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Posted May 10, 2020, 6:28 p.m. by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (Gamemaster) (Luke Hung)

Posted by Mar. Captain Kate Hawkins (A. Co Commander) in Main Engineering

Posted by Lieutenant Koria Sutret (Chief Engineer) in Main Engineering

Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (Gamemaster) in Main Engineering
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“Lt Sutret, this is Commander Argeneau, engineer and, by virtue of rank, captain of our joined Chimera.” He turned toward Argeneau. “Commander, I will leave you two to work out the details. I will have people at your need.” Introductions over, he would let them get to work. In passing he had learned they too were able to ‘tunnel’ into the other ship. He wanted to talk to that person and get some eyes in that direction.

Kate looked over at the Captain and XO. This was getting interesting.

MCapts Hawkins - A Co Commander

He moved over to Kate and said in a low voice. “One of the engineers has our own neutrino tunneling scanner and is on his way back here. Ensure that he makes it.” He paused and said in a tone that suggested that what he said had very different reasons in reality. “For whatever reason they lose their ability to connect with us we need to be able to get to them. Understood, Captain?”
Jen, XO

“Yes sir, I’m....” Kate started before she was interrupted with the commotion back at the door.

From somewhere on the edges of the engineering deck came the sudden sound of raised voices. Or…one voice in particular.
“I am an engineer! Do you presume to keep me from my workbench and my equipment?”
An opposing voice could be heard attempting a more restrained, and somewhat hesitant, rebuttal.
“Do you see this?” came the roaring reply. “This equipment that I carry with me is essential for the rescue of this starship and must be delivered to Lt Sutret now. Would you like to explain to her why this can not be done? Or perhaps you would prefer to wait until you are floating around in an escape pod. Then you will have all the time in the world to offer your reasonings to the Captain herself.”
The opposing voice grew fainter, weaker, with each following word until all that could be heard was a long and exasperated sigh. Moments later and Mirai Nakuto appeared, her expression reminiscent of one who has just fought ten rounds with an angry Gorn…and won.

“My apologies, Ma’am,” she offered to Sutret. “I was…delayed. What do you need me to do?”

  • Mirai Nakuto (Eng)

Kate waved off the marine who was following. “Come on Marine, let’s go do a round,” she said to the young marine. Nodding to the XO she headed off to rendezvous with the engineer with the scanner.

MCapt Hawkins - A Co Commander

“No worries Ensign. I’m sure the Captain will take care of any issues.

“In the meantime, this is Cmdr. Argeneau, of the Chimera,” she said gesturing to the image of the Commander. “Commander, I’m told that you have a plan on how we can get out of this little predicament we are in.”

Lt Sutret - CE

“We can send some pulses from our side indicating the time to your computer and it should align our internal clocks. ” The alternate Argeneau offered with a hint of doubt. “From there we can just pick a precise moment to stop the warp drives and drop the shields.” She made a face.. “Power just doesn’t shut off instantaniously… we have to adjust for the flow rate through the conduits to the systems. Warp drive will cut of faster because the system is closer… its just micro seconds, but I wouldn’t want to risk it… Do you have some calculations on power transit rates?”

Technically it was more Jen’s idea after bantering thoughts around with the alternate engineer, though Jen was not interested in any marks. He wanted them through this and safe. While it might be quicker for Jen to do the overview, they could better talk specifics. That was their swim lane and could better talk the ‘language’ that was needed. Jen didn’t expect an invasion on the part of this alternate vessel. But he knew they had what they had and that while the Chimera was a vessel of peacemaking it was also a warship. And that meant that the thinking was ‘to win’. This should be an easy alliance between them with a common enemy. Jen had found, however, that things were never that simple. He wanted eyes on them as they likely were doing the same. And they were ahead of them on this little borehole to see into this universe.
- Jen, musing

Katelyn opened her mouth and then closed it again and then opened it and then closed it, finally deciding on folding her arms across her chest as a way to get out the nervous energy coursing through her body. The future of the Chimera… Chimeras… was now in the hand of the engineers and they desperately needed to get this worked out as quickly as possible. Adding her own pushing into the situation wouldn’t help, though, and Sutret was already well aware of the time limitations they had on the ship. It was time to get this worked out.

Jacobs, CO

Commander Argenau
GM - Alt Chimera

Koria absently tapped her chin as she thought about it for a second, before she moved over to one of the status displays. “It’ll take a few minutes to run the revised calculations. With the damage to the ship, we are having to reroute power around the conduits…” she said trailing off.

“Ensign, work with the Commander on the timing while I work on these calculations.”

Lt Sutret - CE

As Kate jogged out of engineering, she grabbed another one of her marines as she passed. Hopefully the team with the scanner wasn’t to far away from them.

MCapt Hawkins - A Co Commander

OOC the scanner is in place. He, ensign Onthespot, has a lock on the alt-Chimera engine room now.

The Engineering console was working through the issue, but there were variables, the engineer sent pulses and counted the time until the signal came back, divide that by two… and. “Numbers up Chief.”

Argeneau had the results from their end as well. “I’ve got ours.” The comparison of the two sets of numbers indicated that the Chimera… their Chimera needed to turn off their power first. The alt-Chimera internal damage was less significant, at least in terms of power relays.

=^= I’ve inputted the numbers…=^= Argeneau offered.

GM


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