Posted by Gamemaster Wombat (GM) in Main Sim - Chapter 1

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Avalise Rendana (Chief of Operations) in Main Sim - Chapter 1

Posted by Captain Briony of Krios (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Chapter 1
Posted by… suppressed (4) by the Post Ghost! 👻

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“Encrypted? What could a merchant need an encrypted message for?” Avalise mused. “Let me see if I can trace the destination,” she said as she worked the console.

Lt. (j.g) Rendana, COO

“Lets see if we can see if there is anything remaining of the transmission that we can pull up,” Aaron said moving over towards another console and seeing if he could reconstruct any of the message, even if it was still encrypted.

LtCmdr Foley - XO

It was then when all hell broke loose. From the Ops board the XO and the COO could see that a cascading system failure was starting, bringing down all the major systems in a sporadic manner. No real pattern and nothing that affected all the decks. Lights first, then elevators, communications, tractor beams, navigation and then… Gravity.

Slowly the bridge crew started to rise from their seats. Float really.

GM Wombat

“Oh no, no, no, no, you don’!” Rendand all but hissed as she gripped onto her console.

OOC: Cross post from the Main Sim Docking Ring thread

=^=Security Officer Harris to Ops be advised I’m getting power fluctuations in docking ring three. Backups are functioning within normal parameters=^=

Harris, Security

The presence of functioning backups was more than good to know at this point.

Were the backups working? Where they actually? Probably not at this point.

The gravity changed, allowing people to drift in eerie surprise. The Captain was no less surprised than the rest of her bridge crew. Sitting in her office, she felt herself suddenly floating off of her chair. Her brow furrowed as she clicked the button that opened her office door to the rest of the bridge. Holding on to the desk, she leaned forward. It was rather fascinating to see everyone floating as she was. Was this happening all over the station? If so, people could get hurt. It wasn’t like people expected Gravity to fail like this. Floating meant possibly leaving the floor and drifting to a height detrimental to one’s health when the gravity came back. “Commander Foley, Report.”

Briony, CO

“Still working to ascertain that Captain.”

Avalise wasn’t called upon, but she looked at Aaron as she held onto her console, careful not to do any motion that would set her moving in the weight-less atmosphere. “Might be worth finding Mr. Mord,” she grumbled. “And you might want to warn people without gravity that I’m about to attempt to get it back.”

“Computer, switch to secondary computer core and reboot primary systems, authorization Rendana- Pi-Three- Two-Gamma Six-Three.” The faster they isolated the issue in the Main Core, the better chance she had of keeping the station operational. If she could do that, then they could assess the damage the transmission caused and meanwhile keep the emergency systems on standby.

Lt. (j.g) Rendana, COO

The computer remained silent a moment, a long moment, before returning a simple: “I’m sorry. I don’t understand your request right now. Please try again later.”

GM Wombat

“Since when did the computer become so polite?,” Aaron asked as he tried to hold himself in place against the console he was next to. “The Lieutenant found a spike in our power systems, it looked like some sort of message. We had just started trying to decrypt the message when we started seeing these power fluctuations, and now artificial gravity failure Captain.”

He pulled himself down by the lip of the console, and tried to tuck his boots underneath the bottom lip to hold himself down.

LtCmdr Foley - XO