Posted by: Theokrat
« on: August 07, 2012, 12:14:54 PM »This is not going to go well, and I can't even RP an excuse- the commanders on every ship on a fleet aren't going to fall asleep at once...
Uhm, dear students we will now discuss the Gliese 563-incident that happened in March 2063. Now I am sure most of you will have heard about it, and most of you have probably seen the holo-experience-movie that dramatized the events. As if there was not enough drama in that.
Well, as you know the issue basically trickled down to a computer glitch, when the advanced AI entirely ignored a squadron of approaching FACs. It is still mysterious to this day what caused this glitch and some believe it is a too drastic failure at a too crucial point to be attributable to an unfortunate accident. Indeed some believe the advanced AI had turned against its creator, and even if the starfleet denies this allegation they have revised their programming routines since and only implemented non-learning computer systems on their ships. Still others claim it was sabotage, either by a covert government agency, terrorists, backstabbing career-captains or a suicidal sensors officers on board the task group. The fact remains that the computer just did not show the approaching danger and left the fleet totally oblivious to the impending doom, until they were a mere 10k km away.