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Rivka removed a plate from the behind of the mainframe and watched with astonishment as water flowed to the floor, followed by sparks and flares that almost gave her an electric shock. Looking at the destroyed parts of the computer, it would have actually been a relief. Fixing it was going to take quite some time, and she and CM Triton spent the better part of the following hours on it. Luckily there was an abundance of spare parts, for now at least.

No wonder this wasn't working.. Eshel said coldly while working with a few destroyed circuits. At least nobody poured water on lithium, because we don't have any yet! That could have been far more problematic.. Where did the Indian go again?

After fastening a few bolts and nuts, holding a screwdriver rather aggressively in her hand, she looked again at Triton. Now when we find that poor fellow responsible for this, I might have a word or two.. All this precious time wasted.. And my simulations ruined..
 
Holden looked at his fellow Coperz. "I'm not a bad cop guys believe me, I just ... I just have a problem." Holden starts scratching his arm. "I was on a tour, had an accident got proscribed these pain killers. I couldn't get off the stuff man and I ran out of them. The Doc refused to get me more. Just please don't send me to the Brig I promise just let me get some help. I'm still a good cop, it's all I've done my entire life I swear!"
 
Captain Bannon-Trump calls his secretary, Rhonda, and tasks her with delivering a hand written note to the Chief of Security, Jon H. Li;

Dear Mr. Li,

Please come to my office as soon as possible. Very important.

Signed,
Admiral-General, Captain, Other Stuff
 
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Barraco Barner rises.

"The arrest of our fellow miners for conspiracy to strike is, uhh, despicable. We as workers clearly have the right to strike. *pause*. So, until our comrades are freed, I refuse to use my drones in order to mine. We should all strike until our comrades are freed for unjust imprisonment."

((orders: organize a strike))
 
Alexander didn't want to strike, but with the arrest of five of the miners, he just knew who would be expected to fill their quota. And the so called food they've been served crossed the e line.
"We also demand restoration of Jonathan Ramsey to position of Cook. His dishes at least looked like food. We won't work unless properly fed!"

((ordes: join the strike))
 
Being already sort of... possibly suspended, Doctor Ramsey sees no point in joining the strike. He was already transforming the medical bay into a place worthy of a chef after all!

Plus, crew and officers both needed to eat, so he returns to the kitchen even though suspended and begins the slow process of cooking dinner for this mad little lot, after having conveniently left the medical cabin open in case Holden should return.
 
Pavlos has no issue with the strike. After all, galactic law guarantees the right to free speech. He instead decides to make himself some coffee and relax in the lounge after a long morning of patrolling the halls for criminals.
 
Baroness Marie Beauvais-Ivanov Nagy Horvath von Marsburg de Mirando do Douro, after a couple hours on the job, realizes that she hasn't mined a single pound of Li-6, because the mainframe was down. Discontented at this, she decides to return to her room. She passes some strikers on the way, and does not acknowledge their existence.
 
As Rivka returned to her office from fixing the mainframe, which was expected to get fully operational again in a few minutes, she was almost certain she couldn’t get more frustrated for the day. She was wrong. Opening her computer to begin the preparations for resuming production, she casually clicked open her email, finding a strike announcement. Within seconds Eng. Eshel angrily stormed out of the room, heading down to the mining deck in order to yell at the spineless strikers. They had been holding a break practically the whole morning, if someone asked for her opinion. And now when there was actually some work to do they decided to have a brilliant little strike! How convenient. Angrily running down the alleys she scared away the few passers-by by angry yells or a generally furious appearance, cursing everything and everyone in process.
 
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Clearly someone was out to sabotage the station's ability to operate. A virus being uploaded at roughly the same time the mainframe suffered water damage was far beyond the explanation of coincidence. Either of those alone would've been enough evidence of malicious intent on any other station, but with the crew being what it was, principally staffed by maniacs and imbeciles, it wouldn't surprise Randal to find out one of his "coworkers" accidently uploaded a virus or split water on the mainframe through sheer incompetence. Still, both happening at the same time was too much, even for this crew. And the blackout happening shortly before, it wasn't impossible that the solar flare had internal assistance to disable power.

This all led to a simple conclusion. Someone on the station was trying to hurt Randal's machines. That made him upset. They wouldn't like him when he was upset.

((Inspect the main mechanical devices on the station, such as the mainframe, reactor, and lithium collectors, to ensure they aren't sabotaged and are functioning properly))
 
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May 24th, 2145; 13:54
Orders due - 15:00/21/03/2017
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12:31 - E. Meh-Mentik beats E. Sathruban to death with a wrench. The irony here is thick.
12:35 - Miners declare a work stoppage. Incident recorded.
12:37 - CS Li talks to captured miners and releases one.
12:38 - HP Franklin co-opts released miner as HP Messenger, changes privileges accordingly.
12:40 - S. Holden is detained by S. Stoner.
12:44 - J. Morganson reports finding E. Sathruban's body in the chapel, death due to wrench.
12:50 - E. Eshel yells at striking workers. Incident recorded by Third Watch.
13:00 - Mainframe returns online. Virus still around.
13:12 - CM Triton found setting booby traps around machines by Third Watch using nothing but a pair of rubber bands, some duct tape and a bra.
13:32 - CS Li yells at striking workers uselessly, refuse to go to work.
13:50 - Explosion rocks ship. Incident recorded.
13:52 - Communication station found to be destroyed, external comms are down and room depressurised/completely open to space. Roving brownouts due to stress on station.
13:53 - Cpt Bannon-Trump III declares a lockdown of station in wake of 'obvious terrorism'. Exception list circulated by internal comms. (See below).
13:54 - S. Holden walks out of cell due to exception, arrested miners escape.

OFFICER INCIDENT:
See Below.

NEEDED ORDERS:
1. (0/4000 lbs Li-6 mined) - Progress towards final goal
2. Addressing the virus.
3. Addressing the escaped of 4 miners & S. Holden.
4. Addressing the death of E. Sathruban.
5. Addressing the giant hole in the station.
6. Addressing the roving brownouts.
7. Addressing CM Triton's booby traps.
8. Addressing the lockdown.

Remaining Crew: [Bolded are exempt from Lockdown]

Officers:

Captain Steve Bannon-Trump III [Maxwell]
Chief Mechanic Randal Triton [Aedan]
Chief of Security Jon H. Li [MastaCheef]
Head of Personnel Franklin Franks [Harps]

Crew:

Miner Asher Huxham [Oxford]
Miner Barraco Barner [Korona]
Miner Marie Duoro [Canadian]
Miner Fredlock Wilhelm [jeeray]
Miner Alexander Kowalsky [Ĉhopak]
HR Representative Laura Spindle [Shynka]
Union Steward Jim Wilson [TJDS] (Died of torture and police brutality)
Doctor Cook Ivan Klashinov [naxhi]
Engineer Rivka Eshel [XVG]
Engineer Eben Meh-Metik [etranger]
Engineer Suhan Sathruban [Rolman] (Died due to being beaten with a wrench)
Janitor Morgan Morganson [Keinwyn]
Janitor A Herro [Mikkel]
Cook Doctor Jonathan G. Ramsey [Olligarchy]
Security Jonathan J. Stoner [Luft]
Security Henry Holden [Baboush]
Security Pavlos Blartas [Arrowfiend]
Chaplain Jekehdiah Kreen [Noco]
Quartermaster Jack Ratham [Dragon]
5 Other Crew
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Control - Officers

Influence:
Officers: (1ish/5)
EOF: (?/5)
Union: (2/5)
 
While waiting for the mainframe to go up, Rivka Eshel had tried to talk reason to the striking miners. Well, yeah, “talk”. Most likely at least a few of them had filed work safety cards to the HR, for a gross violation and neglect of work safety noise levels. Nevertheless, the yelling had apparently been in vain and a frustrated Eshel returned to her office to wait for the mainframe to go up. And when it did, the virus was still there! Needless to say she was fuming like a chunk of pure lithium in water and an oxygen high environment. To make things even worse in the next hour she learned that the Indian mechanical engineer had suspiciously died, meaning that she had now even more work that didn’t belong to her field. And even better, when she tried to look for the Chief Mechanic in order to address the virus with him, the man was nowhere to be found. Simply great! As she was returning to her room she was thrown to the floor by a massive explosion, rushing quickly to start the air locks and assessing the damage. The external communication equipment, or what was left of it, was meanwhile busy floating into open space. Eshel reported the incident immediately to the Captain. Harsh and ruthless action was now in order to secure the very lives of those onboard.
 
Gathering himself after the explosion knocked him off of his hover segway, Pavlos speeds off to Security only to find that the prisoners have escaped. Grabbing severa pairs of handcuffs and a stun rifle from the armory, he sticks the weapon in a holster in his segway and begins patrolling the hallways for the missing miners and/or the murderer of the Indian engineer.
 
With the destruction of the communication station, Randal was even more convinced that he needed to set traps around the station to counter the actions of this saboteur. Though his current array of parts for said trap left something to be desired. So he would find more suitable components for his traps then continue setting them on key points of the station.
 
GALACTIC MINING UNIFIED OPERATING SYSTEM
COPYRIGHT 2142-2145 GALACTIC MINING
-Server 1-
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Station Captain's Command
_______________________________________________________________________
> Explosion Incident Report
> Exception List
> Emergency Commands
> Personnel Files
> Stuff to Ask Rhonda
> Miscellaneous

[EXCEPTION LIST SELECTED]

> Captain Steve Bannon-Trump III
> Chief Mechanic Randal Triton
> Chief of Security Jon H. Li
> Head of Personnel Franklin Franks
> HR Representative Laura Spindle
> Engineer Rivka Eshel
> Security Jonathan J. Stoner
> Security Henry Holden
> Security Pavlos Blartas

[SECURITY HENRY HOLDEN SELECTED]

> Modify
> Remove

[REMOVE SELECTED]

[SECURITY HENRY HOLDEN REMOVED FROM EXCEPTION LIST]
 
In a state of extreme panic given the murder within his sacred chapel and the loss of comms, Jekehdiah Kreen began to frantically barricade himself within the chapel office, fearful of being murdered or being privy to whatever Spirit-damned chaos threatened to break out in the near future. Turning to the Universal Spirit, he likewise began to increasingly indulge in space spice.
 
Baroness Marie Beauvais-Ivanov Nagy Horvath von Marsburg de Mirando do Douro woke from her nap, one that she took as a result of the mainframe being down. She hoped it was resolved, and decided to go to her station. She noticed a small commotion along the way, but chose to ignore it.

Baroness Marie Beauvais-Ivanov Nagy Horvath von Marsburg de Mirando do Douro goes back to work.
 
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