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[NEW] Aquapolis incident logs 20031021
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Sowelu
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[NEW] Aquapolis incident logs 20031021

http://www.theaquapolis.com/incidentlogs/
There's a new directory up:
http://www.theaquapolis.com/incidentlogs/20031021/
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:05 pm
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Note that there's actually flooding this time...
Quick speculation: Someone sabotaged the place during the last breach?
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The IP address on the panel indicates this is viewed from Metacortex and that (remote) control has been granted.

It all seems to be about Bulkead "A"

This is the first to be sent a close signal and the last to respond which suggests that this bulkhead takes the longest time to close.

There was an attempt to manually override this Bulkhead, dispite the fact that Delos was shown as flooded. Ultimately this attempt failed.

The Delta Module on the Delos level connects with the Guest Quarters and the connecting bulkhead is shown as closed.

All of which suggests that someone tried to open the bulkhead to flood the guest modules.

But why cause a breach in the Delta module and override the bulkhead?

Why not just breach the Guest modules?


(All this is assuming of course that we can believe the logs. Wink )
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Cool! They heard my prayers and sent us more clues.

As Marl says, this is all about bulkhead A. I'll hazard to guess that "A" on Delos in Delta is the door that connects to the guest module. Per log "10:25:01-rec/bulkheadclosed/delta/delos/A"; at the same time (10:25:01) the jpg from Delos shows the walkway to the guest module as "closed".

Again, Delos' status switches - this time from "offline" to "flood". But how can its status be offline when the system is clearly interacting with it - for example, at 10:24:51, 10:24:57??

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This is the first to be sent a close signal and the last to respond which suggests that this bulkhead takes the longest time to close.

The doors on Delos (in Beta as well as Delta) take 6 seconds to close, except A (it took it 11 seconds). Is it possible that the logs we can see ommitted all the "bulkheaderror"s that it received during this time? Because, apparently, it only takes it 1 second to receive an "error" message (vs. 6 seconds for "closed"). If there were error messages, then they would be very important, because:

29 seconds after the first "event" is over, somebody is trying to do something with door A; and they try for whole 49 seconds. This is what I want to know: is it possible to open a door even if manual override is denied or would such attempt be logged as a breach?

Some random thoughts: no mention of anything in the "news" yet - even though last "event" was in Aquapolis' news the same day (or was that just to direct us towards the logs?).

And we have more "breach" codes - 0041-0045 vs 2311, 2312, 2315, 2316, 2317 last time.
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Time for my observations!

There is no media release yet. I wonder if we'll see one.

Someone mentioned above that this time, someone had control access at the time of the incident.

Now, think about it. Why would several manual overrides be *received* by the system? Someone is AT the door, trying to open it. And I would bet that whoever was sending those overrides was on the flooding side of the doorway.

The system would not open the door for them, and whoever had control access either did not know that manual overrides were being requested or they simply decided not to open the door.


Also, don't look far into the fact that the square next to Delos level is gray sometimes. Someone in the previous Aquapolis thread suggested that it may be flashing, and that is what it looks like to me.

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Doozer wrote:
Time for my observations!
Also, don't look far into the fact that the square next to Delos level is gray sometimes. Someone in the previous Aquapolis thread suggested that it may be flashing, and that is what it looks like to me.


Marl suggested that. I would disagree, though - I would make sense that it is JUST "flashing" if it was doing that on the same level; but we only have one jpg per level. And why would it flash "offline"? If the "flood" status (for example) is supposed to be flashing, the why not make it flash with black (=nothing) and blue, instead of making it flash with 2 different codes?
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you know, i finally figured out why the door on the last level to the "sub pen" is closed on both this and the last log... it's an airlock. Quick google of sub pen reveals that a sub pen is a holding pen for submarines. As in the submarines that the aquapolis brags you can take out and about.

man. i can be quite dense when i want.

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yanka wrote:
Doozer wrote:
Someone in the previous Aquapolis thread suggested that it may be flashing, and that is what it looks like to me.

Marl suggested that. I would disagree, though - I would make sense that it is JUST "flashing" if it was doing that on the same level; but we only have one jpg per level.


Thanks guys, it's nice to see people take on board at least part of what I suggest. Very Happy

We are looking at a display cycling through the levels. The stuff on the right is always there showing the status of all levels no matter which level is currently displayed.

yanka wrote:
And why would it flash "offline"? If the "flood" status (for example) is supposed to be flashing, the why not make it flash with black (=nothing) and blue, instead of making it flash with 2 different codes?


I don't think it does flash offline. Compare the Delos "Off" with The Label for "Offline"



So to illustrate what I previuously suggested, Here's what I think we'd see in realtime.



(Oh and in case you've not seen the thread yet, Aquapolis has been updated to include the webcam.)
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Hmm... that's interesting. The fact that they greys are different gives credence to your idea, so I guess they could be flashing. Then the first one flashed "warning" while Aquapolis actually reported a flood on their news page, and this one flashes a "flood". What do we do with that (besides stopping trying to figure out why stuff shows as "offline" when it's not supposed to)?
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yanka wrote:
Hmm... that's interesting. The fact that they greys are different gives credence to your idea,


It's OK , I compensated by totally srewing up in the little-boxes thread Very Happy
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yanka wrote:
Hmm... that's interesting. The fact that they greys are different gives credence to your idea, so I guess they could be flashing. Then the first one flashed "warning" while Aquapolis actually reported a flood on their news page, and this one flashes a "flood". What do we do with that (besides stopping trying to figure out why stuff shows as "offline" when it's not supposed to)?


wouldn't that mean that the log image files are evenly spaced, time wise? i don't have time to check now, but if i remember the first logs they weren't.

and now, let the corrections come!

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