Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Luke Wyatt (Incoming Security Chief) in Pre-Sim - Some call it snooping, I call it intelligence
The Manhattan offered little in the way of services for the security personnel on the ship, and when it came to the day to day duties Luke had to get creative which fortunately for him, he was very good at. Today however Luke found himself running a security sweep of all the systems ensuring that none of their systems had been inappropriately tampered, broken or used since the last one which was typically every 48 hours but for Luke, this would be the first time. Standing on the bridge, using one of the spare support stations he set the sweep up and then turned, to observe the bridge.

The bridge was your a-typical Starfleet style, viewscreen at the very front of the bridge with forward-facing command seats, three off and then those surrounded by various stations some occupied but most not at this time. The viewscreen was on and showing the stars as they cut through them so after a few minutes, even that didn’t satisfy his curiosity.

Humming quietly to himself Luke rhythm was cut short when the console he had been leaning on chirped drawing his fall attention, there was a station on deck 13, computer science lab two which was no responding to his authorization and refusing to feedback its status. Deciding that he had nothing better to do and the idea of actually having a job that may pique his interest was not something the security office was going to pass up. Prompting the sweep to skip that station he set it to silent, locked it, and made his way to deck 13.

With the use of turbolifts getting around starships was relatively quick and meant that the amount of walking was cut considerably that said it did take some time for Luke to finally come about the door to the science lab which opened as he neared it. “That’s a good sign,” he thought. If someone was using a station illegally the room wouldn’t be so easily accessed. Looking around it was clear that nobody was in, even better.

Identifying the station quickly Luke set about inputting his authorization code and the security code required to unlock most systems. Positive that it would respond and the feedback from the sweep was just a glitch he stood up confidently waiting expectedly with his arms crossed until the screen displayed a denied message prompting the security officer to frown and place both hands either side of the console. “Ok, let’s play hard to get,” He said to no one but himself and began putting in a series of codes and prompts all coming back negative.

Luke had been in the room for a good twenty minutes by the time he was considering reporting the situation, “What do you not want me to see.” He said out loud this time wondering if he could try connecting an external device to the station. Quickly rifling through the computer lab it was no surprise to him that he found a PaDD in no time and was already underneath the computer with its innards exposed, the security officer attaching the cables to the PaDD. If this didn’t work then he’d have to report it.

• Lieutenant JG Luke Wyatt

OOC: Due to some confusion with the setting I’m voiding this post.

• Jake