legionnpcs: (Default)
legionnpcs ([personal profile] legionnpcs) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2017-08-07 03:11 pm

System Crash

[After Brainy and Babbage disappear, cameras start broadcasting from where they were taken to. The entire encounter is shown to the team and the rest of the UP. When Earth is taken through the portal, Legion World lurches, and at the end of it all, when the traps are tripped, it lurches again. Lights all over the ship go out, fires starts, systems fail. Only lockdown procedures that Brainy himself put in place, to protect Legion World’s most vital systems if he were ever compromised by telepathy or other influences, keep the viruses from self-destructing the ship or turning off life support -- but they’re certainly trying to.]

[The network goes back up again fairly quickly, however, but it’s using a much older, inferior form of networking. Something a little more distance-based and analog, a little less hackable.]

[They’ll be able to communicate again, but there’s a lot of interference. Sometimes the video goes out during video calls and sometimes audio cracks up. Text seems to be the only form of communication that’s guaranteed to go through every time.]

[ooc: People can react and start planning things on this post. This is also where information about the Spectre's attack will get dropped.]
steelandtemper: (27)

[private]

[personal profile] steelandtemper 2017-08-08 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Hey.

[Cortana's not sure she can pull this off, but she has never, ever in her brief existence flinched from necessity...so here goes.]

Not even North can hear us right now, so he's not gonna know what either of us says unless you tell him later.
nofortunateson: (little glowing friend)

Re: [private]

[personal profile] nofortunateson 2017-08-08 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[On their time, rather than North's, a frenetic blur of ideas becomes a hitchy, emotional babble. Through reasonable and secure communication protocols, rather than burrowed-deep wetware, the shrill of fear and guilt and shame parses down to simple signifiers, no more overwhelming than any other metadata. He's panicked, trying to stretch thin over every measure and protocol he can reach, sensitivity set to a hair trigger and spiking new alarms one after another as he fails to be everywhere at once.]

i'm really sorry i promised it wouldn't happen again and it happened again anyway but now it's everyone and she's so much bigger than my brothers and i couldn't even stop them

[Sentences, punctuation, any sense of a filter all take attention he doesn't have, not when he's strung tight and scattered, sure he can't protect North as much as he needs to or even how he could but ready to crash trying.]
steelandtemper: (30)

[private]

[personal profile] steelandtemper 2017-08-08 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cortana thinks of Theta as constantly teetering on the edge of rampancy; it helps keep her irritation at bay. Delta would argue that the fragments aren't subject to that particular failure mode, and while he's not wrong, Cortana remembers the agonizing feeling of her thoughts spiraling out on trajectories she couldn't control as her being tore itself into jagged pieces. So...close enough.]

Hell of a mess, yeah, but it's not your fault. I didn't spot it. Dox didn't spot it. Nobody's mad at you about it.
Edited 2017-08-08 18:54 (UTC)
nofortunateson: (little glowing friend)

[private]

[personal profile] nofortunateson 2017-08-08 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[The information filters in slowly - slowly for them, at least. They did all miss it. And he's not in the same league as Cortana and Dox, but no one expects him to be.

Since everything flipped upside-down, he's just been sitting here screaming, and still. No one's mad at him.

He consolidates a little. Pulls in, focuses more on Cortana and less on the shadows, and the rapid-fire pinging of terror starts to slow.]


what are we gonna do?
steelandtemper: (57)

[private]

[personal profile] steelandtemper 2017-08-08 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's a little surprised that worked, but hey, not gonna argue with success.]

Figuring out how it got by all of us is for the after action debrief. Right now, we make sure there can even be one. A galaxy is depending on us, so we win or go down trying.

[Her track record with galaxies depending on her is "win," so she sounds much more confident than she has any right to be.]

Check North's armor and see if it's been compromised, then start assisting with staff rescue until the threat assessment changes. When you've got some spare miliseconds, ping the rapid fabrication cells that are still online and see which of them is the least damaged and most accessible. We're going to make UNSC field radios for the rest of the team to get them off the insecure comms.

[It's something she or a dumb process could do, but it's also something Theta can focus on rather than using any of his slack time to work himself into a lather again.]
nofortunateson: (pic#11067636)

[private]

[personal profile] nofortunateson 2017-08-09 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
i- yeah. yeah. North is okay.

[He's checked that. And double checked it. And- yeah. He's sure about the armor.]

Okay, staff rescue and field radios. I'll do that.

[He can figure it out. He has to figure it out. It's a radio, not a slipbeacon.]

And um. Translation program on there. Right?
Edited 2017-08-09 03:50 (UTC)
steelandtemper: (05)

[private]

[personal profile] steelandtemper 2017-08-09 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Hang on, let me pass you most recent specs.

[Her stuff's several years newer than his, and direct from ONI's Science Division for use deep in Covenant space.]