Posted Oct. 7, 2021, 10 p.m. by Lieutenant Koria Sutret (Chief Engineer) (Steve Johnson)
Posted by Lieutenant Koria Sutret (Chief Engineer) in Main Simm - Engineering Delivery
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“It is in the production area of the mine. This lift recently jammed for no explicable reason. Power was lost just before it jammed so all cameras and visual we had on it went with it. All there was was a flickering of the lights, a bit of interference on the camera feeds then nothing. Everything on the lift was robotic; drone suits principally. We don’t send people down there to do the actual mining. They lost power too which was unusual. It’s all on magnetic lines for transportation which makes it all the more strange. Whatever happened tripped the physical safety measures to prevent a freefall.” He flashed a smile across his craggy face. “Quite a mystery.”
“Hopefully you haven’t offended some of the locals and they’ve put a curse on this place,” Koria said with a chuckle as she followed after Walter.
After a trip through corridors that increasingly became worn and old they came to a broad open room that stretched high above. It was mostly open but for two large visible pits with machinery and equipment scaffolded about them. “That’s the one over there,” he said, pointing to one. “We can go to the control room.” Said control room was off to the side and above, overlooking the open room. Three large horseshoe shaped desks with monitors all along its interior were there; two were manned. One was dark. One fellow in coveralls who was peering over the shoulder of another at one desk looked up and waved. “Hey Walter,” he said, then went back to his observation.
Walter sat at one of the chairs; there was room for three there, and began firing up the system.
- WalterStanding behind Walter, Koria pulled out her tricorder. As he began bringing the system up, she started a quick scan of the area, just to see if there was anything that could give a hint to why the lift had stopped working.
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“So I know these units are old, do they normally take this long to start up? Or is this one of the things we should add to the list to look at while we are here?” Koria asked as she looked over Walter’s shoulder.
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As she waited for Walter, Koria looked down at her tricorder again. Until the unit started back up, there was time to get a good look at the area around her, before they dug into what was causing the problem with the lift.
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