====== Main Engineering ===== Bev walked into engineering and had a hard time locating Hawk. Oriana had ordered her to locate him and inform him of there sensor problems. It appeared however that there were a lot of problems going on. After a couple of close calls and one head on collision, (since Hawk called all engineers on duty the dept was crowded with yellow shirts) Bev found Hawk. He was feverishly tapping away at his console and yelling orders out to engineers around the dept as she approached. Just before she was ready to speak to him and without even looking up Hawk said, "I know Bev, comm is down and sensors are a mess, we are working on it and no idea when anything will be fixed." He waited a second and added, "Smelled your perfume, knew it was you or a Klingon gentleman I met before the party." Her only reply was to laugh, and ask if that's all the info he had for Lt. Oriana. She pleaded that her Chief was NOT going to accept that as the answer. Hawks only reply was that it was the only reply as of right now, so accepting it wasn't an option, it's simply the situation. He wasn't being a smart @$$ or anything, too busy for that, he was simply telling Bev the short and sweet. Hawk told her that he would chat with her when things weren't coming apart at the seams and enemies punching holes in the ship. ============================================= A few minutes later, Ensign Jason Stephens pretty much ran up to Hawk with a grin that said he either just got lucky with three Orion girls or he had an Einstein caliber idea/discovery. "Sir, I just located the virus, it was clustered in with a basic diagnostic program we use to check transporters." "That's great Jason; let's get to work on isolating it and rerouting systems programs to get things active again." Hawk replied "All ready isolated the diagnostic program sir; all we need to do is reroute. The only problem is that we won't know if there are any problems with the transporter system until it malfunctions without this file." Jason added "Will it still function, has the transporter been affect/infected by the program?" Hawk eagerly questioned as they made there way to Stephens console. "No sir everything appeared as 100% before I blocked the computer sectors from the power grid." "Good, just warn the bridge and transporter personnel of the issue and let them make the risk assessments and extra steps needed if transport is needed. Unless it's an emergency there will be time to run a test cycle before each use. If it is an emergency then someone is likely gonna die anyways so it's basically extra sauce for the meal." Hawk said dryly. Jason seemed a bit shocked at first of the callous response Hawk gave, but the more he thought about it, the other alternative was for the entire ship to slowly be torn to pieces by a hidden enemy or there own ship. Gamble was part of the uniform some times so he was correct, extra sauce. ==== A few more minutes pass as engineers swarm affected systems ==== The teams went to work like triage teams in a combat zone. The comm was back up within a matter of minutes in real time, due to Hawk figuring out the problem origin at the crucial time and ENS Stephan pin-pointing the source of the malfunctions in short order. All the other affected systems were up at a break neck pace. Hawk contacted Lt Foster on the bridge when all systems had proper power and functionality. He requested regular interval checks from all departments to keep an eye on any continuing problems. The only fear now was the fact that the repair was too easy. A team was placed on continuing the search for suspect files, and another team was to keep working on reroutes as needed and such. Keeping ahead of the problem was now a priority. The biggest priority now was locating that cloaked ship out there. ======================================================================== === ((OOC Ok everything is functional, (for the moment perhaps..lol) anyone want to J/L on the ship I'm game. OH and BTW, don't worry about adding this to the summary, I know what a pain it is for those logs that come in on Saturday evening ;) Catch it next time)) ======================================================================== === LT jg Hawk Versey AEO USS-Chimera-A