Findings

Posted on 22 Oct 2025 @ 12:05am by Lieutenant Commander Camila Di Pasquale

483 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Imposters Among Us
Location: Armory
Timeline: July 8, 2390 || 1430 Hours

In the Armory’s Vault aboard the USS Black Hawk, two Bynar Ensigns—designated 01001010, or Jack and 01001010, or Jill—stood in perfect synchronicity before the suspended chassis of a tricobalt torpedo. The weapon, one of three specially prepared tricobalts to be used in the assault against G90B, had inexplicably deviated from its locked trajectory, detonating harmlessly in deep space. One had been held in reserve by the Chief of Security and flagged for investigation, which had revealed Lieutenant Frex, the Chief Engineer, as a saboteur. Jack and Jill, their neural links interfaced through a dual-port uplink to the torpedo’s quantum guidance core, began a forensic dissection of its programming stack, seeking the source of the anomaly.

Their first discovery emerged from the inertial guidance buffer: a fractional phase offset in the gravimetric vectoring algorithm—precisely 0.0003 microdynes off-axis on the Y-plane. Jill isolated the deviation’s timestamp, noting it occurred 0.42 seconds post-launch. Jack traced the anomaly to a transient subroutine labeled “Echo-Delta-7,” injected through a diagnostic port reserved for maintenance-level firmware access. The subroutine had bypassed checksum protocols using a recursive entropy mask, suggesting a high-level override. The Bynars deployed a fractal decryption lattice to unravel the subroutine’s obfuscated call stack, revealing a forged access signature.

Initially, the signature pointed to Lieutenant Ranul Frex, the Black Hawk’s Chief Engineer. But Jack’s entropy analysis flagged inconsistencies in the biometric hash—subtle enough to pass routine scans, yet mismatched at the quantum level. Jill initiated a cross-reference against the ship’s personnel access logs and discovered that Frex’s workstation had been remotely accessed via a subspace relay piggybacking on the ship’s sensor telemetry. The relay’s origin traced back to a secure node within the Intelligence Suite—specifically, the terminal assigned to Lieutenant Commander Joelle Geisler, Chief of Intelligence.

To confirm the breach, Jack rerouted the torpedo’s memory core through a temporal echo buffer, reconstructing the injection sequence in reverse. The buffer revealed a cascade of micro-edits, each timed to avoid triggering the torpedo’s security heuristics. The final override replaced the target’s quantum signature with a decoy profile—one archived in Starfleet Intelligence’s classified database. Jill flagged the decoy as a known civilian transport used in covert operations, suggesting the torpedo had been deliberately redirected to avoid striking the actual target.

Jack and Jill compiled a forensic packet containing the decrypted subroutine, entropy signature, temporal echo logs, and override trail. They encrypted it using a dual-phase Bynar cipher and transmitted it to the Black Hawk’s Security Division with a priority-one flag. As they disengaged from the torpedo’s core, the Bynars exchanged a silent burst of data—an acknowledgment that the sabotage had not been a technical failure, but a calculated act of misdirection. Lieutenant Commander Geisler’s motives remained unclear, but the evidence was irrefutable. The investigation had pierced the veil.

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