Linyabel applies them, and some more besides - "Lisbet gave me an Imperial override, thank you Lisbet - there."
Kety, meanwhile, is apparently ready to wait his half-hour to crack the bubble open again, but:
"Haut-governor," comes a nervous subordinate's voice. "We are experiencing a peculiar communication over emergency channels. An enormous data dump is being speed-loaded onto our systems. Some kind of coded gibberish, but it has exceeded the memory capacity of the receiver and is spilling over into other systems like a virus. It's marked with an Imperial override. The initial signal appears to be originating from our ship. Is this... something you intend?"
It is not something Kety intends. He swears. "No. Get ghem-General Naru and his people awake! We have to get this force-screen down now!"
There follow creative medical attempts to revive the stunned techs and general.
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Kety, meanwhile, is apparently ready to wait his half-hour to crack the bubble open again, but:
"Haut-governor," comes a nervous subordinate's voice. "We are experiencing a peculiar communication over emergency channels. An enormous data dump is being speed-loaded onto our systems. Some kind of coded gibberish, but it has exceeded the memory capacity of the receiver and is spilling over into other systems like a virus. It's marked with an Imperial override. The initial signal appears to be originating from our ship. Is this... something you intend?"
It is not something Kety intends. He swears. "No. Get ghem-General Naru and his people awake! We have to get this force-screen down now!"
There follow creative medical attempts to revive the stunned techs and general.