6.3 Interplanetary space en route to Mars, Day 2

[Renekin Skywalker]

One of the engine rooms (Next time I make a ship, it's getting only one room)

After plenty of digging around in his pockets, notes on the walls, and eventually the computer, taking an undetermined amount of time, Mensk eventually found a listing of the passengers, but nothing from their cargo lists ("Furniture", "personal electronics", "Wardrobe" were all that's listed, with quantities) that would provide an implication. No information was included about carry-ons, except that they had passed the Spaceport's security protocols.

Quincy (Jess's real knickname, honest!) found no-one had accessed the ship's main computer systems in any non-superficial way except herself and Mensk. And Mensk's were only just now, as part of the diagnositc, like herself.

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In the medical bay

"Oh. OK." THe little girl said. "I hope he gets OK."

Her brother was staring at the equipment. "It's like in the movies, sis." He says, trying to not shout his excitement at this discover.

"Oh course it is." He snaps. "Where do you think they come up with the ideas? Let's go. Mom said we could only stay for a few minutes."

With an akward attempt at a polite "everything's OK" smile, the Jolie girl excused herself.

"Come on!" She shout-whispered to her brother, from beyond the door. Grudgingly he followed.

"I think this room is cool by the way." He said to McKenna on his way out. "Just like the movies."

And they were gone, leaving MJ and Tiger alone to chaperone Mr. Johnson.

[Mierin]

Jessica sighs and rubs her eyes, having not really discovered any useful info. 'I'm missing something, but what?' she thinks to herself. Getting up, she tells Mensk, "I'll be in the mess hall and then in my quarters. Let me know if you find anything."

Jessica then heads to the mess hall and pours herself a cup of coffee and sits and thinks about all the information she's uncovered so far. 'How does it fit together?' she puzzles to herself quietly as she sips her coffee. If anyone comes into the mess hall while she is there, she'll smile at them politely. Once she finishes the coffee, she heads to her quarters. Getting changed into a tank top and shorts, she lays on her bunk, going over what little information she has uncovered, trying to piece it all together.

[kurff]

"I'll look into some more covert means of intruding security." he thoght of how to hide track..then it struck him. they would delete logs to hid them..and deleted info was still save in the buffers for a set time after deleting.

"Computer recover deleted info in a secured separate file. form all stations. don not display anywhere but this station" he hoped the buffer didn't delete it yet.

[Renekin Skywalker]

In that engine room:

The computer said nothing and did nothing in response to Mensk: voice-activated controls were not available, and so not installed.

OOC: Previous experiments with the technology (every decade or so) found that while a computer could be taught to work with voice activated controls, the costs in terms of money, computing power, training, etc., was entirely too uneconomical (would double the cost of a ship the size of the Galaxy) and so was never pursued commecially. Try the keyboard. And roll for skills.

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Galley
Jessica found the kitchen closed for the night... The Von Donnigans had cleaned up and left. And didn't put anything where she remembered it. So she had plenty of time to run through the facts:
- Mr. Johnson got bludgeoned on the stairs
- There's a fault in the video feed somehow
- There's a problem with one of the computer's hard drives
- No-one seems to have hacked into the system through the network.

Which means...

[dakota]

McKenna smiled and waved, " Bye kids, drop by anytime." she waited until they were gone for sure before turning her attention to Flip. " Mrs. Johnson is due back in a little bit, then we can spend a little time together before you go on duty, if you want?" she looked at him and raised a brow," Now what was that odd look on your face about when I was talking with the kids?" She asked as she moved a little closer.

[Dome]

Flip blushes for a second, "um.. I was just thinking about how good you were with them thats all," He sputters. Then to change the subject, "so what have you been up to while I have been sleeping? I came by before cause I wasn't tired yet but you weren't around. I went for a run around the cargo bay instead."

[dakota]

" Oh, I was helping Jess with her investigation into what happened to Mr. Johnson. I hope she's doing better, we hit a dead end."

[Dome]

"Oh, a doctor and a detective. Sounds like soOO much fun." he says with a smile while rolling his eyes. "So I have some time, what would you like to do? Want to spend some time together, or want to do some more investigating?

[dakota]

" Listen you." McKenna feigned mock annoyance as she poked Flip's chest with one finger while moving closer and grinning. " She asked me to give her a hand checking the surveillance video. For all you know, it was very exciting." she stuck her tongue out immaturely, then laughed. " You're here, so I guess I'll have to settle for you." she mimiced his eye roll and smile.

[Dome]

"My brother always told me the only way I could get a girl was if she was willing to settle for less than what she deserved. Guess he was right," he returns with a smile. "You want to spend time with me, you are settling way below what you deserve because I'm nothin special. Oh, guess who came knocking on my door just a little while ago."

[dakota]

"Well," McKenna continued to tease," the pickings are a little slimmer aboard ship. the way this trip has been, you wouldn't suprise me if you said Mr. Johnson here slipped out to come say hi." she motioned towards the patient with a bit of a grin.

[Dome]

"No not him, our little uninvited visitor. Wanted to know if I heard from his parents. Kid woke me up to ask about that," he sighs unhappily, but then smiles and says, "atleast the I can reap the benefit of getting woken up early and spend some time with the prettiest Doctor I have ever met."

[dakota]

McKenna blushed," Such a tease. You're lucky I have a patient in here right now or I'd teach you what else these guerneys are good for. Oh that's right," she grinned impishly, " I can't, you want to take things slow."

[Dome]

Flip now blushes and reaches up and rubs the hair at the back of his head while looking away before turning back to her and saying, "I uh.. I just want to make sure I don't mess things up. That things go right, you know." He pauses then smiles and adds, "I want to make sure that you know that I don't just want to be with you for that."

[Mierin]

Jessica frowns as she paces in her bunk, trying to piece together what little information she knows. 'Could it just be a glitch in the system?' she wonders to herself.

Feeling frustrated about getting nowhere, she changes into a pair of jeans and sneakers, not putting on a baggy top for once as she heads to her workshop. Sometimes, she found it easier to work through a problem that was vexing her if she was working on a weapon. Leaving her room, Jessica heads to her workshop. She closes the door most of the way, but leaves it open a little in case someone needs her for something and starts examining one of her older guns, looking for ways it's firepower could be improved.

modify weapons [dice=100], pass[rand=584193606205863195227177439718381016711055218902924748945271349942]