GalaxyRaider

Myriad Reality

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That saber of yours work on concrete?

@Techspert

It does. I guess we've already crossed the line of vandalism, even if a concrete wall is harder to fix than a new door.
*Checks the wall to make sure I don't sever any important connections before carving my way through the wall*

Myriad Reality

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*Everything else seems to be connected, routing along the maintenance tunnel and through a thin stone wall to a more robust control room with interactive terminals*

@Techspert

*Follows the wires all the way*
More controls here.

Myriad Reality

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Doesn’t look like we’re going to get any more detail than “sometime the past week” unless you can find more of those busted cables.

@Techspert

I only saw the one. Let me check again.
*Looks as well as feels for any additional non-functioning ports and cables*

Myriad Reality

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Nothing jumps out at me. It’s a weird way to power something, unless you’re really looking to not get caught.

@Techspert

I wish I could see how recently they were here.

Myriad Reality

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That's exactly right... and if they hooked it up to some new output, it would cause a temporary drop in pressure before restabilizing, requiring more CPU cycles to compensate.

@Techspert

But what? What were they trying to power?
*Checks time logs to see if I can pinpoint exactly when this spike occurred*

Myriad Reality

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We need to watch each other's back. You've designed about a million things—where would someone have broken in that would cause a spike in nothing but the steam controller? Think it messed up the reservoir pressure or something?

@Techspert

Steam in conventional nuclear power plants is used for the actual power itself. Wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that someone came here for power in quantities you can't get elsewhere. What in your world would use a lot of power, that maybe wouldn't be considered acceptable in the public eye?

Myriad Reality

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*A new display automatically adds itself to the board, this one showing the individual CPU usage of each component in the plant, the emergency response system responsible for the above-average general usage statistics, and a historical record of another recent spike in the steam control system, which has since decreased to normal levels of activity*
Hey, whatever you did got us a new feed. This one has processor load.

@Techspert

Yeah and there’s a couple of spikes that are strange. Almost makes it seem like someone broke in?… We may not be alone.

Myriad Reality

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Everything okay in there?
*One display cable has a broken connection in the breakout box doesn't properly feed the signal to the inputs*

@Techspert

Hmm.
*Unplugs it, and carefully uses the blade from earlier to superheat the wire and solders connections together before plugging it back in*

Myriad Reality

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*Each feed provides a high resolution stream of various system health indicators and statuses, along with diagrams of the nuclear plant, each section highlighted green to indicate its current safety level*

@Techspert

They need to take better care of something so volatile.
*Checks the cable connections for any loose or disconnected displays*

Myriad Reality

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*Behind a panel with a universal cabinet lock sits a series of video inputs and outputs for the safety monitoring systems, connected to a central breakout box via cracked and weathered cables, and output to a single video port that connects to the main display*
I... really don't like this.
*Steps backwards out of the room and back toward the larger monitoring system*
Just let me know when you're done.

@Techspert

Will do. Shouldn’t be long.
*Tries to pan through the various feeds*