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Black Savium; Prologue - Chapter 1
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Jade Nov 2 2011, 09:41 PM Post #136
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Hal only responded with what he knew.

"I haven't the foggiest other then that it may not be the prisoners you have to watch out for."

Hal simply appeared to walk behind him but somehow appeared to keep pace easily. Meanwhile Tran was searching through his medical bag and pulled out a bottle of pills.

"Here take two of these and try not to move. hopefully they'll kick in fast I think Jethro's going to need you to do some extremely illegal hacking soon."

Jethro moved over to his desk and opened the personal computer on it.

"Dam right I am."

He did a few quick commands on his console that sent out an emergency signal to his personally selected guards to inform them of the situation and act accordingly. Next he checked what all was going on station wise then compound wise.

"Tran there's a chance we may have to vacate the colony short term. when the Captain gets here we'll figure this out. lets face it him and his guards may be superhuman by our standards but they're still out numbered fifty to one best case scenario."
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Riley swallowed the pills without question, but seemed mildly disgusted at the taste. She lied there for a few moments, not even offended by the fact that Jethro didn't seem the least bit concerned about her current state.

"Sounds fun," she said, mildly sarcastic. She was extremely pissed, so at least her brain was normal. "I demand a full pot of god damn coffee. Black and really strong. And maybe the most numbing alcohol you can give me. Oww."

Sessue walked into the office, noting the doors refused to close or open all the way. "You called for me?"

Riley barely managed to sit up when she stumbled over to the computer with Tran's help, saying nothing and doing nothing. She wouldn't do anything in front of some guard who may not be trustworthy.
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Jethro looked at her.

"Hack as many of saviums systems as you possibly can and give me updates on all of them, whats under our control still, whats not and if it's not get it back under ours."

He walked over to a dispenser of sorts and ordered a pot of coffee and some almost glowing pink drink and brought it back over to Riley.

"it's not alcohol but it's got a hell of a kick and it'll numb most your nerves. go easy on it.

He then looked at the Captain.

"I know your men are trustworthy and I have a handful of my own but lets face it we're severely outnumbered. way I see it we have two options. put the prisoners on admin lock-down meaning that it can only be undone by us both using our overrides, this prevents further prisoner injuries and death, shut down the colony shields and let those from the dead-lands in while we are in standard orbit. or option two. we fortify this and retake a few strategic locations and hold ground while Riley takes back systems."

He looked at Riley knowing she could hear this all.

"if she can get full access to the system she can turn the security features off such as the targeting data. casualties will be high though and myself, you, Tran and Riley will have to be moving from location two location with small squads."

Tran walked up behind Riley and leaned over her shoulder and looked at the console.

"if you can open the medical systems first and release the lock-down on them, I can be of better use with my tools from my med lab and it has some of the best security on base. Jethro if we can retake it it would make an idea main base or secondary base to fall back to."

Jethro smirked without his gaze swaying from the captains.

"Why Tran I didn't know you had a bit of a tactician side to you."
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Riley cocked a brow at the pink drink. "Why's it pink?? What is this, radioactive pepto bismol?" Shrugging, she winced before mixing the pink...thing with the pot of coffee. It came out a disgusting colour. She shook her head when Tran offered her a mug to use and simply downed a third of the contents in a miraculous single go. She sighed with small relief, "Ahhh, that's more like it. Now..." she said, wiggling her fingers. "I'm going to give charming Mr. Hal an upgrade, if you don't mind. He's going to have my abilities and more."

Sessue's eyes narrowed on the woman. "Are you certain you can trust this...girl?"

"Who you calling a girl?! I already had three guards try to take me possibly an hour ago and I managed to kick their ass--not a single smart remark about me lying on the floor unconscious, Doc!" She added, pointing a warning finger in the air before it began with the other set of talented fingers in orchestrating her greatest hobby, let alone her most fantastic masterpiece.

Ignoring her, the upir regarded his fellow Captain. "I would not recommend letting those deadland creatures in. In the end, we may still end up overrun. I'd rather go with option two, given that your...ward is trustworthy."

Riley's eye involuntarily twitched. "Do you have any fucking clue as to who I am?!"

His eyes slid over in her direction. "I've read your file, and I know you're not one who gets along with authorities. I'm surprised you have behaved yourself as long as you have in this facility."

"I'm a fucking genius at this, you twat-guzzling vamp!"

"You were caught. I shouldn't have to remind you of that."

She paused in her keystrokes, curling her fingers into fists. Before either Jethro or Tran could say anything to end the verbal violence, she closed her eyes and breathed in deeply. "What of it? So I was caught...it's better than dying. Unlike you, I got things to live for." No...that was wrong, her reason to live was pretty much dead. Immediately, she resumed her reprogramming and hacking. "Hey Hal, how do you feel now that you've been upgraded?"

"Girl, what have you done?" Sessue asked with suspicion.

"Like I said, I'm a genius. All I did was upgrade Hal's hacking software with a concoction of my own. If it's just me taking the systems, it'll take a great deal of time taking them back. With Hal at my side, we can take the systems at a much faster rate."

Sessue blinked and looked at Jethro. "Where the hell did she learn all this?" His reaction made Riley smirk triumphantly.
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Jethro glared at her.

"Frankly I'd rather not know as long as it's useful."

He turned away from the two and looked at Hal.

"Hal, start with the medical centre, lock those doors down till Dr. Tran gets there, afterwards start on locking down all sectors. I'll leave the bases security systems to Riley, and Riley... shut the botany bay down as it's the only safe way into or out of savium. once those are down... power down all outside lights. harder to fight in the dark."

Almost as soon as he had finished his sentence a loud explosion went off nearby and shook the foundation of the building they were in. Hal took a moment to do a quick scan of the area.

"Jethro, I'd like to take a second to point out that while this building has protection and most of it's electronical equipment is on site powered I would like to point out that we are still connected by certain gas lines that are outside this structure, if one were to go the resulting explosion could make its way inside the building."

"Very well Hal. better hurry up then. and Hal pull up a map of the colony grounds for us and project it on the main wall."

Hal did as he was instructed.

"Captain if you please"

He motioned for Sessue to come forward closer to the map.

"we're here, infirmary is there. We'll need to take both armoury and main security centre, anything else you think we should grab or at least secure? and what kind of casualty rate are we looking at here, prisoner and staff count please."
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Sessue mentally calculated the chances and casualties. "If we do our jobs right and efficiently and depending on how fast your ward can regain the facility in its entirety, I'd say a maximum of 500 out of all 5000 residents. If it's otherwise, a lot more. The systems are being shut down. By what, or whom, I think that's something we need to investigate. However...as far as I know, there's no other network expert that resides in this facility that...supposedly matches Miss Tombs."

"Of course not, I'm the fucking best," Riley muttered, eyes flicking from one screen to another.

He ignored her. "We may need to gather food. If, and I mean if, the shield system fails...we'll be dealing with more than badly behaving prisoners."

Riley didn't even pause as her fingers danced on the keys. "Yo, boss, this facility has communication with Earth right, or Regis II? Whoever is doing this must have some kind of access, even if it's long distance."
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"personally I'd place my bets on Archam research on Rigel II. as for my men well they look like the guards themselves so as far as some of them know they're all on the same side so they could likely get into the armoury and security centre no problem and retake those with minimal casualties. my main concern is the residential area where most of the damage is likely to occur..."

He was cut off by Hal.

"Excuse me Jethro but I have the warden on a privet channel. patching him through.

the Wardens voiced echoed through the room as his face appeared in the bottom left of the map image.

"God dammit Jethro what the fuck is going on? why are there guards trying to break down my door?"

Jethro turned to Hal and gave a signal to cut the audio off.

"I guess we have to save his sorry ass. Hal locate the wardens position on the map and highlight it. I'll personally take care of him and move him back here. I can do that run in maybe five minutes. ten pending resistance inside and on the return. if you can spare someone the help Sessue it would be appreciated."

"Jethro pardon the second interruption" Came Hals voice. "with Rileys new upgrades to my system I was also able to track the source of all this, it came from an unknown source on Rigel III in the form of an upgrade. I suspect an organized attack and possible invasion force."

Jethro nodded.

"All the more reason to disable the Botney Bay. Riley get that down first, last thing we need is more opposition support."
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"Right," she acknowledged, getting to work on that. "Hal, let me look at source code from those jackasses." When he did so, putting it on screen, she huffed. "Bastards. I have to decrypt this too?? They are definitely organized." Ignoring it for now, she went to work on shutting down the Bay.

Sessue arched his brow at the outburst from the Warden. "Strange...I was about to suspect him of this predicament. However, he's not a bright enough man to come up with this kind of attack." He looked at Jethro. "I can spare my right hand, Van. I'll contact him immediately." He walked away to make the call, speaking for a moment then looking back at Jethro. "He'll be here momentarily."

"Botney's shut down," Riley announced.

That medicine was starting to work so she was more awake now than ever. Deciding to multitask, she decided to work on decrypting the source code while working on shutting down or bringing certain systems online. She tsked, finding the task easy before her keystrokes stopped suddenly. "What?? No way!" She blinked before the computer started to smoke and taunting red warning appeared on all screens.

"Oh shit! Major meltdown!"

Before she could back the hell up, the computer made a small explosion, sending her flying back a couple feet, hitting her head against the floor.
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"Tran"

"Already on it"

He had already gotten over to Riley and had started to check her over.

"she's fine, just a little bruising here and there."

Jethro sighed as he turned back to the giant map. the warden still screaming in silence at them.

"Hal if someone tries to enter your program other then myself or Riley shut down all access to your system permanently. I have a backup so I'll be able to restore you. Sessue new plan. you get to the warden and get him back to this building. have some of your men bring in some portable backup computers, we'll make this a command centre, break out the heaters too. I'm going to the main server room and pulling out all the systems except the shields. it's gonna get very cold outside and very dark. and a while lotta no power. it should make the prisoner populace a little more inclined to get out of the way and the guards a little less likely to remain outside to fight. it'll make moving around easier by a little bit. And before you argue I ask you and your men to do it because it'll get done fast and effectively. once it's up I'll leave what targets you want to require up to you. just save some for me."

With that he went to his officer door and opened it, drawing his gun he checked the area quickly before leaving.
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Sessue watched him leave before Van showed up. "There's a change of plans." He basically repeated everything Jethro asked. "Stay here with these two for the time being. I need to attend to other things. The warden isn't going to be happy to see this girl with free reign once I bring him back here."

"Of course not. Any idea who the culprits are, sir?"

The Captain looked at the hacker groaning on the floor. "Any idea girl?"

She snorted, slowly sitting up and looking at the pot of coffee/medicine. The remaining contents had been smashed and now liquid was dripping over the floor from the desk. "Now I'm pissed."

"Girl--"

"I HEARD YOU." She winced, rubbing the back of her head. "I have no idea who they're called, but I recognize their coding. I've had run-ins with them before."

"Them?"

"Yeah, them. These assholes are the same ones who sent cops to my front door every time. We hackers, sometimes we stick together, or we snarl over territory. Their territory is large. I hacked into their systems once and they've been on my ass ever since. I've heard rumours, and that's all they are, is that they actually kill people who get in their way, whatever the hell they're doing. I don't know their true end game. For all I know, they could be cyber terrorists."
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Johnathan Tran looked around the officer as everything was unfolding, he seemed to be useless at the moment but it didn't take him long to come up with a request.

"umm excuse me Captain, I have no medical supplies here aside from my first aid kit which if there's any injuries more severe then a broken bone or a weapon shot I'm not equipped to deal with. I need to get to the medical building and gather better supplies if this place is going to be our headquarters. if you can spare a runner I'll head there and get everything needed to bring here. with myself and a runner we can have everything here within the hour, it'll last us weeks. on top of that there's a supply of things you and your men will need."

He paused for a moment.

"Not to mention my guns there."
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Sessue watched him, pondering over the situation. "Alright. I have an idea. We'll go together as a group, and the three of you can break off towards the medical lab. Van will protect you, and you're likely to get more if all of you go. Our...kind is quite strong physically. Girl, can you stand up?"

"Of course I can, jackass." Just to prove it, she got to her feet. "Give the doc a gun right now."

"No."

"Why the hell not?!"

"Many reasons. Main one is that I don't trust you. Also, my faction of security does not carry guns."

"What?! What kind of security are you?!"

"We're strictly melee combatants because we're physically strong. It's required to be just that when it comes to riots. We subdue prisoners, we don't kill them."

"...This is starting to sound like a bad video game."

His eye twitched at that. "Let's go."
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Tran fell in line with Riley as they walked out leaving Hal in the room to keep working on the problems they were having.

"For future reference"

Tran started

"It might not be a good idea to anger him or his men. Not as scary as an angry Jethro but they won't hesitate to hurt you from what I've seen of them. Also them giving me a gun wouldn't do much good. all weapons on the colony are DNA coded. ways around it of course but not everyone's that smart. nor has the time."

His voice got a little lower

"while your in the computer storeroom can you do me a favour? there's a hard drive marked V-I-1817, could you bring it to me?"
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She listened intently. Despite her constant angry outbursts and massive ego, she respected Dr. Tran. How the hell did that happen?? His claims explained a lot. She was certain she could override the biometrics lock on one of them guns. If things got extremely bad, she probably would have to, and Jethro was possibly the most likely to be the first to ask. So far he'd been depending on her skills as an elite programmer for a lot of things. Still, now that she thought about it, she didn't know anything about guns really. She hated them in fact. Ever since that incident long ago, she's always hated guns. What she hated more was the people who used them. As a matter of pride, even if her life depended on the use of a gun, she would rather die. She refused to be anything like those bastards who killed her big brothers.

"Got it," was all she said, and she said it more softly than anybody was used to hearing from her. Now she was in even more of a bad mood.

Sessue reached the elevators before cursing when the doors didn't open. "Damn...we'll have to walk all the way. They already--" Before he could finish, the doors slid open, lighting up inside. "What the?"

Riley walked in with Tran without any hint of surprise. "Hal's busy working away."

Sessue and Van just stood there, and he was certain that a blood vessel burst somewhere in his body. He was really starting to hate how good this woman was. Stepping in, he ordered the destination, not even looking at Riley. Bloody hell, no wonder Jethro makes good use of her.
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"Hal is a most impressive program. highly unique, consider yourself Jethro let you have access to the coding at all. he's extremely protective of it."

Tran seemed to be in thought for a few moments as they were in the elevator.

"A thought occurred to me. With Hal bringing everything back to us and Jethro on his way to essentially pull the plug on every main and sub system in this place. if he hooked them back up could we just simply reroute all functions to Hals control?"
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