USS Cochrane

Stardate:2406.03.04
Mission:  A Farewell to Things, Day 2, Stardate2406.03.04

Tahl went back to the monitor.  After a qucik search he saw something else
that made it all make sense, in a sick, nonsensicle way.  The computer was
running the simulation with all of the characters, save one.  There was
nobody in the character of Sinia.  She had been eradicated from the
simulation.

the problem with that was that she was the one who found and disarmed the
bomb.  Without her in the program, there is no way to stop the explosion.

Tahl stepped awy from the computer for a moment to gather his thoughts.
What to do, what to do.  He looked over at Bell, Fugan B'Lanor, and finally
at Alexandra Lowell.  At first sight of Alex his heart began to pound.  He
wanted to reach out and hold her.  

No, that was Sinia, and he was Bono.  No, that was the simulation.  These
feelings are from the simulation.  Aren't they?  They seemed to real to be
simulated emmotions.

~Stay focused Tahl.~

"That's it,"  Tahl cried out.  "The computer is unable to tell the
difference between reality and simulation.  It doesn't know the difference.
to it, they are both two different versions of the same reality.  So it has
crossed them over.  The reality of the simulation has become real world
reality."

(reply any)

"If I can create a simulation of Sinia, to find and dispose of the bomb,
then hopefully it will shut down the reaction we're seeing here."

(reply any, ifyw)

Tahl went back to the computer.  His hands flew across the screen.  It
didn't don on him that everything he was reading and writing was in T'Kon.
But the computer picked it up pretty quick.  

A view screen came on so that Tahl and the others could monitor the progress
of the simulation.  After a few minutes, Tahl's headache began to rage.
Suddenly Sinia appeared in the screen.

She was, however, quite imobile.  It was like a paper doll stuck to the
scene.  After a couple more minutes she became more animated.

"Unfortunately, with time limit it have, that's the best I can do.  Now we
have to figure out where the bomb is."

(reply Lowell, Bell, B'Lanor)
(posted by Al Muir)



Stardate:2406.03.04
Alexandra got up and look at Tahl, a sense of warmth ran all over her body, to the
point that she had difficulty to focus on what he was saying... until she word the
word bomb.

She could hear underneath her feet explosions, after explosions.

"If I can create a simulation of Sinia, to find and dispose of the bomb, then
hopefully it will shut down the reaction we're seeing here."

"The labs is getting destroyed, are all the system of the station link to this
simulation?"

Tahl went back to the computer but he didn't seem to hear, concentrate on what he
was doing.  His hands flew across the screen.  It didn't don on him that everything
he was reading and writing was in T'Kon. But the computer picked it up pretty quick.
 Alexandra look beside him what he was doing, and saw that he was reading T'Kon,
that was frighting her a little.

~That simulation did something, but what?~

A view screen came on so that Tahl and the others could monitor the progress of the
simulation.  After a few minutes, Tahl's headache began to rage. Suddenly Sinia
appeared in the screen.

She was, however, quite imobile.  It was like a paper doll stuck to the
scene.  After a couple more minutes she became more animated.

Alexandra closed her eyes and tried to remember Sinia's thoughts but the presence of
Tahl so close was causing some major distraction.  She took a few steps away and
turn her back, force herself to look at another computer terminal.  It came with a
flash.

"Unfortunately, with time limit it have, that's the best I can do.  Now we have to
figure out where the bomb is."

"I think I know... Engineering, is where the last battle was.  It's the place the
captain locked himself in.  Bell, Fugan, we are going to need your help!" Alexandra
was already running toward the nearest turbolift.

(Reply from Bell, Tahl, Fugan, anyone)
(Posted by Laurence Durand)
Stardate:2406.03.04
Alexandra look around for a second, it felt so weird to be in the real station
again.  Now she knew it so well because it held so many memories but there weren't
her own.

"Computer, Lt. Comdr. Lowell, Beta nine epsilon, Red alert, emergency transport all
personel back to the USS Cochrane, at the exception of Lt. Tahlmari, Ensign B'Lanor,
Lt. Bell and myself."

[Authorisation confirm, emergency transporter engage]

Alexandra tap her combadge.

"Lt. Comdr. Lowell to Lt. Tore'Len'Chi, once everyone is on board, get the USS
Cochrane out of the sector and maintain a transporter lock on us.  To explain this
order, there a silent bomb or bombs on board the Station, Lt. Tahlmari, Ensign
B'Lanor, Lt. Bell and myself will go an try to disarm. Give us fifteen minutes and
like it or not transport us, unless you read that we are in danger, in this case you
take us out of here."

(Reply Tore'Len'Chi)

"Good! Lowell out!"

(CRF - Engineering - 1415)

When they arrive, the room was lit by emergency lights, and it was deserted.

"Computer maintain visual red alert, kill the sound please."  She look at Tahl. "We
better find that bomb.  The power source is behind those doors at the far end, but
if I was captain Sinoival, I would have put a secondary device, somewhere to another
critical part.  She was psychotic, and pass her time in engineering, if my memory
serves me right.  Bell, you were inside her, try to remember.  Let's search!"

Suddenly a sound came out of the door of the stations power source.  A voice that
made Alexandra took a deep breath.

"Come on and fight me... I have been waiting for so long for this revenge Lt. Comdr.
Lowell. Can't use... what do you call them... phasers, yes, can't use phasers in
here."

Alexandra look at Bell, Fugan and Tahlmari. "Captain Sinoival!"

(Reply if any)

Then the same voice, but at a different location.  Alexandra went to the Tactical
station in engineering.  She open a crawl space and went inside, when she came back
she had two staff weapon. She gave one to Tahl.

(Reply from Bell, Tahl, or Fugan IYW)

"Find that or those bombs! We will take care of them, at least try."

(Reply from Bell, Tahl, Fugan, anyone)
(Posted by Laurence Durand)
Stardate:2406.03.04
"I think I know... Engineering, is where the last battle was.  It's the 
place the captain locked himself in.  Bell, Fugan, we are going to need your 
help!" the Lt.Comdr was already running toward the nearest turbolift."

"As you wish Lt Commander, the most logical location to begin the search 
would be the stations power source, however the radiation produced would 
make sensors unreliable, except at close range"

NRPG

Wasn't the station power by some kind of enormous reactor, that went haywire 
when you first arrived at the station?

(Reply from Bell, Tahl, Alexandra, anyone)
(Posted by John Morrison)
Stardate:2406.03.04
Tahl hoped that the animated Sinia would act accordingly.  He had tried to
tie it in with the activities of Alexandra.  Now he was beginning to think
that might have been an error.

After a few seconds of searching for the where an explosive might be a voice
came out.

"Come on and fight me... I have been waiting for so long for this revenge
Lt. Comdr.
Lowell.  Can't use... what do you call them... phasers, yes, can't use
phasers in
here."

Tahl looked around but saw nobody.  The voice was familiar.  The hairs on
the back of his neck stood on end.  

"Captain Sinoival!"  Alex almost shouted.

~But how?  That captain's been dead for centuries.~

The next thing Tahl knew was Alex handing him a  fighting staff.  It was the
same weapon he had seen Sinia using in the simulation.  She ordered Bell and
B'Lanor to find the bombs while they took care of this problem.

Tahl moved the staff around in his hands.  He had never used one before, but
he felt as if he'd used it all his life.  The balance was incredible.  He
spun it around once and got into a fighting position.

Then, out of the corner of his eye he saw some motion.  He ducked and rolled
across the floor as a blade barely missed him.  For a moment he saw
something, then it was gone.  He looked down at his shiirt and saw that it
had been sliced.  

~A little too close.~

Then he saw it appear again, this time heading for Alexandra.  

"Now I've got you!"  It was Sinoival, but the look on her face was horrific.
"After all this time, finally you will die."

Tahl couldn't believe it.  The captain looked as she had in the simulation,
save for the evil, angry look she sported.  ~How?~

(reply Lowell)
(posted by Al Muir)