Listening carefully to the engineer, he made mental notes, "Chief Laurent, understood.  Start taking what ever systems you need to in order to get the ship back under control."

Though she couldn't see him, he turned to  look at the Ardanan's head, "Lt. Keyes, that is... a bit disturbing.  Take all the information you can and send it to Science for analsys."

The turning his attention to the Trill, "Lt. Res, I'll trust your instincts.  Please track our course and send that to Science for analsys as well.  Also, to the best of your ability, try to map where you beleive we are. But in the meantime can you explain how you know we are not where the ship tells us we are?"

Then addressing the ship, "This is Lt. Commander Geary, we will need to take all non-essential systems off-line and secure all essential systems at this time.  Geary out."

He was about to goto something else and paused, the with curiosity he asked, "Lt. Keyes how are the Long range Sensors being affected?"
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"Short-range are still giving us readings, but anything drawing data in from the long-range sensors are reporting nothing.  At least that's how I'm interpreting the void that my display is showing." Vanna reports as she begins to forward her findings to science as instructed.

With Bridges confirmation, she took to trusting they would do what they needed to in order to brace for no phasers and having whatever limitations were about to come. "LT. Blatt, grab whatever resources you need to safely, manually, shut down the warp core and get it done. Lt Commander Thani, please get an engineering tricorder and assist Lt Blatt with readings." Then, Switching her coms to all engineering "This is acting Chief Engineer Laurent to all engineering, begin shutting down all non-essential systems and isolating everything else in firewall blocks, I even want barriers between redundancy systems, lock it all down and dedicate a person each to making sure life support and navigations is as functional as possible. Everything else try to touch and go as best as possible." Jessica's eyes never stopped watching the warp core as she spoke, her gaze moving with whatever visible shifts or variable colors occurred from it while she spoke.

Once her instructions went out, she would turn towards Lt Blatt to begin assisting him with shutting down the warp core.

In reply to Decker Geary (msg # 6):

"Could be the faint red-blue shift in the starlight, or the way they curve when they pass by.  Sir," Istala said to Geary as she entered a new adjustment to keep them on course when the panels now insisted she was off.  She glanced back at Geary with a hint of the smirk he had found on her face after the Istala Special they had enjoyed earlier. "Or it could just be instinct.  Sir."

In reply to Decker Geary (msg # 6):

"Yes, sir," acknowledged the young science officer on duty at the bridge, Taylor MacKenzie.  "Forwarding data and notifying Lt. Cmdr sh'Elliaph."

In reply to Jessica Laurent (msg # 8)

OOC: Posting Thani's reply by proxy.

Thani felt another tinge of disappointment as the engineer had again ignored her and run off to do her own thing. Thani shook her head and resigned herself to not bother with someone so self-absorbed. She had found an open terminal next to one of the other engineers while asking, "What do you need a hand with?"

After sitting down, the science officer Lt. Taylor MacKenzie on the bridge hailed her, "Lt. Cmdr. sh'Elliaph, we have some off readings, can you assess these?"

Thani responded quickly, "Yes, I'm in engineering send them to the terminal Lt."

Thankful for something to do and not feeling left out. There would be much to report on this after action report and Thani hated paperwork...

Then Jessica asks for her help barking out orders to everyone. She wasn't sure what to make of the young engineer.
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In reply to Thani sh'Elliaph (msg # 11):

Neither did Bart.  His mind had to fight a moment of cognitive dissonance to reconcile the Lt. Cmdr Laurent he had first met on the deck and later at dinner with the one giving orders now.  It didn't help that he'd didn't know why she was instead of Matheson, but orders were orders and to give them further legitimacy, he added, "You heard the LTC.  Get the systems isolated and localized."

Approaching he asked, "What's the plan, ma'am, and do you have any idea what the hell happened and how?"
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In reply to Vanna Marie Keyes (msg # 4):

Now that the immediate crisis is being handled, he could give a few moments thought on the next crisis, that being where the fuck were they?

"Lt. Keyes you said that the long range sensors and the comm were going haywire. So I'm assuming that there is no sub-space communication, correct? Is there some sort of interference affecting them?  Or are they being absorbed somehow?"

With that thought, "Ms. MacKenzie scan for ambient radiation, radio waves, cosmic radiation or what ever you expect to find in deep space."

His mind switched to being off course, "Lt. Res, if I remember my earth history, one of the ways to cause a ship to drift off course was to put a loadstone near the ships compass.  Run a basic diagnostics on the navigation systems for any anomalies"
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"It appears to have cleared up, but my gut tells me this isn't over.  For the moment I'm getting readings that are roughly accurate at maximum range sir." Vanna says looking confused and frustrated with the instruments at this time. "That being said, the instruments say we're on course and nothing is in our way, for whatever that is worth, given the situtation sir."
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Jessica quickly located an available Engineers tricorder, immediately then moving in to assist Lt. Blatt in shutting down the warp core "There is a rampant, and particularly potent, security system that got loose in the system starting from the neural interfacing. It attacked Lt Comannder Catrina's neural interface and started making havoc in the rest of the ship. We need to lock everything down and scrub it out but we also need to be safe about it." she couldn't look at him while saying all this, and there was a small pause before she continued "Lt Commander Catrina has been stabilized."

"I came to scan the scene of the colapse and see if securiy was needed.  It seems I'm needed in another capacity.  I'll get right on it.  This is within my certificaitons." 

Stepping up beside Decker, he touched the man on the shoulder.  "I have the con Mr. Geary.  Assist Ms. Laurent."

He stepped up to the center of the bridge and asked the computer for ship wide address.

"Everyone, time for a leap of faith.  If you have no higher power, have faith in your teammates and in the vast space between the stars.

Shut down all computer systems not being used by the computer restoration team.  All systems, no matter how essential.  We're flying blind.  Attempting to do otherwise plays into the viruses digital illusions and slows down the restoration process."

He took a deep breath.  "Ms. Laurent, our fate is in your hands.  Make it so."
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In reply to Nynev Idrani (msg # 16):

Bart looked at Nynev, confused.  "Chief Matheson wasn't here.  She said something about having dinner with the Sewards in their quarters after her shift.  Maybe they can help."  He saw Jessica arrive and begin issuing orders.  "I think we have enough hands here and I'd sure like to know how this happened."
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"Sir your talking to yourself, Sir." Vanna comments to Cmdr Malko as she remains at her station.

The Comms system on PA and all badges begins playing a Vulcan funeral dirge, preventing anyone from using it.
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Before stepping up to take the con and make his speech, Malko had flashed Vanna a warm smile.  "A much maligned but perfectly effective technique for organizing one's thoughts, Lieutenant." 

Vanna smiles at Aurin and then leans over to whisper in his ear. She then stepped away from her position at Ops and smiled. "Where would you have me stationed Commander?" allowing him to relieve her of ops.
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Nynev nodded to the chief engineer, handing over the station to a crewman.

She glanced at Jason, who had just finished walking escort.  "Mr. Walker, with me.  Do you have a tricroder?"

She started walking at a brisk pace.  At least nine inches shorter than Jason, brisk was a bit of an understatement, given that Jason had to walk a little faster than normal to match pace.



A little before the funeral dirge began, she touched her com.  "Mr. Tekar.  Meet us at the Sewards' quarters.  Is your tricorder on a digitally isolated system?"

"I can set it to that ma'am, it was recharging." Tekar grabs his tricorder and phaser and makes his way toward the Diplomatic Suite.  Setting the tricorder to be an isolated system for the time being as he moves. "Has their been an incident in the Diplomatic Suite ma'am?" He replies on his comm badge.

In reply to Aurin Malko (msg # 17):

"Aye, Comander." He said as he stood up.  Without hesitation, he walked to the turbolift. "Engineering."

It took him a few seconds to realize this was the worst elevator music ever, then another second to notice it was coming from his com. "Damnit."

Arriving at engineering, Walking up, "Cheif Laurent, I'm here to assist in taking the computer off line and getting them started back up.  Where are we in the process and what do you need from me?"

The travel from Medbay to her quarters had been mercifully brief for Cat as Jason had seemed to determine to snicker at her painted toes as much as he could.  What struck her as odd was how it felt as though she had gone too long without them being touched.  And she suddenly had the strangest urge to run barefoot through grass.  She kept that to herself, however.  Grabbing a pair of regulation boots, she pulled them on and continued to Engineering.

Along the way, Naoko had explained what had happened - at least, what she thought had happened - and by the time she had arrived, Cat had a fairly good idea what to do, only to see it more or less being done.  Jessica was giving orders.  Geary was standing there as well.  Every instinct Cat had wanted her to leap in and take charge, but between Dupont's words in her still fuzzy head and needing to trust her team, she held back.  If things went to hell, she could always step in. For now, she turned to Naoko and said, "Get to the core room and save off everything about your honeypot to an archival backup before they bring everything down.  You know as well as I that a system restore will wipe out everything."
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He had just followed Cat back to her quarters. "Didn't figure you fer red there Kitty," he teased her. "Maybe gold... or blue. Even silver," he added, not even trying to hide the huge grin on his face. Poor Naoko had to listen to Jason tease Catrina, then again he had done much the same to her earlier on in the officers mess. Of course his comments were peppered between Naoko's explanations but when they arrived at Engineering and Idrani was coming out.

He shut his mouth when he saw Lt Idrani, and he looked slightly disappointed before turning to his commanding officer. "No ma'am. I was in medbay," he said. "Didn't need one there. Would you like me to procure one?" Gone was the teasing young man and turned more serious. As for her walking, Jason actually kept up easily, much taller and with a longer stride than the Andorian woman.

"Ma'am?" Jason was concerned a moment. "We won't find anything there," he informed his commander as he kept pace. He thought he had informed Lt. Idrani of the cause when he was in the medbay and the information he had learned. Maybe she wanted something else?
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The moment her comms cut off from bridge and started transmitting the foreign music she quickly double tapped and turned it off before spinning away from the warp core, quickly identifying some kind of terminal that didn't need a person and shouting out while pointing at the person nearest the terminal she identified. "I NEED SOMEONE, YOU, ONE PERSON TO RUN TO ENGINEERING AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE DISABLING ALL TRANSMITTING SYSTEMS! THE PROGRAM COULD BE TRYING TO GET OUT OF OUR SYSTEM AND WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN! USE THE JEFFRY TUBES IN CASE ITS SMART ENOUGH TO TRY STOPPING YOU!" if the room stopped, she would continue while looking across the room "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!?! MOVE!" Her hand would shift from a point to a wave, almost like a chop through the air, to emphasize her command for them to keep working.

as she turned to go back to working on the warp core, almost as if she hadn't just taken that moment to shout out to the room, she made a point to glance towards Blatt to gauge his own reaction to what she just did.
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In reply to Jessica Laurent (msg # 28):

Being pointed at and commanded shocked Deckar, but the intensity in the Chief Engineer's voice gave urgency to the demand.  All Deckar could do was reply, "On it!"

He quickly ran to the terminal he was instructed to man.  "Ensign! Get me an isolinear module, now, and follow me!"  Pointing to two others he blurted out, "You two, disable the main transmitters."  And then to another group, "You guys, start disabling all redundant transmitters, NOW!"  Pointing to another ensign, "You! YOu are needed to run commands between here ahd Chief Laurant since the coms are down."

Heading to the main computer terminal on Deck 4, Deckar sits at the main terminal and starts the shutdown process of the computer core as Commander Malko ordered, but first he started to download all the system logs possible, placing them on the module provided by the ensign.
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Thani did a quick glance at the information. But by the time she had formulated a response, the comm badge played that annoying dirge. Whatever this bugger was, she'd help as best she could. Grabbing an engineering tricorder, she went to the engineering area where she could be the most helpful in assisting.