From jm-p@bigfoot.com Thu Jun 11 22:44:33 1998 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:13:35 -0600 From: "James Matthews-Paul, Cheltenham College" To: INDIGO FLEET List Serve Subject: [INDIGO] SB OMEGA: The Joy of Joys [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] ---OFFICIAL INDIGO FLEET TRANSMISSION--- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 19:15:57 +0000 From: jm-p@bigfoot.com (James Matthews-Paul, Cheltenham College) Subject: [INDIGO] SB OMEGA: The Joy of Joys "The Joy of Joys" by Ensign Simon Finn, Chief Engineer, SB OMEGA ===== (FMD 6.2340) Dear Jeryns, and the kids. I hope that all is okay on the Mars Colonies. It's nice to know that you're safe and away from the front line. The Dalriada are getting pretty pestering here, but we seem to be getting on with things well. Engineering has been a bit chaotic, but I suppose that given the circumstances it could have been a lot worse. Jonny says hi to everyone. Take care, and I'll write soon. Lots of Love, Simon --- As Simon finished, he was called away to the Captain's Ready Room and went there on the spot. ===== K'Bronn nodded at the Security officer. "Good thinking." He turned to the Chief Engineer. "Ensign Finn, I want a detailed map of all access to the Situation Room, and all routes leading to it. I'd also like you to see if you can get us some way of seeing and hearing what is going on in there." As Simon began to move to the door, sensing K'Bronn's urgency, the XO called after him "And see if you can break that force field!" ===== FMD 6.2350 Finn nodded, and having walked out of the room broke into a short, sharp sprint toward an OPS console and called up a view of the Situation Room's deck. As it arrived, he zoomed in twice and then studied it. Turbolift access had been cut off, he thought, and thus he put a large cross against the turbolifts. Jeffries Tubes E-12 and E-13 would, presumably, be covered and thus be impossible to get through except by certain death. He looked at the Jeffries' Tubes once again. Perhaps it wasn't impossible to get through them, although it would require a mastery of forcefields and maybe even a personal shielding system to go through with it. He put a tick with a small line through over that, and then concentrated on other possible entrances. The door - the most obvious by a long way. Obviously, nothing short of an override would get past it and that override was by a Rear Admiral. He sighed, and ran a hand through his hair, which had grown long now from a four-month absence of cutting. The window - evidently not. They would kill all occupants of the room before they would get them out, and that would displease Starfleet. As well as unnecessary murder of another Starfleet officer or two, they'd be pretty upset at having lost an Admiral that they could put on trial for war crimes, or an equivalent. Therefore, he mused, there was no way of getting into the Situation Room. He frowned again. The door. There had to be something about the door. It would have a forcefield on both sides, a severe disadvantage. Unless, of course, they could get past the forcefield. Ideas started to spring into his mind. If they took off the power distribution area on that deck for all systems except for life support, they could take out the forcefields and light in one go. Or, alternatively, they could flood the room with some kind of tranquilizer gas and _then_ remove forcefield power, meaning that the security teams could go in and get out quickly, provided they had the right equipment. :: See if you can get us some way of seeing and hearing what is going on in there... :: Certainly a challenge, he thought. With internal monitoring obviously blocked out by the traitorous Admiral, he would find it difficult to get around the permission codes short of going into the computer's core and restarting the whole thing. Maybe restarting it was the answer, but only the surveillance systems. If he could effectively get the monitoring system to go to sleep and wake up again in literally a nanosecond, then he'd be able to block any access codes that tried to come up again and also be able to get the surveillance systems on line. "Finn to K'Bronn. I'm onto something." ===== FMD 6.2340 Finn writes to his family James M-P FMD 6.2350 Finn works on the Sit. Room situation James M-P Matt: What does K'Bronn think about the plans? Are they possible? OMEGA: Hope that I'm going in the right direction here. Cheers, James Matthews-Paul jm-p@bigfoot.com http://jamesmp.home.ml.org/ ---- ---- Staff Writer, Spank! Maganize http://www.spankmag.com/ Editorial Assistant, Screen and Display http://www.rockstro.co.uk/ ***This message sent by an official member of Indigo Fleet*** Are you also posting your message to the newsgroup?!!! ---END TRANSMISSION---