Varo snaps her holo map flat with one palm and jabs for the custody chain, trying to pin Kael’s ghost route before it slips again.
The office lurches hard. Glass walls shiver, amber lines crawl across the projection, and 2-6’s wrist strobes in time with the ship’s engine pulse.
Director Varo
Hold it together. Give me the full access log, now.
Grim braces near the doorway, one hand up as the structural alarms howl louder. He watches the ceiling, then 2-6, weighing the room like a live wire.
Grim
If the hull starts dumping this deck, I am not staying in the blast zone.
2-6
The amber pulse is matching the engine, not the alarms.
Varo catches the stutter, sees the exposed nodes brighten around Kael’s chain, and leans closer to the projection, furious and intent despite the shaking floor.
✓ Quest Accepted
Protect Jax from the ship's reaction
“2-6 starts the data transfer and uses his partition to reach out through the network to Jax "this place is under attack, are you safe?"”
SUCCESS (Superb Hacking, rolled +0)
2-6 threads the access logs out through the partition, then slips a private ping along the same line, past Varo’s projection and into the ship-net.
2-6
Jax, this place is under attack. Are you safe?
The holo map steadies in a new cascade of amber. Kael’s route blooms brighter, and the log packet lands in Varo’s hands all at once.
Director Varo
Received. Keep talking, 2-6. This is the cleanest chain I have seen all day.
Grim glances down at the office deck, then away, jaw tight. The alarms keep flashing, but the room holds together for one thin breath.
Jax
I am here. We got separated, but I am alive. Your link still reaches me.
Through the shared data link, a rough pulse answers back, cramped with static but unmistakably Jax. The registry tone in the ship-net softens by a fraction, like something listening and deciding not to bite yet.
Quest Complete
Protect Jax from the ship's reaction