[He aims a sharp, curious glance at Charles -- but no, Xavier would be able to tell definitively if there were someone else here, wouldn't he? If he's wrong, that means that the person in question can cloak their mind from a telepath, which is concerning in a new way.]
The virus in Comms was certainly instigated remotely. In Genetics... it's impossible to say, now, but if it had been... it raises questions about who and why.
[Had someone wanted to sabotage as much of the record of the research and experimentation conducted on the Tranquility as they could? Originally, it had seemed to him like it might have been some kind of cover-up job, but the knowledge that van Rijn had spent decades in an attempt to chase the ship down made that seem less likely.
So... what? The easiest conclusion is that, if intent had been involved at all, the systems had been overwritten to keep the work from being reconstructed easily... maybe to stop what had been happening here.
The ability to cross space and time beyond normal means rings a bell, but he doesn't indicate it in any way. What would have caused Ward -- or presumably Resnik -- to try to kill them all, then erase their existence? It doesn't fit with what he knows of their behavior, but there's so much behavior that he hasn't been able to observe that it isn't a definitive conclusion. Had they expanded the passengers' access -- if indeed they really had -- only so that the Comms Hub would be in use? There had to be easier ways to accomplish something like that.
Could Davis walk through walls -- or might he have found this place when it was somewhere else? Might he have been looking for it, under instruction, or led to it? L still considers him a good candidate for the nanite sabotage, but not for the attack on the network, which until now, he would have attributed to the DUPRR.
At Charles's request, L moves closer, peers at the console screen. The subject material is different to that of the consoles in Comms, but the interface really isn't.]
It looks like -- ah, sample analysis. You'd have to feed it something to process, then you press... that, and that, initialize. See if it works. If not, there are a few other things to try, but it's most likely relatively foolproof.
[A glance back at Luthien, and he addresses his next words to her.]
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The virus in Comms was certainly instigated remotely. In Genetics... it's impossible to say, now, but if it had been... it raises questions about who and why.
[Had someone wanted to sabotage as much of the record of the research and experimentation conducted on the Tranquility as they could? Originally, it had seemed to him like it might have been some kind of cover-up job, but the knowledge that van Rijn had spent decades in an attempt to chase the ship down made that seem less likely.
So... what? The easiest conclusion is that, if intent had been involved at all, the systems had been overwritten to keep the work from being reconstructed easily... maybe to stop what had been happening here.
The ability to cross space and time beyond normal means rings a bell, but he doesn't indicate it in any way. What would have caused Ward -- or presumably Resnik -- to try to kill them all, then erase their existence? It doesn't fit with what he knows of their behavior, but there's so much behavior that he hasn't been able to observe that it isn't a definitive conclusion. Had they expanded the passengers' access -- if indeed they really had -- only so that the Comms Hub would be in use? There had to be easier ways to accomplish something like that.
Could Davis walk through walls -- or might he have found this place when it was somewhere else? Might he have been looking for it, under instruction, or led to it? L still considers him a good candidate for the nanite sabotage, but not for the attack on the network, which until now, he would have attributed to the DUPRR.
At Charles's request, L moves closer, peers at the console screen. The subject material is different to that of the consoles in Comms, but the interface really isn't.]
It looks like -- ah, sample analysis. You'd have to feed it something to process, then you press... that, and that, initialize. See if it works. If not, there are a few other things to try, but it's most likely relatively foolproof.
[A glance back at Luthien, and he addresses his next words to her.]
Have you seen a machine like this in Medbay?