((Doing some pre-leaving stuff - the rest of it can be handled after))
Dinosawer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 11:17 am
Without much hope, I check if my comm system has any info on where the transmission comes from.
As you'd expect, no, you can't tell where the transmission came from.
cuisinart8 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:40 pm
I turn to Serava Dai hopefully. "Do you guys want to come with us? Safety in numbers, at least."
The commander hesitates, but nods. She checks her weapon and holsters it. "We're headed to the top of the hangar. Our shuttle is programmed to pick us up there, and we don't have long to delay. If we miss the rendezvous, we'll be marked MIA."
Hema wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:48 pm
Turn to our newfound allies
"We'll be leaving now, and we'd appreciate it if you would move with us for as long as you're able.
With you among our group, no one would dare attack us!"
Serava Dai does not disagree with you.
Hapchazzard wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 11:10 am
If I have the time before we leave, try and decrypt the message
It finally occurs to you what the message is. It has the same headers and format as an audio file. You open up a few tools on your PDA, clump a few libraries together, shift them around, and the strange, garbled text makes sense - as screamy static. It's the same sound that you hear on your helmets.
The scream, like a garbled version of a frightened woman or screaming ghoul rattles in your ears again. You wince, turn down the volume, and run that through a few algorithms.
To your surprise, when you actually start trying to run it through the decryption hardware on your PDA, it takes over and wrests away your control. As you watch, the various fragments of the audio file rapidly unscramble themselves and fall into place; a line of clarity moving through the audio from one side to the other. The message decompresses itself, lengthening by several times and changing the pitch.
Then all is silent.
The message plays.
Is there anyone out there? Anyone at all? Oh, gosh...
The voice of SCAMPS sounds frightened and uncertain - even hopeless.
If any Tartarus personnel are still out on Fuhodo, be warned: The Nemesis has come under attack. Everyone is missing - I think I might be the only one still onboard. SCAMPS is gone, too - they broke into his biochamber and it's... oh, gosh, it's severely damaged. I'm routing this through his admin channels because I don't have the clearance to send a long-range comm message myself. But please, if you can make it here, come find me. My name is Janeway - Merla Janeway - and I'm hiding in the SCAMPS Core.
And be careful! They're watching.