Ep1 – “Take Back” – Closed
Apr 22, 2012 16:51:50 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2012 16:51:50 GMT -5
It had been a while since Optimus had the privilege of taking something, anything, back from the Decepticons and it would have been a lie to say that he wasn’t enjoying this. He and Blaster had taken the quickest, least trafficked thoroughfare to one of the Nemesis’ data hubs and closed themselves into the minor maintenance room while the other Autobots made a real and pressing hazard of themselves. Optimus stood at the control panel, screen up, sypbols running across the display, hands at the interface pad. He was currently running a full system scan of the Decepticon archives. The Prime was absorbed fully: locating Iacon data markers and pulling any and all such records from the Nemesis onboard database directly into his own CPU.
Blaster was similarly jacked in; currently running interference for him, lest Soundwave detect their software sabotage and make it his business to hamper their progress. He’d found and pulled only one record thus far. The moment Soundwave began to counter code against Blaster, Optimus would abort and switch tactics to sabotage rather than data reclamation. Blue optics ran back and forth across the glyphs on the screen, picked out another half-dozen locators and pulled another single file.
Eons ago, at the height of the war just before the last dark epoch that pushed the Cycbertornian race toe the brink of extinction, the Iacon Hall of Records – once Optimus Prime’s home and place of purpose – was gutted by the Decepticons for its historical and cultural archives. At the time, the Autobot forces had begun to use the Hall as a repository of data both tactical and classified. During the critical failures of the Autobot forces to repel the Decepticon insurgence, Megatron had raided the Iacon stronghold and the archive vaults jettisoned their contents - Class A Decepticon weapons, cultural artifacts, data cylinders, and more - into space. The Decepticons had claimed all remaining records and the Hall itself.
The task set for Optimus and Blaster: recover as many of these stolen Autobot records as possible. Encrypted or not, the only thing that stood between Soundwave and cracking these codes was simply this: it would take all his processing power and 100% of his focus and that was not something Megatron could afford, ever. Certainly not for the duration required to crack Class A archivist-level encryptions. Optimus would know; he’d designed many of the ciphers himself.
He spared a single question for Blaster. “Any sign of Soundwave?”
((OOC: Blaster and Soundwave thread. Op's goal is to pull as many records as possible. Blaster's goal is to buy Op as much time as possible. Soundwave's goal is to stop these shenanigans. XD Go!))
Blaster was similarly jacked in; currently running interference for him, lest Soundwave detect their software sabotage and make it his business to hamper their progress. He’d found and pulled only one record thus far. The moment Soundwave began to counter code against Blaster, Optimus would abort and switch tactics to sabotage rather than data reclamation. Blue optics ran back and forth across the glyphs on the screen, picked out another half-dozen locators and pulled another single file.
Eons ago, at the height of the war just before the last dark epoch that pushed the Cycbertornian race toe the brink of extinction, the Iacon Hall of Records – once Optimus Prime’s home and place of purpose – was gutted by the Decepticons for its historical and cultural archives. At the time, the Autobot forces had begun to use the Hall as a repository of data both tactical and classified. During the critical failures of the Autobot forces to repel the Decepticon insurgence, Megatron had raided the Iacon stronghold and the archive vaults jettisoned their contents - Class A Decepticon weapons, cultural artifacts, data cylinders, and more - into space. The Decepticons had claimed all remaining records and the Hall itself.
The task set for Optimus and Blaster: recover as many of these stolen Autobot records as possible. Encrypted or not, the only thing that stood between Soundwave and cracking these codes was simply this: it would take all his processing power and 100% of his focus and that was not something Megatron could afford, ever. Certainly not for the duration required to crack Class A archivist-level encryptions. Optimus would know; he’d designed many of the ciphers himself.
He spared a single question for Blaster. “Any sign of Soundwave?”
((OOC: Blaster and Soundwave thread. Op's goal is to pull as many records as possible. Blaster's goal is to buy Op as much time as possible. Soundwave's goal is to stop these shenanigans. XD Go!))