"Proceed to main engineering, armed and with an investigative tricorder.  Report as you see appropriate."

  "Yes, sir." Nynev sharply changed course for main engineering.  She stepped into the room and paused to asses the situation.

  Malko then turned to Naoko and stepped up with Katherine, holding back a little so as not to loom too much.  "I belief Miss Seward's question is extremely relevant." 
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In reply to Bartolomy Blatt (msg # 39):
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Alex heard the information and made a quick decision. He needed isolation for Catrina and surgery to disable it. "Computer Beam Matheson to the trauma bay." Locking eyes with specialist Walker as he walks to the trauma bay, "Specialist Walker, I need an isolation field for the trauma room now." (Alex begins the cyro-stasis process and will prep for surgery for Matheson).

Jess tapped her ComBadge, "Lieutenant Blatt report to the Warp core, coordinate with main engineering." A lot was going on, however she caught the hurried commands about an Isolation field and shutting down systems quickly spur around the room and made an attempt to step away from the bed to not get cut off from the rest of the ship's systems. Having both head of engineering out of commission would leave most the ship at the mercy of none engineers having to take command of the station and that wouldn't help the situation.

It was not ideal at all to have the Neural systems being shut down but she wasn't going to question commands orders. She would look for a terminal, if possible, speaking while moving away from the table "Naoko, will shutting down or isolating Catrina's implant harm her or the warp core in any way?" it was a little late to ask, it was all happening, but if she could get to a terminal and if the engineering staff was at the station then perhaps it could all be managed.

Tapping the ComBadg while facing Aurin, addressing both the standing commander and bridget. "Bridge, this is standing Chief of engineering, it is likely the Warp Core issue comes from MedBay. I have sent instructions for a warp core specialist to check out the core", Double tapping her badge to cut comms to bridge, but still clearly addressing Aurin, " Matheson has stated shes given the warp core a piece of her mind and it seemed to be meant to be as real as it was meant to be funny, if I can run diagnostics on the system from here then I think I should do that."

In reply to Jessica Laurent (msg # 49):

Checking the computer to see who was speaking, "Cheif Laurent, Understood.  Please advise once a sloution has been determined and or implemented."

Jason jerked his head up to Alex then nodded. "Computer, initiate isolation field around the trauma bay as soon Dr. Dupont has moved the patient there."

In reply to Aurin Malko (msg # 42):

In response to the order to shut down the neural interface:

Unable to comply.

In reply to Decker Geary (msg # 47):

In reply to Jason Walker (msg # 51):

The transporter activated, but it was clear it took additional effort to move Catrina to the surgery bed.  Once Alex entered, the isolation field activated.

In reply to Your Loving GM (msg # 53):

Being alarmed at the news he just received, Deckar raised his voice, "Computer, Go to Red Alert!"

"Commander Laurant, Report to engineering."

"Deckar to Commander Malko, Engineering is unable to take the ship to impulse.  The warp systems are not responding."

"No, you don't understand," Naoko said, trying to answer the multitude of questions directed at her.  "It's not random code.  It's an active counter-measure I was working on in case of remote intrusion into our systems.  Somehow it entered Cmdr Matheson's implant, then jumped to the systems she's connected with.  She's not controlling any of this.  It's like a virus.  It's spreading from system to system to disable it."

"Are you telling me your code is the cause of all this?" Farah growled as she pushed herself off the medical bed to stand.  The blanket covering her legs fell away, exposing her regulation bottoms for all, but she didn't care.  Her head still buzzed and she could barely stay upright, but she glared at the engineer.  "When I authorized this project, you assured me nothing like this would happen."

In reply to Farah Greene (msg # 57):

"It shouldn't have!  I had created a virtual neural interface, but it was all in a sandboxed container!" Naoko exclaimed, then caught herself.  Honor demand she not try to avoid the blame for this.  She bowed before her captain and everyone around. "But it has happened and I must accept responsibility."
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In reply to Naoko Kusaragi (msg # 56):

Jason stared at Naoko with growing horror. Even he could understand what that meant. "Naoko," he started, voice calmer than he expected which surprised even him. "If'n I understan', y'built something that somewho escaped it's leash and now is running hog wild? Never mind finding out how it got loose, we need to shut it down before other things happen. Think, did you... I donno, did ya make some sorta back way into it?"

"Naoko, you said it shouldn't have happened since you designed the code, what kind of situations would have triggered it to respond like this?  Could someone have tried to hack into our networks triggering it to respond like the active immune system those colonists made a few years ago on that remote research colony?  Could something have gone wrong with the execution of the code?  Just what were the parameters that this code was meant to run under?" Kate asks frustrated as she looked at the engineer.  This had effectively ruined her night and she was getting fed up with pretending everything was fine.

RED ALERT

Jessica could see a lot of flashes of conversation, people asking questions across each other, a few voices were being raised, it was getting out of hand pretty quickly and the red alert would only add to the stress. "LIEUTENANT!" cut through the room, spoken just over the pitch of the other voices which had been escalating to be heard. Jessica spoke it in a sharp and explicit pitch both to cut through the rest of the noise and hopefully to silence it. Immediately, her face would go deep red in embarrassment, her eyes dare not look around the room.

" We dont have time for Guilt, shame, or panic. Save that for after," she was pointedly looking towards the engineer. "We need to counter the Virus, Cat's fine now, Unless command has other orders for you. Follow me or get to where you need so to either shut this program down or make something to neutralize it. NOW." Her voice almost started to shrink a little near the end but her now was reinforced and bolster to be just as sharp and firm as when she spoke to cut through the noise earlier.

Then, with a quick turn to face the door, unless either Aurin or Farah spoke or unless security moved to arrest her. Jessica began moving to the door while tapping her ComBadge "Bridge, this is Active Chief Engineer Laurent, the situation in medbay is currently stable. Heading to Engineering as ordered."

Hot sweats quickly flushed her face, and she may have tapped the doors control panel a few times in an attempt to get out of the room as quickly as she possibly could. Her own panic and now her embarrassment evident. Yet, onward she moved.

As soon as she was in the hall, she'd tap her ComBadge again "Engineering, This is Laurent, manually disable the neural system in the warp core room. I'm on my way. Give me a brief status."
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Thani noticed there wasn't much for her to do in MedBay. She needed to be in front of a computer terminal, and engineering seemed to be the place to be. "Lt. Cmdr. Laurent, how can I help?" She calls out as she follows along to engineering.

Isolation field up, Alex checks the scans, and then decides to work a little smarter.

"Captain, I'm going to attempt to revive Lt. Cmdr Matheson in this field. Is there anything you wanted to let me know, or any other method to disable her neural interface short of surgery?"

With no comms, Catrina was now in the same condition as Captain Greene when he disabled the neural interface. After Captain Greene's response to his plan, he would do the same application of the stimulant with pain suppressant, and would attempt to wake up Catrina.
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Takar hit his comm badge and frowned from his position at the security office. "What are my orders Cmdr Idrani?" he asks curiously as he begins to look over the feed from his station to see if there is any sign of intrustion.

Vanna makes her way to the bridge as the ship turns to red alert looking sleepy and exhausted from her earlier shift. "What's the situtation Istala?" she asks moving over to the ops station.

In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 60):

Before Jessica had taken her, Naoko had addressed Kate, Malko and Jason.  "It was meant to be a honeypot, a target for intruders to access and trigger the countermeasure that would go back up the intruding connection and attacked connected systems."  She smiled ruefully. "It's working better than I expected.  I hadn't implemented the filter against authorized users like the ship's crew because I had sandboxed it.  It shouldn't have gotten out!"

Jason slapped his badge. "Walker to Idrani. There is a program running wild in the system. Engineer Kusaragi was developing it. It got loose from its cage and she and Engineer Laurent are heading back your way. I have to stay with Doctor Dupont due to the isolation field around him and Commander Matheson." He paused, eyes narrowing slightly. "Naoko, find out how it got lose after you box it back in." That was the most encouragement he could give her because in his mind, who ever let it lose potentially tried to murder not only Cat, Teala and the Captain but they also endangered the ship and the entire compliment living on board.