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[The screen displays black for several seconds before flickering into scrolling, illegible symbols-- unless you can read Reach, of course. They begin slowly at first, but at the fifteen second mark they've filled the screen: the text speeds across the display in multiple directions in blurry blue lines.]

[requested entries no longer in database. attempt system override?]

[There's a moment or two where the text continues-- but then, abruptly, the strange alien lettering freezes. There's a harsh whirring, like a CD's gotten stuck in its player.

It's not a good sound, in any case.]

[ABORT ABORT ABORT--] [blares a voice, and there's about half a second of a partially-transformed Blue Beetle shielding his face and stumbling backward in a hurry. The screen's filled with a bright blue light, and then the feed cuts out completely once more.

Someone's gonna need a new console.]

(ooc: Jaime's just tried to hack into the console searching for the source of old Malicant posts! clearly it did not go as planned. feel free to have heard the ruckus if you're in the Wood sector; any network replies will come from a cafe console later on.)

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[The video comes on, but Connor's quiet while his eyes track left to right, twice. He's rereading that.]

Did you mean to do that?

Not the blowing up part. Ideally I would've gotten information out of it, but all I have now is a busted console.

[Connor is extremely interested in this 'busted' console, but he hides the eagerness, at first, under a wry response.]

That's what the cafes are for, I suppose.

[As an offhand musing...]

You can still pull information off a damaged computer. It depends how much of it you left intact.

[Nobody's told him about the goo thing yet.]