[Galaxy] 2159, May 6 -CCO Duty Log - Ens. Alika Redlin

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// Meridian Bridge -- Communications //
>>>
>>> Ens  Adrienna Tapas was proving to be worth her weight in solid   
>>> gold as the intra-ship side of a Comm Team with CCO Alika  Redlin.  
>>> Alika was grateful time after time, when Tapas  would speak up,  
>>> announcing coordinating plans and options  from all over the ship.  
>>> This left the Chief Comms Officer  free to focus on the battlefield  
>>>  communications.
>>>
>>> Alika pulled threads of Klingon  battle tactics from the snippets  
>>> of comm signals she  could intercept. It seemed interminably slow,  
>>> but she was  putting the comm signals together in hind-sight of the  
>>>  enemy's actions to produce a jigsaw puzzle of comm signals and   
>>> subsequent ship maneuvers. It was a complicated sequence, but  like  
>>> any code, there was a commonality that developed. A  pattern formed  
>>> within the random. A recognizable  indiscrimination existed within  
>>> the symmetry.  As  fast as she recognized them, she reported them  
>>> to  Tactical, to the Captain, and encrypted them to the other  ships.
>>>
>>> "No distress calls, just Nightingale,  from Alpha, falling back to  
>>> Gamma, damage reports coming  from everyone. Beta group is still  
>>> whole and holding.  Still no visual or sensor evidence of the  
>>> Rommie ships,  but they're watching, not firing. All enemy incoming  
>>> is  Klingon. I've got a Bird of Prey distress call ... they're   
>>> gone, Alpha Vanguard and Beta Poseidon took him out. Alpha  New  
>>> Delhi hull plating failure, falling to Gamma for  repairs. Beta  
>>> Seawolf reports a Bird dead in the  wa  ... Klingon comms confirms  
>>> critical, 'request cover to  regroup' ... *Capt, Endeavor reports  
>>> sighting of a Rommie  ship ... and weapons fire*. Sir, the Klingon  
>>> request was  directed to the Rommie ship. No comms response from  
>>> the  Rommie's, she just appeared, threw cover fire only, and  
>>>  retreated behind the cloak."
>
> Alika scrambled to set the computer  to comparing the Klingon request  
> aimed at the Romulans with other  comms from 'Klingon to Klingon',  
> searching for something  different, something that would give her a  
> clue as to the  frequency, or gain involved in connecting with the  
> Rommie  communications. Even if she could only identify the incoming  
>  comms directed to the Romulans, it would provide intelligence.
>
>  The system spun out a flurry of possible combinations that streamed   
> down one column after another across her screen, soft blue, green   
> and orange highlights appearing every so often. She opened her  mind,  
> softening her focus to see beyond the field of the screen,  to allow  
> the second vision to scan the readouts. Trusting an  inner intuition,  
> she keyed in a secondary level analysis. As she  suspected, another  
> layer of encryption peeled away. She smiled to  herself, nodding, and  
> repeated the first analysis. After four  passes, she was able to  
> program the computer to follow the  sequence key. Within moments, the  
> system completed 311,422  rescaling sorts and a new definable cypher  
> rolled onto the  screen.
>
> "I've got it!!!! I got it!!" Alika cheered. "The Rommie  encryption  
> code. Forwarding to the other ships on auto encrypted  channels. We  
> can decipher their battle plans ahead of their  attacks!!" As she  
> spoke, a message was delivered to the entire  Fleet, encrypted  
> specifically for and assigned to each different  ship in the Fleet.  
> The Rommies would have to sort through 1470  different encrypted  
> comms messages, just as she had done with the  single Klingon to  
> Romulan message IF they even suspected that 37  of the 1470 messages  
> actually carried the same critical  information to each member of the  
> entire Starfleet  armada.
>
> She could only hope the various tactical officers could  work  
> together so they did not make the mistake of adjusting their  attack  
> plans in such a way as to make it too obvious to the  Rommie's that  
> their plans were being intercepted and thwarted. To  make that  
> mistake would result in the immediate cancellation of  the encoding  
> and new attack plans being  implemented.
>
> ~~~~
> Ens Alika Redlin
> Chief  Communications Officer
> NX-06 Meridian

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