From:		swanberg
Date:		20 November 1995 19:21
To:		U.S.S. Lafayette (BBS)
Subject:		Computer Core Two

<Commander Swanberg, Computer Core Two>

As Swanberg enters the computer core, he already finds the engineering department gearing up for work.

"Where are Commanders Kindle and Castillion?"

"They've already climbed up into the central core, sir."

"Very well.  Let's get ready to work.  Remember people, this area is extremely sensitive.  Don't mess with anything unless you KNOW for sure what it does.  We wouldn't want to erase the captain's favorite replicator files, especially so soon after he programmed them in, would we?"

Drawing a few chuckles at his remark, Swanberg nods to the engineering crew.  "OK, you and you, Lt. Spencer, isn't it?  Search through that processing conduit over there.  Report anything unusual you find to me or the chief engineer.  Gonzalez, you and Zeigler come with me."

Swanberg leads his group up into the second Jeffries tube.  Lining the walls are banks of isolinear chips and processing modules.  After crawling about twenty meters, he runs into Kindle and Castillion.  "Well, fancy meeting you two here.  What have we got?"

Castillion points to the small box attached directly to a processing module.  Several strands of opti-cable can be seen running from the box directly into the module's test leads.

"Hmm, this definitely looks like a professional job, with some thorough preparation involved.  I wouldn't be surprised to find an identical object in the primary hull's core as well."

Swanberg reaches out to put his hands on the object.  Castillion immediately cautions him, "Sir, I wouldn't do that if I were..."  Swanberg's hand intersects a protecting force field surrounding the object, with predictably painful results.

"Of course it would be protected by a force field.  Saboteurs just can't make things easy, can they?  Any suggestions as to how we get rid of this thing?"