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Main Sim - Y'all Get Some Lifts In This Thing And It'll Bang (Tag Engineering)

Posted Nov. 3, 2021, 3:27 p.m. by Gamemaster Alias Smith N. Jones, Esq. (Gamemaster) (James Sinclair)

Posted by Lieutenant Miranda Martel (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Y’all Get Some Lifts In This Thing And It’ll Bang (Tag Engineering)

Posted by Gamemaster Alias Smith N. Jones, Esq. (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Y’all Get Some Lifts In This Thing And It’ll Bang (Tag Engineering)

Posted by Lieutenant Miranda Martel (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Y’all Get Some Lifts In This Thing And It’ll Bang (Tag Engineering)
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Two days after their arrival at the station and all was quiet…

Until it wasn’t.

=/\= Security to Engineering. We have… um… guests… requesting to meet with the ‘Big Boss’ about doing some cutting and fabrication to the… well… entire ship. Requesting Engineering staff to the docking umbilical immediately. =/\=

GM

=^=Acknowledged.=^= Miranda said into the air. Turning to the two nearest NE’s she gestured them over. “NE Hammer, NE Gunn, let’s go see what’s what.” Engineering was somewhat quiet at the moment, but it was about to get a whole lot busier. The two NE’s turned and grabbed toolkits and passed one to Miranda.

A minute or so later the three person team arrived, with Miranda flanked by a male human and female human pair of Engineers. “Time to roll up our sleeves and get dirty, I take it,” she said.

Lt Martel, Chief? Engineer

The ‘guests’ consisted of almost two dozen individuals of a myriad of species… some of which were wholly unknown to the Asimov crew. Particularly impressive was a large… large… individual who appeared to be a giant made of white, marble-like stone. Standing almost three meters tall with chiseled features and flat black eyes, the being carried four four-meter long I-beams of duranium and a plethora of welding and cutting equipment. And educated guess on the beams would put them around five-hundred kilos… each.

It was a much bigger contingent than Miranda expected, and for a moment she felt her insides clench. Most of them she hadn’t’ seen before, and while that didn’t mean much, just for a moment it brought back memories of the Shamshir. But that was a couple years ago now, and they were all on the same side. There was a job and work to do. So she put on a bright smile.

A female Deltan stepped forward and smiled. “Greetings. I am the station’s Chief Engineer, Marcelda Bruklad. A pleasure, Lieutenant. We have been directed to meet with you and see what we can do to make your vessel more… pirate-y. To that end, I’d like to introduce Mavis and Martin. They are… well, were… members of the crews of a few of those kinds of vessels. I think their input would be most beneficial.” As she spoke, two figures approached from the crowd. They were Arkonian, and appeared almost identical. They nodded at Martel and the other Engineers, and then one smiled while looking at the ship and said “Oh yeah… you need a lot more dirt on this thing. some phaser and disruptor scoring. And some patch jobs that look like garbage. But we can get you fixed up.” Marcelda nodded and then looked at Martel. “We are, however, under strict orders to follow your lead. And we will not overstep, I can assure you.”

GM

She found herself staring at Marcelda for a moment, taking an immediate liking to her, feeling almost drawn in. The Arkonians stepping into sight was a glass of iced water dumped over her head, shocking her out of her momentary distraction. Their appearance would have been frightening enough, had their kind not been long known among the Federation. At least on a lizard, hind-brain sort of way. But the way they jumped in, chatting amicably put her much more at ease.

Pushing up her sleeves she nodded. “Alright, Engineering is aft, decks three to five, with machine shop on deck five. You three show me what plans you got in mind, or are we playing this by ear? Walk and talk.” At the last she gestured for Bruklad and her two Arkonians to come with her. They could take all the time they needed, but she was eager to get started. Though the ship had just been repaired, and they were going to make it look like a clunker, in some ways there were going to be upgrades. And a cloaking device!

The other of the Arkonians said “Naw, don’t plan it. Makes it look less than authentic. Just look at a spot and think ‘If I had been stuck on this damn ship for over a year with no time off, what would it look like?’… and then make it look like that.” and they chuckled.

“So this cloak you all are bringing me. Does it allow for shifting our phase? Will we still have to choose between shields or cloak? Have you checked tachyon emissions on it?” As they walked she peppered them with questions.

Lt Martel, CE

Marcelda smiled a slightly knowing smile and said “Oh that… that will be last. And I’m not sure about any of the specs. We don’t actually have it here. At least… not yet.”

GM


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