6.3 Interplanetary space en route to Mars, Day 2

[dakota]

" What trouble could I get into in the captain's quarters?" McKenna smirked

[Mierin]

Jessica looks frustrated with the Captain as he leaves without answering her question as to whether or not Johnson was the Marshal or not. "I hate it when he does that!" she mutters under her breath a bit darkly.

Sighing, she brings up the security feed hoping they will be able to find something to figure out who attacked Mr. Johnson and why.

[dakota]

Without thinking, McKenna patted Jessica on the back softly," Don't worry about it. Let's figure this out without him."

[Mierin]

Jessica looks surprised and looks at McKenna with a contemplative look before smiling with a nod. "Yeah, you're right. Being annoyed won't help us figure out what happened. Let's see what the security feed can tell us."

[Dome]

Foreman says, "the unknown draws us all from time to time. If it didn't there would be no such thing as exploration, or expansion."

[Renekin Skywalker]

When Jessica turned on the screen, it showed stars moving. It was the forward camera feed that must have been the default channel for the TV. So... how is she going to get the camera data onto this? Tawfeek's channel listings didn't include them. (Like I'ld make it easy! )

Though, to be nice, it is a touchscreen. A 52-inch iPad, as it were.

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"Or restaurants." Hans added.

[Dome]

"Touche," Foreman says. He wonders where MJ is, he would like to spend some time with her before he has no choice but to sleep before his next shift. He sighs and says, "do you know the time by chance?"

[dakota]

McKenna had to fight off a slight stir of motion sickness that quickly faded. " I don't know how Flip stares at that all day." She leaned in passed Jessica, looking at the controls. "I hope you know how to work this thing? she said, turning face to face with Jess.

[Mierin]

"You get used to it." Jessica replies as she studies the controls, trying to figure out how it works.

Looking up, Jessica smiles at McKenna, not backing up as she looks her in the eye as she says "I should be able to figure it out. However, if I have trouble, I hope you will be able to help me out."

Jessica then turns to the console and attempts to get to the security feed so they can review it.

[dice=100] Computer operations
[dice=100] Computer programming

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[dakota]

" I can try, but if you don't know what your doing, we're probably screwed ." McKenna chuckled, leaning forward to stretch her back. Then she laughed to herself as she cracked her neck," I bet Captain Tawfeek locks the door and sits here watching porn in the dark."

[Renekin Skywalker]

Mensk is currently in the Engineering room, taking his time off to ponder upgrading the comm system.

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Eventually, Jessica makes the connections she needs to view the camera footage. After a few moments of upload static, the screen currently shows an empty stairwell.

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Hans looked at his watch. "3 PM." Foreman has 8 hours left until his shift.

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Xavier sees a little red light flashing on his engineering readouts. Tawfeek at the pilot's station, making sure the auto-pilot didn't eventually ram them into a freighter.

[Dome]

"Thanks," Foreman says before downing his drink. "Nice talking to you. Take it easy." He then gets up stretching. He heads to his cabin and changes into clothes he can work out it, then tries to find a place to run.

[kurff]

Mengsk was an engineer and he liked building large engines. One of his secret passions was remote control vehicles. He liked planes and cars best. his current project was 'Junkers' Ju 87 Dive bomber. Finding the plans was not easy. In the process he found several WWII aircraft and many others. The F-22 Raptor and F-14 Tomcat were also in his files. He did this sort thing of help him think.

He once came cross an old museum with an aircraft display. The Stuka was there. Sadly it was not salvageable, But he did get a good look at it then made a blue print. Though at first puzzled by the siren he deduced it was to create fear and intimidation. Police cruisers and other service vehicles used them to get attention and fear was a way to get attention.

He finally got to building the model to a remote Stuka...the engine was simple enough and the frame a basic set up didn't take long.

Now he need to test the engine but as he was about to start it up an idea on the comm system came to him. Pulling up an image of a smallish communications device with camera, screen, Wi-Fi, cable connection and decent processing power he smirked. A comm unit like this for all the crew.

It would need security protocols and he could have the devices set to respond to certain individuals (i.e just crew members.) This device could also have larger units made into the ship to house the smaller units and download the smaller hand-held's information. All he need were parts and they should be in the storage bay..

[Mierin]

Jessica grins as the feed for the stairwell comes onto the big television screen. Finding a place to sit, she smirks at McKenna and says "Well, now the boring part begins." Jessica then starts reviewing the stairwell footage, hoping to see something that can help them solve this mystery.

[dakota]

" I knew I should have brought popcorn." McKenna replied as she leaned back. As she watched, curiousity got the better of her. " Jess, can I ask you something? Why do you get so uptight when it comes to me and Flip?"