Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Building a Capture Network

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Building a Capture Network

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Daggum Hammor (Chief Engineer) in Building a Capture Network
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Call her strange (and many people did, including herself) but Faye loved crawling through the bowels of a ship. You could tell a lot about a class of vessel by the way they designed their maintenance and access spaces. You could tell what they prioritized, what they valued, how much time they had spent in such spaces. She had to admit that the Mythology-class lived up to it’s luxury status. There was a joke about it being the most armed cruise ship you’d get in Starfleet. There was some truth to that.

She was currently on Deck 43, in Secondary Engineering Supports. That was a fancy way of saying ‘the backup systems’. Faye had a crate she had hauled from her secured area of Cargo Bay 1 (that her husband lovingly set up for her when she first arrived and everyone knew not to touch), and was pulled out tolls and equipment. =/\=Calloway to Hammor. I’m working in Junction 21-Alpha in SES on Deck 43 as discussed. I know you’re attached to my pretty face, so please make sure Lieutenant Qu’in adjusts the power flow down here while I install the new node. Then Sammo can re-route the tertiary flow as we planned.=/\=

=/\= Understood. =/\= came the voice of her husband, the ship’s Chief Engineer. =/\= And to be clear, your face is great and all, but you know that I’m all about dat a$$. =/\=

“Mmhmm, that’s why it’s not in the line of fire.”

She left the comm open since there were a series of responses that would filter through, but she was focused on her work and began to hum. They were half-way through the whole installation process and then Faye and her specialized team would work on the customized software. At least on the Athena it would be an easier process given she could take her base code from the Manhattan and just adjust it to fit the Athena’s spec. At least that was the plan she had devised.

As she worked, her humming continued until actual lyrics could be heard over the comm:
The ice age is coming, the sun’s zoomin’ in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin’ thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
‘Cause London is drownin’, and I live by the river

It was a good sign, since Faye usually only felt like music by The Clash when she was in a good mood. Ironic, but true.

Daggum’s voice cut into her revery and he said =/\= You are doing Joe Strummer proud, Commander. But I’ve always been partial to ‘White Man In Hammersmith-Palais’, myself. And you need to adjust your modulation frequency down point-six amps or when the system comes online you risk frying the isolinear grounding brackets. =/\=

OOC: This is sort of an open thread. I figured the CE would jump in, and the new COS still needs to learn about this project, but I am open to someone else jumping in if it makes sense.

~Faye Calloway, CIO

Hammor, CE

She blinked. “Dammit, I wasn’t aiming to give people a show as well, but since I’m here,” Faye said with a chuckle. “And I’ve made a note about the frequency,” she said as she typed into a PADD.

Setting it to the side, she peered at the readouts. “I also have noted a couple of conflicts within the I-MUN filter series as well as the UHPAVS and RSUEP programs.” Both the Manhattan and Mythology-class ships used bioneural circuitry, which made her job now easier, but the Athena had additional capture and redundancy programs that she was weaving hers into. In fact, in many cases, these programs made her job far easier, but today they were being a pain in the ass. “I’m making notes for the software program changes, but in this morning’s simulation, the UHPAVS crashed my program thinking it was an infiltration. Just adding mine to the internal whitelist isn’t working, especially since if we did capture a serious computer virus, we need the main programs to take a backseat and let mine do it’s thing and allow it to be held safely. if the virus where to even touch the Athena’s antivirus programs, we’re hooped.”

~Faye Calloway, CIO

=/\= Wait one. =/\= Hammor said. There was a long silence and then his voice said =/\= Try now. I rebooted the central UHPAVS with the updated whitelist. See if it recognizes your code now. If it doesn’t we’ll have to do progressive reboots on each individual hub node so that it recognizes that you are the good guy. =/\= There was another pause and he said =/\= You know if you sucked at your job more, this would be a lot easier. =/\=

Hammor, CE

“Ha! I’m sure a lot of things would be easier, but they wouldn’t nearly be as much fun, admit it.”

=/\= I refuse to incriminate myself on an open channel, Commander. =/\= Hammor said flatly.

Faye couldn’t help but laugh. Ahhh, she could imagine some ensign in the background trying to figure out the context of their comments and being flummoxed.

She tried accessing the system again and it seemed to work… at first. then after about thirty seconds, it blocked her. Faye growled. “Fine. Progressive reboots it is. But that won’t be a today job. I just want to get this node installed and have the power systems adjusted.”

~Faye Calloway, CIO

=/\= We can take care of that here in Engineering. You can monitor remotely. Although we all know you like climbing around in there, weirdo. =/\=

Hammor, CE

She smirked. It was really nice to work with Dag directly. They had been before since he had to work with engineering to optimize power and stuff, but there was something special about this back and forth right here. “All a part of my charm, remember?”

“Okay, let’s test the reboot on this one and if that goes well, I’ll concede and monitor elsewhere.”

~Faye Calloway, CIO

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