Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in Side sim: New Talents, Old Problems

Posted by Civilian Sisnil Zoi (Intelligence Consultant) in Side sim: New Talents, Old Problems

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Sisnil smiled and then headed out. “See you later, Dee.” He said as he exited and went back to engineering.

~ Zoi

Everything seemed normal when he returned, except that the area was suspiciously empty.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Hm. Odd, but maybe something was going on somewhere else. He sat down to work.

~ Zoi

There was in fact nothing else going on besides the normal. People walked by, but seemed to make a point of not getting to close.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Every time Sisnil sat down to work, he verified the panel was in tutorial mode, and every time he left, he made sure to revert any physical changes - after all, he was learning the physical side moreso than the code.

But unbeknownst to him, there was a small, difficult to notice change: a wire moved from one socket, to another nearby one. And these were computer sockets and wires, small things. It was one of those minute changes that had a dangerous result.

It was designed to look like he made a mistake, something someone could easily accidentally do. Normally, tutorial mode would prevent it from overloading, but a slight change to the code, a true changed to false, and it would not have those protections.

So the first time Sisnil made a change, there was a flash of light and a pop! as the circuit overloaded and created a small high heat explosion.

Sisnil was lucky not to be severely hurt. There were burns to his hands and arms, but nowhere else. He sat against the opposite wall, stunned and confused, wondering what had happened, what had he done wrong?

~ Zoi

Not only did the computer send an alert, but Cmdr. P’vik’s Vulcan ears heard the sound. She arrived immediately. She knelt down and looked him over before tapping her combadge, =/\=P’vik to Sickbay. I need someone down here, Deck 5, section 2.=/\=

Dee’s voice came through the comms. =/\=On our way Cmdr.=/\=

P’vik focused her deep brown gaze at him. “Mr. Zoi, what happened?”

Before he could answer a voice sneered from behind her. “Isn’t it obvious, he is trying to sabotage the ship,” Stevens spat out.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“If I wanted to sabotage the ship, I wouldn’t need Engineering to do it, the software is more than capable,” Sisnil replied. “I’m okay,” he said to P’vik. “It just overloaded a little. I’m not sure why.”

~ Zoi