Housepets!

Buster wrote: There's a hiss of air, and for a brief moment the alarms are audible before the cold silence swallowed them back into the vacuum. The bodies in this compartment are more decayed, having had atmosphere in with them, but there's no indication that any of them are recent. The fire suppressors on the ceiling are deployed but have run out of suppressant long ago. A thin white film coating every surface and washing out their colors and details. Three of the bodies are clustered around a scorched panel that's been partially cut using an improvised tool, the rest are in their cells, save one guard lying outside one of the three open cells, a metal shiv still in his back and his access card still in the lock of another cell... The suppression system was likely set off by an electrical fire.

The three escapees are Prisoners 035, 117, and 006, from their jumpsuits. There are no bullet holes, no plasma burns, no sign of any fighting, unlike every other compartment you passed through.

This is one of the systems that was reported damaged on the bridge. This panel held the circuits to remotely access the purge functions, door controls and life support in Blocks A, B, & C. It's the reason you couldn't get any reading on the fire suppression system. You know where the junction box is because of the damage readout download, but those circuits are meant to be maintained via the removable bulkheads in the coridors outside, not in here. From this side the wall panels are featureless, securely welded in place, and identical to one another, no indication of what's behind any given one or easy way to get them off.

Whatever happened, must have started here. Had the purge function been working on this side of the ship, all prisoners could have been pacified with the push of a button.

Legotron123 wrote:"Recoding the AI would be the safest option, right? Let's go with that. I'd rather they come out safely rather than quickly."

Welsh Halfwit wrote:Andy pulled on Keeva's sleeve. What does that mean for Mister SilverWolf," he asked quietly.
Keeva sighed and stepped forward. "Something that might cause a problem, fella," she said. "The SilverWolf is showing signs of being a nascent Artificial Intelligence. A holographic life, as it were. Which is what has caused the confusion. He's noticed differences over the days it's been in use. And he...it's scared."

Buster wrote:Block C is in a word, messy. There's a severed hand floating around holding an old model Gauss slug thrower, and a few more in the possession of some of the bodies. Unlike plasma, ballistics don't cauterize the wound they leave behind... These are likely what made the bullet holes you've been seeing.

most of those killed by ballistic fire are crew, the other bodies have plasma burns. the slug throwers are mostly in the possession of inmates, and are crude designs assembled out of misleading looking objects. each appears to have only had a single magazine.

the body and wound positions are odd though, implying either both sides were severely outmaneuvered at the same time or lot of friendly fire was going on.

Of the three cell blocks you've been in, there are nineteen cells who's occupants are unaccounted for among the dead.
there's a door ahead marked emergency with a caduceus stenciled onto it in white. it's damaged and slightly ajar with med-foam coated fabric plugging the gaps like a crude air seal and doesn't seem to have any power. an improper use of medical grade adhesive for sure, and one that implies a degree of desperation. It wouldn't take much to force it the rest of the way open.

Legotron123 wrote:It didn't take a genius to understand the point Corp was trying to make. "No," Liz said, "no, we're not doing that. If there's a chance he's alive, then there's no way we're just leaving him in there." She turned to address the brothers. "I want you two to do what it takes to preserve this 'Silverwolf,' and get him out of there alive."

---MEANWHILE---

Lewis was unaware that his mother had already decided to save Silverwolf, so he decided to try his own attempt at convincing the brothers. "We can't do that. He's becoming a...." He paused as he tried to think of the correct term. "I believe the phrased is "awakened?" Yeah, he's becoming an awakened AI. At this point, resetting him would basically be killing him."

Buster wrote:the door leads through a room with curtained beds, all of which have restraints on them and unused IV dispensers waiting nearby, then through an open doorway into what looks like it used to be a Zero-G surgical theater. Instead there's another door with an improvised seal along the wall to your left, that has dozens of cables and tubes snaking out of it, running along the floor to twenty large metal tubes that have been crammed into the room, displacing the surgical equipment. that probably connects to the corridor you were in earlier.

the tubes themselves are two and a half metres long, and about a metre in diamter. Just barely small enough to fit through the doors. However, they've been modified; the side, near the seam that runs down each one contains a small computer and what looks like a port for a battery pack and air cylinder. Instead the packs have been ripped out and power cables, larger tanks, and air recycler parts have been welded into place. The gaps in their seals filled with improvised 'tape' made out of medical supplies. One of them even looks like it's being held together by plaster casting.

Each tube has a window in it at head level revealing three humans and seventeen mammalian anthropomorphic beings, not all of which look all that great. five of the tubes have lost power completely, and their occupants are little more than dessicated husks that look like they asphyxiated while in the act of trying to force their tube open from within. all of the other tubes are showing warnings on their controls about having exceeded 'maximum safe storage' periods by a number of days that add up to 60-some-ood years.