: : : : : : : : : : : "See if we can get a science officer down here to assist. I'm getting quite tired of having to look at everything in Romulan..." he paused momentarily. "Just don't do anything permanent, I don't think the Romulans would much appreciate it."
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: : : : : : : : : : : Burnett folded up his tricorder and slumped into a console chair he uprighted from the floor.
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: : : : : : : : : : : Burnett
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: : : : : : : : Tresha shot Rice a smile and looked to the CE, "Is there anything else we need to do...other than wait Sir?"
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: : : : : : : : Lt. Jg. Rai
: : : : : : : : Tinkerer

: : : : : The Romulan ship was pushing the envelope keeping up with the main fleet. It wasn't long before the inevitable happened and warning lights started flashing on the panel dedicated to keeping the quantum singularity from breaching it's containment field. The computer started a 3 minute countdown to loss of containment...
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: : : : : Stark XO
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: : : : See the alarms begin flashing as well as the audible Sira did her best to decipher the console "Um everyone... we have a problem here! Anyone wanna check my horrible romulan or does that look suspicously like a countdown?"
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: : : : Ensign Bi'ran, engineer
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: : : "It IS a countdown Sir!" Tresha responded, knowing very little romulan but knowing her numbers. She pulled the panel off and started to check things. "We have a problem, containment loss is eminent" She stated matter-of-factly. She grabbed a tool from her box and started to work on it. "I don't know if I can fix it, we may have to shut it down!"
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: : : Lt. Jg. Rai
: : : Tinkerer
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: : Rice grabbed his tool kit and began assisting Lt. Rai, "Guess you did your little happy dance too soon huh L.T." he said quietly as he got to work.
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: : Ensign Jason Rice (Engineer)
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: =^=Engineering this is the bridge we have a containment failure in progress. Do you read the same?=^= As he spoke he entered a translation matrix into the engineering controls, something that he never considered using on the bridge. Ironically, the matrix was easy to enter but certain words didn't have a direct translation and continue to flash in their native Romulan.
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=/\= Aye, the singularity is destabilizing again. =/\=

Burnett taped on the console, carefully navigating the Romulan systems without knowing much of what he was looking at when the console flashed black. Burnett looked around momentarily as some of the other engineering staff seemed to be doing the same as he. Their bewilderment was short lived as the consoles came back up in mostly English.

: =^=I've converted the text on some of the key consoles.=^= The program would only effect the systems that had some remote access from the bridge. Secondary systems were as indecipherable as before.
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: R'han CTO

OOC: Lets put my obsessive reading of far too much star trek material to good use by making up some specifics, if you don't mind, Substitute GM Stark :)

With most of the data properly displayed in a not-so-useless format, determining the cause of the imminent failure was fairly straightforward. Whether it had been caused by the sabotague or in their attempts to repair the warbird, other components were failing.

"The singularity must remain suspended and spinning for the matter injection to remain stable and maintain the plasma routing to the warp and power systems. Two of the three mid-line dampeners which maintains this stability are failing."

Burnett frantically tapped on the console, realizing how much time it had already taken them.

"There are replacement dampeners located in a storage trunk over ..." he pointed past the singularity, "there! Someone grab a few of them."

Biting at his lip slightly, he continued to babble on - apparently to himself.

"Where is that manual stabilization routine....I saw it just a moment ago," he slammed his hands on the edges of the console. "Gah! It was just here...We can't swap out the dampeners without that routine."

Burnett