Main IC Thread - Act I - Rumors in the Distance

[Flyboy2002]

Shadow gets up after his revelation and brings his conclusions to Nihl and Daryn's attention, "Sir, we have a complication. I am sure that the blaster fire in this vid is DC-15 blaster fire consistent with . . . clone weapons. I hate to say boss, but either it was meant to look like clones did the attack or we have some sort of rouge crew, but either way they have DC-15s. I also noted the reflection of white and one of grey in the consoles here." He points to the part where he notices the figures. "I will try to watch is a few more times and see what else I can find but I am not sure there is going to be much else." He sits at the center table where everyone is congregating and has a couple more looks.

[Wisconsin Wookie]

Shadow
Nihl slides up next to Shadow and watches the clips intently. After several playbacks, Nihl comes to the same conclusion as Shadow and slams his fist down on the table. After a moment or two, Nihl looks Shadow in the eye and asks, "Do you really think some of our brothers could betray us like that?"

The pair of Clones watch the video back several times, but are not able to decipher for sure the identity of the reflections, though they would both bet their life that the white reflection belonged to Clone armor.

[Wisconsin Wookie]

Bri'tan
Bri'tan arrives at the life support systems and begins to type commands into the small workstation located there. Very quickly, Bri'tan believes he smells something burning. Glancing down toward his feet, Bri'tan can see whisps of smoke filtering out of slits in the wall panel.

Daryn
Daryn succeeds in lowering the demand on the climate control systems in unoccupied sections of the ship. Waiting a minute or two to see if that has any noticeable effect, Daryn goes back over the diagnostic report. A second read through leads Daryn to wonder if the power regulator was working properly. If too much power had been fed into the system, it could have overloaded or burned out the power regulator which may explain why such varying amounts of power were now being applied to climate control.

[Guardian_A]

Mumbling something impolite under his breath, Bri'tan moves to manually disconnect the power to the life support, and in search of a fire extinguisher.

OOC: He wants to disconnect the power first if it can be done safely. Otherwise finding a fire extinguisher it the priority.

[Jedi Skyler]

Daryn follows the leads he's uncovered, checking the power regulator to see if it's faulty.

[Flyboy2002]

"Boss, those are definitely our blasters. So it is either our guys or someone that managed to get all of our standard issue gear," Shadow responds with a shrug. "I am hoping for the latter."

[Wisconsin Wookie]

[i]Bri'tan
Bri'tan quickly flips the switch, cutting power to the life support systems. He just as quickly flinches back as a few sparks shoot out in his direction.

With a few quick words muttered through clenched teeth, Bri'tan spins and makes his way over to the fire extinguisher. Grabbing it down off the wall, Bri'tan races back over to the smoking panel.


Daryn
After a few moments, Daryn makes his way back to the location of the power regulator. Off in the distance, he can hear Bri'tan's heavy feet running across the metal floor.

Daryn removes an acces panel and locates the power regulater even with the very dim lighting. Unable to see too much in the low light, Daryn reaches out his hand to get a grip on the regulator, and instinctively pulls it back as it is very hot to the touch.

Shadow
Nihl thinks for a moment before responding with a frown: "This war has a way of taking hope out of the equation." With that he gets up and says, "I'm going to go check on Needles and the Merc."

Nihl pauses a moment and says, "Shadow, I think we are about to face something we haven't yet run into. I hope the rest of our team is up for the task."

[Guardian_A]

Back at the panel, Bri'tan pulls the pin and sprays down the panel with a little more enthusiasm that is probably neccessary. Once the panel is cool to the touch, he begins to remove the cover in search of the source of the problem.

[Jedi Skyler]

Daryn closes his eyes for a moment, opening himself to the Force. When he feels its flow, he channels it to his hands, directing it to absorb the heat energy coming off the regulator. As that energy begins to build within him, he channels that energy into powering a shield made of the Force itself to further insulate himself against the heat.

((OOC: Concentration, then Absorb/Dissipate Energy. The energy he absorbs will go into creating a Lesser Force Shield.))

[Flyboy2002]

Shadow just sits back on the chair and sighs to himself as he watches the video clip a few more times. He continues to sit and think about it though he doubts anything more will come from his viewing and sulking.

[Wisconsin Wookie]

Bri'tan
Bri'tan douses the panel for twice as long as is probably necessary. Finally satisfied, Britan lightly sets the extenguisher down on the floor and quickly pries teh panel off of the wall and also sets it down on the floor.

With a grunt, Brit'an kneels down and examines the opening in the wall. Bri'tan shakes his head as the smell of melted wire reaches his nostrils. Bri'tan quickly locates the problem - the poorly insulated wire was unable to prevent the wires from overheating and melting when the power surge caused by the two blasts caused the system to overheat. If Bri'tan were to guess, the wire he was looking at was not up to code.

Daryn
Daryn calms himself and opens himself to the force, feeling it flow through him. Though it takes him longer than expected, Daryn maintains his connection to the force and absorbs the heat energy. After a few moments, Daryn has a force shield in place, though he is not sure whether or not it is strong enough.

Shadow
After a few seconds, Shadow closes down the video, having decided that he can't get anything more from it.

Just down the hall, he can hear Bri'tan making quite a racket as he is working on something.

After a few minutes more, Nihl and Salvo come out of the Medbay, both shaking their heads.

[Jedi Skyler]

Daryn continues channeling the heat energy into his Force shield as he continues to work on the regulator.

[Guardian_A]

Grimacing at the scorched circutry, Bri'tan starts making a mental list of what he will need to make the repairs, his feet already taking him towards his little workshop. As an afterthought, he makes a mental note to check on Kage once he has his supplies.

[Wisconsin Wookie]

Daryn
Daryn works for several more minutes, and becomes aware of two things. One, the regulator is shot and will need to be replaced. Two, Daryn is beginning to feel the heat seep through his force shield.

Bri'tan
Bri'tan arrives in the cargo area currently functioning as his spare parts/junk room. He frowns as he realizes that pickings are slim. He may have to scrounge up some parts at the Nerf's next stop.

Bri'tan quickly jots down a few notes on some scratch paper befores stuffing the sheet into his hip pocket. Mumbling to himself, Bri'tan heads off toward the cockpit.

[Guardian_A]

Bri'tan quickly decides that the environmental controls in one of the cargo bays would be the first place to start canabalizing systems to get the life support up and running again.

Upon entering the cockpit, Bri'tan moves to inspect Kage, checking his charge first, then looking for any indication that there is problems with the little droid before powering Kage up and running a quick diagnostics on the droid.