θ 55 [Mutiny]

[bit_impossible]

[after making sure anybody who' going to search has a device and is trained to use it, the Doctor finally sets off for the Enviro-dome! once there, he tries to remember where certain things were: the cabin in the middle of the forest, the lift from Level Ten, even the shoddy representation of Ancient Egypt.

for a while he walks, holding out his device until he reaches an approximate spot where the lift would have been--and the device goes off. it blares out obnoxiously because obviously all devices of a detecting sort should, at least to him.]

Ah ha...I think I have something here! [holds out his device and briskly walks around the area, the noise occasionally sounding off.] Yeeep, definitely have something. Odd place for it though.

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...Sorry about not posting in the middle of their last conversation.

[heresthebasics.livejournal.com]

Hey Doc, you don't look that busy! I gotta a question to throw at you: Why would this ship need a back-up console?

[bit_impossible]

[arches an eyebrow at the "busy" part; detecting isn't easy work, darn it!] Ahh, well, in case something like this happens, for example. Someone lunatic's locked himself in the bridge and there aren't any other ways to control the ship's systems. It's a fail-safe, really. A really well hidden fail-safe...

It's not common place, though. The most there might be on a normal one is a panel of sorts that's linked to the ship's computer--and with a judicious amount of hacking, one could, potentially, come into control of every system on the ship.

This ship, however, is different. Orion's said there are individual cluster networks that operate independently of each other, so if, say, I try to take over the ship on Level 15, I'd only have control on that level--or even less depending on how much of the ship's systems have been compartmentalised.

Aaargh. Repost, sorry.

[heresthebasics.livejournal.com]

[Isshin pretends he didn't hear the second half of that. Tech-babble gives him a headache.]

Let me translate that. What you're saying is that they'd have it in case the party controlling the ship was wasn't the most beneficial for those on board?

[bit_impossible]

Somewhat, yes. It's not something you'd employ the use of normally. It's a fail-safe measure, like I said.

[heresthebasics.livejournal.com]

I'll take that as close enough. I was hoping it was something along those lines. Thanks Doc, you've told me all I needed to know.