*R.S.S. Enterprise. The Battleship Squadron is lined up in two columns (each 2 divisions (8 ships) large). As Matt reads a status report with Athena and Benson in the CIC, Athena's holographic avatar flickers and the computer systems freeze.*
Tech: What the--? All systems are down!
Matt: Athena?
*Athena's avatar is frozen in place, tinted red.*
Tech: Systems are slowly coming back. Our shields are up!
Matt: What?
*There's a sudden lurch as the lead ship of the second column, R.S.S. Hegemony, explodes. Following her are the R.S.S. Commonwealth, Federation, Kingdom, Imperium, Union, Alliance, and Parliament. Two of the ships explode from caught in the blast of the ships alongside them or being struck by debris. 3 other ships get their shields up and are safe, but the R.S.S. Mathew Neilson, R.S.S. Allington and R.S.S. Kiala are struck by debris and heavily damaged. All the surviving ships lose power once the danger passes. In less than one minute, the fighting power of the battle squadron has been cut to 5 capital ships.
In the Enterprise CIC, Athena's hologram flickers and returns to her fulling animated blue state.*
What just happened?
Athena: Something just tried to break through my firewall. I went through and realised it was trying to overload the Warp Reactor, so I shut everything down and purged the system. I sent a warning to the other ships, but it looks like it didn't get there in time to save all of them.
Benson: How did you manage that? That firewall is supposed to keep you in.
*Athena gives him a "really?" look.*
Athena: Aw, that's cute, you think the personal AI of a DIS scientist doesn't know how to beat a firewall placed by amateurs.
Matt: Athena.
What exactly happened?
Athena: This virus attacked all 16 ships at roughly the same time. That suggests it entered the system through a transmission. The only transmission we were recieving which everyone else was as well was the long-range recon telemetry from the R.S.S. Discovery.
Matt: That's fleet-wide. Why is no one else affected?
Athena: Picture it like a web. The transmission reaches every ship in the battle squadron for redundancy. From there, the Enterprise sends it on to the various squadron leaders. They in turn send it on to their division leaders who transmit it to the individual ships as needed. When I cut our transmission point, I severed the threat to the rest of the fleet.
Matt: Captain Garrick, report to CIC.
Have all ships cut communication with Discovery until further notice.
Benson: I'll relieve the Captain on the Bridge.
*Benson leaves to swap places with Garrick. When Garrick arrives, Athena and Matt bring him up to speed.*
Coulson: good to know. I already have a few ideas of where we can use both of you. Once fury returns from his little trip we can finalize that.
They finish up in a large command center where a number of screens are showing events happening all over the galaxy as people are watching and listening. Echo is in the middle of the room running the operation.
Echo: something interesting just took place.
Coulson: what?
Echo: someone just tried to take out the republic fleet that Enterprise is commanding.
Coulson: how bad?
Echo: it's not pretty but it could have been worse. Athena saved them from blowing up.
Coulson: monitor the situation. I'm sure fury will hear about it seeing as he and Osman are meeting now and are talking till osman speaks to republic command about officially joining.
" Now the gate has been unlatched headstones pushed aside; corpses shift and offer room ,a fate you must abide."
Garrick: Is this something like the iconians computer virus?
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*Susan keeps them on their side*
Athena: No. The Iconian virus tries to rewrite a computer system into a mirror image of itself. This is best described as a 'worm'. A virus which is designed to invade all networked computer systems and carry out a specific command.
Matt: One thing's for sure, we definitely need that Battlecruiser now...
*Tora Ziyal. Sara grunts as she starts focusing on the body scissors.*
Sara *straining*: Damn, I nearly forgot how tough you are...
Garrick: Are our remaining ships still susceptible to it?
Athena: They've purged their computers. As long as we don't accept that Intel report from the Discovery, we should be safe.
Matt: In the meantime, we just lost our main advantage. This fleet's now too weak for a single line offensive against the rebels and too concentrated to fight a wide-theatre war...
Athena: The same applies to them, Admiral.
*Tora Ziyal. She succeeds, Sara backing off and getting to her feet.*
Garrick: But if they were capable of developing such a virus then we're at a serious disadvantage. All it would take is a couple of the saboteur agents to turn the tide or who knows maybe they've got some other secret weapon we don't know of.
Garrick: But if they were capable of developing such a virus then we're at a serious disadvantage. All it would take is a couple of the saboteur agents to turn the tide or who knows maybe they've got some other secret weapon we don't know of.
*Matt looks thoughtful.*
Matt: I want whoever deployed this virus found. Athena, we need a defence against this.
Athena: Already working on it.
*Tora Ziyal. Sara starts circling, panting slightly.*
Sara: Right back at ya...
*She locks up hand to hand, foreheads pressed as she pushes against Susan.*
Garrick: But if they were capable of developing such a virus then we're at a serious disadvantage. All it would take is a couple of the saboteur agents to turn the tide or who knows maybe they've got some other secret weapon we don't know of.
*Matt looks thoughtful.*
Matt: I want whoever deployed this virus found. Athena, we need a defence against this.
Athena: Already working on it.
*Tora Ziyal. Sara starts circling, panting slightly.*
Sara: Right back at ya...
*She locks up hand to hand, foreheads pressed as she pushes against Susan.*
Christie: Wow, those two are fierce...
Jari: Well I've sparred with Susan only once but she's got determination.
*Susan tries to change things up and get Sara in an armbar*
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Garrick: I guess we'll have to prepare for anything at this point.
Garrick: But if they were capable of developing such a virus then we're at a serious disadvantage. All it would take is a couple of the saboteur agents to turn the tide or who knows maybe they've got some other secret weapon we don't know of.
*Matt looks thoughtful.*
Matt: I want whoever deployed this virus found. Athena, we need a defence against this.
Athena: Already working on it.
*Tora Ziyal. Sara starts circling, panting slightly.*
Sara: Right back at ya...
*She locks up hand to hand, foreheads pressed as she pushes against Susan.*
Christie: Wow, those two are fierce...
Jari: Well I've sparred with Susan only once but she's got determination.
*Susan tries to change things up and get Sara in an armbar*
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Garrick: I guess we'll have to prepare for anything at this point.
*Sara tries to reverse it and put Susan in a rear abdominal hold.*
Karen: And from what I've seen, these two are really competitive. I think it's a case of they both know they're a really close match and just refuse to give up.
Garrick: But if they were capable of developing such a virus then we're at a serious disadvantage. All it would take is a couple of the saboteur agents to turn the tide or who knows maybe they've got some other secret weapon we don't know of.
*Matt looks thoughtful.*
Matt: I want whoever deployed this virus found. Athena, we need a defence against this.
Athena: Already working on it.
*Tora Ziyal. Sara starts circling, panting slightly.*
Sara: Right back at ya...
*She locks up hand to hand, foreheads pressed as she pushes against Susan.*
Christie: Wow, those two are fierce...
Jari: Well I've sparred with Susan only once but she's got determination.
*Susan tries to change things up and get Sara in an armbar*
***
Garrick: I guess we'll have to prepare for anything at this point.
*Sara tries to reverse it and put Susan in a rear abdominal hold.*
Karen: And from what I've seen, these two are really competitive. I think it's a case of they both know they're a really close match and just refuse to give up.
Garrick: But if they were capable of developing such a virus then we're at a serious disadvantage. All it would take is a couple of the saboteur agents to turn the tide or who knows maybe they've got some other secret weapon we don't know of.
*Matt looks thoughtful.*
Matt: I want whoever deployed this virus found. Athena, we need a defence against this.
Athena: Already working on it.
*Tora Ziyal. Sara starts circling, panting slightly.*
Sara: Right back at ya...
*She locks up hand to hand, foreheads pressed as she pushes against Susan.*
Christie: Wow, those two are fierce...
Jari: Well I've sparred with Susan only once but she's got determination.
*Susan tries to change things up and get Sara in an armbar*
***
Garrick: I guess we'll have to prepare for anything at this point.
*Sara tries to reverse it and put Susan in a rear abdominal hold.*
Karen: And from what I've seen, these two are really competitive. I think it's a case of they both know they're a really close match and just refuse to give up.
*HK enters the cargo bay. His quest to upgrade himself has changed his color to a medium gray with red lines accentuating parts of him to seem more intimidating than his old bloody rust red and he's clearly more advance. He looks around for a moment then leaves apparently having gone to the wrong area.*
*HK enters the cargo bay. His quest to upgrade himself has changed his color to a medium gray with red lines accentuating parts of him to seem more intimidating than his old bloody rust red and he's clearly more advance. He looks around for a moment then leaves apparently having gone to the wrong area.*
Karen: What's he up to?
*Sara helps her off the mat and lies down.*
Sara: That was tough...
*Christie steps onto the mat, UN-fastening the top two buttons of her PJs and facing Serah.*
Coulson: a number of different people. While Fury runs the whole show I lead all main operations. Simmons heads up our science department. Fitz our engineering side. The unsc is sending over a team soon and C.Rommel has already joined as well as our expert on the mystic arts named Damien.
He hands a padd off to a tech as they are walking.
Coulson: as for the republic we aren't sure exactly how they are going to go. That's what fury is trying to figure out now. The romulans have sent a few as well. Right now it's getting everyone here and briefed on operations. Then the team forming will begin.
" Now the gate has been unlatched headstones pushed aside; corpses shift and offer room ,a fate you must abide."
Skirn: I will see about the coalition sending more personnel but it is likely they may only send people like me and Kuurth for the team. Most people in the coalition are wary about outsiders. In an odd way. Bigger figures like us are easier to get here but the little guy is not. *means the average joe*
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Tech: What the--? All systems are down!
Matt: Athena?
*Athena's avatar is frozen in place, tinted red.*
Tech: Systems are slowly coming back. Our shields are up!
Matt: What?
*There's a sudden lurch as the lead ship of the second column, R.S.S. Hegemony, explodes. Following her are the R.S.S. Commonwealth, Federation, Kingdom, Imperium, Union, Alliance, and Parliament. Two of the ships explode from caught in the blast of the ships alongside them or being struck by debris. 3 other ships get their shields up and are safe, but the R.S.S. Mathew Neilson, R.S.S. Allington and R.S.S. Kiala are struck by debris and heavily damaged. All the surviving ships lose power once the danger passes. In less than one minute, the fighting power of the battle squadron has been cut to 5 capital ships.
In the Enterprise CIC, Athena's hologram flickers and returns to her fulling animated blue state.*
What just happened?
Athena: Something just tried to break through my firewall. I went through and realised it was trying to overload the Warp Reactor, so I shut everything down and purged the system. I sent a warning to the other ships, but it looks like it didn't get there in time to save all of them.
Benson: How did you manage that? That firewall is supposed to keep you in.
*Athena gives him a "really?" look.*
Athena: Aw, that's cute, you think the personal AI of a DIS scientist doesn't know how to beat a firewall placed by amateurs.
Matt: Athena.
What exactly happened?
Athena: This virus attacked all 16 ships at roughly the same time. That suggests it entered the system through a transmission. The only transmission we were recieving which everyone else was as well was the long-range recon telemetry from the R.S.S. Discovery.
Matt: That's fleet-wide. Why is no one else affected?
Athena: Picture it like a web. The transmission reaches every ship in the battle squadron for redundancy. From there, the Enterprise sends it on to the various squadron leaders. They in turn send it on to their division leaders who transmit it to the individual ships as needed. When I cut our transmission point, I severed the threat to the rest of the fleet.
Matt: Captain Garrick, report to CIC.
Have all ships cut communication with Discovery until further notice.
Benson: I'll relieve the Captain on the Bridge.
*Benson leaves to swap places with Garrick. When Garrick arrives, Athena and Matt bring him up to speed.*
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*Sara locks Susan in a body scissors and tries to roll them over, struggling fiercely.*
Sara: Come on!
*OOC: Nothing on the Enterprise post?*
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They finish up in a large command center where a number of screens are showing events happening all over the galaxy as people are watching and listening. Echo is in the middle of the room running the operation.
Echo: something interesting just took place.
Coulson: what?
Echo: someone just tried to take out the republic fleet that Enterprise is commanding.
Coulson: how bad?
Echo: it's not pretty but it could have been worse. Athena saved them from blowing up.
Coulson: monitor the situation. I'm sure fury will hear about it seeing as he and Osman are meeting now and are talking till osman speaks to republic command about officially joining.
***
*Susan keeps them on their side*
Athena: No. The Iconian virus tries to rewrite a computer system into a mirror image of itself. This is best described as a 'worm'. A virus which is designed to invade all networked computer systems and carry out a specific command.
Matt: One thing's for sure, we definitely need that Battlecruiser now...
*Tora Ziyal. Sara grunts as she starts focusing on the body scissors.*
Sara *straining*: Damn, I nearly forgot how tough you are...
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Garrick: Are our remaining ships still susceptible to it?
Athena: They've purged their computers. As long as we don't accept that Intel report from the Discovery, we should be safe.
Matt: In the meantime, we just lost our main advantage. This fleet's now too weak for a single line offensive against the rebels and too concentrated to fight a wide-theatre war...
Athena: The same applies to them, Admiral.
*Tora Ziyal. She succeeds, Sara backing off and getting to her feet.*
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Susan: not bad...
***
Garrick: But if they were capable of developing such a virus then we're at a serious disadvantage. All it would take is a couple of the saboteur agents to turn the tide or who knows maybe they've got some other secret weapon we don't know of.
*Matt looks thoughtful.*
Matt: I want whoever deployed this virus found. Athena, we need a defence against this.
Athena: Already working on it.
*Tora Ziyal. Sara starts circling, panting slightly.*
Sara: Right back at ya...
*She locks up hand to hand, foreheads pressed as she pushes against Susan.*
Christie: Wow, those two are fierce...
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Jari: Well I've sparred with Susan only once but she's got determination.
*Susan tries to change things up and get Sara in an armbar*
***
Garrick: I guess we'll have to prepare for anything at this point.
*Sara tries to reverse it and put Susan in a rear abdominal hold.*
Karen: And from what I've seen, these two are really competitive. I think it's a case of they both know they're a really close match and just refuse to give up.
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Serah: Yeah.
*Susan does her best to hold her there.*
*After a few moments, Sara taps out.*
Sara: Damn, that was tough...
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*HK enters the cargo bay. His quest to upgrade himself has changed his color to a medium gray with red lines accentuating parts of him to seem more intimidating than his old bloody rust red and he's clearly more advance. He looks around for a moment then leaves apparently having gone to the wrong area.*
Karen: What's he up to?
*Sara helps her off the mat and lies down.*
Sara: That was tough...
*Christie steps onto the mat, UN-fastening the top two buttons of her PJs and facing Serah.*
Christie: You ready to rumble, cuz?
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Jari: Wasn't that that robot guy who kept making vague not so vague threats to me when I first came aboard?
*Susan just sits down to watch the match.*
Karen: Yeah, that's HK. He's a combat 'droid.
*Christie puts up a guard and starts circling.*
Christie: Let's see what you got.
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*Serah does the same*
*Christie locks up and tries to take Serah down.*
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*Christie rolls them over and tries to return the favour.*
Karen: C'mon, Serah!
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He hands a padd off to a tech as they are walking.
Coulson: as for the republic we aren't sure exactly how they are going to go. That's what fury is trying to figure out now. The romulans have sent a few as well. Right now it's getting everyone here and briefed on operations. Then the team forming will begin.
Osman: I think it's a great idea. It's getting everyone else to agree that's going to be the issue.
Officer: ma'am you need to see this.
He hands her a padd with information about the attack.
Fury: things seem to be heating up.
Osman: agreed. This isn't good at all. Start putting any nearby assets on this. I want to know who and how.
Officer: yes ma'am!
*Christie tries to break out and get to her feet.*
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