Techspert

Myriad Reality

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

@GalaxyRaider

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

Myriad Reality

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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?

@GalaxyRaider

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.

Myriad Reality

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

@GalaxyRaider

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?

Myriad Reality

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

@GalaxyRaider

*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.

Myriad Reality

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

@GalaxyRaider

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

Myriad Reality

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

@GalaxyRaider

*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*

Myriad Reality

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I’m not super sure. Just trying to glean info from anything I can.
*Approaches the terminal and tries to see what info it contains*

@GalaxyRaider

*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.

Myriad Reality

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I want to check this out too, Rhythm.
*Opens the door to the hall and moves toward the control panel*

@GalaxyRaider

*The hall is only wide enough for one of us to fit horizontally at a time, so I peek at the panel over your shoulder*
What're you looking at?

Myriad Reality

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Something like that.
*Glances down all the connecting hallways to this room*

@GalaxyRaider

*One hall moves toward a media control panel, and the other is a maintenance tunnel that loops back around to the other side of the screen in an arc*

Myriad Reality

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*Raises an eyebrow and tries to force the display to show its distribution of processing power*

@GalaxyRaider

*The video stream gets corrupted but doesn't allow any interactivity*
These have pretty bad granularity. But I guess this tells us that they check every couple months.