Engineering Corp database, and see if there are any Sovereign class ships that have been either retired from service and handed over to an external force to Starfleet, or missing and/or presumed destroyed? Also, see if there are any Sovereign ships that were built but didn’t enter service within the main fleet.” he asked, acting on a bit of a hunch on the latter. It would be unusual for Starfleet to sell a ship class that was still the bulwark of the fleet.

“I’ll be in security.”

Lt. Archer
Chief Engineer

Ensign Kelbin sighed; he had definitely walked into that one. He settled himself down on the seat that Harry had been sitting at previously, and started to tap in some commands into the computer before pausing.

=^= Computer, create a list of every Sovereign ship that had been built at the shipyards, and remove those that are either still in service or have been classed as destroyed or disassembled.=^=

Ens Kelbin
Nameless Ensign

The search for a Sovereign class vessel under those specifications returned no definitive results. It seemed that all vessels of that class were accounted for.

GM

Kelbin frowned. =^= Are there any Sovereign class ships that are currently missing? =^= he asked.

Ens Kelbin

=/\= Negative. All ships of the Sovereign class are either currently active, in drydock, or confirmed destroyed. =/\= came the reply from the computer.

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