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Main Engineering (Tag: CE, Ensign Finnegan, 2O, GM)

Posted Jan. 22, 2021, 9:01 a.m. by Ensign Elliot Finnegan (Engineering Officer) (Nathan Miller)

Posted by Gamemaster Janus (Gamemaster) in Main Engineering (Tag: CE, Ensign Finnegan, 2O, GM)

Posted by Ensign Elliot Finnegan (Engineering Officer) in Main Engineering (Tag: CE, Ensign Finnegan, 2O, GM)

Posted by Gamemaster Janus (Gamemaster) in Main Engineering (Tag: CE, Ensign Finnegan, 2O, GM)
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“We’re pretty much limited to motion generation power,” replied Fixit, “We can burn our hydrogen fuel to generate power but it’s rather an inefficient use of the hydrogen fuel. Around the ship is plenty of trees, but we haven’t explored much beyond that.”

GM

Riley snapped the communicator shut, tested it clicking through the cycles, and deposited it in the pile of completed badges.

“That might be enough to build a steam engine,” he pointed out. “We have a source of water and a source of fuel.” He continued fidgeting with a new combadge, working it open and preparing the modifications. “Easy enough to make from interior paneling,” he said, leaning over the device on the table. “Probably the first one ever made from duranium though,” he chuckled. He was silent for a few seconds as he lifted some wires and then inserted a component.

“Assuming our plasma cutters and welders are still charged,” he sighed.

Finn, Engineering

“Yes, those are at least for now,” said Fixit, “We haven’t made much progress on repairing the hull… it wasn’t a priority.”

GM

Finn dropped a crystal and tried to grab it on the table, but it bounced and skittered onto the floor. He muttered and crawled around for a short while before he found it and scooped it up with the tweezers. He came back up holding it up in victory, then sheepishly placed it in the combadge.

“So what do you think, Chief?” he asked MacMoragh. “Think we could build a steam powered generator?”

Finn, Engineering

OOC: Bump.

GM

Finnegan grabbed a pencil and paper they’d been forced to use with the power out and began sketching. “A reservoir of water, piped over a fire, which turns the water to steam…” He sketched out the pathways on the sheet. “Narrow the pipe as it approaches the turbine, increasing the pressure. Steam turns the turbine, which turns the generator.” He drew another set of pipes. “Steam leaves the turbine, condenses back to water, and returns to the reservoir.”

He tapped the pipe leading from the turbine to the reservoir. “We could add a condenser there, so the steam returns to water more quickly. Maybe by passing the pipe through the river.” He turned back to the combadges. “But the condenser isn’t necessary, just makes things easier, faster.”

Finn, Eng

“Where are we going to get the pipes from?” asked an NE.

GM

Finn glanced at the NE as he assembled the next combadge. “I see two ways - pass me that circuit would you? Thanks - we could use interior paneling; held further away, our plasma cutters soften the duranium enough that it can be bent and shaped, and then welded. Alternately,” he turned and faced the NE, tossing him a combadge. “Do you know how many hundreds of meters of shielded ODN conduit there are on this vessel? Every milimeter of ODN cabling that isn’t in a terminal or a junction is in a metal tube. One might even call it a pipe. Test that out, cycle it from subspace to radio to dual mode, and then off. It’s yours.”

Finn, Eng


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