Ifix grabbed the commbadge and looked at it quizzically. An unaccustomed diabolical though occurred to him: Janeway was looking for Storvik, and the ship-crippling virus was looking for Janeway. Maybe the virus would like to tell her where he went.
Before leaving the Bridge for Engineering, Ifix caught Khan's attention and said, "Virus need to talk to Janeway. Will connect them." Then he grinned, turned and left.
For a moment, Khan was stunned. Then he began to laugh.
Once he got to Engineering, he briefly spoke with KROM, connected the badge to its isolated system and tapped it. "Ifix to Janeway. Ifix likes his skin. Transmitting data for location Storvik."
"Receiving. Thank you, Mur-" The response cut off.
If Ifix were human, he'd look at the ceiling, and walk away whistling.
KROM was unable to attack the ISS Voyager in quite the same personal way it had attacked the USS Murgatroid. Most of the Murgatroid's interior was equipped with, if not generated by, holoemitters; so KROM had been able to generate holograms to physically attack the crew as well as the ship's equipment. KROM found itself within the first lines of ISS Voyager's cyber-defenses automatically, since it had entered their network through one of Voyager's own commbadges. It still had other plasmawalls to penetrate before it could do any permanent damage, although it had already been able to shut down most of the ship's main systems. Weapons first, then engineering, then communications. Life support was particularly well protected (Imperial computer security was tougher than that employed by the Federation; KROM's work would have been far more difficult for it except for the fact that it was, also, the result of Imperial programming) but could be brought down eventually...
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Before leaving the Bridge for Engineering, Ifix caught Khan's attention and said, "Virus need to talk to Janeway. Will connect them." Then he grinned, turned and left.
For a moment, Khan was stunned. Then he began to laugh.
Once he got to Engineering, he briefly spoke with KROM, connected the badge to its isolated system and tapped it. "Ifix to Janeway. Ifix likes his skin. Transmitting data for location Storvik."
"Receiving. Thank you, Mur-" The response cut off.
If Ifix were human, he'd look at the ceiling, and walk away whistling.
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KROM found itself within the first lines of ISS Voyager's cyber-defenses automatically, since it had entered their network through one of Voyager's own commbadges. It still had other plasmawalls to penetrate before it could do any permanent damage, although it had already been able to shut down most of the ship's main systems. Weapons first, then engineering, then communications. Life support was particularly well protected (Imperial computer security was tougher than that employed by the Federation; KROM's work would have been far more difficult for it except for the fact that it was, also, the result of Imperial programming) but could be brought down eventually...
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"Yep!" snickered Khan. "Evil Janeway and Voyager are about to go bye-bye."
"We're still awfully close to them," she swallowed. "Will that be a problem?"
Khan stopped laughing.
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