Posted May 11, 2020, 11:57 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Keegan Murphy (Second Officer) (AJ Paulson)
Posted by Ensign Jonathan Smythe (Engineering Officer) in Main Sim: Main Engineering (After the Crash Timeline)
Posted by Gamemaster Janus (Gamemaster) in Main Sim: Main Engineering (After the Crash Timeline)
Posted by Lieutenant Commander Keegan Murphy (Second Officer) in Main Sim: Main Engineering (After the Crash Timeline)
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Jon turned his attention to the reactor now, ideas for a rudimentary internal comm system spinning in his head. Mitchells said it was damaged, Jon needed to know just how bad that damage was, and both what was needed to repair it, and what could be done to repair it.Ens. Smythe
Eng“Ensign would you like a hand with the reactor?”
Murphy, 2O
Jon didn’t look up from his scanning. “I’ve got to find out if we can do anything for it first, sir,” he replied.
Ens. Smythe
EngAfter looking at the reactor, Smythe could determine that Michaels was correct. Several of the magnetic fields were not operational to hold fusion containment, so the fusion generator was operating at less than standard operating efficiency. It was actually a miracle that they got a fusion reaction out of the generator at all. The components required to replace were quite extensive, more parts that they could possibly jury rig out of the current systems to make it work. Some of the components and chips required were not available in any particular device on the ship, and were very specific to fusion generators. The only way to replace them was to manufacture them.
“Well cac,” Jon muttered.
Sufficient say, restoring power the ship using the current level of 24th century technology was impossible, that so much Smythe was beginning to realize. They would have to find different ways to power the ship, more older mechanical ways of generating and storing power to manufacture the parts they need. A thought in Smythe’s head about the historical history Engineering lessons they studied at the Academy. The Academy thought to give Starfleet Engineers a wide range of expertise of various older technologies, ever since Captain Scott was found by the Enterprise. Studying the past and knowing about the past could lead insight to future technologies – since most Engineering principles were developed in the past anyway. So things like constructing and/or evaluating different basic forms of power were something they learned. Especially since the possibility of going on away missions to ancient civilizations and/or pre-warp civilizations could be possible.
GM
“Well, the good news is we know what we need to do,” Jon said. “The hard part is going to be finding what we need to do it, and getting everybody on the same page about doing it. Building a system to store power is easy enough, we’ve already got batteries on the ship. It’ll be generating it that’ll be the task-and-a-half.”
Ens. Smythe
Eng“You can speak freely Ensign. What are you thinking?”
Murphy, 2IC
“A lot of things, Commander,” Jon said. “But I can’t formulate any solid plans because I don’t know anything about where we landed and the available resources we could use to generate power.”
He snapped his tricorder shut. “I do know that I can maybe do something about our internal comms issues, assuming the things I’ll need were actually stocked already, unlike every-bloody-thing else on this Godsforsaken hulk.”
Ens. Smythe
Eng“Alright do you know where the parts are Ensign?”
Murphy, 2IC
“Security office, sir,” Jon replied.
Ens. Smith’s
EngKeegan grabbed a NE runner to get the spare parts so they can establish internal communications.
Murphy, 2IC
The NE runner after an hour came back with the parts, or what he could find. It was 95% of the parts asked for.
GM
Jon brightened a little surveying the haul in front of him. “Well, we can make this work,” he said. “A couple of them just won’t have private communications options.”
He began breaking apart the ship’s store of 5 PSP-1s, 3 Sentry guns, and 10 WTR-600s. (See spec page for further details <BG>)
“See, sir, what I’m going to do is mount these puppies here,” he said, holding up the base of the WTR-600, “to the bulkheads in mission-critical areas, and link them all together to form a rudimentary intercom system. There’s enough optic cable in the guns to run from the Bridge all the way down to Deck 7, so we’ll have 1 station on each deck, plus three to place in locations to be determined. Plus, we can use the headsets for private conversations, like an old telephone.”
Ens. Smythe
EngKeegan nodded “excellent job Mr. Smythe. Let’s get it up and running so I can relay the information.”
Murphy 2O
“Um, forgive me for saying, but since the comm-badges are self-powered, wouldn’t we just need to modify them so we can tune them without using subspace and fall back on radio signals?” asked a crewman.
GM
“That’s a short term solution,” Jon replied. “We don’t know how long we’ll be stuck here, or if there’s something on this planet that would interfere with that band of the EM spectrum either. Having a backup for if we’re here so long that the commbadges lose power isn’t the worst idea.”
Ens. Smythe
Eng
“How soon can you get it up and operational Mr. Smythe?”
Murphy 2nd Officer
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