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Engineering - Kalos Onovren reporting for duty

Posted Oct. 7, 2021, 10:18 p.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Dael Stadi (Chief Engineer) (Griffin Day)

Posted by Cadet Kalos Onovren (Engineer) in Engineering - Kalos Onovren reporting for duty

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Dael Stadi (Chief Engineer) in Engineering - Kalos Onovren reporting for duty

Posted by Cadet Kalos Onovren (Engineer) in Engineering - Kalos Onovren reporting for duty
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The loss of his father the previous week had left Kalos grief stricken. His father had served on the front lines during the dominion war and it had traumatized him so severely that 20 years later the PTSD had gotten the better of him.
The Service had been agonizing for Kalos, he was very close to his father and he was taking it very hard.
There were tears in the eyes of his mother and sister as he stepped back onto the transporter pad. He knew that his mother was worried she might loose Kalos in the service too, but kalos felt an obligation to follow where his father had led.
Kalos watched his family disappear in a blue haze as the transporter took hold and he dematerialized. The next thing he knew he was on board the challenger and stepping down off the transporter pad.
Walking to engineering Kalos couldn’t help but think of his father: he would be so proud to see his son going off to the academy. But Kalos felt somehow out of place. he hesitated before crossing the threshold into engineering, wondering if service was the right path for him, maybe he should have stayed in ship design. As soon as Kalos stepped into engineering all doubt left his mind, he could think about this later but from this moment foward he was on duty.
“Cadet Onovren reporting for duty”
(OOC: thought it might be interesting to start a character off in a different state emotionally. not your normal eager cadet.)

OC: Welcome to the Challenger! Glad to have you aboard, I play the Chief Engineer here on the Academy ship. This is a place for you to learn the ropes of how we do things here while growing in confidence in your posting. Great job on your first post, really getting into the head of your character and it looks like I don’t have to go over OOC and IC interactions. Bonus! Also, don’t forget to sign off on your posts, don’t worry, sometimes it’ll even slip my mind, but it helps everyone know where you post ends and when you get to multiple people in a thread it helps to know who said what. Since you’re up to speed on our OOC/IC use, I’m going to show you another thing we do here, using Nameless Ensigns (NE) or Nameless Cadets (NC). I like to give them names but they’ll be denoted by those initials, these are NPCs that we create if we need to fill out an away team, repair crew, etc… or use to show some roleplaying with a quick conversation. I’ll show an example of that below in my response post as well. I’m looking forward to posting with you and helping you develop your character. Don’t let any of this intimidate you, all of us on the Challenger are here to help you grow as a roleplayer and a member here on STF. I always enjoy having another member of the Warp Core Repair team!

IC:
NE Dawson looked up from her PADD to the young cadet that had just entered the Engineering deck. “Oh, you must be looking for the Chief, he’ll be back in a few minutes if you want to wait over there.” She pointed to a corner alcove that lead to a door. “That’s his office right there.” She gave a quick nod and headed towards the warp core.

A few minutes passed, and around the far corner the figure of the Chief Engineer strode onto the main deck. He looked over at a nearby crewmember and got his attention with a quick nod. “NE Burton I know you looked at the EPS converter earlier today, but it’s acting up again. Best take a look, there may have been a blockage you missed.”
The engineer acknowledged Stadi and began walking from the way the Chief had come from. Continuing his movement through the deck, Dael felt a different mind on the general wavescape that was his Engineering room. He looked around and noted the new figure and headed that direction. After finally slowing down in front of the newcomer, it was obvious that he was holding a machine component. And it was vibrating, a lot.
“Hello, cadet. You must be the new member of the team, welcome. I’m Lt. Stadi, the Chief Engineer.” he said quickly as he moved towards the door to the office. “You mind holding this intercooler? It’s getting really hot.” He extended his arms to the cadet and dropped the part, waving his hands to cool them off while he pressed the door unlock to his office.
“Alright, in you go, you can set that down on the desk.” He pointed to the table in the back of the room. The room was filled on each side by engineering consoles, some spare uniforms and toolkits and parts strewn across the worktables. The main desk sat in front of a similar readout of the ship’s systems as the one in the Main Engineering deck, and the only really personal item in the room was a sphere that seemed to change shape and color depending on the angle it was observed.
“Anywhere will be fine, and then maybe we can try to stop it from heating up even more… or possibly exploding.”

-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, Chief Engineer

Kalos placed the intercooler down on the desk, noticed the sphere on the desk, and made a mental note to ask about it once they had stabilized the intercooler. After doing a visual assessment of the intercooler and finding nothing obviously wrong with it other that the fact that it was now so hot that it was smoking, Kalos grabbed a tricorder off the desk, “Have you identified the problem with this thing yet?”
(OOC: not really sure what to do here, am I allowed to specify the problem with the part or is that the DH’s job or the GM’s job?)

-Cadet Kalos Onovren, Engineering

(OOC: You did great, that’s partially why I threw you into this, to familiarize you a bit with our GM interactions. If you’re doing your own RP in a side-sim personal thread of doing a repair, feel free to specify issues you’re working on if you brought up the issue, or you’re riffing with a fellow cadet. But whenever the GM is involved, you want to do just like you did, pull out a tricorder or make some suppositions and allow them to fill in the blanks for you based on your writing. Good job.)

IC:

Dael took a seat behind his desk and looked at the part in front of him and back up at the cadet. “I’m not quite sure yet, it definitely was beginning to overheat and caused some systems to start rising to dangerous operating temperatures. But, that’s for you to figure out, Engineer....” Dael said with a bemused grin. He had been enjoying finding issues for his new crew to solve when they first arrived. They seemed to get less worried about talking to a superior when they had a problem in front of them. He knew the most recent transport had a new member for his team and had sought out something to throw at them. The fact that the busted part was being particularly dramatic this time was a bonus. “Better hurry too, I think it’s starting to beep. Always a bad sign. You make sure it doesn’t kill us while I pull up your file on my PADD”

Sure enough, as he said the words a tone began to emit from the part. As Kalos opened up the tricorder, the scanning device gave him a readout of the part. It appeared to be a standard intercooler for an EPS conduit, but a trained eye could see an irregularity in one of the coils. It appeared to be retaining it’s heat signature rather than dispersing it through the exchanger as it should.

“So, Cadet Kalos Onovren. Nice to have another Betazoid on the team, though I could tell that before looking at your personnel file.” Dael casually pointed to his own temple as he read from the PADD, completely ignoring the threatening tones from the device on his desk.
“What brought you into the field of Engineering to solve fine problems like the one make a scorch mark on my desk?”

-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, Chief Engineer
Finding the necessary tools on the desk Kalos began work by rerouting temporarily through the other coils, distributing the load evenly across the remaining good ones, taking the load off the damaged one. “I agree, it is difenetly nice to be working with likeminded people, both figuratively and metaphorically. There, that should buy us a little more time but the other coils wont be able to handle the load for long, do you happen to have another coil just laying around?” Kalos asked as he surveyed the office.
(OOC: Again, not quite sure how far I can go, just trying to scope things out.)

-Cadet Kalos Onovren, Engineer

(OOC: You’re doing great, I’m also throwing a lot at you for your first thread so don’t worry doing anything wrong, that’s what the Academy is here for. These initial check-ins get you used to how we do things, we ask you about your character to give you a feel for posting and who you’re playing as, etc… and I like to throw in some problem-solving RP interactions to get your feet wet. You did good, you scanned the part, allowed the GM (or rather myself as acting GM in this case) to inform you of the issue and you came up with a solution. Then it falls on the GM to react to your solution, considering factors like: was it thought out or just jumped to a conclusion your character wouldn’t have done, did the engineering lingo they used make sense within Star Trek and ship specs, did it leave the GM room to adapt what was happening or did you say ‘boom! Done, fixed it!”.... basically: was it roleplayed well? Then they respond accordingly to whether it would succeed or not. Some go off of solely RP and how they feel about it, others roll dice, etc… But you posted just how you would if you were involved in a sim. You’re doing well considering I threw a ticking time bomb at you. )
IC:
“As a matter of fact…” Dael got out of his chair and moved over to one of the lines of panels on the walls. He tapped the second one in column and the drawer opened to reveal a myriad of spare parts, isolinear chips, and data rods. He looked in a for a few moments, then went to a similar drawer next to it and did the same. At this one he reached in, pulling out a spare coil and hefting it in his hand. “This should do nicely.”

Walking back, he set it down in front of the cadet before taking his chair again. “Just make sure any capacitors are discharged before you crack that thing open. The beeping makes me think power’s still getting to it and that would be a nasty zap if you made contact. Now, back to my question, what got you interested in this field Cadet? You mentioned working with like-minded people, has Engineering always been something you’ve had an interest in?”

-Lt jg Dael Stadi, CE


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