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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 2157925" data-attributes="member: 835">Trelene:[Sblock]Over the course of the next day, Trelene attacks the code in the Astrogation computer.  Saanath and Zaedhrarrg had already given it the once over, finding a hole in the software - code that had been recently, and likely, automatically, deleted.  In time, she is able to reconstruct what the code consisted of.  It was certainly maliciously introduced, and it was aimed at altering whatever calculations were fed into the software.  Whatever was fed in, Tamandere would be the resulting destination.  Further, and this part is only uncovered because of your extremely high skill, when the jump was disengaged and the maneuver drive automatically engaged, this software triggered another piece of malicious code buried in the engine subsystem.  Heading down there, more checking determines that this code is what caused the power surge that fried the m-drive's power regulator upon Dvonn's entry into the Tamandere system.  Unlike the code in the Astrogation computer, this code is still present.  Unless corrected and replaced with properly designed code, there could be another catastrophic power surge in the future - although that could occur at a random time, rather than right at re-entry, since the code's trigger, from the astrogation computer, is now absent. (if all that doesn't make sense, Tailspinner, I'll try to clarify more).[/sblock]</blockquote>