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

Posted Feb. 9, 2021, 3:53 p.m. by Ensign Elliot Finnegan (Engineering Officer) (Nathan Miller)

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

“Well, that could work. What do we do about hull repairs?” replied the NE.

It was that moment, Commander Jevek arrived at Main Engineering.

“Status report, please,” said Commander Jevek.

Commander Jevek, 2O
GM

Finn glanced up at voice and then stood to attention. “Good morning, Commander,” he greeted, then held out a combadge. “We have completed most of the combadges, prepared them for use on EM bands as well as subspace frequencies, and changeable to between modes. There’s a dual mode as well, but it is very power intensive.”

As Jevek had only arrived recently, he was the only remaining senior officer who hadn’t received an altered commbadge. Jevek traded his badge for altered commbadge. “Thank you Ensign, good work. Commander Jevek, Second Officer. I crashed landed a day ago. And you are?” inquired Jevek.

“Ensign Finnegan, sir,” he replied, extending his hand. “But you can call me Finn.” He grinned. “Most people have since I was a kid.”

He gestured to the pile of combadges. “We have a few left to do, for engineering crew. The rest should be ready to distribute to the crew.”

Finn, Eng

“You seemed to be in discussion about something before I interrupted, Ensign Finn. Would you please start over and continue?” asked Jevek.

Commander Jevek, 2O

“Keep in mind that we do not believe that this com badges will have the range of the regular ones. How far the range will be we don’t yet know” said Riker.

Riker, CE

“That would be a logical assumption, Mr. Riker,” replied Jevek, “However, EM band frequencies have certain properties that we already know. Depending on the power settings, we could potentially get 100 kilometers.”

Commander Jevek, 2O

Finn waited for the senior officers to complete their conversation before he continued. “So, what I was discussing was the possibility of building a steam turbine as an additional power source. We have enough material it should be doable, and it could provide enough additional energy we can start replicating more complex items, which can mean repairs go more quickly.” He shrugged. “Theoretically, any way. We have a water source, we have trees for fuel - unless someone found a coal seam nearby, it’s our best bet anyway.”

Finn, Eng

“That is a most ‘interesting idea” replied Riker.

He thought for a minute and then continued,

“Do you think we have all the necessary materials for such an endeavor? What I mean by that is, materials that we can part with?”

CE

Finnegan nodded and approached the closest bulkhead, rapping it with one knuckle. “These interior panels are duranium, but they’re mostly decorative, so we don’t have to look at the pipes, wiring, and circuitry behind them. There’s several hundred, maybe thousands, of square meters of the stuff inside the ship.”

He reached his hands to the top and bottom of the panel and hit the latch releases there, pulling the panel away and setting it aside. He pointed to an ODN conduit and junction box. “We can use these ODN conduits - it’s just a tube for ODN cables for easier routing, and some shielding against interstellar radiation - which obviously is unnecessary here. Unplug from the junction, pull the conduit, replug to the junction.”

He put the panel back in place. “And anything we use can be replicated and replaced once we’re up and running again - but the additional power would get us that much closer to doing that.” He blinked. “Sir,” he added.

Finn, Eng

“We will need to guard against interstellar radiation if we are to return the same way we came. And what design have you come up with for the turbine to minimize the need to weld, Ensign? As far as tools go, the majority of our technology requires some form of power, which we are limited in,” stated Jevek, “We would have to be extremely efficient in using the least amount of power in this build. Using duranium to weld together may use more power than if we were to use another material, if we could find some.”

GM

Finn nodded. “Certainly. Anything we took I would recommend replicating and replacing before we left - we could even disassemble the turbine and recycle it. Once we have power again, we’ll be in a much better position.”

He glanced at crewman Michaels. “And my understanding is that our cutters and welders are at nearly full charge. We could try to find a local source of ore, and try to smelt it into something useful, but that’s outside my wheelhouse, Commander. Unless there’s a local supply of prepared metal?” He raised an eyebrow at the officer.

Finn, Eng

“Reports from the away team indicated a blacksmith shop, so it is possible, and sufficient commerce, which means that the town has sufficient supply of goods being traded. There also happens to be a restaurant in town that happens to be connected to a stable wormhole – much like a portal – that’s somehow affixed to the door of the restaurant. That door of the restaurant leads to a parallel universe of Earth, as it was reported, in somewhere in Japan. It may also be possible to acquire or barter with the restaurant, but the Captain is still weighing the Prime Directive in our predicament. There is also Mr. Zank’s ship, the Ferengi who is our neighbor, and potentially pieces of the shuttlecraft which I crashed in that might be usable,” said Jevek.

Commander Jevek, 2O

Finnegan gaped. “A blacksmith? Do you know if they were working in iron, or if they’ve discovered steel yet? Or if they’ve been able to smelt aluminum out of bauxite, that would be even better.”

He stroked his chin then paused, looking at Jevek. “Wait, a portal to Japan?” He glanced at the chief and the NE nearby. “Did they see any metalworking there? Because that might be even better.”

Finn, Eng


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