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